Why do you not like player owned bases

[Sally]

I liked PoBs when they weren't everywhere. Wesker was the perfect counterbalance, making sure that the PoBs that were around actually did the bare minimum of RP communication and felt like they deserved their place on the maps. Back then, people grouped up to take care of one PoB. Nowadays it's one person taking care of multiple, people use them to annoy other people with weapon platforms on hostile...

It's in fact quite interesting you mention that, because even though there are indeed a lot of POBs around the place and most of them have little to zero RP background, they don't really pose much of a nuisance as you claim, in fact the opposite happens, the POBs that do have several defmods, high core upgrades and are used to be a total nuisance are the ones that do have RP background, some that come to mind are FortiSec in NL, Albany in NY, that piece of crap right next to the trade lane to the Frankfurt gate in Munich, that one right next to Portsmouth Shipyard in Cambridge and Medway Dock in Omega-3, to mention some. This could be solved by just not allowing players spam and deploy bases with defmods right next to trade lanes, gates, NPC bases etc, and i wouldn't care at all about none of them.

and it's really annoying to see how they pop up with oversized models in areas where they absolutely don't fit, like asteroid fields or debris fields. The big Newark-type stations used to be the marker for a house's main planet. Now you can see them anywhere. If it was about small models, no issue, but for a few hours of silent farming, you can basically have the same results like a huge Core 5 SRP megabase like Nichols.

Agreed, some people just has a bad taste when picking ship models, but beauty is on the eye of the beholder i guess.

Another thing that is unfortunate is that Discovery has a lot cool new stuff but PoBs still have the same mechanics, instead of being used to convert raw ores to commodities and Scientific Data and Codename weapons for capitals. I'd prefer if all wrecks no longer drop weapons but weapon parts as commodity, which need to be brought to PoBs for processing, so people actually go for hunting all wrecks again instead of the ones for Archangels and such.

It's a lot of unclaimed potential, and it's frustrating to see what PoBs have become now.

Making something more complex doesn't necessarily mean it's better, POBs as they are right now are already a massive and unfun chore, and so it is doing stuff in most transports in general, i do think something like this could be nice to have, but it shouldn't be the only way to get codes, these task won't be much issue for factions and large groups of players but i don't think individual players should have to deal with that just to get better guns. One recent example of why getting something in several ways is good is the PVE battlezones which are a good alternative to just powertrading or smuggling for cash income. Something that comes to mind is to bring back derelict bases with good stashes of codeguns for example, it would also bring some exploration back since that's very much not a thing anymore, and players not having use for all those codes could just sell them in forums or POBs.