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I have mixed feelings about this.

While I think it's good that we are preserving a lot of the gameplay relating to evictions, the change will definitely push out some corps from lower class space.

Was the idea of having the asset security for Citadels in Low Class wormholes, but not High Class ever discussed? My thought was to have Asset Safety in C1-C4, but not C5-C6.

Everyone knows in C1-C3 the reason a lot of smaller groups can set up shop is because of the massive amount of HP you can get out of a large POS, and the EWAR - just makes it incredibly painful to try to siege. A lot of Industrialists will do this, and never have to actually defend their towers.

The change to Citadels means it will be easier to evict people who don't fight, but it also hurts smaller groups - especially if there is no asset safety; smaller corps will be less willing to live in C1-C3.

A lot of the larger groups complained that the amount of time and effort that go into High Class evictions, part of the motivation is the ISK pinata in the form of ships and equipment if they manage to crack the locked-out hangars. If asset safety keeps all of their loot safe, there is less motivation to invade other holes.

Pros:

- Gives smaller groups some measure of safety and allows them to establish in lower class wormholes that aren't nearly as profitable. Industrialists will still have a reasonable amount of assets at risk in the form of build jobs, BPCs, possibly gas/booster reaction products. But if you are there to do some ISK making but also fight (especially at lower skill levels), re-establishing yourself if your Citadel gets destroyed isn't the end of the world. And because the asset system restricts to that W-Space system only, it's still more difficult to retrieve them if someone else sets up shop in that hole, compared to NPC Nullsec.

-I'd expect to see C1-C3 systems trade hands more often, and it might encourage more combat in low class W-Space due to less grinding required to reinforce structures. If there is some ISK to be made by looting the structure wreck, fittings, etc that will be more of an incentive.

-C4 space since getting the second static is becoming a place for more PVP groups to base out of to attack both higher and lower class space. We've seen a few groups move from C5 down to C4 space after the change. This gives it more value as well as having the asset security. A lot of the reason I think C4 should get asset security is because of the lack of capital travel in/out of connections, and lack of capital escalations.

-C5/C6 space should get no asset security because of how valuable they are in terms of ISK generation via capital escalations. If capital escalations are being changed- for example moved to Shattered WH only, or something else - then this doesn't work, but I think it's a very good risk vs reward balance. You can make a lot of ISK in C5/C6 space, but your assets have no security. This allows larger groups to fight in that space and still keeps the motivation to fight in terms of an ISK incentive. It also keeps C5/C6 space from being a place where a group can have their Citadels constantly destroyed and just put new ones down because there is no moon lock.

Cons:

-This may discourage groups from living in C5/C6 space even more than currently because of the lack of protection. I'm honestly not sure how to solve this but I don't think the Citadels change will make that much impact.

-Some of the groups that live in C1-C3 space probably wouldn't be happy that their loot pinatas are going away. There were a few people in the last Townhall that expressed this. I think that if there is more dynamic combat in low class space it'll offset the occasional siege and loot pinata they can get. Also, if the Citadels drop a decent amount of loot in terms of salvage/minerals, and the Citadel modules that will still make it worth it. I expect if someone takes over a wormhole, there will be some negotiations on a meta level to let that person evacuate their assets.

Walking in stations nerf confirmed!

Will we get a structure spin counter?
Will we be able to zoom in enough to pick out our current ship?

This looks rather well thought out on the face of it.

This I am wondering too. I understand some details maybe under the NDA but can you at least say if Fighters/Fighter Bombers will be able to apply damage to the structures or is it only dread and bellow.

Edit: shitposter confirmed here broken quote

Ah sorry, the table on the blog wasn't clear enough. The table was just a rough representation of various ship class examples and how many of them you would need to bring to reach the damage mitigation.

There nothing preventing other capitals and supercapitals to do damage to such a structure, as long as it fits the damage mitigation limit.

Extend the damage mitigation feature to all ships and structures and you'll fix the F1 blob and thus make being in a large fleet far more exciting.

Some of the WIP artwork has multiple hangars... does that mean multiple undock points are happening?

Wow – all great except the unbelievably sh*ty wormhole idiocy.

So another way to focus in like a laser on screwing over the little guys.

Way to go! You have now made 90% of the features for citadels worthless in WH space.
Smart folks will just develop elaborate workarounds to this.

Welp, told you so.

Ffs unintended consequences.

You realize that Wormholers basically asked for the Wormhole exceptions, leaving WSpace a risky venture? There have been meetings and gatherings and townhalls and a fair amount of chat in no small number of boards, forums, and threads, and the overwhelming response has been pushing for such WH exceptions.

If you don't like them, where were you when they were being talked about?