Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Would be a small but very useful addition, the ability to transfer the ownership of a POS, the same you can a station/sov.
Put an "admin fee" on it if you like, as long as i dont have to spend hours taking down and setting up pos's.

Highsec POS's need to have the same restrictions as POCO's, where they can't be transferred if wardecced. Otherwise people would simply transfer POS's whenever their corp/alliance gets wardecced.

This would go a long way to streamlining getting highsec POS's setup, as you would no longer need to boot everyone from corp to get standings up, etc, etc, etc.

I would highly recommend this be released with a nerf to offline POS's, that allows them to be more easily destroyed (No shield EHP) or stolen (Some "offensive hacking/salvaging" Mechanic). The value of POS locations will increase when corps gain easier access to them, so that POS spamming may become an even more obtrusive feature.

Make it a contract option and we'll have a market. Same with POCOs.

What this will actually make is a highsec POS industry where people drop POS's everywhere and sell them to those that don't have standings. You need to resolve two issues that this system causes...

1.) Removes the need for Faction standings for anchoring/onlining a POS in highsec.

2.) Several people would mass anchor POS's and leave them offline, then offer them on the market. This would cause several moons to have "holding" POS's on them with no use, an increase in the wardec system use just to make moons available, and lastly unneeded trash in highsec.

I am all for new professions and money making opportunities in eve, besides the traditional mining, ganking, etc.

Why would it be a problem if a guy went through the trouble to setup 200 POS's, finding the space, the standings, taking on to the expense, etc. why not make money selling his real estate? why is it something to whine about?

people who do exploration or moon mining can make money finding stuff, why not that?

they could set up or be forced to setup a real estate "office" in system which will pay rent the more moons they got going on, plus a tax on the transfer or sale.

Based on the premise that not everyone has the taste to do boring tasks in eve, finding a moon, anchoring something and maybe a REAL ESTATE module would be something for those who do not want to mine or pvp.

Another option is to be allowed to RENT out those complete POS, including the option to keep them fueled and running for a monthly fee. Say I need to work 2 or 3 months for invention and I do not need the POS any longer than that, why not just RENT it and not even have to spend the isk on the structures.

I think the game should be able to allow, create and be more active in the creation of new professions.

Let us just say the guy DID colonized or claimed 200 systems...

he won't be holding them for nothing because the ongoing small tax to it adds up (lets say 5 or 10 mm a week, making it a costly business)
the person who colonizes a system needs to have a "realty" mobile office at least in the region, so pilots can go and negotiate what the realtor has (costs and the need to tend to it in order to do it)
there will be a property tax, at the end of the year if not sold and just waiting for the land to piggy up, pay 10% of the value of the moon or else it will be put up for foreclosure, with the holder getting just a fraction if he didn't intend to sell it (motivation to sell)
allow MOON mining within the PI system for those rented systems while they are UNsold or UNrented, thus taking away from the person holding on to them just to keep them there, and he in exchange can collect a small royalty for it
ALL the places can be forced to automatically be offered in contracts for anyone to take if they so wish to do it (making it more public)

I am sure a lot more improvements could be made....

Supporting this.

They could add a mechanic where upon transferring ownership in high security space if the new owning corporation has lower than required standings the charter consumption increases.

For example:

0.5 security system
4.00-4.99 standings = 2x charter consumption
3.00-3.99 standings = 4x charter consumption
2.00-2.99 standings = 8x charter consumption

Compared to the fuel costs of the tower, the LP cost of the charters would still be rather small in most cases. Still, the owners would have considerable incentive to raise their standings to the proper level to reduce costs and the rate at which they have to babysit their POS.

This is all good, but you don't consider 2 things:

First, POS code is some sort of nightmare, that CCP refuse to dive into, therefore, second, POS are about to be obsoleted by deployable structures eventually, which would not be limited to moons (or so has been suggested).

Now, when we get to the POS-replacer, yes, it will make a lot of sense for someone to be able to sell it once deployed, especially if it follows a modular design instead of being separate deployable for each different POS use that exists now.

So, taking what i said into consideration, it would make sense for CCP to code in this option while the system is still being developed.

Bump, keep it up guys :)

Agreed partially -- but aren't they getting rid of the standings requirements this summer? (Or maybe I'm just dumb, and misread the devblogs).