POB Siege Balance

[darkwind]

As has been said numerous times, some "symmetry" in PoB sieges would be nice. Attackers build a siege platform which does the job of holding right mouse button with Siege turrets equipped for them (but better). This puts the defending PoB on a timer of sorts where it's going to die to the attacking platform sooner or later. Thus, the defenders need to defend their bases by killing a siege platform and the attackers need to attack the base by defending said siege platform.

Coincidentally this can fix the "asymmetry in risk" issue as well, by making the platform cost a certain amount of resources (and by extension credits) up front and perhaps making it consume some munition commodity over time as well. This way both the defenders and attackers would have something tangible to lose.

This would all have to be balanced in such a way that a platform can't kill a base overnight, and base owners can't kill the platform overnight either, so I'm sure it'd take some fine-tuning to get right. But it still sounds a hundred times better to me (and infinitely less boring for the attackers).

Sieging a PoB is the most mind-numbingly boring activity in the entire game, so it really wouldn't hurt to get a bit of an overhaul.

That's something reasonable to change the status quo.
The idea to make PoBs quickly purchased and built, wasting only money instead of time is a good one too though.
PoB building and repairing should be done by money earned by the favorite method, instead of forced tons of hauling.

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