Dear devs and admins:

[AeternusDoleo]

I as well as my friends have been discussing this topic for some time now and I wanted to let the community voice their opinion on this:

POBs, while a great addition to the Discovery mod, have made the server unstable. Tenths of people are wasting hours of ingame time assaulting solars with little to no RP to spite the players, who have constructed them. The lag caused by such assaults on a daily level prevents any chance for players to engage in a territorial battle like the ones between LN and RM or OC and Corsairs just to name a couple.
The problem here is that PoBs cannot be made invoulnerable because the attackers would whine and they cannot be made easier to kill, otherwise the owners will whine.

Before player bases, the Gamma/Alpha/Texas/Hamburg/Leeds large cap engagements did much the same. The issue is not playerbases, but the HUGE excess of capital ships in the game. If we're going to snip something, let's start there:
- All pirate factions restricted to cruisers and below. Poorly supplied pirate factions not even a cruiser.
- All house corporate factions, civvy stuff only.
- All unaffiliated factions (Zoner, BHG, IMG, GMG and other non-house lawful factions) limited to cruiser and below.
- Restrict the amount of battleships house navies may field by making those one per official player faction (meaning you -can- have more of them, just need more player factions on the ID. Also means you have to have a group of players working together and generating activity, to be able to field one).
Then make their main guns and shields significantly more powerful (the ones that drive away cruisers but are pointless against snubs) and the problem is largely solved.

This would end battleship spam. This would end the server crashing from battleship spam. It would also cause an insane amount of Q_Q from every capwhore in the game. But it would address the problem mentioned in the top post.

On another note though - it may be just the complexity of the capship hitboxes being an issue - not sure. We're looking into those as well. No quick fixes.

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