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Dreads cannot go into a C2. Battleships cannot even go into a C1. The only viable way to attack an XL in the time frame suggested by the devblog is to bring hundreds of players flying smaller ships into the hole. And hundreds of members is exactly what the typical C1 or C2 wormhole corporation does not have.

It will never happen.

As to the rest of your post, CCP will not balance these new structure around what might happen in the future. Currently, no highsec entity can field enough players to contest the XL structures in the targeted time frame indicated by the devblog. Therefore, it would be incredible silly to release them like this, and be directly contrary to their design goal of equaling the playing field between groups of different sizes. I am afraid you will not get them in highsec or low-class wormholes unless there is some counter to their massive HP provided so they can be contested by the smaller groups that live there.

People in this game have a load of ISK, its a bit out of balance, I should have said C3 when I said evictions, but you have to step back and think of the value proposition of putting an XL in a C1, apart from the logistic nightmare of moving the material in and of course building the ship required to launch it, yes it could be done and yes it would be difficult to take, but it is still a C1 or a C2. So CCP has to base their design on someone doing something which is really more ISK then sense.

WH alliances work with others to evict people, just as CODE will work with Goons to kill an XL in hisec.

The design goal is to level the playing field of people getting into space, so they can at least make that attempt. But lets say for arguments sake that a 1 man corp has put an XL in the system where my coalition has its Medium and my coalition has 60 people, I would find that rather amusing, so what? He is only going to control the area around the XL, OK he might come out to be a pain in a combat recon for example, but we will just kill him.

The game has to be looked at from the balance of sensible decisions, not at the worst case scenario that someone with more ISK then sense can do. And while I can see that in this game where people do a lot of trolling or griefing that may happen, its not a serious thing is it, so what some idiot with more ISK then sense has put a huge effort to put an XL in a C1.

Nice straw man arguments in terms of WH's, but CCP cannot base their designs on extremes like putting a XL in C2's or C1's, it might annoy you in that a player can do that to stick his middle finger up at you and you cannot kill it, but is stupid trolling.

Hisec will see them destroyed, because caps will be coming to hisec and structures will change how people operate there!

In which case CCP will have made the game too easy and are swayed by the possibility that someone could put an XL into a C1, not sensible at all...

There is no fuel cost to have it online, only if you want to use its services, but the value proposition means that only the most richest would do it. Yeah it would be damn secure, but its a bit pointless...

like i said before, good luck finding one to kill in empire;
if you think the 0.0 alliances will just look at those "titan" killmails and do nothing, you are just naive
anyway, to be honest, i can't really wait to kill one of those; and since in 0.0 my alliance isn't strong enough to kill one, pls nerf them more in empire so we can kill them faster

I think he's trolling us.
A Talos can sport as much as 1400 DPS with T2 fit. I've seen a single person mining with 20 Mackinaws, so I assume there is a person who can field 20 Taloses too. It'll take him a little over an hour to reinforce XL. The same miner can easily mine 3 hours straight, so 1 hour is nothing. Case closed.

Or you know, 20 Destroyers and 3 hours.
Stop talking rubbish about what is needed to reinforce these XL Citadels, you are looking more and more stupid as you do so since you have the numbers so wrong.

And we have come full circle.

No highsec or small WH group is going to spend 20 x 3h x 3 timers, or 180 hours of player time to shoot an XL citadel that doesn't drop any loot. Hardly any of them can in the first place. And what if they are actually defended?

And even if there were groups clamouring to spend all there game time grinding structures, 9 hours/person is a far cry from the 90 minutes per person the devblog says the design is intended to take.

Large POSes have ~1/5th the hp now, let's say 1/2 if really hardened (although the citadels have 20% resistances as well) and they are rarely attacked in highsec and C1/C2 wormholes. There is no way XL will be released like this or they will only very rarely be contested that is clear. I am not sure why people here are unwilling to see the obvious.

Titans aren't allowed in highsec, but neither are their counters (the other capitals). How is it fair to let the strongest structures into highsec/C1/C2, but not their intended counter, the dreadnought?

Oh right, it's fair because you can in theory get together 50 or 100 of your friends and brute force kill an XL structure with way more effort than the design requires everywhere else in the game.

Right. Carebear logic.

As I said before, if CCP makes it technically impossible to deploy XL''s in the lower class Wormholes by making the initial construct too big to import there in the first place, the problem you state will just never occur.