Assembly Hall

Currently if you attack a POS of any worth that is regions away from the owners HQ, all they simply do is log on a strontium alt and set the timer to come out at their optimal time. Or if you anchor a SBU or attack station services, owners are immediately notified and are able to mobilize and repel potential invaders with ease due to under attack/contested mails. This is incredibly powerful for empires that are mostly afk, stretch well beyond their actual inhabited space and use this system to abuse not actually patrolling the area.

First let me say I am not saying to remove 'low on fuel' mails or anything like that. Just the under attack/contested mails from SBUs. If an invader actually does attack/sbu space that is actually inhabited, the defenders will know what they are up to almost as fast as the current mail system. The difference will be when an empire decides to hold a moon/space far away from where they actually live. Then we will see things change dramatically. If such empires still want to control stuff far from home, they will need to patrol such assets/space regularly.

Yes I know some of you are raging already that 'patrolling' is ***** work and you wont do it. That sounds fine to me. I'm not going to make you.

What is everyone's thoughts?

Fights? Oh you mean where both sides size each other up before a timer is done and if one side decides they don't have enough guys they just choose not to bother?

Seriously, that will still be done. If anything this will cause more fights to happen and on a smaller scale as large blobs spread out to cover their territory. If they want to keep it that is.

Would be nice for us small scale alliances to be able to carve out a piece of 0.0 without having to suck up to the power blocks. Funny thing is who knows when some would come around to find they don't have a POS in a certain system anymore because they were too lazy to watch it.

I really would like this change.

That is kind of the entire point of there being a timer.

(Going off on a tangent here, I'd love it if the POS timers worked the same way as outposts or POCOs, so you wouldn't have to deal with all the alt nonsense at all.)

Could you he more specific to the topic or is this one of those 'I'm a goon so look at me!' posts?

And the tears of those who rely on automated systems flow already.

Are you going to give a real reply or continue to herp derp it?

If you actually live in the area, this won't be an issue.

If your in the area/systems that has such structures, you and your alliance/corp will be aware of non-friendly activities. By you actually being there, you will know if an SBU is dropped because you will physically see the timer. If your several regions away and only holding some space no where near you, then no, you will not see the timer because you don't live there. People who operate/are around a POS will know if something is being attacked because they will physically be in the same system and know bad guys are up to something.

It is not terrible at all if in fact you actually reside in the area of the space. Your thinking from the perspective of someone that can't possible run all over the place checking things to make sure everything is good. I can understand that. Either get more people to actually reside in those places that are too far/too much work for just you or shed some of that extra fat.

Again, if you actually live in/around a system your worried about, you won't have an issue because you WILL know if a POS is being attacked or your space is contested. Do you really think entities should be holding onto space they don't live in? Own a POS they only visit once a month to empty a silo that is five regions away?

How a tower is setup/purpose is completely irrelevant. Just like your posts.