PoB Siege Mechanics

[Lythrilux]

Making POBs SRP oly would be better than what we have now, although I think there is a better way (kind of depends of what you call "SRP"). For those who say that's too much work for admins... how much work it will be depends on how high the bar is set, and how much of the burden is placed on players to conform to objective guidelines.

Better than SRPs would be a system that protects SOME bases so you can call it "SRPing invulnerability" if you want. The "SRP" should be less linked to the stories people spin around the base, and more based on whether the base fulfills simple criteria like:
-no blocking routes, jhs, and ore fields
-no drawing players out to the middle of nowhere
-area should be safe for that faction irp
-name, location, affiliation, make sense

Adding simple guidelines in exchange for protection should already solve most problems. I made a suggestion on how a while ago:
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=159051

But the real elephant in the room is: how did we manage to keep this terrible system for so many years, and how did the people who take decisions manage to make it even worse with this "upgrade", when everyone should have been able to foresee exactly the way things turned out. This is really just on example of glaring and fundamental flaws in how decisions are being made here.

I like this idea.

And yes, I agree on your last point. Something that has stunned me is how a system that has so obviously and desperately needed change or new rules gets so heavily neglected in the that regard. It's insane how long it took to get riles to ban POBs from mining fields when it was proven how awful they were for gameplay.

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