I think it's a good idea, as long as I am allowed to park at the district satellite and indiscriminately fire upon DUST bunnies.

The idea is that you as a player would be able to hire a Dust corp to defend your POCO or to take over POCO's and enforce a new tax rate , without starving your renters.

The other side of the coin is at the same token Eve players can take over a POCO held by a Dust Corp and there is nothing much they can do except to hire some Eve pilots do defend their structure. I think this would really mix up interaction between Dust and Eve on a ground level ...space level what ever level.

I don't think the latter idea can work, unless the income levels in dust are overhauled entirely. Vast majority of EVE players would be in a position where the peanuts that the dustbunnies can offer in such contract would be completely meaningless and that way the interaction just wouldn't happen. Otherway around maybe.

Have to agree with you , BUT There is many ways to barter " I rub your back and you rub mine". There is a mine field of opportunity in this lol

The idea is that you as a player would be able to hire a Dust corp to defend your POCO or to take over POCO's and enforce a new tax rate , without starving your renters.

The big wrinkle in all of that? It's objective play, in a market that doesn't operate like that.

Just try to get FPS players to go after objectives in a match. As a game itself, good luck, I think every publisher would like to see that happen, as they created hundreds of millions worth of content and can't get them to do it...even if they're MMO inclined (e.g., WoW's BGs come to mind here).

FPS games it's about K/D and accuracy. Objectives second (and treated more as an annoyance).

That's cool and all, but I still want to be able to link up with the satellite and rain indiscriminate death down on the immortal ants that play on the ground. Perhaps it will dissuade them from trying to bite the hands that feed them.

I have no problem with indiscriminate fire against dusties.

Just so long as the dusties can fire themselves in boarding torpedoes at you ship, get a chance to fight thier way through the internal defences. Then, if they succeed, drag you paniced self from the pod, before a swift yet brutal summary execution to your face with a plasma shotgun.

The idea is that you as a player would be able to hire a Dust corp to defend your POCO or to take over POCO's and enforce a new tax rate , without starving your renters.

The other side of the coin is at the same token Eve players can take over a POCO held by a Dust Corp and there is nothing much they can do except to hire some Eve pilots do defend their structure. I think this would really mix up interaction between Dust and Eve on a ground level ...space level what ever level.

I think internal levels for dust might suck a bit - what if instead the pocos shields where linked to a ground based shield emitter? That way the attacking team had to take out that, in order for the space ships to actually blow it up.

I think internal levels for dust might suck a bit - what if instead the pocos shields where linked to a ground based shield emitter? That way the attacking team had to take out that, in order for the space ships to actually blow it up.

I can forsee somthing like this happening if this were implimented, i like it.

If a Dust player can directly influence something like attacking a POCO from a planet, i want to directly be able to defend it by firing back, without requiring 3rd party (dust bunnies) help to do so.

I see your reasoning behind hiring a dust merc team to defend it, but that works two ways.
Why can't a dust merc team hire an EvE corp (or even join an alliance) to take the poco in eve for them.

I just dont like the idea of something that i own, being totally taken out of my control and relyant on another game.

The planet shield emitter should only harden the poco shields, not make it indestructible.

Also, if you want to bash the poco, and you hire dusties. Who's supposed to defend it, and how long do you have to respond with your own dust defense team?

That's cool and all, but I still want to be able to link up with the satellite and rain indiscriminate death down on the immortal ants that play on the ground. Perhaps it will dissuade them from trying to bite the hands that feed them.

There are no ISK transfers yet between Dust and Eve, so this is false.

The idea is that you as a player would be able to hire a Dust corp to defend your POCO or to take over POCO's and enforce a new tax rate , without starving your renters.

The other side of the coin is at the same token Eve players can take over a POCO held by a Dust Corp and there is nothing much they can do except to hire some Eve pilots do defend their structure. I think this would really mix up interaction between Dust and Eve on a ground level ...space level what ever level.

How does a dust corporation get a POCO setup under their banner?

How would a dust corporation take a POCO? Destroy it or capture it?

If capture, is anything implemented to allow a ground type assault on a space station like that?

If they do have the ability to fire on space targets, can they hit moons and such? (i.e. put POS's at risk too)

It seems a tad one sided if they can pot-shot POCO's but can't be stopped nor risk anything on their end (owning a POCO).

This sounds more like a lulz excuse to allow ground pounders to blow up POCO's at will and not like any type of interaction gig. I don't know... I don't understand enough about how they work together to make a clean decision on such a topic so please do explain a bit more.

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Just posted a whole damn sop ....and didnt copy it . Il try again ....