PoB Siege Mechanics

[Lythrilux]

Foxglove is right. I have tried to consider many times how this system can be balanced, but players just have much room to be dickheads on either side of the spectrum.

Why must POBs be destructible? They can create activity and roleplay by simply existing - and all that goes down the drain as soon as players decide to fancy a siege.

So yes, I agree with most of Foxglove's points as to how the system can change, but with a few minor differences:

• POBs are indestructible and cannot be sieged. Wear and tear significantly reduced to just requiring RA once every couple weeks.
  
• POBs can only exist within 5k of an allied or friendly solar (station, battleship etc). No POBs within 20k of a mining field. No POBs within 15k of a jump gate/hole.
  
• Official factions may build POBs at their leisure.
  
• Return the upgrade system back to when it didn't need requests for everything past Core 2. Core 2 still needs a request.
  
• Independents must apply for POBs via an SRP.
  
• Players can still SRP event bases as per normal.
  
• I like Foxglove's 4th, 5th and 6th points. On the fence about 2.
  

POBs only become problematic when players use them in a cancerous way (dropping POBs in mining fields and at jump connections) or interacting with them in a cancerous way (ooRP hate sieges, going "hurr durr POBs r bad" and blowing them up as soon as they see one).

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