Please

[Moberg]

As Mao mentioned, the expensive POB itself can be easily circumvented via cloaks. Uncloak near the base, activate its shield and the miners will be unable to dock for a sufficient amount of time. The only issue in mining fields are weapon platforms by POBs because unless you're in a group, you can't keep an eye on the traders slipping away and keeping the turrets on each platform shot off (especially after the trader shoots the platforms to explode it and make a new one with a new set of turrets spawn).
Pirating outside of mining fields is also a viable alternative if you're solo or even better: In a group.

[VaaMerc]

How about we just don't put them in fields instead of forcing players to buy cloaks to RP a character

[Lythrilux]

To people defending mining field PoBs: How many of you don't own one of these PoBs, or aren't in a faction that maintains one?

How people can be so greedy to desire as much pixel money as possible at the cost of server gameplay and activity I will never understand...

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[Kauket]

nevermind

i havent gone to bed properly

[Skorak]

It was quickly moved until its final position was settled. The final decision wasn't supposed to take this long. Things happen TM. It's been moved out of the field for the time being.

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[Moberg]

@Nyx The case here is probably that the base used to be in a mining field before the rule change, and the move was done to keep it this way. //edit nvm

@Lythrilux , I don't own a base, none of my factions have a POB and I still defend it (though tbh weapon platforms for POBs at critical locations (mining fields, jumpgates for example) should go). I usually pirate at the O3/O7 connection (preferably in a group) and it isn't really that troublesome and neither do you miss a lot of traders. Pirating inside of the fields is not the only option by far. So?

[Mao]

To people defending mining field PoBs: How many of you don't own one of these PoBs, or aren't in a faction that maintains one?

How people can be so greedy to desire as much pixel money as possible at the cost of server gameplay and activity I will never understand...

I mostly play as unlawful. I have no problem with PoBs in mining fields. Game mechanics allow me to stop traders and miners from using them. It's more work from my part? Yes. Is that bad for gameplay? No. PoBs in mining field affect like a tiny fraction of the activity server-wise. Also, despite the fact that I'm part of a faction that owns one such PoB, I'm poor.

The problems I have with PoBs is that they appear, most of the time, with absolutely no respect for role play and lore. Like the two BMF bases in Manchester that are 10k away from a Gaian base. There's no way those engineers would have been able to build a station there. The gaians would have killed them instantly. But because gaians have no firepower to take care of those two, now we have to live with them. BMM and Gaians, sitting in a field K I S S I N G... What I want to say with this is I couldn't care less they're in the mining field but I'd like them moved for RP reasons (they can also move the field).

[St.Denis]

The problems I have with PoBs is that they appear, most of the time, with absolutely no respect for role play and lore. Like the two BMF bases in Manchester that are 10k away from a Gaian base. There's no way those engineers would have been able to build a station there. The gaians would have killed them instantly. But because gaians have no firepower to take care of those two, now we have to live with them. BMM and Gaians, sitting in a field K I S S I N G... What I want to say with this is I couldn't care less they're in the mining field but I'd like them moved for RP reasons (they can also move the field).

The Mining Field was Nuked in a previous update. It is just a matter of time before BMF ask for them to be moved anyway.

I do believe, from previous arguments, that this Gaian Base is 'super secret' and therefore the BMM Miners would never have known it was there and maybe the Gaians didn't want to reveal it..

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[Jack_Henderson]

It took years for the last ones to understand that blocking and area denial PoBs were bad for gameplay. I think by now most players have understood, and most of the POBs are gone - but that insight came at a huge cost.

I cannot understand how anybody can still defend or even facilitate more POB-related damage to be done by means of mining field POBs.

It is sooo easy to fix, but the inability to do the right thing when it comes to working rules about POB placement is striking and - honestly - very frustrating. The right way to go is: no POB can be closer than 20 k from minable zones. No "up to core 2" and no "old bases can stay", this is trash and it is killing gameplay in the region.

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[Antonio]

you can easily kill any Kruger ship in this mining field, just move your ship behind us, and let the cerb plattforms kill us.

Please. Do you even know how silly that sounds?

How people can be so greedy to desire as much pixel money as possible at the cost of server gameplay and activity I will never understand...

This. Mining field PoBs are terrible and should be (re)moved. No matter what dumb or irrelevant reasons you come up with to make it "okay", it's not. It, as Lyth said it, reduces or prohibits any activity and interaction in that area.