EVE Search - new POSes and wormholes - what do w-space dwellers need?

Two step wrote:

Gnaw LF wrote:

Two step wrote:

I certainly understand your position, but I don't think it is fair to allow, for example, the same level of defensive firepower in a C1 that someone could have in a C6. If the attackers can't use a dread (without spending weeks building it in place), you should have less firepower available as well. You guys have made a purposeful decision to live in a C2, where you have less income from sleepers, and easier access to empire.

You guys have decided on less risk to your POSes, there should be a tradeoff to that decision. I don't support giving you *less* functionality than the current system, but I do think it is reasonable to give you fewer defenses, and possibly not some of the features that people that choose to expose themselves to higher risk would get.

Whoa, I was planning on leaving this convo for a while until I read this. This is just plain bad and feels like some weird elitism. How is C2 or C3 less? Yes, its scaled for smaller corps and alliances. The sleeper sites can be done in ships that require smaller SP investment and the connections prevent capital ship movement. Besides those two points this part of w-space is just as cruel and unforgiving as the rest of w-space. There is no local, no security status hits, you can still anchor bubbles and use all kinds of items that are not allowed in high sec. But high sec, where a freighter can move a Large POS will not have this limitation?

What the rest of k-space? Is null sec going to have better POSes than low sec? And how is having capitals in C5 an excuse for larger POSes and better defenses? Why can't the defender use the capitals to defend? After all you just said it yourself, that POSes need to be defended by ships and not turrets. So how does that make lower class w-space an exception? Also, I think Empire access is a liability as the attacker can use it to bring in more people into the system then cycle, as opposed to higher class w-space where an empire connection is rare.

Uh, you said it yourself, "Yes, its scaled for smaller corps and alliances". How is a small corp going to evict some other small corp that has built a giant deathstar POS without the ability to bring in dreads?

This is, again, an issue that comes up when I talk to smaller corps than are posting here. Some 5 man corp can't move into a c2 right now because many of them are filled with large ecm dickstars, which they have no hope of killing.

POS defenses need to scale with the amount and size of ships that can be brought to bear against them.