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This is a big concern of mine as well, as I am a low sec industrialist and operate a couple POS effectively solo.

Now, maybe part of the point here is that CCP feels that a few people being able to maintain a structure that is impervious to all but groups of a size many times larger than themselves shouldn't be a thing. I don't think I've read that anywhere and I doubt it's the case, but let's suppose it is for a moment so I can bring up my main concern: it just doesn't make sense. Look, if things change such that my current enterprise (and I would expect a non-trivial number of others with similar setups) becomes unfeasible I'll just do something else, that's fine. I don't need to make drugs, I do it because it's fun and aligns with my casual play style. I'll tear my stuff down and try something else. But I'll still find these changes bothersome, not so much for mechanics reasons which on paper seem mostly fine from my perspective, but because they are thematically nonsensical.

I am wondering if a bit of laser focus on mechanics here by CCP has attributed to this byproduct of really kicking the flavor side of things in the junk. That a starbase can be destroyed without inflicting a single point of damage is just silly, and that's putting it very lightly. It doesn't feel fun and it doesn't feel like EVE. I like logging out at my drug house knowing that anyone who comes snooping around will be shot at. More importantly I am extremely comfortable with the notion that any group of a sufficient size that really wants to make a concerted effort to ruin my day can come over and blow up my stuff at any time. I am not at all comfortable with the notion that an individual or even a few individuals can swing by and click entosis unfettered, even if it's only for a few hours weekly.

Maybe I represent a micro niche in EVE that CCP is just not overly concerned about, but for whatever it's worth I can say of myself that I won't bother trying to reproduce how I currently play EVE under this new system as it's currently being presented. Not in a rage, just with a sigh.

I have a concern that revolves around these four things:

Rigs will be providing huge boosts.
Rigs are expensive.
Rigs are destroyed if the structure is scooped.
If you feel you cannot defend your high sec structure when war hits, you scoop.

Now, given all this, why would I want a citadel over a POS? If I feel I cannot defend my stuff, I use a POS, and scoop it before the war goes live. But if I were to do that for a citadel, I lose the big part of the value: the rigs.

Unless a citadel without rigs is about equal to a POS.

So, if one of your goals is to remove POSes from the game (without everyone screaming about lost capability) a citadel should always be at least as desirable as a POS. That means: the same refining, manufacturing, fitting, research, and so on, AND can be scooped without having to lose rigs (which means: it has no rigs).

Possibility: Citadel services require fuel. The fuel use would be about the same as if you had a POS. But a rig will greatly reduce the fuel. Now, you have a choice: Be just a good as the old POS, and have the freedom to scoop. Or, be better than a POS, but you have to risk loss.

As mentioned in the asset safety thread, players should be in their active ship, only if there is no active ship should they be in their pod. There is no good reason to force them out of their active ship simply because they logged out for a day or two and someone scooped the structure.

what this man says;
like really CCP you always go from one extreme to another, one could think you learned some lessons by now, but no...
yes structure grinding suck, but going from that hundreds of millions of hp to one guy just using a flashlight its... well "ccpesque" ?

and one more thing: can you "CCP" decide what in category NPC 0.0 space should be? like every time you change something you group it randomly, with empire npc one time, then with 0.0 sov, and ofc the next time around it will go with wh space or even below that... it's like you always forget about it and just let it end how the dices roll

The fundamental concepts of entosis are good. You may not like it because you can hide behind a school of capital guns, but this is the best way for the game to continue to evolve, and offer to new players perspective other than "to play, you must join the existing blobs". There are a few tweaks remaining to be done, like shutting down velocity of entosis ships or reducing nodes numbers slightly and making uncontested nodes revert to the defender over time.

Accumulation of DPS will always remain the main key to grid domination, but not anymore the only weapon to skirmish against stronger opponents.

Capitals are in the game and a lot of people spent a lot of time training for them. Throwing away the majority of what we use them for in Aegis without announcing how you're going to redefine their roles has left a lot of us very frustrated and jaded, especially considering it's been less than a year since Phoebe. And now you're lining up for yet another release, taking away the POS bash, which is most of what their utility is now. And still no details on how you plan to rebalance them and redefine their utility.

You're alienating many of your most loyal subscribers.

That's only a relevant question if you have a choice between one of these things and a POS. Maybe what you're missing is that you won't.

But I do have the choice of not using them at all. CCP, why add content that encourages players to NOT use it?

The FAQ paper says Medium is for small to medium sized corps (Im guessing that means like max 20 people?) so probably somewhere in the 250-750M ISK range to make, then rigs.. maybe a Billion each? That seams doable for 20 dedicated guys

And there in lies the issue.