Dublin Miners Pub Poll

[Paddy.]

Are we not gonna talk about how detrimental PoBs in mining fields are?
Antonio put it will in this...
Area denial POBs are one of the most detrimental things the game ever had, slightly behind jump trading.

People remember this?

Jack H also brought up a major problem with mining field PoBs:

Any POB that allows for the fast and easy denial for interaction harms the gameplay. The harm is bigger when there are guns, but it is already there by the sheer existence inside 15k of the mining field.

Also this

Can I also say that I've noticed you put ooRP stuff in your base's name like (PM Paddy for docking rights) or some garbage?

I think I can comfortably speak for the entire community when I say please do not do that.

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Two things...
1. A POB according to the server rules can be built in a minefield, but it can only be a Core 1. However House law needs to be applied also. In Dublin, 10km is the closest you can get for a Core 1/Core 2 base. Further out for a higher core POB, A core 1 FREEPORT styled pub is not designed for area denial. It is the opposite.
2. A good pirate can work for the 'tax' they want in that 10k space. Also they tend to go for the big transports further near the the system JH and JG's etc for bigger taxes.

Other factors.
1. You fail to realise the increase of activity this Pub generated in Dublin. Both lawful and unlawful. The game benefitted.
2. It means a lot to a solo operator to be able to mine when there are no other players around. Not worth mining if you cannot have a large transport ship to make it economical. Dublin Freepub for Miners WORKED!
3. I don't give a bulls roar about you or anyone being upset about me putting my ingame contact details on my property. No one has pm'd me in forum, and the fact so many pm'd me ingame wanting to have access proves it was successful. Irony, just before I blew her up, I got another ingame pm wanting docking rights in Dublin Pub.

Paddy (Miss)