NPC corps should have tax of 11%, like EVE. They did it to encourage memberships in corporations (and to remove people from the war-free safety). This should totally carry over.

SO you released a dev blog after the patch is content locked

Once again the dust 514 devs make it obviously clear what they think of "player feedback"

guys nothing we say in this thread can change anything it's already done they can not change a thing.

I still love the change and I'm glad it's making it in but it doesn't nothing to restore my faith they care about feedback.

The problem is you have now created an economic incentive for people to not play together to avoid taxation.

The problem is you have now created an economic incentive for people to not play together to avoid taxation.

Don't be silly

Good question, will player's taxes show up on the wallet archive page?

The CPM actually made it position know on the pitfalls of not including a base tax on NPC corps, but CCP in then end can choose to not listen to feedback.

The problem is you have now created an economic incentive for people to not play together to avoid taxation.

What's going to happen if this NPC tax shelter goes through is people will squad up, corporation-independent, and run "safely" from their NPC tax shelters but still enjoy the benefits of increased WPs due to squadding up, etc. People aren't going to join a corp "to feel nice" when they can just join the corp (or other group) chat channel and squad up without tax burdens from being in the player corp.

The CPM actually made it position know on the pitfalls of not including a base tax on NPC corps, but CCP in then end can choose to not listen to feedback.

Corp tax isn't enough of reason NOT to join a corp. There are clear disadvantages with staying in an NPC corp like playing an FPS with random nobodies all day that don't even have mics.

I seem to be missing something on this NPC tax debate.

Ah, but on the other hand people will become exclusive, not allowing people from other corporations to join their squad because they won't be generating tax revenue for the corp.

This brings a smile to my face.

The more transparency between Dust and Eve, the better (same as with between the Devs and the Community).

EDIT: As far as tax on NPC corps is concerned, I am still of the opinion that the tax on NPC corps should be draconian high (50% plus).

The reasoning for this is that we are little more than meat with guns, property of our corporations so why should we expect to get paid at all?

This should be the incentive for joining/making corps. 0% corp tax on NPC corps will lead to what others have already noted, people using chat channels to group up with their friends while all are in NPC corps to protect their ISK margins.

It's worth pointing out that with an NPC corp tax of 0%, CCP have removed entirely the ability for any CEO to fish for newbies with the 'worm' of a lower tax rate and get them 'hooked' on the social interactions of playing with friends.

If Dust is going to succeed it needs more people being hooked.

I think this powerful argument alone should be enough to warrant an NPC tax rate.

Um... actually thats just a test map. Please don't read into it. We do stupid stuff in test maps. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING COMING OUT! :(

I like how the community is told that its feedback isn't valuable to the dev team because CCP is doing rocket science here, and then the community goes on to find to find two issues with a devblog within a few minutes of the devblog being posted.

Addendum: Let me be clear that I don't think showing the gross instead of net profit in the payout window and the economic effects of the zero tax rate is a sign of bad work at all. These are just things you can better judge when you're the person being affected.