How about this, regarding PoBs and impact of players

[sajuuk111]

I'm not alone after all. Just a shamless self plug of a detailed backbone for a system we could use for a Discovery Faction Battle System.

It actually infuriates me to hear people say no no no, impossible here! I hate to say it but it wreaks of 'I'm afraid, I won't so eaily know what's going on, or I don't want to do more so I'll act like it could 't work.

I wish the time would come to try, and make the nay sayers have to deal for a while.

To the Devs: This issue will continue on until it is officially killed for good by a lead dev, or finally embraced in some way. We have all of the stuff in game for it, it might take 2-3 months to work out, and we'd be much better off afterwards. If the devs did give anything a try, once players know, it won't seem so impossible.

Because the OP is right when it states we need more to do that has some kind of effect on the world. We can set the world up to be more interactive in game, and in other ways assign RP value to planets/moons and systems so they can be used as excuses to get out and fly.

In that thread I posted, I made a post where I once passed by a couple of NPC crecy's in Cambridge. They were somehow set to 10 million HP, and upon firing at them, they went down. I posted screens but they seem to have been ...removed from the post. I just noticed it now, I'm positive I added the link for screens. I re-uploaded them here -> https://imgur.com/a/X2I79UQ, which proves that we can do this to NPC ships/bases.

Without adding much more, we can take existing stuff and certainly make them siegable. With more of such objects to play around, anywhere they are set becomes a potential battle zone. And at the very least, if a disputed area must be maintained by defendable ships to be kept under inrp control, people would mobilize like crazy to get busy protcting their territories, and going on incursions into their enemy's territory to go on the offensive.

People will have much more to do and try for with it. Repair ships are the key. Make them repair any base object generically, and every base can be equally attacked or repaired. Then even civilian corp factions or freelancers can keep RS's and jump in to help if they aren't the fighting type.

EDIT: Just to be specific, I support setting limits on wiping out factions which would probably still make wiping out houses impossible. But flexibility within border zones and the odd fortress deep behind secure space do make good targets, and with penalties for losing such bases, there is still something to fight for without gambling everything.

I read your post and your point is the same, and i think it is definitely the route discovery should take. However i am not familiar with technical differences and i cant blame people not incentivized to work on it. But this will solve all problems. Every faction will have something to do so people can really play them.

I was thinking of taking the baby steps first and enabling people to declare war on each other and have destructible bases at borders. That will show us how people will adapt to it and how it changes the battles and community. Wish i knew any kind of programming to propose that to developer team.