Tas Nok
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.01.17 09:54:00 -
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Having had to work with POSes in HS, LS and WH space I confirm they are a pain in the backside and the reason a small percentage of the populace "interacts" with them is two-fold:
A. If we let every scrub recruit have access to the POS tower(s) we'd be robbed blind
B. The interface for managing a POS is so clunky and abnormal NO ONE wants to mess with them, leaving the fewest folks possible to manage the towers that are the industrial/research backbone of Eve and home away from home for WH dwellers. (has anyone at CCP tried to control the mods on a tower lately? it is easily the most dated UI in the game)
The last improvement was the fuel blocks... about 18Mo ago? it was a nice change, but hardly a major change, we just added a mfr. step and got 1 item where we used to have 8, kinda washes out.
Some thoughts... for the CSM, CCP, whoever...
I thought the idea of using the current station egg mechanic was horrible, esp in WH space, but it carries the seed of a really GOOD idea, which should involve minimal coding... create 3 new classes of stations, S/M/L and make them destructible, current stations would be XL and destruction issue left open. all the traits of stations, hangars, personal space, no shield bubble, no guns outside would all be in place (you get a ton of extra HP for the loss of offensive/defensive mods) <-- this needs more fleshing out but its too late to type more.
While a proper full revamp is the desired path, I understand why CCP thinks it would be a maximum effort for minimal gain, I cannot count the number of annoyed corpies who have had to hand over their BPO's to a director for research, or the number of problems caused when setting up a POS in WH space and you forget to restrict access to a certain hangar and all your best PVPer toys are laid out for anyone. The reasons for posting a "keep out" sign on the POS varies from research, to theft to simply being responsible for the logistics of fueling... we have to keep out most of our own folks for our/their own safety.
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