Jita Park Speakers Corner

Here are a few things that are wrong with pos presently:

POS roles are horrible. In order to let someone do something with a single pos you have to grant them roles which allow them to mess with every other tower you have. You are not able to assign roles to specific towers, systems, constellations, individuals, or groups. This is a problem for wormhole dwellers as well who live in their pos for extended periods of time.

POS setup is a painful mechanic Right now when setting up a tower you must manipulate a green box into a position at least 45km or so from the pos in order to anchor it, you must do this for each module. The process of anchoring a large number of modules becomes one of tedious camera manipulation and counting modules to ensure they are placed properly.

The amount of keyboard time required to setup a large deathstar pos of the type used for staging in deployment systems can easily exceed 2-3 hours. This is the amount of time required simply to online all the modules, not move them, manipulate thier position, or fill them with ammo.

A large alliance requires significant out game tools to manage POS tasks such as: Notifying logistics when pos need fueled, notification of a structure attack, figuring out fuel needs, etc...

The stront timing mechanic is incredibly tedious, annoying to calculate, and strontium has an incredibly large volume.

If you've ever tried to move a supercap or especially a titan around in a pos bubble or during a mass login you'll understand how bumping and pos also present an interesting challenge. Additionally some pos modules such as a ship maintenance array have an incredibly small refitting range making it more practical to unanchor and move the module rather than try and navigate your titan in range.

You are also unable to swap t3 subsystems on a ship maintenance array requiring wormhole dwellers to find a station in k-space if they wish to swap subsystems on their ships.

Please do not abandon this pos revamp, it impacts more players than you are willing to admit

Focusing on what CCP believes the masses want creates debacles like Incarna. Sometimes you have to listen to what even the 1% are telling you because they are the ones creating the in-game content that tens of thousands of players are benefiting from (whether those players realize it or not). There shouldn't be a single uninterested player, those not showing interest are simply ignorant of where “stuff” comes from and fat/dumb/happy consuming the efforts of others.

If we can improve the experience at the top of the chain, benefits will trickle throughout the rest of the playerbase. I’ve been in multiple corporations that had great guys in it, but only 1-2 dudes in leadership that sacrificed their game time to struggle running the POS to give 100-150 dudes a reason for playing and interacting with each other. Those 1-2 dudes in leadership got burned out. The current POS design is directly responsible for multiple dedicated leaders being burnt out and leaving the game.

The idea of “high-level content” in EVE should not be to burn out the leadership of corporations, those few leaders trying to build something to support their band of 100+ dudes, to the point where they are unsubbing from EVE and leaving those followers hanging. Those followers are then themselves left to contemplate whether they too should unsub or go through all of the pain of finding another home and a new group of friends to continue playing the game with.

Bad POS design creates unsubs.