Admin Notice: Player Owned Bases

[Redon]

That's why I like Golden Coin. That's badass PoB with most sense I know, consistent, most consequent one. It guards backdoor JH and gets taxes for Mollys. It makes stuff for them.

I agree 100% with the GC being a very good example of a proper RP'd and used base, HOWEVER I hate the fact that ever since it got there Dublin pretty much died out. Most Corsairs are just way too lazy to travel +2 systems extra to reach the rich gold grounds and thus avoiding the GC.

Dublin is dead, which is such a shame considering it was one of the best alive and kicking systems in .85.

I remember its construction, which went down something like this: "We're just a bunch of Zoners, don't mind us building our still vulnerable casino. Just kidding, we're actually Mollys and these platforms are now hostile!"
While it was surely amusing, I wouldn't go as far as calling it a "very good example of a proper RP'd base". The only reason it still exists is that the gameplay mechanics of POBs make it invulnerable, and the manner in which you conveniently skipped the only phase where something could have been done about it.

That aside, the base certainly doesn't lack RP in the way it was operated ever since. Yet I think it's a pity what it has done to Dublin and interactions between Bretonia and Gran Canaria. Dublin still has the potential to be an activity hub. I wonder what would happen to Tau-23 if someone slapped an angry playerbase on one of its jumpholes.

[Edit] And oh, ever since the base got dumped at its location mostly what I've heard/seen in the Molly chat and so on was: "log log log GC needs supplies", coming back to my original point that pretty much every (exception of 1, perhaps 2) faction has been just pre-occupied with their POB and disregarding the actual agenda, that of RP, encounters, piracy, events you name it....

I've noticed this in other factions as well, the supplying takes a lot of effort even from a whole faction, and seems to leave players less time and motivation to do what a faction should actually be doing.
It's part of the reason why I've completely stopped caring about POBs. I welcome this break, and I'm excited to see what the server community can come up with when they're not busy supplying 70 bases every day.

Dublin is dead beacuse of a lack of miners.
It's the miners that drive both Molly and Corsair activity, not them driving each other.

I agree that miners are responsible for a big part of the system's activity. I haven't mined in a long time because I find shooting rocks very boring. Perhaps it is worth noting that I notice less and less enthusiasm from the BMM members when someone brings up mining in Dublin, because more often than not it seems to lead to them being blown up with little RP, or otherwise frustrating outcomes.