Player Features and Ideas Discussion

That would make it easier for a player to dodge a wardec and further devalue the player corporation.

If you want the ability to end a war at no cost to yourself, then you should plan for the fact that you might have to retreat to an NPC station at the drop of a hat. That might mean a little more effort on your part (really, just a few clicks every few days), but that is what this game is all about: making choices and living with the consequences. If you want to risk less, spend more effort.

So -1.

You do not understand. If you can just start all your jobs blindly for max time, with no penalty to end them, then it makes it easier for you (and less costly) to stop them and then retreat to a NPC station. You would always do that without a thought to wardecs and benefit.

As it stand you have to decide whether you want the extra flexibility to stop them at any time (including in the event of a wardec) at the cost of having to restart them after each rank completes, or do you take the road that is easier and less effort and just set them to maximum knowing that you are committed for the complete length of the research. You have to make that choice.

You are asking for that choice to be taken away so it is easier for you - you get max benefit no matter what. You are asking for your cake, and to eat it too. You want the benefits of being in a player corp (reduced POS research times) with none of the downsides (defending your corp from a wardec).

This makes wars and being in a player corp even less meaningful. If you want to run max length research jobs, do it in an NPC station. If you want the benefits of a POS, you need to accept the risks that come with that, and those include having to stop a job mid-run and losing your progress.

Just run them in batches so that each job is no longer than a week. Unless you are researching on so many alts that you need to keep logging in and out, it's not that bad. Once a week you start all your jobs at once and forget about it until the the same time next week, and at worst you are out 6 days of researching. Or find whatever time window suits you.

Once you get to the higher ranks and the more costly BPOs, you are going to have that risk no matter what when a single level can take months to finish. You'll be wishing for the "problem" of having so many levels fit in your 30-day window. :)

Oh, just this.

Do not place research jobs at a pos unless you really do know wtf you are doing. You DO have an option of using stations in highsec, lowsec, or nul. Also, making a research alt and parking them in highsec can also be a benefit.