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You know what? CCP never asked why players didn't wanted to use structures. So they made a poll which only reflected the opinion of industrialists, nullseccers and the tiny percent who uses them without being forced to by industry mechanics.

I'd like to have a "home" in EVE. But not one which is ROFLstomped by NPC stations.

"This is your home in EVE... it's like a NPC station, but gives you a unique chance to lose all your assets at once for a extravagant price"

What oh WHAT could go wrong?

What about capitals in WH. If You only get to store capitals in X-L (and like You mentioned You consider storing them also in Large structure) what about all those people that sits today on few capitals per character in wormholes. You are forcing them into higher structures.

Is the mooring mechanic still considered? As a replacment?

Playing an MMO means that player interaction is unavoidable, not required. Forgive the rather faulty analogy, but its like having a kid. Interaction with the opposite sex is Unavoidable, dosent mean you cant tell them to **** off right afterwards.

Tidal forces are a function of relative mass and movement occurring when the gravity of one object affects another one unequally across its surface area or volume.

As long as those stations do not move around planets/moons but stay in a synchronous orbit, their effect will be very minimal.

I think CCP went a bit over the top with their description of Titans being so large that they cause tidal floods. That would require a relative mass between the Titan and the affected planet similar to the relation between Earth and Moon. Our own moon has a mass billions of times higher than that of an Avatar. Even an Iapetan Titan can not be that much larger. Still, the Moon only amounts to less than 1.5% of the Earth's mass.

If you had a planet so small that a Titan could affect it with the same proportionate mass relation, the planet would be too small to hold an atmosphere, let alone liquid water. In fact, I would consider a Titan to be much more in danger from breaking apart if it passed by a planet too fast rather than it having an effect on the planet.

For an example of that happening check out what happened to comet Shoemaker Levy when it passed through the orbit of Jupiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9

Given that these will have market functionality, how will you handle docking, and permissions? Will it be done the same way as our current docking system?

Personally I feel like the current standings-based docking system is kind of silly, since it ties a mechanic often used for determining who you do and do not want to shoot with a mechanic for who you're willing to trade with. For example, i'm fine trading with reds, as long as I can tax them more.

Could we investigate a better system of discriminating who's a welcome guest in my citadel?

If you do separate these two things, can we program certain rules of engagement into our citadels? IE only fire if fired upon, or judiciously settle all combat within X kilometers?

Could we maybe even make a citadel open only to a small list of approved individuals on a citadel by citadel basis?

I guess the reason why I ask these questions Is that I kind of want to run my own little mos-eisly of shady drug dealers and pirates and would love for this to enable that kind of game play.

Interesting, thank you :)

Re: The synchronous orbit... It was the 'suddenly appearing' prospect that had me wondering the most. Great points though.

Umm. Don't POSs have bubble of invulnerability and guns now, and the new structures will too with in-space safe logout bubble. And POS hangar/array/etc can be looted after tower destroyed. Your point, and claim to being a wormholer, is refuted by THE MOST BASIC wormhole knowledge...

what will be the point of stations after these structures are introduced. are we going to have both npc stations and citadels in npc null?
why would an alliance living in npc null want to invest a lot of isk building a citadel where assets will be at risk instead of using the stations?

these changes dont make sense for npc nullsec unless they come tied with destructible npc stations

are you going to let structures be able to warp or fly about slowly,

would be nice for a structures to be able to move in space at very slow speed,
or some kind of structures which can move about in space

I thought you said that was only going to be used for the XL structures....or else there is very little incentive for those of us that like to bash HS towers to do it. We do it for the LOOTS, the extra build materials, blueprints, ect....we don't hit towers ONLY for the arrays that are anchored.

Not a happy camper right now.