[DISCUSSION] Player Owned Bases - Rules

[Wildkins]

Its been done in other scenarios though, just make siege specific weaponry. Or siege specific torpedos so its bomber spamand not battleship spam. That way peoples "gameplay=rp" boners are solved, and pobs arent mobbed by capitalship fleets which are insanelly difficult to coordinate.

Here you go. The thread's done, great moves team. Keep it up, proud of you.

No, but actually this is sensible. Making them invulnerable is moronic at best, making some contrived system with a hundred variables will never happen, and instituting events which contribute more to admin/dev workload will never happen either. Make it a dedicated weapon of some kind, maybe even a weapon type so you can see it on snubs AND caps, and there we go. I don't actually know the feasibility of this and I'm sure a dev will walk in any moment and tell us that it's impossible to get working for x legacy code reason, but, I can dream.

The fine rule is a bit clumsily worded and dumb, and that's mainly because people got mad at me and others cracking down on PoBs in '15. Wish it would see a revert or something, but I also want the entire rules page to get reverted to early '15, so, there's that.

Frankly though, I'm of the opinion that if you're putting a base illegally or in hostile areas, and you can't reasonably defend it against whoever will come to kill it, you should probably try to hide it a bit better, or reconsider your location. Shouldn't be up to the Admins and the Rules to protect your snowflake base in New York or whatever. I'm vaguely sympathetic to the Core 1 case but otherwise, the solution to PoBs imo isn't to make them harder to kill. (Making them not take weeks of effort would be a start, but, hey.)