The only challenges with the new POS are how do we find them and can any cloues be given on how active they are. CCP needs to find a design solution for those challenges.

As promised, my blog post is up: http://twostep4csm.blogspot.com/2012/08/response-to-response-on-pos-redesign.html

That link isn't to my pod, BTW...

Docking games. Hell no. This whole idea is asinine and if you make w-space like k-space, people will simply leave w-space, and I think a large portion may just leave Eve altogether. W-space is a refuge from the bs that goes on in the rest of Eve and to take that away would be catastrophic.

I must say that the idea of limiting POS size in wormholes is beyond silly. The idea to reduce ECM on a POS sounds nice, but even that addresses a problem that I don't think really exists. If someone wants that POS dead bad enough, there are plenty of ways and plenty of people who can do the job. Let their false sense of security be their consolation for living in silly little baby wormholes.

POS hit points or defences capabilities should scale down in lower class wormholes, but other features should be the same. Higher class wormholes are farther away from empire space and station services but that's a trade off we accept when moving there to get better rewards (both in PVE and PVP).

POS fights shouldn't be about structure grinding, it should be about who's willing and able to fight for it.

And you shouldn't have to bring a blob to reinforce a POS...

Two step, you were elected in hopes that our voices, through you, would lead to the betterment of W-Space as a whole and all of the corps within... not just AHARM and C5/C6 dwellers.

Defenders in lower class wormholes already have the tremendous advantage of being able to build their own capitals, and as people have pointed out, they have even easier access to highsec, so they should be able to build as many of them as they want. I don't like this, and I don't see any reason that they should also have the full POS defenses and shield HP that someone in a C5 has. The simplest reason for this is because *any* attacker is going to be bringing *far* less DPS to shoot a POS in a C2 or C1 than they could bring with one or two dreads in a C5 or C6. A single dread is somewhere around 10,000 DPS (and DPS at a range that can hit a POS), in a C1 where you are limited to BC and below you are talking about 600 DPS per ship max. That means each dread is 16 or so pilots worth of DPS.

With no FF there will be no more sucideing of ships when you lose an invasion, thats why all 5-15 member corporations are complaining. There POS will be that more atractive for invasions.
Don't start with the FF is so great, cause thats a load of crap. Everyone that has to type in password every time they want to go in to a POS knows this. And the rest of the FF mechanics is just plain stupid. If CCP had a better designer back when POS first hit TQ, we wouldn't be stuck with this **** for all the time that we have. And yea, there would be no FF.
And docking games? Serious? What about FF games? How many of you that complains about docking games have ever done an invasion or been invaded?

Stop filling your POS with everything you own and you should be fine after they change them.

When members have private pos not everyone else can enter that pos without pw. It's currently the only way to protect members from other members.

It is also a way to avoid complete paranoia and give a new chance for new members to join our alliance without them stealing all the ****.

Yes, of course that is what I am saying. Come on, the stupid attacks are totally pointless, and just serve to undermine your other points. The reason I brought that stuff up is because I don't own a time machine. The only way I can present the views of w-space people is if those people tell me what their views are. I was totally clear both before and after the election about what I wanted from a POS redesign, and if you didn't speak up *before* the summit, how on earth was I supposed to know how you felt?

As for the big fish comment, that is already true. Right now, many of the larger w-space alliances could kick just about anyone out of c1-c4 space. The only reason they aren't doing that right now is because they have no reason to do so. I don't see how making them more vulnerable to smaller groups changes that in any way.

Do you know how much everyone in AHARM is wishing someone would step up and even attempt to invade?

The first part of the question may have been sincere, but the "everyone else is irrelevant" part clearly wasn't. As I said above, I wouldn't be here responding to this thread if I didn't consider all of you my community. After all, the reason this forum even exists is because I asked CCP for it over and over and over again.

Of course, after the first paragraph, you drop right back into unconstructive mode, so I will not be responding to that.

Telling CCP "People like Forcefields" isn't all that helpful if they are set on getting rid of them. What is helpful is to talk to them about the reasons people like (and dislike) forcefields. That is what I have been doing, and what I plan on continuing to do. My job is not to design the new POS system, it is to tell CCP what people want from a new POS system.

How is it a good idea? The very first time someone opens up into you they will d-scan, if they don't find the pos on d-scan then they will drop probes at which point they will find your POS. After that they will have the information in whatever tool they use for mapping, be it siggy, wormnav and many other intel tools. So we are talking about a feature that needs to be coded and implemented and that will be helpful in a handful of scenarios / situations. Seems like completely useless feature.

It is in fact terrible. Why would you want a hostile force to announce their presence? WH's are not intended to be carebearland where you are safe from all aggression because it's announced, you might as well put local back in if you want things to be "announced". It is far better to have dscan as a method of finding targets when possible. Cloak and dagger people. Go back to highsec if you want to live in safety.

It seems to me you are either pretty new to w-space or not very experience at it. While its true that most fight dont happen at Force Field, it is the ability to see that they are present and the ability to see inside them that let half the fights in w-space happen. If you cloack a POS not only will it be found with probes but any corp who is half decent at pvp will just BM your POS for all the future times. Pow, cloaking pos wasted.

It seems to me that you missed the part of the discussions where it was suggested that POS's would no longer need to be anchored to a fixed location at a moon, requiring you to use combat scanner probes anyway.

Yes, cloaked POS's would effect the elite PVP practice of jumping in a wormhole, clicking d-scan and then watching a POS cloaked for 30 minutes, but maybe having to change tactics would make things more interesting.

Who knows what features and game mechanics ccp plan to change in the future...