Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What's the vulnerability timer, and what's the intended price?

And why bother with a less featured astrahus?

There is a good argument for replacing the small pos with something similar in the citadel line, the small pos for anchoring time, unanchoring, hauling size, and strength was just about the perfect tool for the job.

Adding a clone bay would be the most powerful imaginable invasion tool, that is not going to pass the reasonable balance test.

Other than that, If it is going to be replaced by a citadel, that would be a good starting point.

But the fact it can be deployed anywhere significantly effects it's power.

CCP mentioned this at the round table, if you have any Ideas of how to mitigate that, that would go a long way to enabling us to have it.

Current suggestion at the time, was that nothing could dock, and only a limited amount of ships tether. That's a bit untidy, there must be a better idea?

Another was that it might be that it required fuel with a maximum 36hours of life without refuelling, but again that is untidy.

Neither got much reaction.

Another proposed later, I cannot remember where was simply an advanced mobile depot, with exactly the same vunerabilities anchoring, and lifespan, that one could dock up in and tether to, a small subcap group of ships. A personal not corp anchored structure. A cabin in the wilderness not a castle. Thought would be needed into how useful it would remain once reinforced, could you still dock and undock? one would hope so, Is two days reinforcement long enough? Would adding access list access make it overpowered? Should it be a bit tougher? Would that be balanced in all space?

Edit:- It occurs to me that that could actually be a ship. That transforms when it anchors. An anchorable Orca is the best analogy.

There must be a better option out there?

There clearly were not 200 small pos on the Dital Gate, which is why being able to be anchored anywhere is a potential issue. On the other hand there are probably 200 mobile depots in Jita, they do not cause the end of the world, what balance do you propose?

Possibly not being able to be anchored within 1000k of a gate or structure, seems a pretty obvious one.
Clearly you can see an abuse potential, that everyone would wish to avoid for the health of the game.
That is not especially insightful,
If CCP implemented a replacement with absolutely no thought whatsoever, then a problem might arise. CCP tend not to make decisions about such things in such a way. They are not rank amateurs.
Which is also WHY such feedback threads exist to gain players VALUABLE insight, to supplement their considered and rational discussions and plans.

The OP made a post with a suggestion, It may not be perfect but the idea is valid, small pos are a very valuable tool that are going away.

It is quite reasonable to desire a replacement. The question is how to balance such a replacement. It is not like it is a new concept that deserves the response "No uurg"

If you have a good suggestion, I am sure we would love to hear it.

I would like to extend this to make it more balanced:

4 hour anchor/unanchor time
Only shield + Structure 24 hour timer.
No tether while reinforced (can undock but not redock, warning on undock)
Can only dock Cruiser and smaller.
D-Scannable, Combat Probe-able, NOT on system map. Not hidden by the cloaking deployable.
Volume 2000 m3
minimal defences, maybe 50% range penalty. maybe only able to fit Battleship offensive modules.

I think only allowing cruisers and below to dock should make the ability to fit a clone bay more balanced.