EVE General Discussion

How so? It's not really any different than before, and it was never really any problem to just go and look anyway.

I've yet to see stations in wormhole space, except for Thera. You might want to consider moving out in j-space? Note that Citadels might be coming soon and considered stations, but i guess you refer to fixed stations and not player constructed?

It's not really more obvious.
Before, you had to take an interest in the POS, pick the right tab on your overview, press a button and check the list.
Now, you have to take an interest in the POS, pick the right tab on your overview, and check the list.

A button press more or less does not constitute a “serious disadvantage” and it doesn't particularly make anything more or less obvious. It's still a matter of “I want to know about the POSes in this system, so let's warp to someplace near* them and check them out.”

* For very large values of “near”.

So, much the same as now, then. If you have no intent of scouting the POS, it's just pointless noise that is best filtered out. Anyone who'd be motivated to attack you would know that your POS is lightly defended anyway because it was always one of the most trivial things to find out.

People who are looking for weak POSes won't be affected in the slightest since it makes no difference to them where the POS is.

You don't have to have it added to overview to see it, that's the problem. You can simply look up, and there it is, on grid with you. This is a very general example of how it is a problem, there's much more than that.

Basically these moons have no cover, they are exposed to anyone using these stations. You cannot say that this is not a disadvantage.

Look at it like this. If someone intends to stomp your POS, and has the wherewithal to do it, they're going to do it. Scouting for it, or seeing it from a station makes no difference whatever even in significant time required for execution. If you can't defend the onslaught, then you can't defend the onslaught and no "can't see it from the station" will save you there, either.

If it's some gank operation looking for undefended POSs, and your POSs is undefended, than sure, they'll see it from the station as it were, and go for the gank. Again, seeing it from the station has no significance here since they'd scout you out anyway. That's how they normally operate. Just seeing your POS isn't going to set off a light bulb that isn't already lit...so to speak.

So, if you're trying to say, "I'm too cheap to defend my POS," or, "I'm so broke I can't defend my POS," either way it wasn't a good idea for you to have a POS, so who cares if you get ganked 'cause seeing it causes the inevitable to happen sooner? Furthermore, if this is how you run your POS, you've just (by posting this rather dubious complaint) told the gankers who to put on their to-do list.

I'd say that's lose/lose/lose. I do hope it's not par for your course.

There's a POS right near the station we have our corp in ATM. I just says "Anchored" and I can just click on it to see what's there. It's in a relatively high security system (which I thought you weren't allowed to have player stations in?) So, being a player asset in HiSec, it's fairly safe from anyone that cares about their security status, however, as Lan Wang points out, if they don't care... into reinforced it goes.

Corp offices are so cheap in low traffic systems, there are so many systems to choose from in fairly tight clusters, not sure what the advantage of a POS is. Maybe you don't fight over lab/research time? I think if I was really worried about having a ton of corp assets exposed, I'd just use standard corp offices and maybe station containers.

If you're large enough, you can just wait and build a citadel.. or two... or three!

Does appearing on the overview in high-traffic locations increase the likelihood that a particular POS will get attacked? I dunno. Maybe. If it bothers you that much ... find a new moon. But once the new structures are released, you wont even have to anchor at a moon. Either way, the solution is going to be to move off grid.

Who cares?

your pos has been exposed for months, you are just NOW commenting? which means if no one else made a move on you, then no one gives a flying **** about your pos.

So dont put lightly defended pos on planets u want to hold?

It was mention in the discussion taking about the implementation of the new larger grid.

It seemed to be seen more as a novelty than an issue, and could be advantageous as well in certain circumstances.
Not everyone cares if their POS can be seen by players at stations or passing though gates.

Those who do can choose to put their POS elsewhere.

Kind of adds varied terrain to the game to be honest.