(06-30-2013, 10:48 PM)Anaximander Wrote: If you say a system is yours, but someone else manages to build and maintain 4 Core 4 bases against your will, the system wasn't really yours at all
You're forgetting here that core 4 bases being as tough as they are now with no actual way to bring them down (save for 24/7 guard duty, which I don't think any faction is capable of doing) is a very out-of-roleplay thing. Have you seen the things? They're barely the size of a Cruiser, yet they can tank forty-odd battleships for hours on end*.
I understand the out of roleplay reasoning for bases being as sturdy as they are (and I don't think they should get an easy "throw battleships at them" solution), but it shouldn't be used by a faction in roleplay to act more powerful than they are.
*) The server unfortunately can't, which leads to core 4 effectively being "invincible".
Must admit, even though I'm in favour of POB remaining hard to take down because of all the work that goes into getting them to Core 4 level and maintaining it afterwards. When reading before it takes something daft like 5 to 8 BS one or two weeks to take a Core 4 base down, that's just never going to happen. Who can constantly shoot a base for 1 or 2 weeks solid, and not one person - but a bunch of people having to do it.
So it's obvious Core 4 bases ARE pretty much invinsible because of that. Nobody can spend that amount of time shooting a base 24/7.
