So, bases

[Thyrzul]

- players act irresponsibly - even if they firmly believe they are not. - they attack stuff, cause THEY do not like it, but not cause their CHARACTER has a reason to take such a risk.
- they make up / fabricate reasons just to give them justification, even if those very reasons are barely plausible at best
- they sometimes do not even bother at all with reasons

That is why server rules should incorporate regulations about PoBs already, it should have been for quite some time now. Sad to see many tend not to give a damn about even the words of Cannon. Or is there any RP about the destruction of Livadia Palace prior to it happening?

EDIT: And also the AI base? Any prior RP? Links to it?

Maybe some green, or some more rules would make their effects instead of trying and failing with game mechanics every time.

- the REAL currency is TIME. - PoBs take time... and that is very real, no matter if its a game or not.
- the player building a base invest that currency - and we expect the attackers to invest an equal amount in the same currency.

But the problem is that even if both sides invest the same currency, the amount of time put into the realization of their effort and the way it is done is distributed differently.

Construction, upgrades, maintenance requires commodities, transports flying around for stuff and periodically docking on the station, but are not there constantly. On the contrary, base sieges require constant presence in the vicinity of the station, and just miss half a minute of constant pew on the station, shields go down, a transport docks, and refills pretty much what has been shot down in the past hours.

This is what makes the system imbalanced.

Idea: Make basic repairs be just sufficient to take care of the wear and tear damage. Make a further repair option for advanced repairs available only if players are present on the station. This way defenders should be present too. Note that this idea is very vague, quite fresh, and most possibly would need adjustment, but in my opinion would provide a good start to try to balance times spent on either side.

- bases do start at tier 1 ... and tier 1 is very killable for a moderate attack group.

I remember how much Kirks and how many more Jorms it took to take down that Core1 corsair base 50k from Planet Cambridge. Yup, it was a nice capfest.

yes - if you get a tier 4 base in a place you hate it to be ... and you piss off the owner - or the owner turns on you - and you do not have the power to destroy it in RP ... it is your fault.

Your words and the so far lack of actions coming from the Administration Team regarding the current events of Omicron-74 both imply that a joint force of The Order, Phoenix (the actual official Zoner faction), Solar Runners, AI and Corsair forces lack the power inRP to take down two stations of the ZA. Either that, or we are yet to see Admins act.

if the person building the base had an overwhelming force to start with - meaning you had no chance to even prevent a tier 1 base....

InRP or ooRP?

then your might want to reconsider your place in this part of space entirely, cause you clearly do not have the power that you claim to have / wish to have / think you deserve to have.

Same as above. It would look odd that an unofficial faction would deserve to have more power and/or authority than an official faction of the same ID over something of the same ID just because they managed to build more bases. I thought this is still a RP server.

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