Player Owned Bases

[LaWey]

You have really hard prices here for PoB owners without yet giving any defense or changing siege mechanics in terms of prices.

On second thought it would be nice to see the maintenance mechanism before saying the final word. Adjust prices for Core 1 being cheap (50 mils) and shield leaving as expensive as you offered(300-500mils) and it would be nice to see I think

Well, intentions here honestly not to kill "containers", but cut newbies from making mistakes before they heard about possible scenarios and realise what they deal with. PoB initial investment should be a considerable pity to waste. Prices numbers I took obviously from my ass, but not far with the current inflation. But yes, POB popping can be balanced by having 400-500 mils shield module, and 50-100 mils deployment (seriously - its 5ker's hour profit, and my intention indeed to not let people, who don't know how to make money go for a POB)

FLhook prevention for deployment? Heck no.
I'm actually not seeing the problem at all with it. Are you what, can't fire CD to trigger shield preventing base docking? I asked GMs, they answered it's allowed.
They implement radar inhibition in mining fields already. It should be enough.

Piracy promotion just a bonus. Real intention - prohibit solo mining in 5k without touching guys who do full-scale mining ops for POBs. Around 30-60k still left excavator - dump truck viable, but effectively killing solo drop-relog-catch. Yes, that one is "containers"-killer.

*Edit - Extended elaboration. While many people see trader getting ore from POB as something wrong and "silent" (like interactions with miners can't be just literally /givecash and 1 line), I see POB as a tool to connect economically people playing miners and traders in different time zones. Group of miners filling POB still work in both game design and economy conception, they just don't want play haulers, they want to play excavator and quarry dump track.
But solo reloggers and POB-dockers should be removed, because breaking game design phylosphy and just ruin economy.

About piracy - Neither current system's design, neither current economy design suppose the safe dock right near with mining field. I doubt this can be really solved other than moving POBs out of certain zones and forcing them rival with conventional "at place" mining.