Jita Park Speakers Corner

Bump to keep it on top, with all the other stuff going on we don't need to lose track of this.

Modular POSes please, with the ability to allow access to those outside the corp/alliance in a way similar to the way outposts work today.

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Freshly back after 4 years and I see that POS's are as rubbish as ever.

I see lots of talk about new player retention. Crap game mechanics that are no fun to operate always puts people off and setting up and running a POS should be a goal that many aspire to. It should be engaging and rewarding gameplay. Imagine you're 3 months in, in a new corp of 10 people. You've scraped enough together to set up a modest POS to live out of in a system with no stations. To be a base of operations to build and reprocesses and PVP out of. You come to set it up and what happens next is a teeth grinding affair of drudgery followed by an "Is that it" feeling.

I remember seeing my first POS - a disappointing bunch of unrelated floating bits of junk, not the impressive fortified array of doom I pictured, with spacecraft docked up to it ready for your use. Setting one up was even less fun and as for dismantling it...

A reworked "Dead horse" style modular POS system is long overdue.

Let's break this down into a couple smaller ideas first because as a former programmer I know it can't all be done at once ..... but if you look both inside the box, and outside it, you can find solutions to most of the problems quickly.



In-Game Art and its effects on the game

Why are you guys trying to re-invent the wheel? You have literally TONS of in-game art you could use, albeit with some changes in color and appearance, which is already optimized for gameplay that won't effect it, and that would be more than effective in setting up a modular POS:

- Wolf Burgan's Hideout could be used as a small tower.

- Fort Kumar could be a large tower.

- Serpentis Hideout could be a medium tower/modular POS.

- Sansha's Hub as an example of another style of modular POS.

- Sansha's Occupied Mining Colony could be useful for moon mining operations, and it could serve as a large modular POS.

- Elohim X-Instinct LADAR site could also be another modular POS that you could upgrade over time.

- Forgotten Frontier Quarantine Outpost would be a useful example of a small/medium modular POS.




Security and Access on modular towers/POS's

Think corporate outpost using alliance outposts as the primer.

This could be addressed by simply having the same initernal mechanics of an outpost or station with individual hangars and a corp hangar with it's seven slots applied to the modular tower/POS. Since the backend mechanics for this are already built into the game, you simply tailor them around a modular tower and treat it like an outpost except that it cannot be "taken over" like an outpost. And if you need more room, it's modular; you simply add it.

The biggest issue we have with managing towers is how the access rights are setup. If you could lose the drop down lists (example: "Based at ..... ") and simply make a checkbox like you have for titles (example: "View" checked=you can see items but cannot take, "Take" checked = "View" and can place/remove items and automatically checks "View")

Having individual hangars, and/or allowing them, based on say new players to a WH corp, would eliminate the concerns 99% of us have about corporate theft and would solve the problems with inventory and loot when it comes to who owns what.

Gameplay

Towers should continue to provide what they offer now in the form of bonuses/defense/etc., and other than revamping some of the code on how they operate, they should continue to provide the services they offer now.

And since they are modular, adding and removing sections to a modular tower would be just like adding/removing from an outpost.

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