Changes to POBs

[Aingar]

Another back and forth change that will do little to nothing to fix the real problems around pobs.

For the people saying pobs negatively affect server load or performance:

I have played disco for 15 years and the only times I noticed pobs affecting server performance negatively was during pob sieges. And that was because of collision checks for the shots fired during pvp battles and at the pob, not because of the pob itself.

And I have never noticed any bad server performance in the last 5 years at all, except the attack on planet London event, no pobs involved. The people I saw complaining about "bad server performance" allegedly coming from pobs are either from the USA or russia, and I saw them get told that their problems come from bad connection routing to their countries, not pobs. "Largest flhook drain on server resources" coming from pobs may be true, but it still doesnt mean their effect on the server is actually a problem, compared to other things like ***** connections of individual players.

wouldn't increasing the frequency of damage ticks increase the strain on the server? It would be better to simply multiply how many materials a base consumes per tick by 6.

Biggest drain on the server resources is opening and saving to files, which happens during repair cycles and selling/buying commodities. Wear and Tear now happen just before during every repair cycle instead of every 6th, so the change in load is not significant in any way.

I'm guessing the repair cycles for individual pobs are already spread out over time so they dont stress the hard disk all at once? Like... if there is a repair cycle every 30 seconds, 1/3 of pobs are repaired in the first 10 seconds, another 1/3 after 20 seconds, etc?

No, they're all done at once every minute.
Spreading it out would probably smooth out the problem, but not necessarily 'resolve' it.