EVE General Discussion

The goal is for the new structure systems to offer more, not fewer, options for small groups.

I would suggest posting your specific experience, and your question, in the comments thread for the Citadels dev blog, here.

Edit: I'm not on the structures team, so I am not able to answer specific questions. However, posting in that thread will get the question you raise in front of the right team.

apoc fleet wont matter b/c they cant damage the structure - instead its going to be some nonsense ship with an entosis link circling you flashing its magic light beam. They are taking the worst features of fw (circling a button for control) and grafting it onto structures ftl.

They have already said several times that they are planning on making sure that a single ship with a entosis link WON'T be able to take down a Citadel structure as long as that structure has some kinda defenses, even if they aren't manned. That being said you will nee to defend against a dedicated force attacking you, but seeing as how the defenses of the things are going to be made to be able to defend against Caps, you should be ok unless they show up with a lot of stuff.

Yes and no.

Outpost and POS are going away.

Citadels are one of the options for replacements. They're just the first to be talked about. There will, likely, be many of other options. As per the blog and fanfest presentation.

It won't be a 'citadels are release, all outposts and POS vanish'. It'll be a phased approach.

Then play the multilayer part of this MMO. Get friends or even hire someone to fight the war for you.

Helpful video for those who can't be arsed to interact to defend their stuff.

No, sorry I can't. :)

That said, here's what I'd like to see on my ship in the new SKINs!

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Yep, I think its safe to say we've arrived at that so far

It would seem "most important" is that you have to go retrieve your box, during a griefer dec which could/should get you killed if you didnt skill for a cloaky frigate.



These new POSs will be popped as easily as the old ones and maybe even cost a newbie more money, will be popped by the same griefers, but now the griefers actually get to hawk over your box and laugh while you try to retrieve it over and over.

yeah the NPC station storage was really 1 of 2 reasons to even attempt Industry in HS, at least initiating jobs from NPC station and having the spoils of a grief dec reverting to NPC corp storage. That was the main reason really. People so desperate to pop your tower wasn't a big deal to me if they wanted it so so bad to go throught all the trouble. It made me sad for them really.


It looks like the MMO just wants to up the price for the same operation by a lot, and make the whole thing a lot worse for the owner, at face value.

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Except that all indications from the relatively few useful Dev responses makes it seem like it won't be worth the hassle for small/solo groups to even try.


You mean the thread that most Dev responses have been answering the same repeated dumb questions that were actually answered in the initial blog?

They have deliberately avoided responding to many of the legitimate concerns that have been raised, like for instance, the absolute ease that a single ship will have at RF'ing these new structures if the owners don't spend their whole window POS-sitting. (just as an example)

The most recent (over a week ago) response was the token "We're noting things, thanks for your feedback." Which is usually CCP speak for, "we don't believe you, we're doing it our way because we know best." Occasionally it doesn't mean that, but more often than not, that's what happens.

--just remembered the likelyhood of this post actually getting posted due to this whole "connection reset" problem that is obviously not on CCP's end.--