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This.

The safety net is multiple timers and the fact that the entosis links cannot be remote repped. So if you fail to defend with the huge defenses at your disposal to kill ships that cannot be assisted / or ecm them out then you should deserve to lose your stuff.
Just make the stuff drop like ships drop their cargo: chance based in containers, first come, first serve.

Can we please limit the volume of docked ships / corp + personal hangers? One reason for doing this was getting some more realism into the game mechanics. It would be kinda ridiculous to have 50 carriers ( 3km axis ) dock in a 100 km space ( since they will be manoeuvering there as well. Second reasoning behind this: you want these to be very strong, so just drop an xl one in enemy space, tank it to hell, dock your complete super fleet and when the enemy show up undock them all....

Question regarding your design: Is it your intention that you can kill any enemy attacking your structure with these guns ( even at max range with T2 entosis link ) or should people still be forced to undock to repel enemies.

That's a good idea.
Some items can be destroyed some can be looted!
Why do someone need to have citadels? Because citadel is a part of "claim" structure.
Many isk will be destroyed - that's good for CCP. More plexes will be bought!
More adrenalin for defenders!

But one problem is here... What to do when you can't login for a week? because you are with family somewhere at the ocean.

I feel these shouldn't be single player options. Also what happens when a POS gets attacked during the week you are with your family at the ocean? People are making these sound like right now we have no structures in game that can be lost in less then 2 weeks time. Dont put everything you own into this or be part of a group.

Perhaps instead of evaluating them relative to how they perform in wormhole evictions we should look at them in terms of what produces more ships moving in space. Ships moving in space is content every day while evictions are rare and generally not very fun events. With that standard it seems like there will be more ships in space with this plan. The asset protection feature will both make for ships shuffling about picking up goods and give a measure of perceived safety that might help grow the population in our neighborhood. For me at least it would also save me the 20 minutes at the end of my night when I log in the carrier and orca alts and scoop every last valuable/ship into them followed by a similar 20 minutes at the start of my night when they unload the goods. Skipping that would give me more time to fly in space which is content for all compared to the logged off alts that are content for nobody. The logoff trick was neccessary for both asset protection as if the tower were reinforced the CHA would be sealed and to assure that neccessary siege items are still accessible in the event of a suprise siege. The thought of losing those daily tasks is a happy one. I am pretty happy with the proposed change as it will likely result in more time in space for me and more other ships moving about as well.

So what your saying is, the absolute max number of things you would ever conceivably engage with one of these structures would be 16. As opposed to the current Large POS's ability to engage well over 40 if set up right. This sounds like a defense nerf.

Doesn't sound like you'll be able to jam all the logi while killing the dps ships with these new things. Please do not make it a 'one for one' set of modules/weapons as that severely limits their defensibility.

Apparently the towers won't but the modules will require fuel. Details to be confirmed.

Am I wrong that these changes just make the structure bash even worse?

Now, under the current system, if you want to bash a pos you have folk show up to bash the pos, they shoot the tower and the tower may shoot back. You could mitigate some of the incoming fire by incapping the guns and other defensive systems. The attackers are obligated to appear at least once and maybe a second time if the tower has been stronted.

After the changes, you will have to have folk show up for a mandatory 2 times and maybe a mandatory 3 times. The structure will get to shoot at the attackers, but the attackers cant shoot back; why? because its pointless to shoot the structure since it can only be taken by the entrosis system. Worse you cant mitigate the incoming damage because you cant shoot the defensive structures as they have all been turned into one big red x. So in the current system you have someone circle the button shooting a magic light at a big red x while the big red x shoots back at you.

Basically, it seems to me that CCP has taken the worst features of fw and old time exploration (circling a button while flashing a magic light at it, while you wait for a timer to count down) and grafted them onto pos'es. Hell if this mechanic was considered so bad in exploration that they had to introduce the minigame to fix it, why is it being reintroduced for structure grinds?

And to add insult to injury, when you kill a new pos, all of the players stuff is magically saved in magic bubble containers, which is drastically different from today, where if you use a pos all of your stuff is at risk. In fact, much of the meta of pos'es and the use of pos in wh in particular, is focused around the idea of bashing pos for loot, but under the new system, much of the reason to go about pos bashing is lost.

All in all, it strikes as if these changes are taking steps backward instead of giving everybody the POS 2.0 that they want. At the very least, CCP should leave the entrosis system to sov structures and let people at least have the satisfaction of shooting at the new giant red x's.

So structure bashes have just been made worse since now attackers have to show up for a mandatory 2 or three times instead of the 1 or 2 times before?

That is such a terrible plan. Is that really THE REASONING behind this idea? What you are suggesting is like taking a ship into a fight, but deciding, since you have 3 'levels' of tank (shield armor and hull) that you really shouldn't be concerned about fighting back or turning on your tank until you are halfway through hull.

If i'm not mistaken, isn't there supposed to be progressively worse consequences for each RF timer?

Another analogy of your suggested defense method.

Some bloke is attacking me with a sword...eh no big deal i gots plenty of time to defend myself...oh he just chopped off one of my arms...meh i don't need to defend myself yet...oh there went my left leg...no worries, i'll be fine i still have lots of time...whoops, my other arm is gone now...well, i guess i can still defend myself with my right leg...hmm...thats gone now too...well, i guess i could bite him...oh whats that...he's stabbing me through the chest.

How is that ever a good strategy for solo/small corps?

I hope the Eve sandbox allows for all kinds of gameplay. So that those who do want to play Eve like a "carebear" in hi-sec are allowed to do so. And those who want a no rules kind of game can play in nul-sec.

I think you limit your options if you make all areas of space a "no rules" kind of setting like nul-sec. And in the end, you will just get a bunch of humungous alliances and game playing dictators making the rules for all the rest of the players. I don't think that will be conducive to a real sand box.

Space is a big place - there's room for everyone and all kinds of gameplay.