Wormholes

Reading through the dev blogs again, can't find anything about it though, will all Citadels regardless of location be able to have their stuff moved to an NPC station.

Regarding the link, there is no random timer, not sure where you got that idea from but as far as I know it last indefinitely as long as you stay in range and do not aggress anyone. The range will have a clear visual indicator, so hopefully you won't be randomly losing link unless you go afk while moving or something.

Asset safety, I think the realities are similar to what you said. Smaller groups that get wiped won't be getting their stuff back. I mean they can try, but the scenario is rather difficult, risky, and expensive. Larger groups with multiple huge citadels in one system, or who are organized enough to find/fight their way back to their system, have a higher but still difficult chance.

Spies and thieves, agreed there. They will have to find other terrible ways of screwing their friends via corp infiltration, corp hangar theft, awoxing people with citadel guns, etc. It's not the same, that is for sure.

I love the podding on citadel death thing but as people have pointed out, it will just make people log off in space, so I'm not sure how much of an impact it will have. It could however encourage people to undock and fight at the last timer since they're losing their pods anyway if they don't.

Not sure what point you are going for with the last part there. If you're saying you can't stop people from getting into the citadel, in w-space and null you will have warp interdiction, it will be similar to a POS in the sense that no you can't directly prevent people from getting to it otherwise. Jumpclones would be a thing most likely in k-space yes. But maybe I'm not understanding your point correctly?

The asset safety system does worry me.
Like the devblog is now only industrialist have stuff to lose.
And lets face it we don't have many of those in w-space.
In wh's space you know you can lose everything with a pos.
The only thing you can save is with orca,carrier,ships you log off.
With the structures can hardly lose anything but the structure and the rigs on it.
Also this means the cycle of destruction is broken in wh's.
Why would you bother with an eviction with structures?
Many people have scan alts in their home that log in only in emergencies.
So lets say the waiting is 5 days.
All you do is make it their stuff is unavalible for those 5 days... .
And even if you evict someone then all they need to do is wait, anchor a strucure and bam, they have a fully loaded station with ships to fight you again.

Are there alternatives?

I though first , what loot do we love the most in a posh bash? Ships, maybe the ships also need to be in the loot?
But then again, why would anyone get back into the hole, except for a personal hanger full of sleeper loot?
It also makes it harder for the target to fight back.

Now if the loot would include all the personal and corp hangers, but no ships what would then be the case?
People could get a new structure and keep fighting in the system. Lore wise it also makes more sense, npc's use it to flee... .

But then again, you never would be safe inside a wh-system. Who knows what battles have been there and what assets still ly in wait to be collected... .Seeding off capital ships will be easier if you have a few still waiting to be collected in system.

Would it realy be so bad that you lose everything like it is now?
Not losing everything might make wh's more popular, but also to easy.
Remeber why eve is so fun, because if you kill someone it is a real lose to him and vice versa.
This asset safety just doesn't make sense, where is the risk?In eve risk should be real... .

Asset safety as a concept is understandable considering that you are looking at the XL structures as replacements for Outposts in null-sec.But only there.
Also a trollceptor should only be effective if the structure is abandoned.

Maybe an idea :
Totday you can block an enemy from setting up a pos by putting a pos of your own at all moons(even unfueled ones).
Maybe in wh's we should make it that asset recovery is not possible untill all non friendly structures(lets say own alliance and +10 people) are destroyed from the system?
That way you still have a reason to fight for a system .
If you have won you can recover your assets. If you lost control over the system permanently your assets are deadzoned untill you can break the siege or oust them from that system(bring friends ).
A good way to create grudges... .

Almost forgot about this:
I don't think it is a good thing to lower the barrier to be able to threaten someones existence in w-space. I totally do not agree with this design goal.
Besides, it will be the other way around because you can not maintain WH control ->they bring friends/3rd party coming for GFs -> 20+ T3s on grid -> there goes your goal down the drain.

The plan is, as far as I know, to offer some kind of information like this either throw "Look At" or "Show Info." There could be info you get on top of that by using a Cargo Scanner or some other type of scanner but who knows if that will happen.