Player Owned Bases

[LaWey]

This is an RP server and RP should be to the fore, but in regards to the current bout of sieges there is little of it.
Seiges aren't designed to destroy. They are designed to force surrender and capture.

As St Denis pointed out, as did others, some players love to build a PoB, and that is what keeps them engaged in the game. My personal dislike of PoB's that aren't engaged in or promoting RP is known, but I wouldn't like to see anyones efforts unfairly taken out.

So, instead of calling honest RP-ers "playing little of RP" just because the story devs once decided it will be fun to turn one of the space fleets in razing genocidal maniacs and calling for GMs intervention, can you apply your POB experience to think out solutions for existing gameplay problems?

Can you guys understand, that both "REMOVE POB" and "POB NEED DEFENCE" just represent deep in-gameplay flaws of POBs, ignored by development since forever?
Even if not touch POB plugin itself, bases have a long list of economy-related problems. Instead of appealing to "ALOT OF EFFORTS", maybe need to ask "Do those efforts gameplay justified? Or what we do is BDSM dungeon?". We should stop to look solely on siege end of the problem, it is just cherry on top of a lot more complex trouble. Root lays in fact, that whoever implemented POB, that guy ignored how it will interact with the environment. Currently, the server just has a tool, made in FLHook, but it barely linked to other game-design. And this situation going for years. This is time to stop.

We should look at how indeed POB linked to the economy and affect it is in all appearances - be it building, maintenance, siege, ore trade, equipment production. We as well should think how indeed POB can act solar-wise, maybe there could be smarter solutions than weapon platforms. Solutions, improving gameplay, instead of ruining it.

And this is only tweaks, not requiring hitting plugin with a sledge.

We should just stop with this approach of treating POBs like a retarded child - we should either cure it, either have balls for euthanasia.