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Plenty to shoot at as most of what I've seen are only small towers, so easily popped.

I know it's ironic and in some ways tragic to have to tell you on patch day that you need to be patient and wait. However, that's what I am going to tell you. CCP is working on ways to blow up offline POSes. Getting rid of offline POSes has been a request that has been around a while, and with the talk of opening new moons discussion has flared again and CCP has said they would fix it. However, the the industry updates between Kronos and Crius have been so massive that they basically reached a point where they had to stop taking on more stuff and pretty much set about properly implementing the set of changes they announced way back. Things that were on the verge of making it in, like a comprehensive invention rework, a Rorqual update, and inert POS destruction just got the brakes put on them and tabled for "after the summer release" then "after Kronos" then "after Crius. However, as of today work on those projects begins.

What I am saying with this is, yeah, they kinda knew this was going to happen and already told us they'd fix it, but not in time for this patch. But all those people who bought all those offline POSes are going to see them brilliantly CONCORDed sometime in the next few months. If you REALLY need a POS up now, just dec the stupid corp, blow up their POS, and do what you gotta do. But if you can wait a couple of months this problem will be gone. They've committed to addressing it.

The chance of being wardecced because of your pos is directly related to how many pos you have, where and how many easier targets are around you.

I salute all those war dec baits, protecting my pos.

That is happening all over space that is below 0.8...

But it seems some clowns decided that there would be a "land rush" into 0.8/0.9/1.0 systems and spammed small offline towers everywhere with "FOR SALE" tags...

You need to go several jumps from Jita before you'll find one without.

Edit: Or had to yesterday, who knows they may have wised up and took down some of them already. No idea.

Alts with Amarr BS and large energy skillz, wardec. Problem solved. Personally I see it as a) an opportunity for some efficient high sec griefers to make some quick cash legitimately, and b) a wild waste of isk on the part of those planting the flags all over the place. But then, there are still plenty of tools wasting isk on bounties, so what do I know?

First off, I think selling tower slots is perfectly acceptable.

Unfortunately, there is a major problem with the mechanics involved. If I wardec a corp that has an offline POS, they can unanchor it and anchor another tower with an alt corp long before the wardec goes live. A small tower takes only 7.5 minutes to anchor. This essentially prevents me from using combat to take a tower, which is a big, problematic loop hole.

And it demonstrates that few people understand the new scaling mechanic. Let them cluster around Jita. The less they do so in the systems I work in, the better off I am.

At least somebody understood it. I'm not at all surprised it was you.

Maurasi for instance never had manufacturing available in any way, now you can anchor POS' there, but with zero history, rates will still be at their lowest possible. Give it a few months and it'll catch up, but by then most of the towers there will be taken. Once the market fully catches up with the new costs even building at max taxes will still be profitable if you do it in a POS, and being 1 jump from Jita will be pretty tempting for a lot of people (Myself not included).

If only such a place existed. Here's a list of all the hisec systems in Forge, Citadel, and Lonetrek without a station, plus the number of moons in that system:

Citadel:
Kassigainen 43 moons

Forge:
Airmia 26 moons
Obanen 34 moons
Kylmabe 5 moons
Mahtista 26 moons
Otomainen 36 moons (hisec island)

Lonetrek:
Yoma 46 moons
Kuoka 16 moons
Rauntaka 68 moons (hisec island)
Liukikka 50 moons (hisec island)
Aivoli 70 moons (hisec island)

If we extend the "hub" definition to places like Amarr, Hek, Rens, etc, the number goes up, but if we do that we're really talking about all of hisec, aren't we? That's not exactly exclusive real estate, is it? Only two of those systems in the list have few enough moons to fit the scenario you're painting: Kuoka and Kylmabe. All the rest have many, many moons.

There are also the specifics of scaling. I don't think it works the way you think it does. I invite you to revisit the scaling dev blog. Also, bidding for teams is harder the fewer people are in a system.

they do not