Construction Base - It is the seed of the starbase, the starting point of its construction, there is one of it for every faction, and it will change how the other buildings will look like as they are built. it comes with some nice features.
- they are built on stations and outposts and then, carried and deployed using a industrial ship.
- Once deployed and anchored it can be assembled, making it unnanchorable and unscopable stating the starbase.
- On start have a small fuel bay and a small fuel consumption
- Provides a small amount of powergrid
- Have a smal cargohold space where Blueprints can be placed.
- Have a nice cargohold space where materials or building packs can be placed.
- Have 1 Industrial Ship Mooring Aray.

some of it's alright ... other bits are just daft (e.g. the usage of extra isotopes for some things).

I think a better idea is to to do something very similar to what you suggest with the starbase core but merge it closer with the tech 3 subsystem idea.

Think about it though, if there were just 4 sub-systems and there was 1 one each sub-system for each race to start with, thats already 256 different looks for each type of tower before you add in how the different fitting modules change the appearance.

But they will all looks like towers... not customizable starbases... alowing the links and platforms feature will give pleyers a bigger freedom!!!

Yes and that imaginined increased freedom will require a more robost system that will likely take longer to properly code and probably contain more restrictions on how things can be put together that you think it would.

Not necessarily.

"core" block --> 6 hardpoints.

"Other" blocks --> 1-6 hardpoints.

you get one (1) "core" block per POS. This has the same anchoring rules as current towers.
"Other" blocks make up the rest of the POS, include but are not limited to:
- Weapon platforms
- assembly arrays
- docking arrays
- reactors/solar panels/whatever
- shields/shield hardeners
- labs
- connector pieces (i.e. "hallways" and whatever else so you can customise the shape, or lay things out how you want)

Would kind of work out like the ED base from Earth2160 in that case...

Yes and that imaginined increased freedom will require a more robost system that will likely take longer to properly code and probably contain more restrictions on how things can be put together that you think it would.

This ider is i don't know maby a bit off topic and stupid but for the last few weeks i was thinking it would be kool is there where no stations in null and everything was all run out of POS it would add that bit more danger to null and almost force people to work together more.

As i said sorta stupid ider but i just wana throw it out there.

Now, much of this I like. A couple things worry me, though, and perhaps I'm overreacting.

First, you say that the guns and such would be accessible through WiS. I should certainly hope that this function would also be available to those of us without the supercomputers required to actually do that. As it stands, the CQ is still horribly optimised. On top of this, player movement is incredibly slow, so I also hope that the buttons/controls/whatever to use this stuff isn't too far from wherever you spawn when you enter the base or log on.

Second, skills and permissions are already a pain to remember. I realize you could probably cannibalize a lot of other skills and permissions (i.e. Anchoring, Starbase Defense Management, etc.), but a few should be added. For instance, you mention that towers with this system would be transferable between players implying an implicit ownership. If skills were added that could effect the performance of starbases based on the level that the player owner has in these skills, that would add a lot of complexity, but a lot more variation, as well. As it stands, it isn't rocket science to build a POS; all you have to do is have the anchoring skills and shove the thing out an airlock. If you had to have operations skills for certain modules on a POS, like you do for a ship, then that would add difficulty in setting it up. Of course, this couldn't be done easily, as all those wanting to set up towers would have to now train a bunch of new skills, but they could be made 1x skills, or something, where you only need the skill at level 1 to use the module in much the same manner as subsystem skills on T3s.

Also, hi Vel.

However I do still think they should be grown (built over time with resources) to give industrialists a defined, required role in 0.0 as opposed to mega rich alliances just buying the packs and building them.

If maintenance was required i.e minerals etc as well as fuel then alliances would be encouraged to occupy territory and consolidate more. Freeing up more space for new alliances whilst creating greater demand for miners and industrialists within 0.0.
Of course something would have to be done with Stations in 0.0 as they are atm (maybe enable maintenance requirements for them also), as time went on without maintenance different facilities would go offline due to "wear and tear" / atrophy to the point where they would become ruins of the "good ol days".

Li all thatd mean is null sec alliances would have a couple more things to buy on jita runs, itd be safer and easier to buy whats required for maintenance costs in highsec than sourcing them locally.

especially if its low grade materials from PI or from Mining.

I have had a idea like yours, though different in some ways

One way to update towers without a huge graphical change, is to keep the tower, but have modules physicaly connect to them at fixed hard points that when a module is placed, a extending connection exists between it and the tower.. Fitted exactly like ships, with varying number of slots, highslots being guns, low slots industry, and medium slots science related.