*WHACK*

There, I did my part of the dead horse beating!

+9001 too

We just need to w8 for the minutes... they are coming soon... and If we dont like it, lets flog CCP =D

I thought the point of limiting POS anchoring to moons was to limit the number of available spaces and encourage conflict?

Speaking as a WH dweller, the general consensus is that we do not want docking games in any way, shape, or form to be brought into W-space. Feelings about forcefields are a little more mixed, though personally I like mechanic and gameplay options it offers.

The thing is, none of the services (except WiS) require docking up in a station-type environment. Docking takes the player out of multiplayer space where he can interact with other players in space, willingly or unwillingly, and places him in a single-player station environment where he has minimal and restricted interaction with others, and only when he chooses to interact with them. That doesn't sound like the goal and purpose of EVE, though it is essential for places like Jita and other trade hubs or new player systems ... any highly-populated location. [lots of words..].

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oh my god, imagine being able to have dust 514 players run around killing each other in a modular pos like this! ccp would be fools not to make something like this and letting dust 514 people destroy POSs placed by eve players!

POSes defiantly need to be revamped in one form or another, CCP should not take the "its good enough" approach to an aspect of their game that's so important. However a few thoughts that could be added to in to expand the sandbox as it were.

1) Poses and stations are essentially the same thing as in the new system would be for both stations and poses
2) Poses are anchorable anywhere however are only able to go into reinforce mode on moons
3) Pos should be customizable from a 100mil isk ninja pos to a 300billion isk alliance structure of doom and should require an proportional fuel requirements.
4) You must be able to see outside a pos when "docked" and ideally have multiple undock points
5) Pos / Stations are destroyable and drop loot
6) Poses should be claimable if you don't fuel your pos someone else should be able to claim it fuel it and use it as they see fit just as if you were to abandon a ship.
7) Bounties should be collectable on corporate / alliance bounties (if they don't already)

Ultimately a pos is a great way for players to be able to customize their experience make diverse engagements and in general expand game play as they stand now they are a necessity at best..

my 2 cents

Have you actually fought on POSes? Have you fought on station undock? If you had done both, you would know the differences, which you clearly don't.

Unifex stated that what CCP did was spend effort and prototype what would make a good POS system. It would, however, only affect the group of people who manage POSes. Focusing that amount of time and effort on some small singular aspect of the game and delivering only that GÇ£is what will kill the businessGÇ¥.


The atmosphere was notably tense at the point.

From the last December CSM Minutes: