Events Plugin Suggestions?

[Shimamori]

POB Sieges atm are quite unpleasant for all sides from my observation- until a rework is implemented, but I am for unique and varying experiences. I was brainstorming earlier tonight of making some CTF type base events though.

Well as I write this there's less than 10 people online, there's not much to do that isn't fairly monotonous after a short while, and these low player counts make logging to find a battle impossible and piracy practically cruel. To me 9-12 people online is far more unpleasent. Average player pop now is 25 at best.

The problem is that the only sieges we have are of POB's, that take a lot of work, mostly of Core 1's that can barely get off the ground before being destroyed. The places most desired to build at are often impossible to build at.

I imagine sieges of major npc bases that would not result in a base's destruction, only a change in IFF to the victor. A days long attempt that would generate something to do, an ongoing battle to jump in on, cause some news. Not every siege would be a one time rush with a massive fleet gank, but small waves here and there. Which would still leave open the ability for major organized attacks. To me, not totally losing a base, and always being able to try again, should mean we could have this kind of competition and keep the fight in the game. Make the events earnable in game, and they also add to the economy during normal game hours.

The most fun I ever had was years ago when there we had real battles over stuff. I remember the sieges of kappa defense station and the (pretty much) Zoner civil war. People stood guard, scouted/spied, I would rip around hunting incoming supply transports in the old Hathor. Things were exciting at least! After all these years, the mod is great but we badly need more "real things" to do with all these ships and equipment and mad skillz. Use the game world more, people will love it!

I tell you as a person who led a successful Tier 5 POB siege: it is very time-consuming, boring, and not fun. I doubt that sieging an NPC station will be different. Most likely it will end up in 4 AM sieges by one side with nobody to represent the other side. Very easy to abuse, too. Imagine, OC want to siege Newark station. They log at 4AM a few ranseurs with siege cannons when the server pop is 9-12 ppl with most of those being power traders. A few days of such consecutive shenanigans early in the morning and the OC have their Newark station spreading cardamine love. InRP it would barely make any sense but your "system" would allow it. And if the current sieges can teach us anything - it will be quite boring. So what do we have as a result in a meaningless inRP and boring gameplay-wise system that additionally needs to be overseen by the admins in terms of changing the IFF and the population of the station. Great success (Not).

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