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Posted - 2016.12.07 18:41:42 -
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CCP Fozzie, while you are removing some obsolete gear, can you take a look at SBU's ? The NPC buy orders have run their course. I think you once proposed to convert all existing SBU's and their BPO's into TCU's. |
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Posted - 2016.12.08 17:29:58 -
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Feature parity: a few items.
A control tower does not broadcast its presence in a solar system with an in-space icon visible to all players. When jumping into a new system, without needing to click d-scan, we can look in space for blue icons, and quickly determine that a new Citadel has started anchoring.
Separately, Overview (not in-space) Citadel icons are not supposed to be visible to players who are not in the access list. But (I think) due to the order of operations that occur in a session change, we frequently get to see all the citadel icons on the overview for just a second, until they are quickly removed from view because we don't have access.
A control tower can be online, with guns anchored able to defend itself in much less than 24 hours. The fact Citadels require 24 hours to anchor has been very good for conflict generation, but made them much harder to sneak into a solar system un-noticed, when compared to a small control tower. Especially when combined with icons visible in space.
A control tower increases its defense ability with each new player able to control its anchored weapons. That is traditional MMO game design: more players is better. I understand the decision the team made to simplify the control scheme and make it just like a ship, and its a very cool experience for the ONE player who can get to do it, in a battle at a Citadel. |
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Posted - 2016.12.08 18:57:38 -
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Retar Aveymone wrote:a control tower emails its location to the sov owner as soon as you anchor it, and the guns on a pos might as well not exist for all the good they do in any actual combat That's cool for sov owners, but outside of Sov it might be possible to sneak in a control tower in an area someone "claims," but may not d-scan aggressively enough for new structures. |
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Posted - 2016.12.08 19:35:50 -
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Retar Aveymone wrote:Either way, someone will notice if they look for it, and won't notice if they don't. Since it doesn't show up on your overview we are talking a very minor difference in the effort you need to put in to find it. I think the difference in effort is significant. Just looking at space, as opposed to needing to warp to distant celestials and clicking d-scan. Or using scan probes. If CCP would block the appearance of blue icons in space for citadels that are in the anchoring process, (until after anchoring is completed) that would match what control towers do in non-sov space. |
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