Docking ring weaponry

[Sciamach]

Missiles act as an all-purpose deterrent from people being places they shouldn't be. I could understand the issue if the missile turrets were on every planet in the game with a docking ring, but these are just homeworlds that have them mounted; one of the places where there shouldn't be anything hostile to the owners of said location.

Changing them to pulses doesn't do much
Mortars are only for capitals and even then with a very limited firing arc
Flaks would be way too easy to abuse
Cerbs have the same problem (worse, actually) than Mortars would
and complete removal would leave only undependable cap patrols that only spawn when the planets align, someone's standing on a brick in the desert and holding a finger on their nose.

Again, these aren't planets in the middle of nowhere; these are the homeworlds of their respective owner factions. If a member of an enemy faction gets even within 20k of the planet itself, something has gone horribly wrong.

Having enemies that close to a homeworld doesn't even make sense from a RP perspective to begin with. I can't really see a logical reason why we would remove them from their current state, if not go full 180 and buff the missile turrets to be more effective.

I suppose that the case could be made that it interferes with activity but there's nothing stopping people from drawing ships away from said worlds-- and if people are just hugging the defenses then all you have to do is go somewhere else and pirate the lanes or start shooting CDs at PoBs to draw attention.

If the only reason we're forsaking them or wanting planetary defenses changed is for the ability for mindless pews to continue to be a thing defiantly opposed to the RP at hand (homeworlds, remember) then maybe I misread the community name because last I checked: "RP" is in the name, not "bluesbluesbluesbluesbluesblues". That's really not a behavior we should be encouraging.

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[ sci·am·ach ]
/sīˈamək/

A simple, angry man casually working his way through life on a personal quest to acquire copious amounts of street cred.