Admin Notice: Player Owned Bases

[Coin]

lets make PoB's as hard to kill as the bases you get in missions, but make them really really cheap. No resupply required, only supplying the parts needed for upgrades/production.

that way, you'd have a mixture of fighters/bombers and caps protecting the base, and protecting the transports bringing in the goods for the upgrades/manufacturing.

Groups of mixed ship types, prepared to defend something at all costs. Sounds almost like a space boat game i could get behind.

if the bases were flimsy and cheap, they wouldn't take eleventy billion hours and 3/4 of the server riding shotgun in a uberjuggerdreadnaught... and there would be a lot less qq if the base got popped, cos it would represent the work of a couple of hours, not a couple of months.

Take the example of the Golden Coin (man, how it irritates me they called it that. if i search for my posts, i get lots of molly stuff, but nevermind).

if the coin was flimsy, the sairs would have a reason to raid dublin "hit the base with everything we got"
the molly's would have something to defend.

and at the end of the day, if the base survived, that would be a 'win' for the home team.

but if it died, well, its not like its a massive time investment.

imho, they are too successful... disco needs credit sinks, but this credit sink was a sink too sinky. I stopped playing around the time the PoB's began, as there was no one to RP with:

all the traders became jumping zoners, and if you traded without jumping, you'd get hit by the same group of pirates four or five times a run, rather than what it used to be of once every four or five runs.

bring them back. don't fix them, make them much more swiss-cheesy, but cheaper. something a group of three-four gunboats can pop.


but don't make them cost the earth, as it has taken away interaction in a space boat fighting game.

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