CCP has their reasons for not wanting to have forcefields anymore. The exact reasons got NDA'd out of the CSM minutes, but they are reasonable. As for sitting outside a new POS's docking point, you might be able to do that, but they might also have webs, points and guns to cover that exit. So if you attack that person undocking, they can just dock back up and let their defenses attack you.

I do agree that having some sot of indication via scan probes or d-scan of a pos being offline/out of fuel would be a good thing. I also agree that showing how many people are docked or maybe even what ships they have active would be a really important part of a new system. Frankly, if I have to give that up to get all the other benefits, I think it is worth it though.

Of course it's only one aspect, but an important one. I'm a little concerned that Two steps personal opinions (which are legitimate of course) will pass for "what wormhole dwellers want" in sight of CCP (who obviously have little to no own knowledge of wormhole life for the most part ).

Docking is in itself a bad mechanic. A player leaves the universe and suddenly is in a windowless environment, unconnected to space and completely safe. It's even bad from an immersion point of view. Most modern games simulating a world try to be seamless, have no loading times and not have separate 'levels' but only one world where you go from one place to the next without interruptions.

The real way forward would be to create some kind of station environment that still leaves you in space. Zoom in to see your ship hangar and indulge in ship spinning, zoom out and see the space surrounding the POS/station. Including access to d-scan.

And when viewing such a POS, we can see a 'guest list' like in a station from the outside.

If there has to be POS-docking, one way to go could be to give POSes multiple undock tubes we can select, like up, down, left, right, front, rear if it's cubicle-shaped. That way in a siege the attackers would have to block all six undock tubes to prevent the inhabitants from undocking.

Just wanted to comment on this (and many posts like it). First of all, I don't just present my personal opinions to CCP. I read threads like this, and try to present as many of the opinions I can. For example, I don't care at all about refitting T3s at a POS, but I regularly bug CCP about fixing it.

Secondly, a *lot* of CCPers are in w-space. From CCP Soundwave on down, w-space is very popular with CCPers, for the same reason it is popular with all of us.

Amarr Empire is wormhole space now?

Get off the guy's back, he's clearly reading the thread, let's be constructive and not a bunch of forum shitposters.

All those complains about docking, are you just trolling two step? When do we ever fight at a POS? Fight in wh space happen on sites, on WH or at POCOs. The only time we fight at a POS is when we bash them and the only thing we kill there, mostly, are capital that committed to the fight.

How is dockable POS going to change that?

About the other complains. It will allow defenders to hide their numbers and their fleet composition. But the hunters have such an advantage in w-space, that that change is a good thing imho.

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.

oh and lets not forget how utterly fantastic using the new unified inventory would be if we had twenty towers worth of smas, chas, etc on grid at once

lmao

oh well it was a good run. Wormholes were great for a couple of years. RIP wh space.

oh please, youre just embarrassing yourself.
comparing POS sieges in a c5/6 to a c2 is just stupid, at best ignorant.

POS defences on a C5/6 POS are basically decorative since any attacking fleet will have a LEAST 3, more likely a half dozen or more, dreads which can ignore them.
attacking a decked out dickstar in a low class WH is THE single most tedious and horribly painful thing you can do in a WH.

yes, obviously it can be done regardless of POS setup, even in a C1.
however, attacking a low class large POS with 100+ online ECM mods (which all low class POSs should have if they know what theyre doing, most dont) is beyond painful.

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).

Should they limit how many caps you can have in a c5/6 to make it easier for small c5/6 corps to siege a POS too?

POS have been design for empire and null sec.; they have too much HP and their defences are OP for small gang pvp we do in w-space.

Beside with the short life wormhole connection, what does protect a POS (or a POCO) in w-space is its timer (for all wormhole classes).

Please no, we want more capitals to shoot at, not less.

(and skipped several posts by alts) .

I find it funny that some people think they are the community. lol

The only real thing we all seem to agree on is that low class wormholes are fine and should not be nerfed. I've seen proponents and opponents about all other issues. So, claiming two step is acting against the community is just not true. Give the guy a break, it's hard representing an entire community, especially one filled with ocd folks like us :P I think he's doing fine as our voice on the CSM.

You must have missed all the response he got on that.