Jita Park Speakers Corner

We are the 1%, please cure the disease that is the broken POS.




...Thanks :)

I would happily take a full expansion devoted just to fixing POS.

I have lived mostly in PoS's for the last 3 of my years playing eve, and they are a total pain.

I started reading the direction of CCP for Decade 2.0 and I'm interested and excited. Then I read that the long overdue, much anticipated and talked about Starbase 2.0 is not going to be done?

Avatar based gameplay was never finished. Disappointed, but it wasn't ready. A chance at new exploration and avatar based too? I was excited. Then the project was cancelled.

Now starbases? No. Just no. I'm glad you're getting things turned around but I think you are highly underestimating the value of this revamp. It can literally be the foundation technology of so many cool things in New Eden.

On behalf of Obstergo,


We feel that the POS mechanic, as is, should be improved. +97

POSs suck please fix this, you promised us now you should come through for us!

POSes desperately need a rework. At least give us more divisions in the POS modules to accommodate more people!

Well gee, if I'm such a small portion of the community then I guess CCP won't miss my monthly fees when I unsub.

If I may: I think you are actually marginalizing this issue by mentioning just the effect on wormholes. There are plenty of people living out of POSes in null and plenty of people in high and low sec also use POses for various functions. They are ubiquitous and have an effect on much of the player base. I urge you, Two Step, to try and bring other CSM members on-board with this as well since it affects their constituents as well as your own.

CCP's stance that this just affects the people that manage POSes is a fallacy. Managing a POS is a huge pain in the ass, to be sure, but everyone living at a POS is affected in some way by the haphazard system we have now due to the security issues they have.

POSes tie not only into wormhole exploitation, they also tie in to sovereignty and industry. beyond that, if they were improved, perhaps labs could be rented out to the public, which would could have some benefits in empire space as well. A system so widespread and important in as many aspects as POSes are really needs to have CCP's full attention. Even if it takes a couple expansions, CCP needs to deal with this problem. They need to start laying the groundwork NOW; the sooner they get started, the sooner they can be finished and the sooner they can iterate on that content to improve the EvE experience.


On a semi-unrelated note. A fix that can be done now in a relatively short amount of time is a revival of corporate roles. One of the big issues with POSes is a lack of security. The only roles you can restrict hangar and maint array access to are Config Starbase Equipment and Fuel Manager, so you have to either let everyone access facilities or restrict it and start handing out permission to defuel or dismantle the POS. Adding a couple new roles that access can be restricted to will solve much of the security problem without even touching POSes directly.

I can't believe CCP even needs to be told this after all this time, but here we are. Dear CCP, fix the ******* POS mechanic if you're not going to replace it. The current system isn't even close to adequate.