Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You can easily clear 1500 DPS with battleships that already exist, with tanks and decent damage application. I'm looking at a rattlesnake with 1600 DPS and 120k+ EHP, for less than the hull price of a marauder. And that's without even trying.

But you already have multiple options for that, why would a new t2 one be needed?

Ideally, Player Owned Complexes (POCs) should have layers, or better, be divided into components that are in different "rooms."

The most peripheral rooms would be vulnerable to solo players with hacking equipment, be worth defending economically, and have an important long term impact on network vulnerability from sustained harassment. These would contain no automated defenses beyond a data console lock.

Example contents: Spawn containers for jump fatigue reduction consumables. Refinery/Assembler/Research/Invention efficiency consoles. There could also be spawn containers which mine materials essential for keeping POS online, or operating cyno/jump equipment. (Divert ice mining to nanite paste, capacitor injector charges build requirements, any other charges or anything PVE related.)

Middling rooms could be vulnerable to a range of sub capital gangs and have more valuable assets within them.

Example contents: These could be silos for raw or reacted materials. There could be consoles here which can terminate subcapital object builds. Assets for cyno logistics, cyno jammers, or anything of a tactical nature could be in here. There could be offensive batteries here which would be extremely hard for a solo player to defeat.

Innermost rooms could be shielded by walls that can only be knocked down by large battering rams, like caps or supers -- or a sustained campaign of harassment of undefended maintenance satellite rooms by subcaps.

CCP can ameliorate the "bring more friends" problem of POS HP balance by disallowing spawning of cynos directly next to targets. This adds a minimum operation time by obliging players to slowboat to objectives. This creates more engagement opportunities and makes for better player-made cinematics. That's worth it all by itself.

10 minute reinforcement timer delays between successive, thin layers of POS shielding would allow for response fleet formups, and allow even smaller groups to recover and redeploy between layers. How many layers of reinforceable inner shields such an asset could have could be dependent upon sov level, and how much maintenance inputs the group is willing to commit to it. There would need to be fractionally exponentially cost progression per reinforceable layer. Ideally, there would be slowboat traveling between each layer.

Any other cyno exclusion mechanics could serve to reinforce subcap dependence for engagement possibilities, and reinforce the notion of capitals as fleet flagships with fewer invulnerabilities and more interdependencies. Extended access range fleet hangars would be handy for this, but I digress.

Couldn't we look for ways to remove the tedium though?

I'd really like deployed assets to be worth something. I think if I build an ammo building array somewhere vulnerable, then I should get an extra assembly line for building ammo, at least in that locale. An arbitrary global limit per player fails to reward any risk-taking decisions or investments.

Nice discussion. Good to see topic has been hijacked and has started to discuss what ship to use.
Topic can be locked. Nothing further to see here....

Another example of trolling which why this topic can be closed.
Where in my posts have I asked for suggestions of ships to kill a POS.

I provide an idea that could reduce the grind of killing a POS.

Yes EVE players have twisted minds...

I was once a stand up comedian, found out I suck at being funny, decided to play EVE...

So, a max damage fit, shield tanked Kronos or paladin, but with more damage and less application? Cause I can pull 1.5k out of either fairly easily (t2 fits) and run a tank strong enough to tank most POS setups until they would switch if not being manned

Here's an idea: The more people you get to shoot a POS, the quicker the POS dies. The minigame is to manage and organise X people to go and shoot it. The rate of shield or structure depletion is directly proportional to the score you get in this game.