Hmm Clearly you haven’t been involved in this seasons fights for GG EU; i can tell through your post, as if you had you would realise just how non-sensical your ideas are.
The small factions on EU play smart, they figure out where a big fight is going down and avoid that area, or better yet they face the danger head on and use that diversion in order to gather more resources. The idea of ‘dropping bases’ is nice and that can happen irrelevant of offline protection or not. Most players I see drop a base down to mine with and either recycle that base and leave or leave the base there for the future, very rarely do these ‘one-stop-shop’ bases have OLP.
Hahah I have to laugh at this bit: “You should have to SPEND MATS to get gold. Not setup and OLP saves the day.” We went through about 50 turrets, 20 ships, and six or seven hovers PER NIGHT on our stay on GG on EU; this is why i can’t take what you say seriously, you haven’t been involved in these big faction fights from either the perspective of the big factions or the small factions that use these big confrontations to their advantage.
And there is everything wrong with offline raiding. The whole idea of offline-raiding is anti PVP, it becomes PVB instead; player vs base. Only difference is that the base is a static target that is unable to replace its own turrets or effectively harass an attacker. The whole idea of a PVP base is that it is for PVP;PLAYER VS PLAYER. not PLAYER VS UNMANNED BASE.
OLP does not ‘stop’ engagements, it encourages smart engagements, either when players are engaged elsewhere on the server or with a full on assault and it portrays a realistic sense of warfare where the base you want to take will be actively manned and protected. Instead to me it sounds like you’re looking for a free pass and an opportunity to raid some of these bases in a post-OLP world. Well i’m having none of that as frankly the ability for a base to have OLP enables its owners to have an active part in defending it, and you’re completely conflating and blaming OLP for many things that simply aren’ tthe result of OLP whatsoever. If OLP didn’t shoot when active it would solve a lot of our problems, but until that happens OLP is here to stay.
I’m seriously getting sick of this discussion; it’s like banging my head against a brick wall. Maybe you should pop down a base on GG with/without OLP until the end of this season, i’m curious to see how it goes.
Finally don’t forget that soon people won’t be able to magically spawn bases out of thin air, bringing significantly more logic to this game, therefore this idea of OLP attack bases will prove to be completely and utterely obsolete, the same with the idea of some new player coming down spawning a base and logging out; this time that said new player has to actually build a base manually, throughout that time he can be attacked and his progress reversed.
EDIT: Big factions having bases on GG is actually a GOOD thing (hence a no to the daily wipes) as it gives people an opportunity to strike at their enemies and to steal/destroy resources and ships. GMC did this when we went over to NA and damaged one of the big NA bases over there; it was great fun, and a couple of times we were harassed by the NA guys also on EU GG, so actually all you’re doing by trying to remove bases from the major playfields is actually weaken and shallow-out the fantastic PVP meta that we have going on EU right now. I suggest you get involved in some of the PVP and play a little bit more on the server and those playfields for making sweeping statements or half-baked conclusions on the state of the META.
I wish people started to realise that OLP is more of a help than a hinderence, and on EU GG we’ve have very few issues this season; surprisingly so and instead it has added to the richness of the fights.
Best regards
Wise.