Gragnor
Ordos Humanitas
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.11.25 08:18:00 -
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Edited by: Gragnor on 25/11/2007 08:20:43
A couple of thoughts.
1. There was a post a while ago about how planet sovreignty will stop pos spamming. That is, if you control a majority of moons for a planet - you control that planet. Control a majority of planets for system sovreignty. Consequently, to control a system, you will not longer need 51 pos's in a 100 moon system.
2. Titan's should be mobile outposts. That is, someone dropping a titan into your sovereign system and anchoring it should be the equivalent of nuking sovreignty in that system. Titans in anchored are like outposts and cannot doomsday. If not defended, an anchored Titan's services can be disabled and after a week when sovreignty is either lost or gained; the anchored Titan can be destroyed. All of a sudden seeing a Titan in your home system that is not yours will make you VERY SAD and you have a week to kill it or you lose sovreignty. You win - you get to kill the titan unless its evacuation is defended.
3. Outposts should be destructible. Once sovreignty is lost, attacking an outpost should see it destroyed. That way - you can truly lay waste to someone's system AND THEN LEAVE! If you do not defend your outpost; weep as its destroyed. So another facet of gameplay is simply laying waste to an enemies system; wiping them out completely and destroying an outpost and then leaving.
4. When ambulation comes in makes PoS's more like mini-outposts (another great post), so we can walk around in our custom made home, control the pos guns, fuel the towers etc. That way we log in and we are in our PoS - NICE and SAFE as should be the case. A PoS has some of the functions of an outpost anyway (fitting and storage wise).
5. Make is such that a POS can be "invaded". Use a Hacking module to gain access, raid a PoS, steal everything not secured (Corporate hangar wise) and then run away. Pirating all of a sudden becomes more complex and fun. Defending against pirates becomes interesting to say the least. Imagine your horror of logging in and finding 20 assault frigates trying to hack into your pos.
6. When a system is granted sovreignty - add an ability to put down ONE special "sovreignty tower" which manufacturers a supply of POS fuel (oxygen, robotics, etc). Stop people from going all the way to empire to buy fuel for PoS's!
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