Science & Industry

Wot he said ^^

solution to the loot if outpost / statin gets destroyed:
new cans. let´s call em fireboxes. way too small to store much besides personal items

personal items = implants and blueprints, everything small basically

those cans get deploeyed when station is destroyed. everyone can pick them up, BUT only the owner can actually open it (password)

so you not only need to destroy the stations, but also either
- infiltrate , steal, hack whatever to get the password
- ransom the owner
- trade it without the buyer (and the guy who picked it up) knowing whats really in it.

or... to take it to a whole new level:

make them hackable . and the owner has the chance, if online and willing, to counterhack.

The main reason is players stuff being lost. If players stuff could be lost this way they would be much less likely do keep their stuff in null sec, instead opting for low or high sec. As players tend to play where their stuff is the result would be fewer people in null sec.

Adding an insensitive for players to leave null sec for high sec is not desirable.

Having their stuff magically move to an npc station also seems odd. I guess you could say a null station can install a one-time wormhole generator. It is powered by a station explosion and transports the stuff to another station.

Whether or not 0.0 station destruction is desirable, changes at this point need to be very carefully considered. Changing the rules after someone has relied on a mechanic and are now unsubscribed, and doing so in such a way as to impose a potentially enormous loss on them, needs to be handled extremely carefully. It would be like converting all T2 BPOs into low run BPCs, and saying risk reward justified it.

Now I happen to like the idea of stations being destructible, but I also want to treat those who relied on the old mechanic fairly. To start with, all new outposts from a certain point on could be made destructible. Anyone docking in them would be on notice that they could be destroyed, fair game. Stopping there would also eliminate the oft stated fear that a mega alliance could just go through blapping every station over multiple regions in a scorched earth campaign, which could be very bad for null, all the old stations would still be there as a back stop.

If you really wanted to make existing stations destructible, I see 3 ways that would be at least marginally fair to those with assets still there. 1 - Move to nearest non-sov station, basically a windfall for those effected, as its better then the status quo, also doesn't make any sense from a in game perspective. 2 - Station wreck, can undock but not dock, same rules as if the owner didn't like you, and then it would act like a permanent personal hangar array, would be a PITA, but you could travel out and recover stuff. 3 - Station wreck, can undock but not dock, must be repaired (at a cost of materials, 10-50% cost of a new outpost) if you want an outpost in the system. Items/ships are still there, become accessible again on repair.