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Control Towers take too long
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Legion Reaver
#1 - 2011-11-07 00:59:44 UTC
I honestly think the only thing more boring than ice mining is setting up a control tower. It just simply takes too long. How about making it so that for each lvl of the anchoring skill you can online/anchor +1 array. So at lvl 5 you could online 5 guns/arrays at a time. Sure would make them harder to destroy if you had anchored plenty of guns around the tower just waiting to online them as others go offline but from what i hear it pretty easy for capitals to destroy towers as it is.
Project 69
Aurora Coalition
Synergy of Support
#2 - 2011-11-07 11:03:19 UTC
Other possibility would be to have a 3D Holographic table in your CQ to setup POS.
- Setup your POS with the modules on the right position and fuel and in which order to online/Anchor
- Create a deployment package (which only works if you have all elements in your hangar).
- Fly to a moon, deploy package, wait for autodeployment
Nautsyn Thome
Shark Investments
#3 - 2011-11-07 13:49:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Nautsyn Thome
Legion Reaver wrote:
I honestly think the only thing more boring than ice mining is setting up a control tower. It just simply takes too long. How about making it so that for each lvl of the anchoring skill you can online/anchor +1 array. So at lvl 5 you could online 5 guns/arrays at a time. Sure would make them harder to destroy if you had anchored plenty of guns around the tower just waiting to online them as others go offline but from what i hear it pretty easy for capitals to destroy towers as it is.


This

Project 69 wrote:

Other possibility would be to have a 3D Holographic table in your CQ to setup POS.
- Setup your POS with the modules on the right position and fuel and in which order to online/Anchor
- Create a deployment package (which only works if you have all elements in your hangar).
- Fly to a moon, deploy package, wait for autodeployment


and this.

Good stuff.

Funny fact: When it comes to POS mechanic, any change would be good, because it is so bad.

I specially like the CQ Idea, because setting up the pos would be/could be alot more comfortable on the (virtual) drawing board in your quarter than in a pseudo 3d environtment within your field of view, messing up with camera settings to actually see what you are doing as it is right now.
Chaos Incarnate
Faceless Logistics
#4 - 2011-11-07 14:55:56 UTC
The winter expansion includes a reduction in anchoring and onlining times for most POS modules to around 3-5 seconds. Guns and hardeners will still have a 2 minute onlining timer, and sovereignty items will still have their regular timers, but setting everything else up should be much easier.
Nautsyn Thome
Shark Investments
#5 - 2011-11-07 14:57:57 UTC
Chaos Incarnate wrote:
The winter expansion includes a reduction in anchoring and onlining times for most POS modules to around 3-5 seconds. Guns and hardeners will still have a 2 minute onlining timer, and sovereignty items will still have their regular timers, but setting everything else up should be much easier.


3-5 seconds?! Wow, thats...wow.