And, now for something completely stupid

Yeah, the new dev blog is out about hi-sec poco's in Rubicon...  I was ok with this idea until I read this paragraph in the poco dev blog:

The NPC tax will continue for hi sec POCOs (as we want low sec POCOs to still be competitive). The tax rate stays the same, at 10% for export and 5% for import. This is then in addition to whatever tax the player owner sets. 

Yup... let's just give everything to the playground bully.  No need to worry, they won't do anything wrong.

Guess our decision to dive into w-space and forget about the junk in k-space was well timed.

I hope it works for them.  I suspect it will turn out to be a short quick grab by large alliances that are not so hated that they actually can get into hi-sec to get a lot of poco's up and help squeeze the profits out of hi-sec to force people to go somewhere else.  Sad.  Oh.  Did you hear that?  I think it was the death gurgle of PI in hi-sec... R.I.P.

-Yinmatook