Giant mobile disco ball, that plays random sci-fi theme tunes, while shooting disco lasers and fireworks !!

Something I think EVE could really use:

A structure to anchor within 100km of an offline control tower. If the tower stays offline for 72 or 96 hours, it starts unanchoring the control tower regardless of the tower's owner. Perhaps it sends a notification to the owner of the control tower, perhaps not.

This could work wonders for high-security moon clutter.

Something I think EVE could really use:

A structure to anchor within 100km of an offline control tower. If the tower stays offline for 72 or 96 hours, it starts unanchoring the control tower regardless of the tower's owner. Perhaps it sends a notification to the owner of the control tower, perhaps not.

This could work wonders for high-security moon clutter.

That would be awesome.

Maybe even and automated system to package the entire POS Structures up into POS Structure Blocks similar to how the Fuel Blocks have taken the old components and packaged them up into a convenient cube...thingy.

That would be awesome.

Maybe even and automated system to package the entire POS Structures up into POS Structure Blocks similar to how the Fuel Blocks have taken the old components and packaged them up into a convenient cube...thingy.

Why not a deployable that hacks offline or abandoned Pos's. A successful hack would give ownership to the person operating the deployable.

It would be time dependent, the longer the pos has been offline the easier it is to hack.
Any modules on the pos would also be up for grabs upon a successful hack.
Take from hours to days for a successful hack and like a pos syphon could be accessed by any passerby. If you happen to be passing by and notice the unit has successfully hacked the pos (a flashing light or look at) you can claim it as yours but like an ESS it has a delay and sends out an alert so the owners of the hacking module can respond and chase you off or kill you to regain their booty.
The unit could also send an alert to the corp owning the pos as it begins hacking, this would allow those who abandoned the pos to come fight for it if they choose.


If the hacked pos is not claimed within 24 hours of a successful hack the hacking unit self destructs, leaving the abandoned pos in its prior state.

With the price of pos's ever increasing, I think this could create PVP content (and bolster my income through reselling abandoned pos's and modules)

I really don't think so. All it needs to do is send a mail to the POS's owner when the anchorable is first put down.

You've missed an important point: PVP is what happens when uncertainty is introduced. There's nothing very uncertain in transferring the ownership of an offline control tower. But when four days go by where people are aware that towers are going to be scoopable soon? An unanchoring control tower that people know about is one of the greatest locuses of PVP that I've found in the game, with a great prize at the end. Absolutely anyone can scoop it, and nobody can make the timer stop.

I think the whole concept of "hacking" towers is exceedingly silly.

Offline / abandoned pos's don't get ownership transferred, currently the only way to remove an abandoned pos is to shoot it, why not introduce something that could encourage a fight and add to your wallet..

Deployable billboards.

Deployable corporate billboards with an audio recording and animation of the speaker when activated.

That's exactly what I did, or weren't you reading?

So how exactly does it start the un-anchoring process?? Unless your going to completely change how pos ownership currently works, your module would 1st have to hack the pos to gain control of it so the un-anchoring could commence.

All I did was add an element of uncertainty to it.. The hacking process would have a chance of failure and not automatically turn ownership of the offline pos over to whoever drops the module.
Having the module visible on everyone in locals overview also adds an element of uncertainty, in that everyone in local can see the hacking process going on and if they choose, be there to fight over the "prize".
If, like a lot of highsec pos's, it has been offline for months or even years, the hack would be a fairly fast process. If the pos has only been offline for a few days the hacking process takes longer with a higher chance of failure.

Let me lay out the obvious, easy, default assumptions and stop this absurd overcomplication and confusion you seem so invested in before it goes too far.

The module can be found via d-scan. When viewed on grid, perhaps it shows an exact timer or perhaps it shows an estimated one (less than 4 days, less than 2 days, less than a day, less than 12 hours).

Sometime after it's anchored it sends a mail to the owner of the offline POS in question. When the timer finishes (72 or 96 hours or some such) the tower simply starts unanchoring, at which point the owner is moot. (It sounds like you've never actually seen a control tower unanchor in empire, or don't know how it works. Anyone can scoop an unanchored tower, and nobody can stop it from unanchoring; ownership is irrelevant.) Perhaps the fuel is ejected into cans, perhaps it goes into the anchorable, perhaps it is destroyed.

There is absolutely no reason for it to take a different amount of time to take the tower based on how long the tower has been offline.