Overhaul Sieging Rules.

[Lythrilux]

If you were presenting an opportunity to get striked at, of course some predators will take the bait, especially if it stays in the same state for so long.

An opportunity... to get struck at.... by a neutral ship... that was a blood dragon... of all things. Nyx pls. I mean Christ, the justification for it was that the base was a threat to civilian traffic, even though it was above the plane? Given the location, I'd expect at the very most Xenos, FA or Aoi to be trigger happy with it. But other local factions would either not be interested, or would tax it first.

And why the hell should I pay 100 million credits to siege a hiddin core 3 daumann base in omega-54?

As I said, there would be an exception when it breaks laws. RHA would not be stopped from blowing up a POB in Omega-54 if it's in their home.

Bases enable bad gameplay, bases are sources of salt and drama. Enabling them further to thrive in larger numbers is absurd. I’d rather not have this go through only to be met with a bunch of clowns builiding hostile pobs in unlawful core systems or in edgeworld/BW systems just so they can be sieged at the expense of the attackers money.

Bases aren’t random toys that should be granted immunity, this is literally no different than people complaining in favor of reasons to deny blue messages and engagements because they aren’t garunteed they’d be able to win tenfold.

Bases aren’t entitled toys that should come with minimal strings attached. If you’re going to make one for generating random special snowflake material or bottleneck trade for your own benefit, there needs to be some balance.

I think that's an extremely narrow-minded viewpoint that greatly dismisses the mechanics and potentials of POBs. Sure, they can cause harm, but they are also capable of doing good - like any mechanic in this game. In my time here, I have gone from something who has hated POBs with a passion to someone who has run four in his time here.

Bases right now have a huge number of strings attached - and are realistically speaking fragile to boot. The problem lies with the attackers, who have absolutely nothing to lose (and not really anything to gain either) other than several hours at most. This is incredibly unbalanced and insanely unfair to the people who put time and effort into creating POBs, especially the ones that don't actually do any harm at all.

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