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Fozziesov was indeed introduced a while ago. But from my perception did relate to sov mechanics only. In my opinion POSes serve a completely different purpose which warrants a different approach.

Sov structures are by definition a thing of large nullsec entities.These should indeed be able to defend their space during the vulnerability window.
Wormhole POSes in low class wormholes are by design a thing of small corps or individual players. A larger group would starve in a low class hole. Now, in my opinion individuals cannot be expected to be online every single vulerability window.

Now I'm not threatening to unsub an armada of accounts. I'm simply stating that I am not willing to follow this requirement and adapt my playstyle. I might move to k-space and daytrip into wormholes. Maybe I will even pilot a trollceptor in adaption to the new mechanics.

The new system simply is in no way what CCP described it to be: "Of all the structures, we want these to be the most dedicated to asset safety, protection, and a feeling of home – just like when you are tucked inside your bed sheets while the elements rage outside. At your coziest you should be fortified in giant bunkers equipped with mega death rays to weather the storm." (Shake my citadel)

You won't be "tucked inside the bedsheets while the elements rage outside". You will have to stay awake and out of bed during the storm every other night running around the house with a gun ready to defend your home. You will. Not me. I will be safely sleeping in a station. waking up refreshed in the morning ready to face the day.

CCP will not reach their stated goal "Everyone who wants to use a structure, does: We want structures to be as widely used as possible, by removing artificial barriers or mechanics that may be in the way. This has to stay within a reasonable risk versus reward scope, of course, and as such the most rewarding structures should always be vulnerable to attack." (Back into structure) I would love to still use a structure. But I won't. I'm not storing my stuff in a container anchored outside the forcefield now and I won't store my stuff in a defenseless structure then.

Quite the opposite. I precdict less structures will be deployed.

Dear CCP. I want to repeat the need for loot drop in WH.

In most use cases in WH we dont atack poses to get rid of them so we can place our own. No. We attack them for loot. We get huge piniata or we get next to nothing and go home.

In null/low/hi you can easily justify validity of loot can spawns when someone tries to extract their stuff. It can be days, weeks, months, but you can have eyes in a system and can get fleet up and running to target system quite fast. In WH we can not realistically hold ground for weeks. We can not just leave people in a system and do nothing. We have to get back to our own home and even if we leave scout there is a small chance to get new connection fast enough to respond.

Now i am not saying that this whole mechanics can not work in wh. What im saying is that version proposed for null starions will not work for wh starions.

Look at wh siege like a time schedule.
-You go in thursday or friday night to reinfoce tower (entosis it to the ground)
- on Saturday and sunday you finish the pos
- now you can realistically assume that if anything hunt for loot should take place on sunday evening tops.

As an alternative there may be a time window when loot can be extracted, known upfront but forward in tome enough that either attacjers will not want to come back or defenders have mote then enough time to properly prepare for it.

As an addidtion this timer will be spotted by other entities creating real pit if doon for various corps competing for loot

Pls bear in mind that its not an easy task to get huge forces into well defended system and we would love to be compensated for the effort. Also take a look at current null and wh meta. In null you fight for space. In wh you fight for loot. In null you take over station while in wh you get a roll on a loot die.

Dont take the loot die from us.

No docking puts you inside and safe, but you still see the grid outside the station.

The invulnerability link (we need a new name for this, taking suggestions) provides security while you are undocked and mobile around the structure.

The thing is, I think the whole "wormhole life is ending" arguement is more than a little overblown. Wormholes provide a level of defence that k-space doesn't have. By being granted the ability to dock in these new structures, supported by the lack of local, you have a measure of defence-through-the-unknown than nullsec wont have.

Someone roams in to one of our systems and sees no-one in local, its entosis-time. They can see we aren't there, and they know at a galance at Dotlan how many people may be spread across how many systems, and a glance at map data will give a clue if there is an active roaming defence fleet nearby that can cover the distance during your modul cycle time.

If someone jumps in to your hole and sees your structure in its vulnerability window, and finds no ships on scan, they have to make a judgement call on absolutely no data. Sure, your entire corp may be logged off, or roaming several holes away (and if its the latter, I'm sorry, but the idea behind fozziesov is that people aren't allowed to do that any more without leaving a defence at home, you are not to be immune to this edict any more than I am), but there is a significant non-zero chance you have at least one guy logged on (either if he's doing something else) who can immediately splatter the impertinent entosiser with the station defences

Here is a friendly suggesstion if I was in your shoes - bait roamers in to activating their entosis. When they warp on grid, play possum and leave the defences dormant to trick them in to thinking you aren't there, then as soon as they activate the link and trap themselves on grid, its time to unload the full firepower! Sure, the first few weeks are going to be a pain in the ass (as the first few weeks of Fozziesov will be for us), but once you've trained the roamers that things aren't going to be an easy trollfest, things should normalise.

Any reason w cannot reuse the current POS weaponry? So rather than having to come up with entirely new stuff as well as scrapping the old stuff, just convert them to fitted weapons?

The thing is, I think the whole "wormhole life is ending" arguement is more than a little overblown. Wormholes provide a level of defence that k-space doesn't have. By being granted the ability to dock in these new structures, supported by the lack of local, you have a measure of defence-through-the-unknown than nullsec wont have.

Someone roams in to one of our systems and sees no-one in local, its entosis-time. They can see we aren't there, and they know at a galance at Dotlan how many people may be spread across how many systems, and a glance at map data will give a clue if there is an active roaming defence fleet nearby that can cover the distance during your modul cycle time.

If someone jumps in to your hole and sees your structure in its vulnerability window, and finds no ships on scan, they have to make a judgement call on absolutely no data. Sure, your entire corp may be logged off, or roaming several holes away (and if its the latter, I'm sorry, but the idea behind fozziesov is that people aren't allowed to do that any more without leaving a defence at home, you are not to be immune to this edict any more than I am), but there is a significant non-zero chance you have at least one guy logged on (either if he's doing something else) who can immediately splatter the impertinent entosiser with the station defences

Here is a friendly suggesstion if I was in your shoes - bait roamers in to activating their entosis. When they warp on grid, play possum and leave the defences dormant to trick them in to thinking you aren't there, then as soon as they activate the link and trap themselves on grid, its time to unload the full firepower! Sure, the first few weeks are going to be a pain in the ass (as the first few weeks of Fozziesov will be for us), but once you've trained the roamers that things aren't going to be an easy trollfest, things should normalise.

All of this combined with a near-zero reward structure for your efforts does not make the entire system very appealing as a conflict mechanism.

I don't get this "near-zero reward" meme. There is a big reward by occupying and controlling space, and you do it by destroying your opponent's structures and citadels. The reward isn't as immediate as a loot drop, but it ain't a near-zero reward either.