Furthermore I have three additional suggestions alongside my three prior points that would only be applied on a PVP hotspot like GG.
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Increase the OLP ‘spool-up’ (activation) time after log-off from 20/30 minutes to 45 minutes or even an hour.
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Decrease the amount of time OLP stays active for from 36ish odd hours down to 20-24.
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Decrease how long it takes before an abandoned structure is deleted on GG [Therefore cleaning up the playfield a lil’ bit more.]
Also I hope everyone here is aware that Rexxus has already confirmed that OLP is returning to NA so you guys are going to have to learn to live with it once-again. If it doesn’t get abused it hopefully won’t get removed. The main issue is that OLP can be exploited sometimes; if there were more mods/admins then Rexxus and his team could successfully uphold the rules of NA and therefore prevent the removal of OP.
However from threads like this: NA friendzone. Free hugs I can rightly understand why Rexxus is fearful to enlist anyone from NA to aid him. now i’m not trying to throw shade over all of NA here as that would be unjustified and unfair. However when most of it is coming from the large PVP factions from either side; then that suddenly becomes the defining narrative of NA. Therefore you have less rules due to a lack of mods and less features due to a lack of policing. It consequently doesn’t help when it feels like some of your factions on NA simply want a removal of OLP to aid them instead of having any genuine mechanics/features discussions other than ‘24/7 pvp’
Luckily I know Andrea and Gareth are doing a fantastic job trying to police both these days by regularly flying through the uncanny valley known as CSW.
Don’t get me wrong we on EU have had our issues, yet we still have OLP as we didn’t abuse it to hell and back; yes a few people tried to circumvent the rules but we got them punished instead of simply reverting to their level.
Best regards
Wise.