Jita Park Speakers Corner

There is a delay to the Structure Development blogs that are on their way. Delays are frustrating things and patience wears thin. I sat down with CCP Nullarbor to discuss creating a condensed list of notes from the recent conversations on tweetfleet slack as a way to fill in some of the void. However, as we discussed it the plan evolved a bit.

• The primary goal is to bring answers to questions that players have developed over the last few months.
• The secondary is to address concerns that players have developed that may not be answered in the development blogs or may be created by the development blogs.

The Summit is in six weeks. We are in a perfect moment to condense some of this information, so where is what we are going to do.

Corbexx and I are putting together a Soundboard for Structures that will occur before the September Summit. From our date hashing it looks like we will put it together in two weeks, but I'll announce that date on Sunday since we are still merging timezones. There will be a separate announcement for calls to participate as we have had on our prior soundboards.

I am going to gather Structure questions and create a Q&A that CCP Nullarbor will answer. This is the major focus of this blog. I have plenty of things I can ask him based on what I have seen you all ask, but I'd like to just have you give me questions.

Mails, blog posts, forum posts, responses, whatever you need to do. Once I have a nice, healthy stack of questions, he and I will sit down and work through them and publish the results. I'd love to get this done before the end of the month. That will give us leadup to the Summit so that we have a focused discussion with player responses as a major focal point.

1) moon mining arrays are bad concepts in eve, it awards afk alts the ability to scoop up moongoop vs actual miners going out to mine moon rocks (the ultimate in mining). Will this new moon array just be another structure to be afk fueled and picked up by jump freighter once a month? Will it be an alliance resource, will 99% of the player base be able to participate in moon mining (because now it's solely 1% that owns moons even in areas they don't live because they have a very big shotgun pointed at the residences).

2) will entosis links be dropped down to just corporation use (because now alliances can only use it, and there are a lot of groups that aren't corporations but want the ability to effect change without joining an alliance.

3) how much material is needed to build one of these xl's (will it fit in 1 freighter or will it require a few hundred)?

4). Will jump freighters jump range and fatigue be nerfed before or after the details on the material needs for these structures are released? The assumption is that the moment they are, massive jump freighter networks will buy out jita and instant make structures

5) will the surveillance array work in wspace?

6) will markets be available in wspace, if yes, can we permit restrictions on visibility of the market (prevent wspace asset pvp)

7) is every facility dockable?

8) how many capitals/supers can moore on a large, on a xl?

9) what will the people list look like when we get to a citadel (how will we count them).

10) is a citadel a corporation or an alliance asset (anchoring).

The current highsec risk vs reward for industry POSes is balanced around the fact that they can be destroyed under wardec for loot, especially when offline because they have run out of fuel. Looting fittings is entirely inadequate as an incentive, especially when compared with current potential rewards and the wardec fee. Also, a high enough guaranteed drop would also guarantee systematic attacks.

What will be the incentive to attack structures in highsec if they are no longer lootable? Or is CCP deliberately shifting the risk vs reward in highsec by making highsec structures safer? But perhaps smaller structures will still drop loot.

Or will there be a setting for markets to make them viewable to only corp or alliance members?

1) Will docking in new structures still have loading screens, or will there be a seamless transition like when jumping through gates?
2) Will there be visual differences to structure exterriors based on the type of service modules installed?
3) will the new structure interiors be more 'lively' and immersive than current station interriors?
4) Any updates to how mooring will work?
5) What are the baseline cost ranges for m/l/xl structures?
6) Will structure defenses be effective vs individuals or small gangs when the owner is not present?

The structures wont use fuel. Only the modules. and CCP Nullabor mentioned in a previous talk that the modules can/could use racial fuel blocks depending on their type.