Why do you not like player owned bases

[Stewgar]

Zentor isn't coming back, at least not anytime soon. Anybody who knows Zentor at any personal level knows that his personal life is part of the reason for leaving. He's very busy right now and it sounds like his life is on a positive trajectory - he should stay as far away from this place for the time being.

In the meantime, the points are valid - there are too many POBs not being used and it takes too much work, given the current population, to maintain them. I propose:

1. Core 1 POBs have just one build slot to be used for a blueprint. Make that blueprint cost the player a lot of money (up for discussion, but billions of credits will make people think if they seriously want a POB). The build costs no resources, just the blueprint. Core 2s have the same number of build slots.

2. Decrease consumption rates and commodities required to build by 50-75%.

3. Make sieges easier/make it climactic. Instead of siege declarations, what if it turned into a mini event. The parties are assigned a mutually agreed upon time and location. They and their allies fight - if the siegers win, they proceed to siege. Sieges should not take more than an hour. This prevents people from having to pull all nighters to either siege or prevent sieges.

POBs have been a topic ever since I started playing again a few years ago and it's the same thing over and over. Ideas are poured out but little is done. It's even caused a government to retconn laws overnight and break server rules. I'm pretty burnt out - reach out if a dev wants more ideas or a discussion further, but if not, I'm kind of done :/

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