I had to put in the effort to get it there in the first place. Why should you be able to just come along and undo all of that for absolutely nothing?

Yeah, no. It takes a bit more than that.

Unless we're talking about low or null, but in that case, you can already get rid of it very easily so there's no need for any change.

So, potentially months and months of mission grinding and/or a crapton of ISK spent on tags?

Yup, I didn't have to get standing or individually sit there positioning modules or anything.

And the point is, when I put it up, nobody was there. I didn't boot someone out of their space for zero cost, which is what you want. On top of that, if you are too poor and too risk averse to wardec a random inactive corp, what possible hope do you think you'd stand in keeping a POS? It's not like they never get war decced. If I want to have a POS and I want to save fuel between periods of use, that's my business. If you don't like it, you already have the tools to stop me. So quit bitching and use the tools.

GǪand that doesn't remove the fact that it takes a fair bit of effort to put up a POS GÇö if you just try to warp in and anchor it, you simply won't be allowed to.

So by the reasoning that it should take as much effort to tear one down as it does to put one up, the attackers will have to go through the same grind. In other words, it's a pretty lousy measure to use for what should be needed.

The good news is that corps already can't really do that. Nothing is being reserved for you and if you don't invest any ISK or effort, you'll lose the spot sooner or later.

Not really... You can leave everything in stations for all eternity. Not even characters get deleted even after years of inactivity. I'd say it's more against EVE to allow people to simply take stuff with no effort. They have a system in place already to clear moons, it's not difficult, like you rightly pointed out, so use it. We don't need yet another automatic mechanic to account for people's laziness.

GǪexcept that you can't do that in EVE. Again, nothing is reserved, and if left unattended it will be gone sooner or later. Definitely sooner if it's blocking other players in any way.
It's only a GÇ£problemGÇ¥ because people don't want to use the tools at their disposal for some unexplained reason, even though it's pretty much effortless to do so, especially compared to actually putting the tower up to begin with.

Yes, if you want to put up a POS you obviously have to put in the effort required to put up a POSGǪ but we're talking about pulling down a POS, which according to you should take just as much effort and which as a result GÇö as anyone who has actually put up a highsec POS knows GÇö would therefore have to require a whole lot more than just warping in and pushing a few buttons. As someone who has allegedly set up hundreds of POSes, you should know this already tooGǪ

I would if I had ever said anything of the kind, but I haven't so I won't.

First come first serve? If you don't want to put the effort into booting someone out of their space, find an empty moon. Remember, your POS will have exactly the same level of protection.

No, you should instead explain the requirements to set up a highsec POS because it sounds like you flunked the exam on that one the first time around GÇö you keep leaving out a very crucial step that's required before the game even allows you to do the stuff you're describing.

You mean the ones where I don't say anything about replacing POSes or the effort required to do so? Done and done. The contrivance is all yours.

Just grind that is soul-crushing and takes ages or costs a ton of money, and which increases in size the more people you involve

It's only a GÇ£problemGÇ¥ because people don't want to use the tools at their disposal for some unexplained reason, even though it's pretty much effortless to do so

You conveniently left out the part where you or someone had to grind FACTION standings for CORP (and not personal) until you are allowed to anchor it in a .5 or higher. If there is more than one person in your corp, and you are not all on the same page working toward this goal, achieving it can be more aggravating than probing-down an afk cloaker.

Some corps spend months working to be able to launch their first high-sec POS.

Please explain exactly how it's not an issue for a high-sec corp? (Or any other corp). Competence does not really factor here, you either did the grind yourself or you paid someone to do it for you, where you live is not at issue.

LOL grinding up FACTION standings specifically for a CORP is not the same as quickly obtaining standings useful for YOUR career path. If it were that easy, there really would be a POS anchored on every moon.

It does not really matter, it's not trivial to do even in a one-man corp.

Paying a war dec, and being able to begin removing a tower in 24 hours is far, far less effort and investment then going through the hassle of grooming a corp's faction standings to be able to anchor it , and then maintaining the standings if you do have others in your corp and need to do it again, or move the original one.
If you want to be able to attack/remove towers at will, then it's only fair that corps be able to anchor them at will assuming whoever anchors it meets the skill requirements.

Strawmen

GǪaside from having to maintain and defend the tower, especially if the tower has any effect on the game.

But again, the whole point was that you said that taking a tower down should take as much effort as putting it up. This means that taking a tower down must require the same kind of standings grind, the same kind of ISK investment, the same kind of very dull and long-winded process without any means of speeding it up (so the actual POS bash does not qualify).

You are trying to paint a picture that it should be made easier to remove a tower, and then you suggest a like-for-like relationship that must mean it demands a lot more effort than is currently the case.