POB Siege Idea

[Zentor]

The current "RP" in most cases is cursory and bare minimum- on both sides.

POB's honestly need a lot of big brain reworking. Its a catch 22 of,

"I'd like to RP all this cool stuff to get this base rolling" but instead, I have to keep it secret secret while I pour hundreds of hours into them (unless you have like the entire BAF or similar sized playerbase to defend - and to haul for).

So then you rush your POB to Core 2 as fast as possible while you and anyone supplying it lose their souls to endless hours hauling for them.

Upon arriving at Core 2, still anyone wanting to "kick over a sandcastle" as one player so eloquently put it (thanks @CommodoreShawn ) just basically does a /1 /2 "RP" before sieging.

Meanwhile defenders need to sit 24/7 by pobbot to respond to defense.

So its a mess indeed. Limiting to a few hours doesn't seem address the root cause of the pain. RP does need to be more significant- on both ends, the proposed attackers and the owners/defenders. But the mechanism of sieging needs to have a cost to both the attackers and defenders I believe (and the cost shouldn't just be time)

It'd be cool if attacking a POB (at least higher core ones) could start an "instance" where npc's of large ship class could come attack the siegers like in a PVE zone (although this sounds like an enormous amount of work to make happen)

or require more from existing POB's as far as RP and player interaction (rather then just having to feed it so much) in order to keep it around or advance to next Core level. Theres tons of decarying POBs that had a good bit of activity for a couple months after making it or upgrading it, but are now just decaying and many have 0 RP around them at all, or just "hey i need suppliers reeeee".

Also, governments and those that have "regional control" should demand more from these stations both in RP and regarding demands of placements, look and orientation (purchased models), docking clearances. (same for unlawfuls)

anyway, i'm rambling. Lots can be done. we just need to think and talk it over.

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