Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Anchoring towers and POS modules is one of the most frustrating things that I've had to do in eve. The controls are annoying, the length of time it takes is frustrating and then there are the obtuse error messages such as "You cannot anchor this object because it is unaligned".

My suggestion is quite simple but would require a large overhaul from CCP. Because of the current "untouchable" POS code it is obviously unlikely but we can but hope.

Fitting Starbases
- Starbases no longer allow objects to be anchored manually (Eject -> Anchor).
- Starbases gain a slot layout (akin to any ship in the game) of 16H 16M 16L (variable / debatable)
- Highslots are used for guns/missiles. Midslots for ECM/Shield. Lowslots for industrial/research/hangers.
- Starbases retain their fitting requirements for modules. No rebalance required here.
- Starbases gain a storage bay, with a volume limit that accepts starbase anchorable modules.
- Modules can be dragged from any ship into this storage bay.
- Within the POS configuration panel, modules in the storage area are displayed as "available".
- Within the POS configuration panel, available modules can be dragged to high, medium or low slots on the tower.
- Modules dragged into slots are automatically anchored at preset turret, shield or ECM hardpoints (similar to turrets on ships now).
- Ammo dragged onto guns is automatically placed within it (again the same as loading a gun).
- Once a slot is occupied (5 second anchoring time whilst Jovians move it) the module can be turned on.
- Modules can be turned on individually (similar to current POSs) which takes 2 minutes.
- During online time the tower allows other modules to be turned online.
- Modules onlining during this time are added to a queue and are automatically onlined one after another. This state is called "Online Queued" and can be cancelled with the interface.

The key feature here is simply to remove the current system of placing modules around towers and create a new but well recognised UI for handling this instead. As well as making the system easier this new interface opens itself to fun concepts like overheating or prebuilt fittings - again similar to the way in which we have corporation/personal ship fittings.

TL;DR - POSs should be more like ships. Anchoring should be automatic when a module is dragged to a slot. Onlining modules can be queued.

Very bad mockup: http://postimg.org/image/zctycnart/

Now if only there was a forum dedicated to suggestions such as these...

All the capability is there already, they can even have preconfigured layouts to work with, that you can fine tune with particular slots. Sort of like getting a non ******** look with turret and launcher layouts on ships. Instead of dropping each individual module seperately, you would do all of it from the tower.

Maybe small towers could have 4/4/4 slots, mediums 6/6/6, and large 8/8/8

Weapons/moon harvesters in hi slot
EW and Shield Resist in mid
Everything else in low.

okay so there u go.

you assemble pos tower in hangar and then board it and you fit it like ship

high slots - only weapons
med slots shield hardeners and e-war modules
low slots for hangars, refining arrays laboratories and ship maintenance/assembly arrays

but we encounter problem as fitted pos will have more m3 and probably wont fit to regular hauler
we would then require specialised ship to haul starbase modules

The interface style that you are suggesting I would support. That being said, I do not like the slot system. It restricts the potential customization that you currently see in today's POS's. After all, we only have 12 choices per size of POS compared to how many different ships to choose from at any given size to do what we want to do. And if we gave a specific role to a specific POS, it would screw with the ice economy and throw favor towards a certain faction.

Posting about something that has already been fixed...... Yea. I think POS management does go down as one of the most annoying things left needing fixing that isn't already awaiting adding.

This is a concern yes. The provisional 16/16/16 slot was just plucked out of thin air. We could go two ways with this:

- Towers have fixed slot layouts and POS guns are rebalanced to allow for some nice configurations. CCP are actually quite good at ship balancing so I would imagine this would work well - however it requires lots more work.

OR

- Towers don't have fixed slot layouts but we retain the same kind of interface. It would obviously have to support different configurations but we would still retain the "hardpoints" system for automatic placement. I would imagine there would need to be an upper limit on the maximum modules you could anchor. Say xx turret hardpoints, xx support hardpoints (inside shield) and xx ECM hardpoints.

The goal here isn't to create an huge overall for rebalancing POSs but to simply make the interface simple and follow the same design patterns that we are used too and can use easily.

http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=391410

This is the only pos update we need. Yours isn't bad though.

Let me just say the passive megathron fit in the mockup is quite fail, go three magstabs or three plates, not 2/2.

Remove anchor time, allow saved configuration. Do not remove the ability to have the pos setup as diverse as it can currently be done. Please.