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Nothing to say really, just wanted to be first.

I believe that is why CCP Ytterbium created this one. From what I saw in the Vegas Keynote I am actually excited about the citadels.
However I am not really fond of the w-space treatment. Feels like wormholers are second or third class citizens of New Eden - the unknown.

Yep, I'm working on that right now

One thing I have not been able to find about citadels: How and what happens when you take them down. I don't mean destroy, I mean off-line, unanchor and scoop. It does not seem to be well covered in any blog or thread. (Just that during unanchoring, it is vulnerable).

What are the steps I would go through as the owner to take down my citadel?

How long does it take? Is the time different for different size structures, or different parts of space?

What happens to the modules, services, and rigs?

What happens to corp and player assets still in the citadel?

What happens to items on the market?

What happens to jobs in progress or in the queue?

There are 2 ways to recover impounded assets:

    Deliver to the same solar system: assets can be delivered locally if there are NPC stations or Citadels in the same solar system. Players will have to wait a minimum of 5 days before being able to deliver them.
    Deliver to another solar system: players will have to pay 15% of the total item value and wait a minimum of 20 days before being able to deliver them. Players cannot choose destination in that case. It will always be the top station in the closest low-security system if the destroyed Citadel was in null or low-security space. If the Citadel was in high-security space, it will be the closest high-security solar system. If there is a NPC station in the same solar system as the destroyed Citadel in high-security or low-security space this option is not available.

So if i understand this correctly.
I can have whole alliance to mine gather tons of base materials , on the most remote location i can find.
Then load it to a single citadel ( possibly the smallest/cheapest possible) destroy it and CCP will move it for small fee of 15% to nearest lowsec station?

For many places this will be cheaper than JF hauling (consider not only the fuel, but also time needed to move this stuff)
1 JF can move 32mil of tritanium?
Think about hundredths of millions liquid ozone, heavy water or strontium sitting all over null space.


To clarify one more thing.
You will not touch NPC stations in NPC space , including NPC nullsec? , sov nullsec ? ( yes we have also NPC stations there)

BPO's


Are Outpost component BPO's being renamed and we keep research or

Will all the BPO's be new and bought at XX date and we have to research them all?

When will the new BPO's be available?

I have a question about anchoring not answered yet in a previous thread:

From the Siege V2 blog, anchoring:



This means that the structure

• won't be usable for 24 hours
• will be limited in the first 24 hours, some features working, some not (for example, I don't see a required module/rig for docking)
• will be fully usable even during the first 24 hours

?

To clarify it: based on existing structures the first answer is correct, but either choice results in different mechanics than currently. When POSes will be removed (I don't know, if it will be the same date, or later?), a 24 hour long unusable timer will make currently used rapid deployment situations impossible. This includes bigger schemes like attacking null systems, and smaller ones like lowsec mining ops.

Also, if we are speaking about mining ops, what about the rorqual, and other fleet support ships, and tethering, will they be able to do it, or not?

And +1 for the recent item safety mechanics:



But I will still have to pay for them in case of remote delivery, right? So I don't have to pay for the choice, but for accessing a given item.

There are a couple of major issues with the citadels feature as I see it.

1) One of the most eagerly anticipated functions of citadels is the ability to dock supercaps in them. By limiting the ability to dock supers in anything but an XL CCP is limiting access to this awesome feature to a extremely select group of individuals, the namely the CFC.

By limiting the ability to dock to only the largest, and most inaccessable features, the majority of supers are still going to be coffins for their pilots. CCP should allow the docking of supers in large citadels, as well as extra larges, perhaps limiting the total number titans and supers docked, or some other mechanic.

2) By getting rid of the reinforcement timer, CCP is (unintentionally) encouraging people to not login. Let me explain...
I decide I just can't live without the QQY-JR Dyspro. My alliance is USTZ. The defending alliance is an AUTZ alliance. They set all of their vulns to prime AUTZ. I now must commit to at least two AUTZ ops to win the event. None of their players even bother logging in outside of AUTZ, as they know that nobody can **** with their **** outsize of a set block of hours.

Current system: They have their POS stronted for 36 hours, so that if I reinforce their **** in USTZ, I will have an AUTZ timer. Although I need to fight the defenders on their own terms to win the timer, I can reinforce it Thursday night in ustz, and use the weekend surge of people to make the autz timer. Everyone knows when the fight is gunna happen, and can plan their social life accordingly around it, which leads me to...

3)Many people are concerned how the introduction of citadels on tranquility will impact their ability to move their supers, especially once CCP starts to phase out POS. How this will impact someone who was on vacation or away from the game for a supermove op, and now has to make his way through the galaxy alone?

With the Poebe changes, what previously was a minor hassle is now one of the most challenging tasks you could possibly take on in eve. When people from the largest and most experienced supercap-capable alliances would rather unsub an account for 6 months and petition CCP for a move, then move 5 mids across eve, it makes me wonder if CCP dev's actually spend much time in supers on the live server, (and in the event that they do, if they have had the pleasure moving their super across new eden, which all but one group have now done multiple times.)

This issue will be only exacerbated by the new structure changes, making an incredibly tedious activity (solo moving supers) even less rewarding.

So is there no interior only when tethered? Do normal subcaps still dock and get an interior?

Why not expand this sort of system to all stations though? With 3 modes, the current hangar view, captains quarters and an in space view?

One of the most annoying things when docked is that you have no idea what is happening outside. So I guess having no interior lets you see whats happening outside then?

Kick wont' exist, you undock and are tethered for eternity until you do something to lose tethering