Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If i understand you correctly, you are suggesting an automated vacuum system where the game mechanics automatically removes the structures once certain criterias are met. This would work, probably not THAT hard to do but...No emergent gameplay produced. IMO, all things must draw player engagement and force an expenditure of isk whether is by my purchase of loss. while this idea will clear the moons that some individuals might want, the mechanic would do little to improve the game as a whole, or rather, for the majority of the players.

will never happen, as this will require altering pos code.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/building-better-worlds/



Opens up a lot of new moons for space but with the lowered barriers to entry and general improvements to industry it should increase competition for POS space in the end and result in people taking down dead sticks.

I'm guessing. I'm reserving actual judgement until I've seen the rest of the industry dev blogs, and probably player movement in the month after release!

I don't think this is needed at all. Plenty of moons to go around and if you want a particular one, wardec it and shoot it down.

But failing that, the suggestion made during the industry panel at FF was probably a good approach (judging by the applaus). When a tower runs out of fuel in high sec it still requires charters. As long as it has charters it's allowed to stay there. No charters = no permission from the Empires to have a POS there = POS is free to fire upon by anyone.

Why is war deccing the corp and blowing the tower up not a good enough moon reclamation mechanic?

In fact if you dont want to do it yourself you can pay mercs to do it for you.

As it stands, the abandoned PI facilities are not relevant to anything. You can even place your structures on top of another players and never know it or see any different results. The ONLY thing that will affect you and your pi is when an extractor is pulling materials at the same location as yours, otherwize, it is as if you were there all by yourself.

Actually I think the OP's post was to allow people to 'steal' dead POS's, as in ones that have been un-fuelled for x amount of time - not as an 'easy' way to remove POS's but as a new profession of hacking and taking / selling a POS that has been abandoned by the owners.

In theory the hacking and removal of a POS should take 24+ hours, so that the owners have chance to respond, and you can only hack and remove POS's that have been left for a certain amount of time without fuel or use - making it very easy for a corp to protect their POS by returning to it to defend it.

You also still have the option to shoot it, which would be quicker, but then you couldn't steal the stuff.

I think I suggested a new deployable structure to facilitate this further back in the thread, since CCP want things to drive conflict then this idea would be perfect - since nobody wants their stuff stolen ....

Would prefer destroying (fast and without concord) over reclaiming but overall, +1!

In favour of long attended to towers becoming fair game for shooting by anyone, or simply vanishing, but strongly against being able to capture and take an anchored tower.

Well I can see an issue where someone exploits the current mechanics by abandoning a tower, waiting for an incoming wardec to remove it and making it mutual so the attacking party is stuck with the dec for as long as the defender wants.

This might be easily circumvented by hiring a few mercs to do it, but it is a potential issue. Though I highly doubt that is going to happen extremely much.