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First, I would like to thank CCP for overhauling the POS and how they function. Many of these changes are a long time coming and are a welcomed addition.

Next I would like to maybe give you some further ideas to make the POS even more popular with your player base, speaking from my point of view, of course. I think it would great to make the POS a dockable station somewhat like an Outpost and have the ability to have more functionality to the POS by adding modules to the Station itself, so in essence the station would be one unit and as you add modules to it, the appearance of the station would change to account for the added modules, ship maintaince dock, Hangers, Silos, etc. I would still have the POS surrounded by the shield and when you warped into the shield you would just hit dock with station.

After all, this is a station in space and it seems unrealistic that we are unable to dock with it. This is just my opinion.

Again, thanks for adding these much needed and desired changes.

It would be even better for industrialists if corp hangars/labs/arrays were not separate but worked as a single storage pool. no more shuffling datacores around..

WH dwellers might hate it .. depends on if they can shift to using only their personal hangars easily enough.

I heard somewhere that CCP was thinking about removing Starbase Shields. Removing the bubble of protection that players have. Can you verify if this is true or false? In my opinion, this would be incredibly dumb. I can't see CCP even considering this.


You mean. Hiding inside the shield just beyond the reach of enemy weapons isn't protection enough?


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I thought CCP has said they want to adopt that.. but it's a VERY long process as it pretty much needs a rewrite of all the code associated with it. (might have been just an urban legend)

This is true, it came out at one of last year's Fanfest round tables. Removing forcefields is definitely on CCP Greyscale's wishlist, to avoid dealing with that code anymore. He complained at length about how they can't determine when ships are inside tower shields for the purposes of logs/reimbursment because the code is so bad. However he didn't really seem to have a good grasp on what to do instead to ensure ships aren't just vulnerable in space.

The trouble is that the whole starbase system needs pulling out and rewriting from scratch, but CCP are scared to commit so many resources to one feature after the Incarna debacle.

Latest Update:

Private Hangers in the 50k size are completed and will be on SISI when it comes up today available for testing.

The arrows for placing structures in starbases now scale with your zoom level so that they should never be too small to use. This is also on SISI.

The features I listed previously as completed (with the exception of the X-large Ship Maintinance Bay change which I missed putting in this specific build) are on SISI ready for testing.

We are in the process of investigating changes to what roles are required to cancel corp jobs in a Starbase. I can't promise that it will make it into Odyssey but we'll do our best.

At this point is is looking less likely that we will be able to get the T3 subsystem swapping into the first Odyssey release. Team Superfriends may or may not be able to have the feature polished in time for Odyssey 1.0, we'll keep you updated as new information becomes available.

We unfortunately will not be able to get Private SMAs into the initial Odyssey release. It is still something we want to do, possibly in a point release.

Let us know what you think about the implementation of the completed features on SISI and we'll be continuing to work hard to fit everything we can into the expansion.

Awesome, glad to hear that most of the stuff made it. Private SMAs in a point release would make many people very happy...

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Did we ever express our undying love for you?

^^^ This.. It would help a lot with security since you no longer would need to give people Starbase Management roles just so they can use the reaction arrays.