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It sounds like 'press unanchor' Wait X hours while it is invulnerable. Wait Y hours while it is vulnerable, then scoop.
Where X + Y > 24.

But it's unclear to me also, that's just my best read.

Do you plan to lose the expensive rigs every time? Without them the refining will not be too efficient.

Part of the point is that currently people do not risk assets in a POS despite theoretical 'risk' to them.
So if a Citadel has to stay up because putting it up and taking it down is not practical then the defence needs to be significantly more than a POS has to be practical to use.
And an M Citadel is the same size as a L POS is. So the M Citadel should compare decently in defence and time to attack to a L POS at least, if not significantly exceed it since it can't be removed from risk as fast.

This is certainly not the case currently.

Read the Dev Blog, they will drop fittings and mineral value relative to their build cost. And XL Citadels have been said to cost as much or more overall than outposts.
So it's not 'just a parking garage'
It's a mega expensive loot piñata.

Structure capture mechanism is planned to be returned to old way which means capital ships taking away hit points. I propose hybrid model (old and new) for structure capture.

1. First you need to destroy structure shields and structure goes to reinforcement. Then you need to destroy armor + reinforcement and then structure to zero.

2. Then structure gets full hit points and structure is in freeport mode and command nodes are activated. Who wins this command node warfare gets structure control. Shooting structure with capital ships when it is in freeport mode is useless.

Comments are welcome for my idea.

Structures have to be destroyed to drive the market in producing them, otherwise gradually construction will die as the number of structures reaches a saturation point. Capture mechanics serve no purpose except in sov warfare to define area control, and even then it should only be on an area and not on physical assets.

I think you're missing your Dev tag

It's one thing that does confuse me when people go to hisec where people stay to try to avoid combat and then complain that the players there are risk averse...

It all depends on what you mean by risk averse anyway. Many people will risk billions of isk in manufacture etc which is at the mercy of the markets but will avoid PvP combat by any and every means they can. Risk is still risk however whether it is on the market, sat in a barge, running through null for relics or simply shooting someone.

I had some fun in the other thread because I was looking to link in the war dec system to having a structure in space, to have a reason to fight, but talking over there is a waste of time.

Earlier I said that my alliance coalition could not take one down, I realised I was wrong, we could and fairly easily too.

Looking at the numbers, 75 to 225 BS to reach damage mitigation, its more like 50 to 225, the repair of the structure does not kick in until there is no damage incoming for 15 minutes, we know that people will play the adjust timer trick to adjust TZ's, because if its being shot it is still vulnerable, so as long as its being shot it will continue to bleed EHP.

Take a Talos 1200 DPS, I could reinforce an XL Citadel shield 108,000,000 on my own in 25 hours, with my corp at full strength it would take 3 hours, with my alliance 2 hours, with my Coalition it would take 1 hour. I really cannot see what the problem is, are people seriously telling me that people cannot do this, 25 people taking one hour to reinforce that shield with 20% resists it would take 1 hour and 15 minutes. That is a normal player session in Eve.

One of the things we do not know is the weapons system and that is an important missing piece, but this only applies if someone is manning it, so the trick would be to keep it from repairing itself while the player is on-line by using small fast cheap ships then switch to all out damage when RL reared its ugly head for the defender. But even then a proper logi fleet set up could defeat this too.

And I see people moaning about this, its just crazy, no one in their right mind will put one of these up unless they are able to drive an attacker away for 15 minutes in hisec to get it to repair itself.

My Coalition in Stain could take one of these down in hisec without too much effort if its put up by a one man corp.

I have shot SBU's for hours, I have shot IHUB's for hours, it seems that the hisec mercs and ganker/griefiers are such weak willed souls, they cannot even take down large POS's, not because they lack the numbers or ships, but because they do not have the will to do it.

CCP if you seriously adjust the design of XL Citadels to take account of such pathetic willpower than I really have to question your commitment to Eve is hard and have to stand up to your face and scream at you, its only hard if you are a carebear.

Seriously what a load of weak willed quick fix moaning minnies these hisec ganker griefers are.

I was only ever intending to put up a medium myself, there is no way in hell I would put up an XL and anyone doing this as a small alliance is just bonkers. There is no way in hell people will put these up because they are too easy to take down, its is not invulnerable by any means, after sitting down and doing the numbers I cannot see many going up in hisec...

What a one man corp, don't forget that I would bring in logi too, I have been in a fleet of 25 fleet Talos with 5 logi that reinforced a heavily gunned and manned Large POS in null sec and lost two ships which did not call for reps in time. We did not kill it as they brought allies, but that was null sec. Could the defences be worse than that, perhaps but even then that's not terrible, I could switch to Megathrons and that would still do it easily.

The entosis link idea was a none starter, you should discard it, I had already said to myself that I would never put up a structure with the entosis link it was a no brainer to me, its ok for sov space because its an object to apply system affects or an object in space to flag ownership which is not manned, a Citadel is different. its manned and lived in, so an entosis link working on a manned object seems stupid in terms of lore.

The XL Citadel is too feeble and is not something that a small alliance could realistically put up in hisec, Marmite could take one down in my opinion.

Yes I am waiting, but if it has the same ability as a large POS it won't change the equation much that is for certain.