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Grayland Aubaris
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.01 12:49:00 -
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Regarding the hacking part - I suggested this in a previous thread:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4419268#post4419268
New deployable structure: 'Mobile Hacking platform'
Cost: circa 25m
Single use, cannot be scooped and used again.
medium amount of shield / armor
How it works:
- Needs to be deployed within 10km of a OFFLINED POS tower.
- Once in place it will spend 24 hours hacking into the mainframe of the tower.
- During this time the corp owning the tower will be notified - you could even broadcast something in local every so often.
- After 24 hours the tower becomes 'Vulnerable' and will RANDOMLY become unanchored at some point in time during the next 4 hours - when it is unanchoured ANYONE can scoop it.
- The mobile hacking platform self destructs.
The point being that you don't know exactly when it will become available to steal, and there could be pew pew between people trying to snag it. Sounds fun to me!
And it gives CCP a way to have a new deployable structure, a way for people to steal the structure for profit - (if you want to just make the space available you can war dec them instead), and also gives the defending corp chance to respond. Also it provides the unknown quantity of never knowing WHEN exactly the tower will be steal-able.
This would work in conjunction with your idea - just amend the idea to be effective against towers in standby rather than offline. |
Grayland Aubaris
Ocellus Technology
Tiger Cats
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Posted - 2014.05.06 18:06:00 -
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Grand Formage wrote:Sigras wrote:Why is war deccing the corp and blowing the tower up not a good enough moon reclamation mechanic?
In fact if you dont want to do it yourself you can pay mercs to do it for you. The issue is that some people want tower removal with no effort and time investment. The mechanic should stay the way it is. you want that moon, work for it.
Actually I think the OP's post was to allow people to 'steal' dead POS's, as in ones that have been un-fuelled for x amount of time - not as an 'easy' way to remove POS's but as a new profession of hacking and taking / selling a POS that has been abandoned by the owners.
In theory the hacking and removal of a POS should take 24+ hours, so that the owners have chance to respond, and you can only hack and remove POS's that have been left for a certain amount of time without fuel or use - making it very easy for a corp to protect their POS by returning to it to defend it.
You also still have the option to shoot it, which would be quicker, but then you couldn't steal the stuff.
I think I suggested a new deployable structure to facilitate this further back in the thread, since CCP want things to drive conflict then this idea would be perfect - since nobody wants their stuff stolen .... |
Grayland Aubaris
Ocellus Technology
Tiger Cats
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Posted - 2014.05.06 18:47:00 -
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Caleb Seremshur wrote:Offline timer:
You want something? Fight for it. Nothing should be free - and btw your skills are just a time sink, they're in no way representative of any quantifiable effort you actually invested. Saying you should be allowed to hack a tower in to submission is just a cop out excuse and is totally not representative of the energy required to launch a tower in the first place.
I suggested a mobile platform that is freely attackable by anyone that costs circa 25 Million that has to sit in place for 24 hours or more to make a tower that is 'abandoned' vulnerable to be being stolen. That's your investment there.
See my previous post for how this would work: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4422704#post4422704 |
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