@Mercarryn
Stop being silly, we have been having this conversation for donkeys years, yes that base is certainly one of the offending ones though.
Having a POB is near Aland is not area of denial (henceforth AoD because it takes far too long to type it out 10 times), having an IMG POB next to an IMG station has the least AoD effect because the NPC station provides that AoD by itself, i.e. traders can fast dock at Aland the second they see a pirate coming. If you were ever pirating outside Aland then you were a n00b and need to learn how to hunt traders a little bit better.
If anything, Falster was moved to Aland in order to give pirates a better chance, previously the POB was providing an AoD effect at the O3/O7 jumpgate. This is why the IMG| asked for Falster to be moved. It also has no effect on piracy, except maybe that pirates will have to cruise for 10 seconds longer because the base shoots the lanes down, but if a trader made it to Aland then they were safe anyway.
However a POB in a mining field is a different issue, it stops piracy in a spot where piracy was previously a possible thing (don't say it doesn't, we have had this discussion too many times and it is really obvious that it makes piracy nigh on impossible). That is AoD, moreover it has an AoD effect in a place where there should be the potential for a lot of activity involving mining /piracy factions, which makes it really sad that a core 5 base is allowed in the mining fields.
Finally we should also consider that as of the new POB rules you can't upgrade a POB above a certain point in a mining field (I forget which Core POB it is), this is because the community and admins felt that AoD bases in mining fields were a huge problem, for some silly reason though POBs already in mining fields were grandfathered in and allowed to stay. Surely if the admins and community feel that said mining field AoD bases are harmful, the only people that benefit from such a clause are those few people with POBs in mining fields.
Doesn't really seem fair that the few are allowed to ruin it all for the rest.
