NOTICE: New Policy on POB Movement, IFF, and Name Requests

[EisenSeele]

Notification of policy on POB Movement requests, IFF and Name changes:

POB movements will only be processed in the following cases:

In-system relocation due to mod system update related POB relevant solar object or mining field movements
EX: Shifting of a trade lane or mining field can justify the movement of a mining or trading POB situated deliberately in proximity to said trade lane or mining field

Major inter-system relocation due to mod system updates resulting in the loss of mining fields
EX: Removal of a resource mining field from a system can justify the movement of a mining POB to another mining system

Major inter-system relocation due to the removal of the system that contains the POB

Minor In-system relocation for quality of life
EX: Modifying the orientation of the POB, or small (within 5km movements to correct an error in placement.

Desired locations can be requested, but all movement requests will be processed at the discretion of the staff team.

POB name changes may be requested as a result of roleplay, examples may include:

The sale of the POB – complete with documented roleplay surrounding the sale

Rebranding of the POB from a mining base to a manufacturing center

Relationship changes necessitating the POB owner to change the name of the POB from a now bitter former lover to quite literally anything else.

POB name changes will be handled on a case-by-case basis, but will always require some degree of roleplay justification, and will not be granted easily or often.

POB IFF changes will be granted very rarely, and only in extensively roleplay justified extraordinary circumstances which may include:

The sale of a highly developed and roleplayed POB from one well established player faction to another

The hostile takeover of a POB through an extensively roleplayed scenario

IFF changes will require extensive roleplay justification above the level of character SRPs, and will be subject to rejection for any reason deemed appropriate by the staff.

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FEEDBACK

[Mephistoles]

Good, I hope this puts a stop to the wacky base changes we've been suffering with.

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[Nika]

A good and welcome call.

[monmarfori]

Good decision. The Beaumont Spire incident must not be forgotten.

[Culbrelai]

Amazing, no more bases teleporting from Texas to Omega-3

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#NotMySNAC

[TheKusari]

Good change

Should it be mentioned that PoB relocations can be considered if it's an official faction perk request? Within reason, around the context of the request of course.

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[Fab]

In-system relocation due to mod system update related POB relevant solar object or mining field movements
EX: Shifting of a trade lane or mining field can justify the movement of a mining or trading POB situated deliberately in proximity to said trade lane or mining field

Major inter-system relocation due to mod system updates resulting in the loss of mining fields
EX: Removal of a resource mining field from a system can justify the movement of a mining POB to another mining system

Are bases that are built to collect encounter codes/blueprints/prototype components included in these conditions? Encounters/battlezones are pretty much mining fields, I guess.

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ARES / Faction Information / Feedback

[Lythrilux]

Good decision. The Beaumont Spire incident must not be forgotten.

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[Redcroft]

Good decision. The Beaumont Spire incident must not be forgotten.

[Karst]

It was the POB of Theseus. If it changes owner, name, infocard, modules, function, IFF, and location, is it even still Beaumont Spire? A question for the ages.

Anyway this is a good change. Well, "change" might not be the right word. This is actually how pob change requests were already supposed to be handled, just certain staff were blindly generous with them.

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