Move PoBs from the Mining Fields

[Highland Laddie]

Correct me, in case I'm wrong, but does it seems to be actualy natural for people, to protect their assets, and secure terretory they control? If pirates, can use military grade cruisers and battleships for pirating, what holding miners from heavely defending their bases of operations?

By that logic, we could turn Bretonia into a fortress with POBs blocking every jump gate and jump hole, and unlawfuls and Gauls would basically have an extremely difficult time getting into the system unmolested. The Gauls could do the same thing with Leeds.

However, history has shown that these seemingly very logical bases, making perfect sense in RL, actually harm gameplay by discouraging interactions in these systems. This breaks the gameplay cycle and instead just kills off player activity. Corsairs and King's Cross were a fine example of this, as was Falster in Omega-3 before it was moved.

I'm a PoB owner, myself who runs a trading faction that does a LOT of work with miners, and I do very little pirating, and I still think putting POBs in the middle of mining areas is bad for gameplay, even if tactically sound and financially advantageous and convenient.