POB Siege Balance

[Nika]

Let's begin with fixing the PoB plugin. Apparently it's a terribly compiled chunk of code no one bothers looking into, instead imposing sanctions for using it's flaws.

Then again, let's take Eldorado as an example. It took eight battleships attacking it for roughly twelve hours straight to take it down. At some point - once - a sizeable BAF| fleet logged and driven the attackers away, Sava and Karlotta have been tampering with weapon platforms for over an hour in hopes to catch unwary battleship, pummel it and effectively remove it from the siege. Though it did not work out.

There is nothing to fix about the balance of the sieges. Position your base better, muster sizeable defense force if it is attacked. Certainly, you don't log and kill the attackers once in hopes they'll just lay down their arms and give up on trying.

I'm pretty sure that many factions can field a fleet of comparable size when it's not ***** 3 am. In case with Eldorado, when BAF was able to mass log, there usually was no one to shoot at. Few big fights happened, some of them were won by the BAF, and it had a 0 impact on the siege.

That's right. It did not have any impact on the siege because it involves both defenders and attackers logging simultaneously, it is meaningless otherwise. Sure, i admit, attackers do have some advantage in sieges, but that can be decreased to minimum if the weapon platforms cover most of the blind spots and PoB has a better position which heavy battleships can't reach effortlessly.

The essential issue lies in the plugin itself, with platforms losing it's target and the base mostly relying on it's shield for survivability. The regeneration rates are a joke and they only work to a degree because of shield absorption. Weapon platforms should be re-programmed properly, shield module damage absorption and base regeneration rates should be reviewed.

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