Admin Notice: Player Owned Bases

[DarthBindo]

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.

This is a vicious cycle. The miners have moved onto greener pastures (and by that I mean a IMG tag), but the pirates haven't deleted their ships. There are now the same if perhaps a little smaller number of pirates competing for a significantly smaller number of miners, with little to no BAF support in sight.
You've got two and a half factions watching the playerlist for Dublin and any mining operation draws significant attention.
Dublin's mining population is below the critical mass needed to sustain continuous pirate activity, but still all the pirates try.
Tragedy of the Commons!

If that killed 75% of your RP, then what the hell was your faction doing BEFORE pobs were introduced.

That's irrelevant to the point that many like us have put time, money and effort into PoBs and as such are a core part of RP. Something that must be protected and maintained.

Before POB's Gateway) was like six dudes+Convoy and Gateway indies were nearly nonexistent.

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gone four years, first day back: Zoners still getting shot in Theta :|