if it's offline then shoot it

Yeah, I would like to see high hacking skills used to get control towers to repackage when they are found offline.

You put up a large tower. Keep this fueled and death/dickstar it, and the most they can bring to you are battleships (Battlecruisers in a C1). I know there's a lot of people that have bashed towers in battleships and I think you'll all agree, it's mindless boring as **** thankless work. Very rarely do you get anything substantial at the end of it, in terms of gameplay or ISK, and the job is so dull and crap that any satisfaction you get at the end is just for the fact that it's finally over and you can go sleep cos it's 5am. Throw into this the dickstar tower and mass constrictions. This means that unless you find a HS each time, you can't bring forces into the hole (The chances of rolling the connection back on anything over than a C6 aren't worth it). Now when you're there, you're getting jammed to hell every so often, making it take all that longer.

If a group wants a tower down and have the capabilities to they will take it down regardless

You can take it down. That wasn't the point of my post. The point was that the effort and more importantly the time is, as both of you above said, really not worth it unless you have a massive reason to be there.

To get back on topic, I rather like the OP's suggestion that long abandoned POS towers take on a new "abandoned" status and be conquerable, repackagable, etc.

Make it the same 30+ days inactivity timer that an anchored GSC goes by perhaps.

POS control tower stands on its own because of how long they take to destroy them. Directional scan (D-scan) for Force Fields.

Yeah, I would like to see high hacking skills used to get control towers to repackage when they are found offline.

I'd go so far as to say that if a POS is offline, it should be vulnerable to hacking attacks. Once it's hacked, it's hacked to your corp and you can online or unanchor it.

This should be doable in hisec as well as low/null/ws, to clean out all the placeholder/abandoned POSes in hisec.

I'd go so far as to say that if a POS is offline, it should be vulnerable to hacking attacks. Once it's hacked, it's hacked to your corp and you can online or unanchor it.

This should be doable in hisec as well as low/null/ws, to clean out all the placeholder/abandoned POSes in hisec.

Yeah, that's a better mechanic than abandoned timers.

Hack it - make the chance really small and/or require several successes so it takes a little while (at least 10 minutes) - and then give it a reinforced timer where the original owners get eve mail and a time period to try and come un-hack it and put it back online.

Hack and it unanchors (everything). Otherwise, you can potentially "pick up" POS all over the ******* place because the hacker(s) don't have POS roles.

I vote for dedicated class of pos salvage ships which just hack the anchoring codes and change ownership of a pos.

Make it take X mins and produce one mail
That there is a security attempt on the pos.

if the owners can't show up in time (remember they got a bucket load of notifications that this pos was low on fuel), pos flips ownerrship to hacker.

This one change alone carves a huge career for pod pilots.
60 mins large,40 medium, 20 small (with perfect hacking skills, dedicated ship and modules etc)

Make it 3 days large, 2 medium and 1 day small.

Do you guys even play in wormholes anymore? If a group wants a tower down and have the capabilities to they will take it down regardless of what class it is and whether its dickstar'd, fleet of tengus could hammer a pos in a couple of hours and that dickstar is predictable and useless unless it has active pos gunners. It's whether the force required to take it down is worth the reward of actually removing it