can we please have a small Asteroid Bases with single service lines?
I think they’d just look cool, nice little haven to go to, place to do our own little projects, nothing massive, but just a little something?
honestly i think it will simply add a nice level of flavour to structures, perhaps is player owned FOB’s become a thing maybe asteroid bases can be one of them
or add the cool funky asteroid bases and allow us to elect any structure as an FOB
just figured i’d ask.
Edit: instead of hollowing out an actual asteroid, perhaps the structure could be designed and shaped like one, this way it can hide among the space rocks
alternatively perhaps when you place a structure you can select a different model for it allowing you to change the shape of it cosmetically, but it simply function the same as the existing structure… so you have an athanor which does all the athanor things but it looks like a giant space rock or small constructed moon.
Being a small structure, it would be easily kill-able. Depending on their cost, high sec would be littered with them. But on the plus side, easy to destroy.
I’m assuming you’re talking about the mini-fob “outposts” that already exist in missions?
Small “bases” were promised years and years ago. Probably never going to happen. Don’t know why they couldn’t add them though. The models already exist and are in several missions. But, there are also ship models that exist in missions that we will never be able to fly.
I know, just going by what the OP said about a single service line, as you can’t manufacture anything with a POS anymore. They are still quite handy and much, much tougher to take down than a medium citadel.
A POS tower is a little bit of infrastructure to handle the modules and a massive shield generator. It doesn’t waste any resources on needless life support, artificial gravity, or superstructure for the vulnerable meat bags inside, like a Citadel does.
It’s a well known fact that a small, well provisioned and well defended keep will withstand a siege for far, far longer than a city with thousands of citizens inside.
With the amount of real estate on a citadel, you think it would have more offensive potential. You have a point with the shield/defensive aspect - but citadels should have more firepower.
Most moon mining citadels are Athanors, which are medium structures. The downside to having them in high sec is that there are certain offensive and defensive capabilities that are only allowed to be installed in them in low and null sec.
You can still do a lot with a POS. I’m starting to think there’s a concerted effort to hide that fact. POS still aren’t used for production though so I’m suspecting there’s niche uses people don’t want to become known.
Cost is also a factor. While a medium Athanor in high sec will only cost you around 4 billion to set up, a Tatara, which is a large mining citadel, costs upwards of 30 billion fully fitted.