Octoven
Phoenix Productions
Headshot Gaming
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Posted - 2013.01.05 16:48:00 -
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I believe there was some mention about getting new starbases off of moons and anchorable in virtually any part of the system. You can anchor it in a safe spot, around a moon, planet, or in the middle of the sun...if you want a nice tan line :) The whole purpose of having the structures anchored to moons is to facilitate in moon mining. We all know that isn't going well in sticking around.
I think CCP really wants to drive home the idea of personalized star bases. These structured are owned and maintained by you and as such you should be free to put them any place you like and make them YOUR starbase. I don't like the idea of allowing smaller star bases to anchor anywhere and larger to just moons, that kind of restricts the freedom involved with the new starbases. I have heard suggestions of small being personal, mediums being corp, and large being alliance star bases. Again, I feel like this restricts the purpose of even owning a star base. If you personally feel as if you can handle and manage a larger starbase on your own, you should still be able to launch and anchor for yourself and not alliance.
I do like the stint about wormhole space though. Wormhole space was designed to be a playground where no one can claim sovereignty and where people can essentially stay for a limited time and then leave. The problem is that since Apocrypha was released, wh space has become congested and populated with settlers who want to stay. As it stands, corps still build capitals in wh space as well as fleets with towers that take forever to knock down. Go ahead and allow sovereignty in wh space. The aforementioned post about super caps is right, they can't go anywhere. I would surmise a good 90% of wh systems are already populated, why not transition into a more permanent status for its inhabitants. Essentially CCP has already took that step by allowing POCOs. You jump into a wh see all the POCOs with the same corp, warp around cloaked and see towers under that corp, and look up on wormhole.es lol its easy to see that corp owns that system even if it doesn't officially say it does.
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