Quote:XL does not replace current POSes it replaces current Player Owned Stations. The Large / Medium Replaces a POS.
Read what you wrote. It does not replace current Player Owned Stations, it replaces current Player Owned Stations? Wat.
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Basically I do not see a need to limit them at all. Have 300 XL in one system if you can afford to build them.
I know you don't. Picture every single moon in any system being wracked with indestructible POS that have doomsday weapons capable of destroying entire fleets of ships, squads of capital ships, and possibly even motherships and titans, and that is without mentioning or going into detail the preposterous military planning necessary to actually invade and conquer an entire region of space literally packed with them. Heavy regulation is a necessity if it is to survive its release and subsequent use.
If you do not see a problem with with its initial design, there is nothing that can be said to you to convince you otherwise. However, because of the nature of your posts, you are so far behind the learning curb I will only be responding to experienced players from this point forward.
As I've stated before, the concept of another type of more powerful, and thus, secure POS system is not the problem. The initial concepts that were, obviously, hastily put together are in need of severe redacting and modification. In any event, doomsday weapons on a POS unless they are severely limited in their placement and use is so outside the realm of anything else in EvE it begs for reassessment, and they are POS, regardless of words and terms used to label them.
Citadel Structures immediately need redacting because of one fundamental reason, besides those that follow;
Quote:Those structures will use the same principles of vulnerability and reinforced states from the Sovereignty overhaul. The structure can only be attacked by Entosis modules when it is vulnerable, and is invulnerable when reinforced.
The unforeseen consequences of this need to be taken into consideration before CCP even contemplates signing off on this idea. It needs no explanation. Good luck doing that with AOE weapons and Doomsday coming at you, in any capacity.
Docking of Motherships, while not a terrible idea, would require an enormous docking bay at least 3.5k by 3.5k on the structure itself, and if this would be allowed, why not just go all the way with it and allow titans. The structure is certainly large enough to accommodate many titans, though the size of the bay taking up 1/6 of the structures size and the impossible internal structure needed to accommodate them would look awkward and be unrealistic. For good reasons, it isent allowed. Not too mention the unrealistic logistical problems of actually docking and storing a ship of that size. Besides this, it would provide a perverted strategic advantage that is unrivalled elsewhere in the galaxy and by other powers, only again helping to make null static and stagnant, while protecting entire fleets of supers from being lost to any type of neglect, when docked, or theft.
The single target weapons alone render and obsolete several aspects of current gameplay, making ships like dreadnoughts far less valuable as they are meant for siege warfare, these guns offer the opportunity for a few pilots to bring down (possibly?) several dreads looking to do damage, single handedly.
Launcher with Area of effect missiles are similar in initial design to miniature doomsday day devices, which were toned down because of their OP ability to clear entire battlefields by themselves. If this was actually approved, it needs severe damage reduction from the initial suggestion, although the idea of forcing fleets to scatter out and use more complicated logistics isent without its merits. Energy draining missiles is just ridiculous and allowing them to mass drain entire clusters of ships needs a realistic explanation and application on how to actually return the energy to the Citadel and for what purpose, maybe energy neutralizing missiles, but certainly draining, implies the energy is returned to some source and somehow. Furthermore, trying to actually use an entosis link even on a massive scale would be impractical and a death sentence.
Doomsday weapons on a POS, besides its open threat and obvious immediate cost to anyone bringing Titans and Supers to the fight, is such a bloody mess of an idea that if it were to be implemented, it must come at catastrophic cost to every other usable system at the Cits disposal. This would also limit, or at great cost to invading fleets allow, the use of capitals. The cause of this is apparent that after taking just one system even pock marked with these weapons, they wouldent have much of a capital fleet left to continue on in conquest afterwords, nevermind taking a region because it would be military and economic suicide.
If it is not an option to belay its release, until it is properly toned down, and it has already been determined it will be a part of the upcoming installments, its rush will do far more harm then good when it is put to use and has to be (inevitably) hacked and nerfed to ribbons later on. It runs the gambit of alienating players that immediately go to putting it in use. Furthermore, its benefits are one sided towards existing alliances and even the suggestion of its development should be examined. Misuse and improper implementation of this idea will have unforeseen blowback that could cause severe consequences, in all respects.