Control access, to fight and destroy, to harvest more stuff etc etc, to form defensive structures basically as another thing for industry and pvpers to do and for money to be spent on

too early in the game for pos me thinks. Give it time, everyone is in a hurry to add 999999 things of contect, game is young, let it develope....

As one of those who is vocal about POS I will try to add some justification from my own personal point of view.

Human nature centrers around some very basic needs, that of accumulation, creation, destruction and control. The biggest flaw in this game right now (and I freely admit to this myself) is that it is far too easy to just wait out any attack on your island. There is nothing to protect, the OP and intrusions are a frustrating distraction to this. Over the past few months of play I have seen the flip flop of OPs for little strategic gain. Lost your OP? Just wait til a good time for your particular alliance and take it back.

POS needs to change this dynamic. The intrusion system is flawed in it's reliance on timed events and POS can possibly alter this to make it more tactical to hold or take important structures.

As above, and in a previous post I made (will get link later), POS need to provide NIC /resource sinks and provide motivation for alliance to actually fight for their territory. There is also little for industrial corps to do right now, being able to specialise in something which requires those 'alpha' skills and allows alpha corps to provide services to beta corps is what is needed. POS can provide a vital change in our Market dynamics which allows alpha corps/players to provide materials and services to beta corps. Just make it require a lot of time on alpha (not grind, actual living on alpha) to produce required materials that beta corps have to buy and your create a two way dynamic.

Right now it's easy for anyone in this game to say 'meh' and log if an enemy attacks, there is nothing I HAVE to defend, I can just go watch a film and come back later. POx (resource collectors, defensive structure, whatever you can think of) give me a reason to undock and try to at least take down some enemy before I die to protect my investment. For the ppl who want to accumulate and create they have a fantastic avenue, for the destructive natured, there are more incentives for ppl to fight giving us all more targets.

Give me a reason to fight, there just isn't one right now.

yes, i really hope they add some sort of PoS to the game that will allow corps to make a footprint on the game.

POS isn't the best extra attraction to get more population. We've gone over other additions/fixes that would attract more population to the game, which in turn would provide more opponents/fun.

I believe other stuff is warranted and pos adventures aren't really apporpiate right now with the current active population in the game.

A moving pos would be neat, but anyhow..

Sorry agra I didn't post directly in the thread as you had asked, my apologies.

Its OK Mara, your response wasn't appropriate for the *insert* section anyway, not snipey enough

We are talking about POS now, but the time frame is so far out, 3-6 months, that the other fixes and ammenities you allude to have to come out first anyway; the alternate would be months without nothing as we wait.

A few good sound bites in the Dev's ears now however, could result in a better POS later.

Give me swarms of NPCs now!!

Actually POS'es is always protected by powerfull stationary turrets. You cant just come and pop it with small group. I guess when someone will attack it there will be the message about it. Or shield domes. Only large groups of mechs and heavy mechs will be able to destroy POS. That's the point of POS, there will be more point to use heavy robots too.

Put a POS next to epriton field and mine with no risk
Put Pos at a choke point for easy defense

Whether this would be good is a different matter, but some people would like to have them

I think the whole PoS thing comes down to one simple word, "Accomplishment".

Let players build and construct things that change or resharp the world around them always gives a since of accomplishment.

People want to cut out their own piece of the pie in some corner and call it home.

I think the static outposts don't give the player this type of accomplishment.

But let a player build something on the terrian and use it to build more things and it will give them a since of accomplishment.

It is human nature to want to control our surroundings and that goes the same in games. I would guess that is why the sandbox style game exists.

PoS or X whatever it maybe is a tool that allows the player to create their own content in the world.

A POS could take many forms. It could be an upgradeable fortress, with its own turrets, shields and armor.  Each of those would require mods, which would act as NIC sinks, and make engineers more useful.  Not to mention the repairs required after attacks.

These fortresses could become focus points for attacks from swarms of alien bots (like the forts in Tabula Rasa). POS could also be advanced mining complexes, advanced production complexes, and portals.

The only real limit to what could be done is the time and talent required to create it. Code, and art assets would have to be generated, and AC's team isn't all that large.

What i want to see from pos system is a tiered hierarchy.
Each building will have a set of tiers. The lowest tier will have small amount of armor and small efficiency. Highest tier will be a strong and powerful building. The difference between tier is that the lowest tier you can build with a bit of resource and argano. To improove tier you should use better industrial and more resources.

The most important thing what will boost this system and what will allow everyone, even 1day account to build a building: giant landmass. So huge, so you can spend 5 hours and find your spot whee you can hide your small base.
EVERYONE will be happy:
For small corps: They can be everywhere. It will be hard to find their structures because they are small and emmits less signals and easy to kill.
for large corps: Its easy to find them because they emmints *** of signals and hard to kill.
for medium corps: half of both statements.

Im agree that static npc spawns is a problem.
Would like to see dynamic AI algorithm what will eventually teleport group of NPC somewhere on island, and they will build their own town, to fight with human-controlled bots. PVE players will have fun to have hour and more combat operation to put down npc defences, buildings, evil reds etc. Farming(grinding) will be much fun and differs from another mmo's.