[Official Event] A Delicate Balance: The Arms Race

[TheSauron]

On the other hand pobs are great because if player accidentaly shoot it to prevent you from docking you can report it for firing on the pob without first declairing siege.

Raising PoB shields to prevent docking does not require an active siege declaration.

okey you CD the pob and you enable the shield on it and any trader is not able to dock thats nice.... CD any non player base? do you prevent people from docking?

NPC bases are, at least in theory, placed a certain way to facilitate certain gameplay. Devs have no way of reasonably controlling the placement of PoBs, and as such cannot control the disruption to system dynamics a player-made docking point would have. So, instead of having draconian PoB placement rules, triggering a base shield to stop people from docking serves as a good compromise.

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