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Personally, I think attacking/hacking a tower in highsec should require a wardec.... This provide a nice 24 hour warning to the corp that their Highsec assets will be vulnerable to attack. I don't know how useful/viable this will be with the upcoming wardec changes, but it gives the defenders a fair window to protect their assets...

A hacking module that lets you capture a tower provides a nice incentive to engage the tower, and so that's moderately reasonable.... Leave it at a static 48 hour hack time... If you leave your POS offline longer than that, you deserve to lose it!

+1

Would be nice to salvage this space junk rather then destroy it which takes ages.
I do agree with the week long timer, and cost of the hacking structure should be reasonable. nothing to small but still not much your not losing a fortune. i like the 30-40 mill cost range

Also There should be a limit to the number of these you can have up at one time 1 per lvl in the skill maybe?

+1 'Way to go' as doctor Kevorkian might have put it.

Supported,

So long as it isn't invulnerable ever,
And so long as the timer isn't shorter than 48hrs.

Also, anyone should be able to claim the POS and the Hackng module once it has done unanchoring the POS. This will add some danger to trying to steal POSes (because lets face it, that is what you would be doing). It would create some nice small hang incentive, especially as all it would require is a hauler to take it.

it would have to unanchor, as there deosnt seem to be any restrictions on who can use it. just as you cabn steal a tower being deployed by a corp ( after they launch for corp and before they anchor) i dont see any problems with allowing others to ninja your hacked tower goods.

I forget what happens to ammo in abandoned weapons, but i suspect that teh stront in the tower would either have to get ejected or disappear.

- or stront could be the factor which prolongs hacking attempts, and it gets used up that way

+1 for Cleaning up space trash

Both sides of this argument have legitimate points, but we need to look at the subject realistically. I think everyone would agree that POS's need quite a bit of revision, not just in this area.

I think there needs to be a clear area of distinction between what can be done with an abandoned POS and what can be done with a bashed POS. Changing a game mechanic to the former would allow for trash removal, while changing the latter could drastically change galactic warfare.

To hack a POS would mean suddenly that POS's would become much more vulnerable. Imagine, if you will, the ramifications of such a mechanic on Alliance wars. If taking over/down a POS was as simple as spending a few hours hacking it or running a salvager over it, we would see an influx of active POS's that would be under attack.

Finding a clear distinction between what would be defined as an "abandoned" POS and a bashed POS could be problematic. Its unclear how one would avoid completely circular reasoning.

** Can a bashed POS be hacked? **
** How many days must a POS remain unattended to be considered "abandoned?" **
** If a bashed POS has been sitting for "X" hours/days can it be hacked? **
** Should a bashed POS ever be considered abandoned?**

These are important questions that should not be taken lightly, and I would not expect CCP to take lightly. If any change occurs, it should be minor and minuscule, that allows POS's to be removed if certain time and attention conditions are met. Otherwise warfare in general could be at risk with such changes.

~ Omen

Supported but in high sec a war dec should be required. In low nothing should be needed just drop modal and sit out timer and in Null SOV can defend against this.

i agree with this,

however i would think something more to takeing say 4-5 hrs to recover a Dead PoS, and it only works on Towers that have been offline for say a week at lest, this "module" should also beable to unankor anything else aroudn the PoS also.


no point steling the CT and leaveing the corp hanger is their?

the reason im saying such a short timeframe is if a tower hasnt been looked after for longer than a week it is more than likly abandond. and no if you forget to refule it tough crap.. its a tower you should be looking after it with more care like everything else in eve if you forget about it and leave it in space dont expect it to still be their. pray that it is.

an alterntive to a "module" would be something that fits in Mid slots and requiers a new skill with Hack V as a pre-req it uses a scriped or somesuch as ammo and when the hack is done the ammo is burnd out and lost (make the ammo cost a lot solves the isk-profit Ratio)

this would mean the player them self has to sit at the tower waiting to try take a tower specily if it takes a long time, (any interaction with the tower from a crop meber would reset the hacking atempt and eat the hackers ammo) make the starting the hack triger the pos to send out a warning mail of somekind so if their is a player online and they know where the PoS is they can do something about it.

thats my view