Player Owned Bases

[darkwind]

1) POBs should be made as temporary as they called. Conception should be based around fast to deploy - fast to kill.

To achieve this i propose drop out in window recipes with 1000500 of garbage to deploy base and build base's module, Instead, implement "base construction kits" commodities with certain characteristics:

• Very high price - so you invest your credits, and its actual money sinks from the economy.
• Big volume - player forced to haul it on transport. This is just organisational moment to spice risks and RP behind building (i.e. you can't just deliver all modules on LF, which nobody can intercept.)

Example:

• "Modular Base Core" - 700 volume, 250-500+ millions. (this is starting module for BCP deployment)
• "Modular Base Storage" - 1000-1500 volume, 100-300 millions.
• "Modular Base Shield Generator" - 1000-1500 volume, 500 millions.
• "Modular Base Core Extension" - 1000-1500 volume, 1 billion.
• And etc..

To balance risks, or to create chances for cargo piracy, or to allow place PoB somewhere in uncharted asshole, or to set bigger price without breaking freelancer money limits, it obviously can be divided on like 5-10 of 1000-1500 volume commodities required to build a module. Like, make shield generator constructed from 10 parts with 1000 volume, cost 50 million every. Or like, core extension from 20 parts with cost 100 mils every.

That just shouldn't go further than 1-2 5kers per module. Players should waste their time farming that money on conventional trade routes or on missions to benefit healthy interactions.

2) POBs-related mining and ore distribution should be studied, considered and regulated.

The best way here, make plugin check if player inside some dummy area and prevent BCP deploy inside it, implement those spherical areas in every volume, where we don't want to see PoBs. For example, placing POB ~60k out of the field can naturally solve economic and piracy issues. That way, miners groups who use excavator-dump truck gameplay won't be harmed, solo relog mode - discouraged.

3) POB maintenance should be separated from POB production.

Nuff said, separate "Modular Base Maintenance Kits" commodity, with a high price. Selling locations of them along with base factories materials should be considered to favor POBs along main roads, preferably industrial. POB should be startup business project/or Tamagotchi for wealthy boys. Money consuming, not time.

Obviously there more and more else what i didn't covered here, but those - critical.

You have really hard prices here for PoB owners without yet giving any defense or changing siege mechanics in terms of prices.

On second thought it would be nice to see the maintenance mechanism before saying the final word. Adjust prices for Core 1 being cheap (50 mils) and shield leaving as expensive as you offered(300-500mils) and it would be nice to see I think

The idea to have siege weapons with ammo consuming a lot of credits quite nicely sounded somewhere. People would lose not only their AFK siege timing but credits as well.

FLhook prevention for deployment? Heck no.
I'm actually not seeing the problem at all with it. Are you what, can't fire CD to trigger shield preventing base docking? I asked GMs, they answered it's allowed.
They implement radar inhibition in mining fields already. It should be enough.

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