I'm planning to build my own PoB and I'd like to know how weapons platforms function when they're destroyed by someone. I mean can they be destroyed at all? Do they respawn automatically? Do I have to rebuild them? Help me please I don't want to waste my time and rescources if they are useless...
As far as I know, weapons platforms cant be destroyed anymore, but someone else may know better than me.
As advice for your station building, I'd say that building the base in a secure and well protected location is a far better strategy than building defense platforms or trying to build it in a hidden place (bases always get found in the end).
(04-27-2018, 01:12 PM)Karlotta Wrote: As far as I know, weapons platforms cant be destroyed anymore, but someone else may know better than me.
As advice for your station building, I'd say that building the base in a secure and well protected location is a far better strategy than building defense platforms or trying to build it in a hidden place (bases always get found in the end).
You are still able to destroy them, somewhere you can find a video of how Bismarck destroys this.
The whole problem in bugs, because of which these platforms, after about 10 destruction, cease to respawn (but should).
You should invest in weapon platforms, because if someone destroys your weapon platforms, in order to stop them from spawning, it is a form of bug-abuse. A good PoB defense consists out of at least three up to six weapon platforms with anti-capital cerberus cannons. Six of them can protect your base from any angle, three are enough to limit the possible attack angles considerably. Place them as far away from your base as possible to ensure people can't get close to your PoB at all. There will always be a few blind spots, but you need more than just one battleship to deal great damage to a PoB at all.
Most important: Build shields first. Then weapon platforms.
The weapon platforms are coded to be invulnerable since one of the latest changes regarding PoBs. It was a fix to prevent people from causing a bug that would prevent weapon platforms from respawning or firing once they got destroyed often enough. However, as mentioned it my previous post, they still can get destroyed sometimes, in rare cases, which in any case is a bug-abuse, since why would you fire at something that is supposed to be invulnerable. If you see someone firing at your weapon platforms with the intention to destroy them, it can be reported. It's as simple as that.
The weapon platforms are coded to be invulnerable since one of the latest changes regarding PoBs. It was a fix to prevent people from causing a bug that would prevent weapon platforms from respawning or firing once they got destroyed often enough. However, as mentioned it my previous post, they still can get destroyed sometimes, in rare cases, which in any case is a bug-abuse, since why would you fire at something that is supposed to be invulnerable. If you see someone firing at your weapon platforms with the intention to destroy them, it can be reported. It's as simple as that.
"it can be reported" hard is be alive side of enemy fleet sieging your base to produce proof. As the last mess proved, in pilots logs existed proof enough, but needed a member of said fleet screening it to get pob restored. So i would still prefer if would exist a way to make wp really invulnerable than hoping someone on the attacker side like me that much.