Why do you not like player owned bases

[Egon Bigmemes]

If people werent forced to build their pobs off plane 50k from the nearest npc base / lane because of fear of having them blown up and/or because of counterproductive regulations, they would spend considerably less time supplying pobs while doing their damndest not to have to interact with potentially hostile players.

if pobs werent eyesores, annoying, and the complete antithesis of good player interaction and game design they wouldnt be hunted down. if you dont hunt them down IMMEDIATELY they become deathstars that are impossible to siege with the current server population as people pile multiple pobs together and surround them with a dozen platforms

theyre fun for no one besides the players building them. do not take that out of context. that one pob that someone decided to siege was fun for that single player that constructed it. no one else. the siege was not fun for either party, though there's a few players here that get their rocks off to shooting the less-annoying pobs that dont cause any issues. it has the potential to be, and always will end up becoming a no-fly-zone for the enemies of that faction, just a point in space you cant be in around 5km+ of because its firing cerberus turrets at you. and because the base was only fun for the single person who built it, you get this sort of interaction from every single one of them. ive run out of fingers to count the times ive seen this from pob-brains




ignoring all the fucking issues with pobs and the absolute misery they cause when used by the wrong people, they bring this out of every other player who builds them because theyre a massive time/money sink that no one else but that single player (or for longer surviving pobs, that single group) who built them benefits from. in a server where every other loss is minor and otherwise ephemeral, pobs are a permanent, tangible, substantial loss in time and credits

they should not exist and should have come down with a case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and been smothered to death when they came out in 4.85/4.86 or whenever.

PS: or maybe ree*es and h*ste shouldnt have driven off Zentor doing the pob rework, which might have actually made them enjoyable if even half of what he told me about it was going to become reality, but whatever