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One could only hope that would be the case. But what is more probable outcome they will just hoard isk, except for the few individuals that bling their ships anyway.

CCP again, what about regions where nearest NPC stations are in NPC null space?
For esoteria/ paragon soul - the closest NPC space is Stain - sometimes 5 jumps away , and not Tash-Murkon , that is not even in direct jump range of Stain for the capital ships.

You need to include NPC null regions in asset evacuation points.

Don't also touch NPC nullsec stations if you are not changing lowsec and higsec stations.

This is also NPC space that have its own rules and provide different type of game play.

My feedback is that I confer the weight of my opinion to my leadership and elected CSMs.

I think it would be reasonable to log back in in whatever ship you had active at the time. If you didn't have a ship active then yes you log back in in your pod.
Might this mean that you are caught in a totally unsuitable ship, absolutely.

The 'downside' you could use for this is that it's an emergency jump that the citadel itself forces you through, so you get jump fatigue as if you just did a jump or something like that. So if you already had jump fatigue it might be a significant cost.

But otherwise logging off for a weekend has to be done in an NPC station as the cost is too high even if you don't lose your active ship, you still have to pay through the nose to recover it simply for logging off for a few days.

Yes you can unanchor them provided they are not under attack. They will immediately enter a vulnerable state and at the end will eject the personal assets to safety, kickout the docked pilots into space and the unanchor to be scooped.

And, I assume, the rigs are destroyed?

Exactly. This is why the WH mechanics of this need to be re-thought completely. I don't particularly like the K-space mechanics either but I have less experience there so I hesitate to start complaining about it. I'm not really sure why any asset outside of high-sec should be considered safe. But for WH space in particular this is an obvious flaw. We've lived this long with "if you bring it to the WH, it's dead already" mindset. Don't take that away.

As far as I understand, us wormholers would experience virtually no change from the POS system. The probability of someone building a new structure in the hole they just lost is pretty slim (but not impossible and certainly a driver for long grudges). But a C2 corporation that gets evicted from their hole is likely to just write off the assets and move on. Pretty much what we do today.

I don't mind, actually, Wormholes are supposed to be the least safe place in EVE. This works for me.

I think they can scoop while the structure in in normal operation at any time. So they can always scoop before the war starts. But if its rigged, they lose the rigs.

Houm...

Lorewise: since the end of the usability of Large POS control towers, Pend Insurance starts buying them, fits them with titan engines and CONCORD grade tank and calls the resulting patch-ship the "Vulture", a NPC ultra-freighter class with 1 billion m3 of capacity. They can't be bumped (seriously... they're 40 kilometers large), cruise at a ponderous speed of 15 m/s and warp at 0.1 AU/S after aligning for up to 1,800 seconds. They become a usual sight whenever a Citadel is facing Doom, and veterans speculate about the contents of the Citadel by counting how many Vultures gather to pick up the loot. Of course, salvage is not for free: a 10% salvage fee is due in order to recover your stuff.


As for the "capsuleer in citadel when it gets blown", it makes no sense that the capsuleer is podded. It is just a invitation to log off safely before loggin out, specially if you plan to leave the game for a while because of RL or whatever. What is the purpose of a dockable structure that punishes you for docking with it?

The only sensible answer would be our friends the Pend Vultures taking pods with them. For a modest fee, of course, paid in advance (say, 100,000 ISK?). The "save my ass" fee would be per individual and Citadel, so it wouldn't escalate by losing clones but would cost more the right to be rescued from a lot of Citadels than just from one.


Disclaimer: the idea of using POS control towers as ships stems from reading about a notorous Buckingham bug where a NPC would spawn NPC stations 100 km large instead of missiles due to a change in item IDs...