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Will these new structures be designed in a way that allows for docking/undocking without a loading screen?

Vulnerability will not necessarily be everyday, we are exploring options here so you are not forced to login a lot more frequently than you normally would.

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This makes me curious:

Will it be possible to set them to be available to everyone to show up on the overview? I can foresee some groups setting these up in strategic or otherwise useful systems for public use, perhaps at a cost (for example, setting up a structure in Jarkkolen, with its 50 belts and no stations, along with reprocessing and compression available and a small tax on their use).

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This is bloody awesome. Any chance functionality like that would be made available for stations, as well? Or will those remain as "get a scout" sort of situations?

If P.L. can drop supers in my wormhole i will give the guy with final blow all my assets in game and transfer all my toons to elise randolf.

Suggestion:

1) The Entosis link never destroys anything. It only allows capture.
2) All of these structures have a self destruct button.
3) The self destruct is non-operational if the structure is under the influence of a Entosis link, or reinforced, or vulnerable.

If you want to capture a structure, you can do so.
If you want to destroy a structure, you capture it, then push the button.
If you want to retreat from the enemy, and have a "scorched earth" policy, push the button. Just to so before the enemy shows up.

Question: How big an effort, in terms of building, cost, upkeep, and so on, do you foresee a medium Citadel being as compared to the current POSes? Like a medium? Or a large? Or what?

Will there be any place for small POS like structures in the future?

1) With the idea that the structure won't defend itself, for small groups, what you are saying is that they are REQUIRED to have someone POS sitting 23/7 if they don't want their structure reinforced by some tiny roaming gang with an Entosis Link. I can see people doing this even if only for trolling. Yes I understand they will have an opportunity to show up to defend during the window when it comes out of reinforce, but they won't have the ability to prevent that reinforce from happening UNLESS someone POS sits 23/7. The current system allows for small groups/solo players to set up their POS in such a way that it can't be reinforced by a couple random stray passer-bys, this system actually encourages reinforcement trolling.

2) Being listed in the scan window. BAD IDEA. Part of the current system of hiding/protecting a POS is to put it up in a system with a metric ton of moons. Yeah you can warp to all the moons, but until you get there you don't know which ones for sure have POS's at them without running d-scans on each one (presuming their are in d-scan range). This just sounds like it is just helping the random trolls and hunters by making everything clearly listed without having to hunt through the moons. Please please if you do decide that you need to make it easier for people to find stuff (like all those anoms/sites that became insta warpable), at least make it to where you can't see the owner or anything about it simply by warping into the system/WH.

3) Seems with all these proposed mechanics you don't want/expect any solo players or even small groups to set up a structure, ever. With the current system a POS can be setup to deter all but very serious attempts to reinforce it, but with this, a single troll can take down any structure he wants. Yeah I understand you can let it ride for a couple of reinforcement cycles before you catch it to actually mount a defense, but we really need/want the ability to not have to get to that point to begin with. If the reinforcement cycles make the structure worse off than the one before, how is that a good idea at all? Thats like saying that current POS owners should have a preferred defense mechanism of letting their tower get reinforced, and then hit again and into structure before being able to consider defending it or warding off even lone attackers.

I'm sure I had more but this is just too ridiculous, I like the ideas, but the implementation is terrible... esp no loot, I earn part of my living off planning profitable POS hits, and this is going to take a good portion of that away. I can no longer steal dozens of billions from a poor guy who had too much ISK and didn't know how to properly use a POS.

Initial thought was 1000km would be much more appropriate. That would ensure you need to warp to them if you are on grid with any other location of note, and that you can't set one up 251km above a belt with long range weapons, and another 251km below the belt, and shoot anyone that mines there.

Yes, if given the opportunity, my alliance WILL do this, in highsec, and WILL wardec people to make it happen. It will be hilarious for us, but (IMO) a broken mechanic.

On further thought, I thought the distance should actually be higher than that - perhaps 10^5 km - to ensure that they cannot be placed in areas hidden behind permanent acceleration gates. Consider someone that replicates that with a research POS located 9950km from the beacon in a COSMOS complex with a 10000km radius deadspace around the beacon. An attacker cannot warp to a probe hit on that structure, and probably cannot find its exact location via any other means. But the owner can warp to a bookmark located 10001 km from the beacon whenever they need to bring fuel or change blueprints at the POS (or, if it's a production POS not a research one, bring a freighter in).

You could declare that an exploit after the fact, but IMO it's a better option to address the problem now with a 10^5 km anchoring limitation.

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite blog on the citadel.

Current Large POS's, can easily defend against large groups because they can have enough offensive modules to spread across the attacking fleet. This is especially handy in HS warfare. How many different things will will the new system be able to 'handle'. It seems like maybe a dozen at max, this needs to be up'ed.

So far there seems to be a big desparity between the defensive and 'offensive' capabilities of the new system and old system at the same comparable 'size'.

The new system BETTER be able to handle small groups on its own, like the size that will troll the crap out of the new system.

Just make sure that you do it in a way that everyone can make money. If ONLY the min/maxers can make money, then most players will get shut out of industry. Its sort of like the old production efficiency skill. You had to have it at 5 to be competitive, so there was no interesting game play surrounding it. Don't do the same thing with structure bonuses.