Dublin Miners Pub Poll

[Laz]

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.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The threads I linked were good evidence of that and how it can just be bad overall. If you want a more in-depth answer look there, yet if I were to look at your case specifically:

You claim plenty of people have docking rights to your base and that would lead one to believe those are the people most commonly frequenting the field (not all mind you, but some definitely). This creates the issue of a pirate trying to catch some traders will be seen and they can dock before the pirate is in range to give a proper demand. This grants traders immunity from being PvP dead for combat docking and therefore discourages some amount of pirate activity. This will not be every scenario but is some of them. (I know this because I saw some traders doing it when I was getting filled up in the mining field).

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.

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.

One of your main points about this "pub" is that it's encouraging RP and activity. However, the ooRP extension you've added, along with the overall purpose of the base discourages it from my perspective.

Firstly, the ooRP extension you add to your base discourages RP interactions by allowing people docking rights without ever having to actual RP with you for it. From my perspective, people simply ask and receive. This takes out a potential interaction where people would acquire this.

Secondly, I refer to this point you made:

Dublin Miners Pub[/color] was set up as a proof of concept. Initially, it was to enable solo players, particularly in the time zones that do not have many players on, to mine effectively without breaking the server rules. (Multiboxing etc).

This seems to be the polar opposite to generating more interactions as you are allowing people to cut out the need for miners in the fields most of the time. By allowing people to mine solo you cut out the middleman, so to speak, and this by extension takes away interaction - the thing you are claiming to provide.

I could go on, but this is already a wall of text and gives a minor amount of insight into the problems of mining field PoBs. As I said before, you could look in those other threads for some much more developed points. The issues I've mentioned here could be mostly avoided by simply putting the base one system over.

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