Been here since May 2012, start of public beta - no naivete here. It's just 1) I have to be persuasive for a living 2) I work within an agile scrum development process (I'm a Product Manager) and 3) I've also actually met (at Fanfest) a lot of the devs that we are speaking to.

I much prefer to talk to people on the forums as I would feel comfortable doing so to their face. The inherent human respect gives much more weight to one's reputation and influence.

Certainly CCP as an institution have ending up not paying enough attention to high quality feedback and analysis in the past but becoming arrogant and dismissive isn't going to fix that.

Coming soon to Dust 514, Jet Skis!

how am I being sily? people are giving feedback and all CCP can say is "Sorry we will fix that but no eta"

In eve when a dev blog is released it's to gain feedback to change a feature before it's content locked.

Eve is also played on a computer, and not on PSN, CCP has to deal with Sony, and its not your game or mine, it's CCP's and if they want your thoughts on something they wanted to make, so what? People need to stop treating this like they're owed something from the devs, stop complaining about things that haven't even been released yet, be more positive with feedback, and stop complaining with every other breath that comes out of your word hole. ( not directed at you crazy space1 ) this is a FREE game that you can enjoy for nothing, don't like the game? Don't play it. Don't like how CCP does things? Don't go work for them, but as an everyday player since the beginning of open beta, the games getting better every update, and it sucks when you have to browse through ten pages of butt-sore cry babies whining about every little thing that doesn't go they're way. Grow up people.

WHY WHY WHY WHY ????

is it just because "well a single rate would be simpler."
or is it because adding a second tax rate variable would be a technical challenge?

Eve players have been asking for greater control over corporation tax mechanics for years and years, particularly the ability to tax different activities at different rates. Here we've got two completely different activities, generating two different currencies, where the tax proceeds go into two completely different wallets and cannot even be exchanged... What possible justification is there to make the tax rates a single rate?

There was a point in time when I had my dust merc in an EVE corp, so I could keep track of my friends while my EVE computer was in disrepair and waiting for parts.
I was the only duster in the corp, and there was... I think a 4.5% tax?

If I were in the same situation AFTER the changes... it would be essentially 4.5% of the isk goes down the toilet. Since dust isk can only be used by dust mercs, and it goes in the hidden eighth wallet division, where the eve CEO can't use it.

This is a terrible idea, and will discourage mercs and capsuleers from joining the same corporation. We want more integration, not less.

This gives you, the lone merc in that EVE corp, a reason to talk to your EVE CEO about growing the DUST side of the corp. This gives your EVE CEO a reason to interact with you and pay attention to your needs. It gives you a reason to find more bros to join that corp so the corp as a whole will get more awesome because you mercs went out together and killed all the things. Reputation can mean a lot in EVE, so that gives your EVE CEO a reason to think about engaging in DUST-related activities and that DUST mercs are worthwhile. It gives you a reason to earn trust and prove yourself a team player to that EVE CEO. If you're not an asshat, maybe, just maybe, you'll be made a Director, which will give you access to that eighth wallet so you can do things with it.

Sounds like more integration to me.

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

The tax would be deducted from your battle winnings bro

what if your not playing

Taxes are lame! DUST514's Corporation Tax is not! Learn about an upcoming new feature to be released in Uprising 1.4 in this new dev blog from CCP Foxfour! You will be able to tax your corp members! Woo! TAXES! Fun!

So.. as im finding out their really is no other corp so far that charges their ppl 20% tax