Changes to POBs

[Chenzo-]

Let me Give you a Example. We Have 2 Tier 2 PoBs in OS&C Property. We supply them ususaly once or twice a Month with 20k of FOW and Hull Plates Each. With a Increase In FOW and HP consumptions like this we would now be Forced to Supply the Base every 2 Days. I understand that you want to Get Rid of Old Not Supplyed PoBs and thats Fine, but a Increase in Upkeep will only Make POBs more Unatractive for Pepole. We Usualy need 3 to 4 Hours to stock our POBs, and it works fine if we do it once or two times a Month. But i dont think that Orbitals Members have Time to Refill the POBs every 2 days.

Not actually correct, as your Bases FOW requirements haven't changed.
Now I don't recollect where your other Base is, but I know quite well that your Base in IDF is almost on top the Planet, so as it consumes 800 each of FOW per day, it would literally take you, at the most, about 2 minutes to supply. That you decide to supply it with HS and not RA takes a bit of time as HS takes twice the space.

Believe me, Filling the Base in New Paris Takes maybe less Time than filling the Base in Tottori but it definitely takes Longer than 2 Minutes to Fill it with 80.000 Units of FOW and Repair Material in Total. As the One that mostly Does the Supply Flights I know how long it takes.

For our Second Base in Tottori, I can tell you that 4 Hours to Completly fill her With Everything she needs is an Also not that far out of the Ballpark as 2 of the 4 Needed Comoditys to Keep her Afloat are in the Neighboring Kyushu System.

If there have nothing Changed about the Consumption Rate of FOW and Repair Material to keep the base Always at Full Life then I will Shut my Mouth from now on as I Welcome the Changes to Get Rid of Unsuplyed POBs Much Faster than it is Currently the Case. Even when I will Miss the Battleship Fleets that shoot on POBs a lot.

No changes to f/o/w rates.
Core 1 and 2 require 6x the wear and tear items.
Core 3 and 4 use just over 3x the wear and tear items.

50k stock of Robotic Hardware(minimum 12,500,000 cost)/Hull Panel's (minimum 12,500,000 cost)& 80k Reinforced Alloy(20,000,000 cost), 15k Shield fuel(35,000,000 cost)needing 245,000 space on a core 4 base will die after a 7 hour siege. That’s a minimum of 49 trips worth of cargo & a minimum 16.3 hours to do- 20 mins per 5k filling an unlawful base. (Based on the CR siege of the Auxo base)

Under previous current/consumption rates, that Core 2 base(no idea how well it was supplied) took 16 hours to siege. A 2.5/3 hour siege would pop that Core 2base after these new ‘changes’ are impliemented.(assuming it has nothing but storage to hold these supplies)

All PoB’s will be much, much easier to kill & require a minimum of 3x more time to exist. That’s before you’ve used it for anything. That’s before you’ve earned the cash to buy the supplies in the first place. Most trade routes pay 60/110M a hour if you don’t get pirated.

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