Dumb stuff harms the game

[LuckyOne]

My standpoint on besieging POBs is that the party in question should have to produce around the same amount of roleplay to attack the POB, as the POB has generated itself. Instead of just flying up to POB being like "Hey gang we don't like this, lets blow it up" in an in-depth manner on the forum.

Another way to do it is if instead of besieging the POB at any time after 24 hours, both sides would have to decided on when to make a battle between defending and attacking forces, if defenders win, obviously the attackers aren't going to be besieging as they're dead, and if the attackers win they can then start besieging the POB.

Edit: Haha english spelling and wording big bad so fixed.

Yeah, but there's a problem with that, how do you measure "amount of RP"? Number of forum posts? Number of players docking to the station that are not the owners of the station? Number of people in POB's faction (if there's one)... It simply can't work.

The only hard variables that we have that can be quantified with any precision are time, credits, number of shipped commodities, ship/base stats. Any balancing needs to rely on those, else you're going to end up in the same situation and drama as now when someone subjectively judges that "the amount of RP was too low" and goes crying all over the forums again (no insult to the OP).

Simply put, building, maintaining and defending a POB is a high effort, high risk, high reward operation. While sieging a POB is a medium effort, low risk, high reward operation. That's where the imbalance lies.

(sieging a POB being medium effort is my subjective opinion, it might even be high effort, but from where I stand a few weeks of credit grinding for the ships and equipment, a few beers with your friends to get organized and a few hours of holding down RMB seem to me as medium effort compared to months or even years of effort put into the existence of an established POB)