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If CCP had put one game designer and one programmer to the task of sorting out POSes when they first promised it, most of the hurdles would probably be passed by now. I really don't see how a company like CCP with such excellent developers would need the entire EVE team to focus on modular starbases to get them to work.

Here's what you do:

You take a skilled programmer and put him in front of the codebase for POSes, and next to him you put a game designer who can draw diagrams of how everything fits together, and fetch the programmer some coffee when he asks for it.

You let the programmer un-tangle the POS code, and together he and the game designer document it.

Then you tell them to write a new system that can do all the same things, just like with Crimewatch, but you make sure that everything they write is solid code that can have stuff added or taken away. Also, you throw in some additional features they should keep the system open for, like modularity.

Then, once that's done, you put a full team on the job of developing the new POS system. With half of the coding done, they don't have to worry about untangling a big mess of yarn, or writing redundant code. Instead, they can focus on making new and cool stuff.


So, say maybe six months to untangle and re-write the original POS code, starting from last Fanfest. Another six months to build the new starbase system. That doesn't sound unreasonable to me, considering Crimewatch was done in less time, and I'm pretty sure that was an even messier system that was more dangerous to tinker with.

Do not let the minorities down. Fix POSes, please !

Most of the time, I'm having more POSes on D-Scan in Low, Null and J-Space than ships, so in my opinion POSes are no small issue here. They have a major impact on how people live, and their concept is outdated.

I know it cannot be an easy task to redo them, think of a way how they would be better and actually get them made, but CCP isn't exactly known for leaving impossible tasks to be undone.

yes pinky, all the hats.

The sheer size of this thread shows how utterly clueless CCP Unifex is.

So apparently spending two expansions replacing one broken war dec system used by people griefing bear corps with another broken war dec system used by people griefing bear corps is okay, but fixing a huge fundamental cornerstone of the Eve universe is not?

Are you high or something?

Fix POS's now. 100% support for this thread.

Edited because the above can be read two ways. :) sorry didn't want to offend.

CCP is scared for an Incarna 2.0. I don't blame them because version 1 almost killed them.
I still think if they do the POS revamp in little steps, 1 at the time they can avoid another furious rage.

It Looks like its now in the top 10 of recent most commented threads on here, Im just hoping somebody has started to read all this at CCP . . . .

Well I don't have anything constructive to say about pos', beyond the fact that i have to suffer through their annoying interface on a daily basis as does ALL of wh space. calling the group that includes hisec manufacturers wh'ers and nullsec entities that are unable to buy stations yet a "small portion" of the eve population is frankly quite insulting. yeah we may not match the masses of mission runners but it shows yet again that ccp does not want to work on player retention which is one thing that player owned structures IS.

You need to work on making the POS system much easier.

It's slow, tedious and one of the main reasons I dont want to login.

Also while you're at it shooting structures sucks. Please stop making us do that.

PS 42 pages lol :ccp: