POB Change Suggestions

[Binski]

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Suggestion
Type: Rules / POB Plugin / Economy
Title: Change player death timer penalty for [capital?] ships that die as part of a declared siege, add ammo requirement for Weapons Platforms.

Specifics

• Make it a server rule that any ship killed in pvp during a base siege cannot attack that base for 48 hours.
  
• Add a requirement to POB mechanics: Each WP module requires at least 100 units of (any plausible ammunition commodity or commodities) to respawn.
  

Potential Problems

• RE: Death timer: Players will be required to schedule around common availability for additional waves if they took heavy losses a previous time. (no forseeable mechanical problems)
  
• RE: Weapons Platforms: Programming will require the base check for units of ammo before initiating the respawn, no known mechanics problems but that's for a Dev to decide.
  

Example of Effect
RE: Death Timer: Bases will not be destroyed as fast since ships lost to defenders will not be able to oorply respawn and return to the siege within just one hour.

RE: WP Ammo - bases could slowly be disarmed and depleted of WP's simply by targeting them and continuing to focus on them until ammo is depleted. This will require base owners to ensure a flow of ammo supplies on their own, and like shield fuel, require supplying during a siege (for those less prepared).

Further Discussion
Why this change? : Bases that are here for years should not be getting destroyed because their attackers are nearly infinite in quantity (which is what one hour death timer's allow). Capital ships wield a great deal of power, and are much cheaper and easier to put together than a core 3 or 4 base. Also in the interests of RP continuity, you could actually RP encounters with ships that if destroyed won't just be back within one hour. I'd say if they make their attack, and fail, those destroyed ships should stay out of that system for the 48 hours. But I do accept it should be the same for defenders. Perhaps this really only also needs to apply to Capital class ships, as snubs don't do that much base damage, and could still be used for blockading a base in between big attacks.

As to the Weapons Platforms, adding the ammo requirement will make bases that use WP's no longer invincible weapons arrays. Even without destroying a base, players could attack a base just with the purpose of disarming it by continuing to take out its WP's until its ammo runs out and no more WP's spawn. The game then becomes keeping your bases that need or use WP's supplied. This creates an even level of fairness as bases will have more traffic to interdict, of a useful commodity that could be stolen and used at another base. It also means bases could be pretty much neutralized of its danger without taking it out, and actually removing a base will be another option of you're able and deem it necessary.

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