PoB Siege Mechanics

[Ash]

It seems to me that the POB system leans massively on expenditure of the one commodity that's most precious to us all: time.

Right now it takes a rediculous amount of time to get anywhere with POBs and we're only looking at ways to make this more so. I'll bet you'll find the root of most of the drama surrounding POBs comes from peoples frustration about wasted time.

Perhaps we should be looking at reducing time consumption across the board. What if we made the difference between core level stats much larger and have them increase exponentially? Keep the repair rate as is and reduce Cores 1, 2, 3 and 4 hull ratings significantly to 1%, 10%, 25% and 50%. To prevent 'elitist' POBs chilling in the safety of core 4 and 5, you implement a demoting system where the core level is dropped 1 tier if the base isn't supplied/logged into/active etc. over the course of a couple of weeks.

That way you'd get a dualitous system of 'pop-up POBs' that are easily set up/shot down and more integrated POBs where the owners and siegers willingly invest the time required to maintain/siege it. Only thing is you may need to reduce the investment required to build advanced equipment so as to make it more accessible to the lower tiers.

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