EVE General Discussion

I suspect that when CCP get round to re-working PoS's hopefully some time next year) we will see a mechanic that will allow people to take them after x number of days of being off-line, until that happens we will just have to continue as normal.

Blow it up very simple. If you do not want to war dec (guessing HS) I would seem it really aint worth it... same goes for blow up...

You have a 100% defenceless tower, even if you start attacking it, the owner needs to defend it till the shield comes up...

And you want a let me just steal offline towers... na.


Also... maybe post in the right forum.

Not very simple for every corp.

I wasn't really sure where to post this? What would be the right forum?

I don't think you should be forced to have an online POS at all times. Maybe it just consumes starbase charters or something.

And if you could somehow de-anchor a POS, I don't think it should be as easy as right-click > scoop. There should be skills and modules attached to it. Like the codebreaker or salvager.

And I still think you should only be able to do that if you are at war with the corp :-)

Sounds like OP is risk adverse and doesn't want to deal with the fact that if OP deced a corp to burn a POS, OP might actually have to deal with player vs player interaction. OP wants to have NPC interaction on easy mode, NPC being anything that uses dumb AI or random chance to gain that prize (<-- like salvage, OP probably a supporter of POS hacking).

Wardec the POS and just remove it, otherwise don't bother. Offline its not giving any reward for the owner and its zero risk to take down to you. Its an isk sink, because that POS removed is not comming back to be reused again and again, requiring the POS be re-bought. You don't want to shoot it, you don't deserve the moon location.

It would be great if CCP put in a mechanic that made the POS more susceptible to salvaging the longer it was offline. This could open up a new profession hunting for derelict POS's floating in deep space and Worm Holes. Think of all that T2 salvage a tower would cough up.

This is one mechanic that I actually agree with. I can't even count the number of times when I am scouting for targets and I come across random towers instead and each time I instinctively fly up to them to see if I can unanchor them. It'd be like parking your car in downtown and just leaving it there for a month unattended. Each day only increases the chances of it being jacked.
But I do agree that one should be required to hack into the base first in order to gain access. To improve on that, there should be a chance that the hack will trigger an alarm sending a corp evemail out warning any players who may be on. As well as the player himself obviously being flagged.
For the wardec argument, why blow something up when you can just take it?

I have started trying to contact the owners of offline towers I come across in wormholes and I get not replies and the CEO is never logged in when I am on. I believe the 10-20% number is alot higher than that.

I like the idea of some mechanic of hacking a tower thats been offline for some length of time so you can unanchor and acquire it for yourself

I agree with this.
In fact, I think the second the POS goes offline, everything should unanchor. It's not hard to keep it running.

I don't find having it offline until you need it as a good reason. If people want to save it until they need it then they can unanchor it and keep it in a station. Don't have the standings? Shouldn't have betrayed your faction the second you got what you wanted. People can always leave high sec as well.