PoB Wear and Tear

[Binski]

So if someone wanted to spend 200 mil to stack 4 of such theorhetical bases, and stirr the need for activity to rebalance out the situation, I'd say have fun!

Hate to break it to you, fam, but even without full health, certain people spam bases already. And it's not fun. It's not fun to find a ring of decaying bases around hostile solars because someone's having a lul. It's not fun to have to siege random Core 1s because they're lagging people to the point of crashing. It's not fun watching people make these intentionally, and last but not least, it's not fun having to harass decent PoB owners in order to get a message across to the sub-human ones that they're not welcome. PoBs are not fun, they're just tedious. Activity doesn't make people happy. Fun makes people happy.

Sounds like you got a case of POBPTSD bud. Its a video game, no one makes you do all that, you do it because you want to. Besides maybe people are doing that for lack of other activity options.

I've never been lagged out by POB's, and I am pretty sure POB stacks are actually rare. If off plane POB's are being stacked, I'd say add an extra way to locate them. Otherwise if they are on plane and can be found I don't see a real problem. The point is to have a more disposable option for stuff like that. Laying and destroying such bases sounds like fun to me.

You cant do stuff like that with normal POB's, they start out too weak and doomed to be worth the effort. You can't use a POB to try to claim or occupy a piece of territory very easily, so no one tries, and yeah, things are less active than what they could be in that regards. I'd love to see people plan ahead and drop a couple into an area, prepare ships with supplies, try to set up shop (invade somewhere) and see how long they could hold out.

You guys confuse your inrp and oorp desires. Your characters may hate it but as players you should welcome new things and new reasons to log.

Also in that case of that massive POB stack, was that even on this server? If you let all of those bases get built up and no one opposes them in that time, they earned it I guess. It takes a lot of supplying and a long time to do all that, where were the siegers all that time?