• These UOF/Indie Attacks are often done for flimsy, unsatisfactory or nonsensical inRP reasons. The recent attacks on ABH were done due to being a "Hazard to the system populace", when in all seriousness, ABH hasn't had any intentions to cause harm to the area, nor did the attacker (who I know of, but for the sake of keeping civility in this matter, will not be disclosed) have any proof or reason as to why or how the Tsukihime Complex was a risk.
  
• Furthermore, these attacks are sometimes done for ooRP reasons, and as such, further brood toxicity within the community. Ergo, the administration should without bias or preferential treatment, shun such behavior with reprimand if necessary, and also hinder and deter such action.
  

• Base Sieges can only be submitted by Official Factions and their COs for free as a Official Faction Right, or by registered Unofficial forum factions after paying 100,000,000 (One Hundred Million Credits) for a UOF Siege Request per individual POB, Which would require that either the account associated with the faction submit both payment and the request in question. Factions in their request MUST give a reasonable inRP reason as to why the base is being sieged, with proof validating the reason - for instance - KNF may siege a Golden Chrysanthemum POB within their ZOI for the reason of protecting trade and curbing terrorist activity. GRN cannot, however, siege a IFL POB when it is compliant with house regulations.
  
• Factions and Indies may Freely participate in declared Sieges as long as the base in question is within their ZOI and they are either friendly or allied with the Declaring faction. Core cannot help BAF Siege a Corsair installation in Dublin, for instance, but a Freelancer can aid a Core siege of a Order POB in the Omicrons.
  
• One week after the attack officially begins, if the POB is not destroyed, the Siege request is null and void. Official factions must wait 72 hours before submitting another one and Unofficial factions must wait one week.
  

• Sieging a POB requires a 'Module Tax'
  
• This tax is the sum of all modules in that POB, including the cost of its Core upgrade.
  
• Cost per Core upgrade stacks. So hypothetically a Core 2 POB without any modules costs 116,000,000 to siege. A Core 3 POB without any modules requires 232,000,000 credits to siege. Etc.
  
• As the Core of the POB increases, the tax required scales as well because of the modules and stacking Core upgrade.
  
• As the time invested into upgrading and maintaining a POB cannot realistically be equalised along with sieges, it's better to focus on making POB sieges a moneysink.
  

(07-02-2018, 10:23 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: This has been a hot topic in the OFL Chat. The siege mechanics right now are not equal. It's too easy for even a single player to destroy hours of effort as well as money. We had a good idea, albeit a temporary solution:

• Sieging a POB requires a 'Module Tax'
  
• This tax is the sum of all modules in that POB, including the cost of its Core upgrade.
  
• Cost per Core upgrade stacks. So hypothetically a Core 2 POB without any modules costs 116,000,000 to siege. A Core 3 POB without any modules requires 232,000,000 credits to siege. Etc.
  
• As the Core of the POB increases, the tax required scales as well because of the modules and stacking Core upgrade.
  
• As the time invested into upgrading and maintaining a POB cannot realistically be equalised along with sieges, it's better to focus on making POB sieges a moneysink.
  

But yeah, things like the ABH siege should never have been allowed to happen. It had maliciousness painted all over it, on top of the very flaky roleplay.

(07-02-2018, 10:23 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: This has been a hot topic in the OFL Chat. The siege mechanics right now are not equal. It's too easy for even a single player to destroy hours of effort as well as money. We had a good idea, albeit a temporary solution:

• Sieging a POB requires a 'Module Tax'
  
• This tax is the sum of all modules in that POB, including the cost of its Core upgrade.
  
• Cost per Core upgrade stacks. So hypothetically a Core 2 POB without any modules costs 116,000,000 to siege. A Core 3 POB without any modules requires 232,000,000 credits to siege. Etc.
  
• As the Core of the POB increases, the tax required scales as well because of the modules and stacking Core upgrade.
  
• As the time invested into upgrading and maintaining a POB cannot realistically be equalised along with sieges, it's better to focus on making POB sieges a moneysink.
  

(07-02-2018, 10:31 PM)Laura C. Wrote: Also no, single player can not destroy even core one base, unless the owner is too lazy to build proper shielding and keep proper supplies at the base. And then it is his fault to let his base unprotected.

(07-02-2018, 10:35 PM)Nodoka Hanamura Wrote:

(07-02-2018, 10:31 PM)Laura C. Wrote: Also no, single player can not destroy even core one base, unless the owner is too lazy to build proper shielding and keep proper supplies at the base. And then it is his fault to let his base unprotected.

Tell that to Susu and the guy who sieged the ABH installations. a BD Cruiser took out 2 Core 1s in less than a half hour. And as POBs are a money sink, so too should be the effort of destroying them. I shouldn't have weeks of work be destroyed in 30 minutes because of ooRP aggression hidden behind a flimsy facade of "system safety".

(07-02-2018, 10:37 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: You brought that argument already back when I proposed something similar here. Funny how you want to tax bases but don't want to pay anything for removing them. That being said, PoB Core 1 should cost nothing to siege, simply to prevent trolling. Anything bigger, yes, please.