Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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The survey was poorly worded. I often did not have an appropriate answer available, especially towards the end. I lack experience with a lot of these structures because they are difficult to start in on, but at times wasn't sure how to rate my experience. Sometimes it asked if my corp does X with structures, to which I said yes, then it asked me about stuff I couldn't answer.

Pos gunnery system is horrible to use! I dont know how but CCP needs to rewrite it big time.
also for bads maybe a notification if all your guns are offline?

Pos needs fueled super weapon - aka doomsday or something similar.
Something that can kill even over tanked carrier , or do heavy damage to super.
This weapon cannot attack subcapitals

Right now big blocks just drop capitals supported by supers on every tower without providing any (or minial) subcapital cover.
Again imbalance between pos and "slowcats" is to big, while dreads are still balanced and can easily die to tower , because of ~siege.

Many players in my other corporation already use POS in a co-operative manner, but the problem isn't in how they can be used but rather how safe player assets are at a POS. If co-operative gameplay means player X can take my stuff then you are missing what the problems are at POSs.

Not everything revolves around industry.

While it could prove interesting the application of all or some of the effects you describe just makes whatever the structure shoots a big useless ship for the poor guy piloting it, I'm still a fan of it doing damage but the application of a hand full of the above effects or all of them does not stand well.

I'm tired of CCP bashing capital ships in one form or another, This fatigue thing as an example commits capitals for far more time than they require to do their role.

Damage from the structure is fine my only fear is they become the one and only defensive module for control towers, Having it knock out abilities of ships I have a problem with.

Neut batteries knock out anything depending on cap just give it time.
warp scrams / disruptors stop warping / jumping
ECM knock out locks
Guns can take out drones

I don't see why we need a 4 in 1 module to do everything that can already be achieved but +1 for creativity.

A step down from loosing the ship would be serious damage to the ship that I believe my suggestion brings, What I imagine when I read all the things you propose is an I win button for POS's giving defenders a serious advantage because they don't have to do anything ( If all effects are applied ) but shoot the target.

Nothing should be an " I win " for anything let alone POS defence, With that being said POS defences are lacking. When they are automated they change target way too often and when controlled they lack the firepower to take big targets ( such as capitals ) down with relative ease as they should, Being designed to defend a control tower against such targets.

Maybe a better damage modifier is needed for the large structures, Maybe for all the structures but we don't need a Swiss army structure that does the job of many others.

I'm so against a structure that disables capital ships, making them unable to use drones, fire weapons, run logistics, siege, or command modules, warp, jump, lock targets, maintain target locks, or generate capacitor for several minutes I'm rubbing myself up and down it in the most inappropriate manner imaginable.

Maybe the use of "ion cannon" is not the right word for what I was thinking of, I was thinking a POS structure that did 2 types of damage ( one of them twice the others value ) and then rotates the damage types for the next shot, then the next, and next ( 1st shot EM-Therm, 2nd shot EM-EXP ) so it goes through the entire spectrum repeatedly.

You don't need so many effects that need to be tracked server side and the unpredictable damage of the mod ( and hopefully sufficient power in terms of damage ) should make it a structure to be feared.

I also believe that it should require an operator ( some one manning it ) to function, It should not be automated or if this is unavoidable its affects be half of what they would be if it was manned.

With the power of the weapon there should be a restriction or two but I have 3:
1: It cannot attack triaged ships ( since sieged dreadnaughts do damage not triaged carriers ).
2. It cannot attack sub capital ships
3. Its fuel should be something easy to access like liquid ozone, Heavy water or strontium.

For the structure use (and for corpo managment) we need individual rights for each action on structure / corporation
For exemple: a right for accepting somebody in the corp and another right for expelling.

PS: +1 for the entorsis link on abandoned tower. 1 guy with 6 tower can set up a tower easy against some actives pvp corporation in the home system. he just put 6 towers in the system and online only one... it's a bit tricky...

Perhaps a better way to cushion it would be to initially make all abandoned towers start non-vulnerable, and have them all gradually become vulnerable at random intervals. Then all newly abandoned towers after the update would become vulnerable in a standardized period of time.

Given the proposed changes, looks like any derelict tower after the grace period they plan to give before changing to the new system will be cleared out.

Of course, if you don't have to anchor at a moon...

They will certainly need restrictions on proximity to certain objects - like gates, wormholes, and stations. Imagine Jita IV-4 surrounded by player owned stations armed to the teeth. Imagine camping your enemy Outpost with the new POSes? But it would be nice to sit one on top of a wormhole... just saying.