I don't like that you killed the mini profession of corp creators. Also it doesn't make sense for a faction to allow you to anchor a POS in their space if you have negative standings towards them.

In an earlier post I mentioned the idea of changing from 13 arrays to a single array that had to be upgraded (13 times). This mechanic would prevent the hack you are describing here.

Thanks everyone. Now to figure out if all them Slaves I freed during the years want to return the favor...

/c

You mean you haven't heard of that "Pssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhh" method now favoured in the upper echelons? Y'know, the one that's very similar to the enormously popular "pulling numbers out of thin air" method... or random orifices, for that matter ?

Cilly bunt

Removing the standings requirements without making any other changes to POS mechanics/requirements is a horrible idea.

Now any large corp or alliance can go around and wardec smaller corps, kill their POS and then "grief" the site by putting up an offline POS they never intend to use. They could literally put up hundreds and then hide behind the sheer cost of warrdeccing them to hold the spots.

There needs to be some barrier, limit or challenge to erecting a POS in high sec unless your idea of an "industry change" is having to join a large alliance or coalition to keep your POS (sound familiar?).

Or having entire solar systems filled with offline control towers. The offline control tower problem is bad enough now and really needs to be addressed anyway.

I don't want running a POS in high sec to be risk free. But I don't want the "POS ownership" landscape in High Sec looking like an SOV map either.

At the very least please at least consider buffing the POS defenses to make them more defendable by small active corps before you make this change.

You are missing the point where CCP hates casual players, individual players, and even small groups non-aligned with the null sec cartels. If you look at these changes from that context, this overhaul makes sense.

how about the SHIELDS should be down. just saying

Sorry... read your first post as a statement not as a suggestion. We are in agreement. It should not require a fleet of dreads to clean up offline space junk. I think offline towers should just be unanchorable by anyone that stumbles upon then.

I like these changes coming up for pos production.

The only issue I may have is the potential click fest for onlineing the modules prior to inserting the manufacture job and then offlineing the modules after the manufacture job has been submitted.

as a possible idea to help with this, would it be possible to link the benefit from the pos modules to the time that module has been online. any modules that has not been online for the requested job duration is ignored

for example

you have 2 module at a pos that have been online for 3 days and 4 modules at the same pos that have been online for 7 days.

if you submit a job for 2 days then you get 6 modules benefit.
if you submit a job for 4 days then you get 3 modules benefit.
if you submit a job for 8 days then you get 0 modules benefit.

this will allow specialists to set up a pos and keep it set up.

anyway just an idea.


edit .. there should be 1 modules benefit applied at all times. even if just anchored and onlined.

So, I spent years grinding empire standings, a big part of the reason why, was so I could put up a POS on my high sec alt.

Whats the point of spending time grinding empire standing now?

CCP please don't make our years worth of standing useless!

Can Some one please explain to me why BPC's Cant Invented/Produced remotely?.. I get BPO's but BPC's have no value. this makes this remote skill pointless/useless. (can we get a refund for its skill points now its not used?)

Since its consumed on use it why not just let use do it form the Station -> P.O.S.? this will save us time / hassle


This just addes undue time to the production / invention cycles. Hi sec P.O.S's are pretty much useless now.


CCP are we going to be able to lock down Prints in P.O.S. if so what time frames are we looking at..I think we will need an answer here because I would rather sell pos stuff now then leave them dormant in space until this has been fixed

I am calling this a bug,. why Making us move 10B isk prints into POS;s with out giving us the opportunity to lock the down. This should be been made available to us before Locking us out of the POS!!!!!!!!!

btw why I say 10b isk prints... because a Freighter print that once cost 1 Billion isk costs ten times that value because of the new ME costs.

In the dev blogs it mentions that outposts can be upgraded to increase the amount of minerals gained from the reprocessing array, does that mean the tower? ie: small +2% medium +4% large +7%?

Cheers

Outposts aren't the kind of POS you'd use in High.

They're station like structures, used in Sov Nullsec

Cheers, i'm sure I read somewhere that you got an increase using a pos, I thought that was the article...I'll keep looking.