Most of the Ideas in the blog I like or With some working our of details could be interesting & fun.
But this one is such a massive fundamental change to the game that it carries HUGE risks that I just dont think are worth taking.

100% agree with Syndic

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

I'm aware that this idea is the most controversial one. Let's see what others think.

The point of PvP is risk.

The point of everything else is to fund PvP.

Remove the risk and you break everything.

For those that don't do PvP the point of PvE is still risk, that's what makes it fun. There are some who enjoy asset accumulation only but not many of those filthy capitalist pigs.

From an industrial side, implementing this "X lives on bot" thing in my opinion guarantees that bots won't be produced as much and the demand for them (which is already non-existent, I've been selling some Kains for ~7 months without success) will pretty much be gone.

I don't see it as "hardcore", like Jita mentioned the point of everything else in the game is to fund PVP.  If PVP doesn't need to be funded, everything else doesn't need to be done (nobody mines ore because it's a super fun activity) as much as before.

Well the irony of course is that pretty much the only players left here (or at least vocal) are the PvP-oriented ones, and those who have already ragequit over a lost bot are not here anymore

well, just look at ED
player there seem to ragequit about exploding of their ships too, even though they get it replaced 100% with minimal insurance fee.

the problem there is that often they jump into the next bigger ship before covering for the insurance, and the traders can lose millions even in a type 6, just because the cargo is not insured. Bounties and Exploration Data has to be turned in at a station before you profit from it.

The issue here in perp is exactly the same.
The robot itself is the least factor of your loss.

Factors:

• T1 / MK1 vs. T4 /Mk2
  -> since vets, and their pets have access to vast amounts of high-tech gear, going to PVP is suicide without the expensive gear.

• Loot
  ->"Reward" for any activity is 50% and more in your cargo. The new Mission system shifts that a little bit, but hunting roaming npcs on beta still seems undesireable

• Risk WALL
  -> orange NPCs, 100% protection on one side of the teleporter vs. 100% RISK on the other side.
  Losing your Robot and all its equip is not even considered in the concept of "Alpha"

• Twitch based mechanics
  -> one of the arguments why perp was better then EVE.. and even if it was only "using detructible cover".
  completely wasted by LoS free modules like Demobs and Detectors, extreme durable plants and horrible HUD.

• PvP flag mechanics
  -> Industrials only defense allowed are shields + running away. just because you couldn't think of ways to prevent aggro-flag exploits beeing used.

You have to make it FUN and Rewarding to go head on with someone else.

This change destroys the market, the risk in PVP and the whole process and reason to go out to mine and make stuff that it's player made and provide content, this would be a huge change in direction.

I don't understand, if the current demand is zero, how will this make any negative impact on the existing situation ?

The market is dead because there are few players and the value of NIC has kept falling. There is no reason to keep hold of NIC if you are building everything yourself.

Well maybe it could work as a PvE-only feature, meaning only if you are destroyed by an NPC.

edit: or simply limited to alpha islands.

This would probably be closer to the lore as well. The Syndicate only reimburses losses made by the pesky aliens, not by enraged humans

That's true, but you could also say we build everything ourselves BECAUSE the market is dead. Just depends on which way you want to look at it. From my point of view it's a population problem. I mean, most of the corps playing are vet corps, and vet corps usually have good stockpiles anyway, plus they have built these stockpiles for themselves over the years.

I don't know that we can just assume that this would kill the market because the idea may seem, at first, unpalatable. I mean Jita wants to apply station unlocking as a trial basis. why not carry that same perspective to other suggestions put forward ? Rather than just say "fail", because we may not like it ourselves.

[edit] Also Celebro you didn't actually answer my question, if the market is dead or non-existent how can this change, or any change for that matter, have a negative impact ?