Dangeresque Too
Pistols for Pandas
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Posted - 2015.05.13 00:29:12 -
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1) With the idea that the structure won't defend itself, for small groups, what you are saying is that they are REQUIRED to have someone POS sitting 23/7 if they don't want their structure reinforced by some tiny roaming gang with an Entosis Link. I can see people doing this even if only for trolling. Yes I understand they will have an opportunity to show up to defend during the window when it comes out of reinforce, but they won't have the ability to prevent that reinforce from happening UNLESS someone POS sits 23/7. The current system allows for small groups/solo players to set up their POS in such a way that it can't be reinforced by a couple random stray passer-bys, this system actually encourages reinforcement trolling.
2) Being listed in the scan window. BAD IDEA. Part of the current system of hiding/protecting a POS is to put it up in a system with a metric ton of moons. Yeah you can warp to all the moons, but until you get there you don't know which ones for sure have POS's at them without running d-scans on each one (presuming their are in d-scan range). This just sounds like it is just helping the random trolls and hunters by making everything clearly listed without having to hunt through the moons. Please please if you do decide that you need to make it easier for people to find stuff (like all those anoms/sites that became insta warpable), at least make it to where you can't see the owner or anything about it simply by warping into the system/WH.
3) Seems with all these proposed mechanics you don't want/expect any solo players or even small groups to set up a structure, ever. With the current system a POS can be setup to deter all but very serious attempts to reinforce it, but with this, a single troll can take down any structure he wants. Yeah I understand you can let it ride for a couple of reinforcement cycles before you catch it to actually mount a defense, but we really need/want the ability to not have to get to that point to begin with. If the reinforcement cycles make the structure worse off than the one before, how is that a good idea at all? Thats like saying that current POS owners should have a preferred defense mechanism of letting their tower get reinforced, and then hit again and into structure before being able to consider defending it or warding off even lone attackers.
I'm sure I had more but this is just too ridiculous, I like the ideas, but the implementation is terrible... esp no loot, I earn part of my living off planning profitable POS hits, and this is going to take a good portion of that away. I can no longer steal dozens of billions from a poor guy who had too much ISK and didn't know how to properly use a POS.
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