You don't need to hire Mercs, you can do it yourself. If he actually doesn't care about it, you can fit up a few 1300 DPS AFK Geddons for cheap and kill it in a few hours of napping (~70m EHP for Caldari Large vs Multi > 15 Battleship/hrs).

Also, you can just shoot into their resist hole where they already have 0 resists.

If you want something that someone else has, take it from them. If you're not willing to take it from them, I guess you don't want it enough.

if any of you have ever tried to put up a tower in low or highsec for your own personal use, then you know what this is about. its pretty bad when you have to hire a merc group to war dec a corp just to get rid of his offline pos in high sec that he hasnt used in about a year. but because ccp cant seem to be able to figure out how to fix said problem. well i say i have the solution, and its so easy that CCP should have NO issues implementing it.

the major HP of any pos is the shields. everyone knows that. and when anyone goes to anchor and online a pos, once its online it has low shields due to recharge. well CCP why dont you just make it so that the shields on a pos, when offline, slowly drop to nothing. say 0% in 48 hours?? you choose the time frame. i dont care. tbh i could care less about any of it, but i had the idea and thought it would be worth sharing.

I still like the hacking mod thing tbh. Anchor a hacking mod next to the POS let it run for as long as it would take for lets say 5 or 10 BSs shooting at the thing so the owner has time to react and defend it. Then the POS is yours if it finishes the hack.

This is a thing which needs to happen. CCP Seagull said "Imagine being able to steal from your enemies" (although to be fair she wanted us to imagine lots of other far-off stuff) and this is a perfect, immediate way to begin making that a reality.

You don't need to hire Mercs, you can do it yourself. If he actually doesn't care about it, you can fit up a few 1300 DPS AFK Geddons for cheap and kill it in a few hours of napping (~70m EHP for Caldari Large vs Multi > 15 Battleship/hrs).

Also, you can just shoot into their resist hole where they already have 0 resists.

If you want something that someone else has, take it from them. If you're not willing to take it from them, I guess you don't want it enough.

i have enough alts i could do it in an hour. my point is that there are people in high sec that don't. these people are just like the people who put up the pos.

For some ppl that not even a problem: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17668208

I still like the hacking mod thing tbh. Anchor a hacking mod next to the POS let it run for as long as it would take for lets say 5 or 10 BSs shooting at the thing so the owner has time to react and defend it. Then the POS is yours if it finishes the hack.

why should a single person have to sit there for 5 hours to do this. they shouldnt have to.

Why should you be able to take my offline POS away from me in less time than it takes to wardec my corporation?

What if there's a reason that I left that POS anchored but offline? Sure, it's been a year and a bit since I last used it, but I've been distracted by other things. The reason I haven't unanchored it is that the moment I do so, someone will anchor their own tower in that spot and I'll be left looking for a new moon at which to anchor my POS.

If you want that POS removed, wardec the corp and blow it up. If the corp retaliates, then it is possible that the POS wasn't actually abandoned after all. There's also the diplomatic approach where you could contact the owning corp and ask about joining their alliance and gaining access to their tower that way. Removing the shield isn't going to significantly alter the time it takes to remove the tower: you still have to declare war, which is 24 hours from declaration to initiation of hostilities.

I agree that there should be a non-destructive means to remove abandoned POSes, but it shouldn't be significantly easier than declaring war and blowing the POS up.