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In wormhole space, where an entire corporation's assets are potentially wrapped up in that single structure. I guarantee you that this will happen all the time. And while you can say that corporation should show up to defend, lowering the bar to attack to a single ship means that the deterrent that today's POSes present to casual attack will be so low in the new system that there will be no barrier for someone entering a system to attack. Combine this with how easy it is to become locked out of your system means that a corporation without extensive numbers would be insane to leave their structures during their vulnerability window for fear of being podded from their wormhole during other activities. I don't believe this is an acceptable level of balance for w-space structures.

I think 250km is perfectly reasonable, just disappointed at not being able to form complexes and cities out of structures as was mentioned as a possibility a while back.

I know, idea's are great until they meet the cold, hard reality of the drawing board.

So yes, you certainly have my support and most everyone else's as well. We appreciate very much all of your hard work on the design, mechanics, and graphics involved.

Just please keep in the back of your mind that ultimately, we don't really want various sized structures that sit isolated... with strictly limited capabilities that make for easy balance.

I mean this is certainly great for now, but eventually we want to take the extremely logical step of connecting our structures in space, forming sometimes vast structures, creating designs that make defense easier (see your link in the blog to the star citadels) just by how they are laid out, or facilitate a huge industrial or trade base in one wing, and research in another.

We want to build according to our own designs, with you designing the shape/size/capabilities of the building blocks available to us.

I would not suggest that what you are proposing is unacceptable in any way, it's great actually. Just please keep in the back of your mind when designing these mechanics and in game assets that eventually we'll want to connect the dots... and perhaps even walk around inside them as well.

Wait what! You can still see the grid while docked!? Did I miss that part? That's awesome!

Suddenly the landscapes...

Dafuq.

I didn't read the blog, but I approve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKdTJjDnYzE#t=1m30s

DEATH TO ALL CAPITALS

Therapeia link :p.

So would this go down during the Vulnerability Time? Or would attackers take this down during the Vulnerability Time?

Please keep single-player corps in mind when designing capture mechanics for the Medium and maybe Large structures. Please don't expect us to be on every day during our vulnerability time...

Will basic compressing and Refining modules be available to fit on Citadel structures (even medium ones)?

<3 When docked you will see surrounding space. <3

Overall, this looks awesome. A lot of my initial worries have been allayed for the time being.

1) However, will destroying these new M-XL class structures generate killmails?

2) When it comes to finding them in space, I agree with other posters that they should not necessarily need probes to scan down. However, maybe make this dependent on a fitted module or rig, where by default you can find the structure via dscan and directly warping to it, but players can customize them to require probes to find--for a cost. Say, a "dscan inhibitor rig" which has relevant drawbacks (e.g., maybe weakens the defenses or reduces the benefits the citadel gives) but then adds the requirement of combat probes to find the structure?

3) When it comes to giving player citadels benefits for trading above NPC stations, I would suggest (as a trader myself) raising the default NPC tax rate on stations. I think something this harsh is needed because it would be the only thing that would--personally--get a player like myself to trade in a player-run market, or start my own. However, how will it work in the market itself? Will public citadels in the region with sell orders--say, seeing nanite paste--appear on the market search, where I can then set destination to this public citadel?

4) Would it be possible to anchor two citadels close enough to one another so that they can fight each other? Citadel versus Citadel pvp??! That would be pretty fun and would open up a lot of gameplay options, especially in WH evictions.

5) Any thoughts yet about how the market will be seeded with the relevant structures and modules? Regular blueprint sales in NPC stations, for instance, or will there also be any BPCs that drop, say, for a Serpentis L Citadel which, like faction towers currently, give certain bonuses above the regular towers etc.?

At first glance, I would think so also but this is not a mobile depot reinforcement timer here where it might be funny to reinforce it and then 2 days later see if someone else came along and finished the job.

I guarantee you that if you enter a wormhole where someone had reinforced it the day before and all you need is a single ship to reinforce it for the second round, you'll go for it. It is that excessively low bar to attack that is going to be very difficult for wormhole occupants as every passerby decides to take pot shots at your structures that refuse to defend themselves without dedicating a pilot to each structure everyday during the window.

1. Yes

2. I think we will show them on the onboard scanner to warp to.

3. Market will come a bit later and we'll have a detailed blog about how that will work but yes we reduced market tax will be a good incentive to use a player built market over the NPC ones.

4. No, because of so many reasons

5. That's a bit early to say, we have a lot of options for new industry here building the structures and all the modules.