Jita Park Speakers Corner

As a small portion of the community I concur POS mechanics needs an overhaul.

On the matter of ownership and management:

The idea that something like a POS should only be an asset reserved for sov holding alliances and larger corporations is getting a bit old. I'm not super space rich. But I can maintain my own death-star / research pos / wormhole staging base / even the occasional sneaky jump freighter mid point / on the isk I make and it seems silly to me that I can't deploy one of these things for my self to protect my personal assets rather than force my corp to trust that I won't screw with all the corp assets after they grant me roles. Likewise putting my own assets at risk of a director or other member with equal access traipsing into my home to steal my stuffs.

On User Experience:

The easier a POS is to set up, configure, maintain, and derive satisfaction from, the more prolific their use will become. The rules regarding POS are part of the problem. Stop requiring these things to be anchored at moons. If you want to moon mine thats fine and makes perfect sense. If you just want a place to live what is the harm in allowing players to anchor a pos in a "safe spot" Even being able to anchor multiple pos on the same grid could create unique experiences we have yet to see. Imagine a true fortress system that was not dependant entirely upon a stront timer and blobs for defence but on the alliance's ability to build a strategic base capable of protecting its TCU. A vast research complex? A ship yard anchored in a belt full of asteroids to create an end to end production line? The modular pos could be so much more than the fidgity widget that it is right now but it will be nothing without your help CCP.

I have no doubt that the code level aspect of this is likely terrifying. It is however worth the effort. In a sandbox world what could be more in the spirit of emergent behaviour than providing the players the ability to create actual deep space communities, configurable, modular, expandable cities in the sky.

Barring that I'll settle for a place I can dock that doesn't require an egg.

The idea of owning & lviing out of a POS is a good one, but the current system could do with an an overhaul.


A few things to improve upon, which could be resovled by making a POS more like a station "hanging in space"
~ When opening up a CHA it should memorise the last subsection you visited (it used to do this but stopped happening a few months ago).
~ The ability to repair items would help encourage more fighting as you could easily fix up ships that have been scratched.
~ The ability to repackage & stack items would clean up arrays immensely (please god help my OCD)
~ Roles & security could be rejigged so you can allocate access by titles or individual.

Please take a look & add POS's to the next expansion

I support a POS overhaul. I am a new player in a new player training corporation, and being able to easily teach my members how a POS works and make it as simple and intuitive as possible is something I would very much like to see.

As a small portion of the community that actually uses the POS system, I too, would like them fixed.

Dear CCP,

I currently manage two Player Owned Structures for industrial purposes and am very disappointed that the POS changes have been pushed down the priority list.

The hassle I have to undergo every day to operate them makes me wish I never owned those two towers.

So to stay brief: I want CCP to put the enhancement of Player Owned Structures their priority and dedicate as much resources as possible to solve the current unfortunate state of POSes.



Kind regards,
Harb

Ok, i tried to put my own POS in space for industry job month ago or so, and I was amazed, how every little moon in 0.7 and below has it anchored already. I was ready to put it in space, but haven't found a room for it! IN SPACE!

I am a small part of the community - I run a research POS on an alt corp in hisec. I just want to add my voice to the chorus asking for a POS revamp in the near future to make them easier to use, more secure and generally better.

+1

The only reason i haven't Set up a personal pos in nullsec is that they're currently terrible.

Please take a long hard look at this CCP. We appreciate all of your information and the willingness on your part to discuss this topic, so thank you for that. I would not propose that POS changes could be effectively implemented within the next cycle, this is a project that needs a dedicated team, with dedicated resources, it will take a long time to be done right. POS's affect too many game mechanics and too many aspects of player activity to be changed quickly, but I strongly agree that they need to be changed.

so +1 from me, do it, but do it right. Not this summer, but get started on getting it ready for next summer!

I also spend a lot of my in-game time doing industry in a POS. Any improvements to the POS system, particularly to the industry interface, would be a great help to me!