Jita Park Speakers Corner

I believe that the mechanics surrounding wspace are some of the best features within the game.

Probably the biggest issue we have to deal with is internal security as it relates to POS use.

What are your ideas with regards to POS access, specifically with regards to the Ship Maintenance Arrays?

I think a nice solution would be to have a 'dock for self/dock for corp' choice when using the SMA would be fantastic. Configure Starbase Equip could override or change the mask on a given item.

At a minimum a logging SMA would be great.

Question: Invisible deadspace signatures that decloak you next to a wormhole - cool feature or complete BS?

+1

Two Step has my vote. WH needs the representation.

I'd love to see DUST514 succeed, and have been encouraging CCP to make the EVE-DUST link as meaningful as possible. As soon as CCP sends the CSM DUST beta keys, I will go out and buy a PS3.

I'm not very good at FPSes, but I would love to play DUST as long as the link really matters.

Any thoughts on contract improvements? Especially a possibility to have in game merc contracts?

I'm hopeful the Summer expansion might contain content like this (or at least the building blocks for this). We haven't heard anything about merc contracts specifically yet, but CCP knows there should be better support for merc mechanics.

What do you think about the ability to fit 2 T2 scanning rigs on Cov Ops?

I've been thinking about the POS iteration and how to make the transition work. CCP mentioned that the code behind the POS is a mess and fixing it would be dangerous. I'd expect that if they tried to make extensive changes to the current POS system, it would causes tons of problems, bugs - the universe would burn.

I'm mostly musing here, but if CCP intends to work on a new POS, they should build a completely new system. Instead of trying to transform the current POS, they should leave the old Towers as it is, but change the unanchored tower items into the new towers system. Current active towers would remain the same until the player decided to change it.
I'm mostly afraid that if CCP did an automatic transfer from old to new tower of all the currently active towers, guns, items and ships might go missing - maybe some towers would malfunction for a while and create havoc. Letting players upgrade by themselves avoids a lot of potential trouble.

Other potentiel problems;
-What happens if a player has 'private' ships (If personal ship hangar becomes reality) inside a POS and get kicked. Same question for items.
-Should the new POS become like station where you dock in - what would happen to POS shields?
-What would differentiate a station and a POS? Is it important for them to be different?

Anyhow, just rambling!

Two Step has proven to be very involved, open to reason and a driving force for important stuff (like corp BM's).

I've listened with great interest to the 1h Q&A interview you did with Talocan United.

You have my votes and many of the Transmission Lost votes.

I do have a question, there has been some talk about having a kind of docking mechanism in w-space. I fully support having a few more functions like swapping T3 subsystems and switching clones. Docking like in k-space would remove you from d-scan and hide your presence though. That would change the pvp dynamics a lot, as you would never know if an enemy fleet is hiding docked up. What is your view on this? Would that be a welcome change of rules or should docking be different from k-space and leave you on d-scan?

Yeah, I think that would be a big concern if docking was allowed. One solution would be that you can dock, but you ship would still be floating in space (inside the forcefield). Another one would be to include the number of docked pilots in the dscan results for a dockable pos.