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You mean those rigs and modules we already have prices for?
That don't cost multiples of 70 Billion?
Those rigs and modules right?

I'm not being obtuse, we have actual numbers for them, if you T2 every single rig and fit the most expensive stuff you can, it will still cost less than 140 Billion, and you don't need a single rig or service module to dock a Titan.
And the functionality of a Citadel is vast amounts more than a XL SMA. And can be anchored anywhere also.
That 250M Pos with 800m structure docked...1 Titan, at huge risk of corp theft. & Remind me what the long term fuel costs are, like oh, for a year, since you can't just take it down 2 seconds after docking the titan.
That Citadel docks as many as you want, with no risk of corp theft unless you want to put them in the corp office.

Hell, you can dock in SOMEONE ELSES XL Citadel if they give you docking rights based on what we currently know. And the worst they can do to you is cause your assets to be relocated to the nearest NPC station. So this supposed 'small corp' (That can afford more expensive titans but not a Citadel) doesn't even need to buy a Citadel. They just need to share one with another group. Hey, reasons for groups to band together over a Citadel and share the costs, look at that emergent gameplay possibility which doesn't involve corp theft risk as a result.

Also I'm sorry a several year old character not in an NPC corp isn't enough for you :P But I really think you need to get over your ego and your whine here.

So a single Titan requires 7 billion a year to maintain in a POS.
So... a Citadel is only the equivalent to 10 Titan's. For one year. Assuming none of the POS get destroyed and the titan killed while it's in storage.

Your own maths here says it's not an unreasonable cost.
As soon as one titan gets killed in storage, the Citadel is the cheaper option.
As soon as you have several titans, the Citadel is the long term cheaper option.

So yes, I think I have a pretty good handle on the issues involved, and you sure aren't making any case otherwise.
And Titan owner or not, storage of Titans affects everyone in EVE. Trying to pretend like only Titan owners are affected is silly.

In Amamake, in an un-fuelled tower...

Next stupid comment please.

Plenty of people, it's not rocket science to manage the risks - some people get caught out (e.g. the example I linked earlier).

Edit: I would suggest that, given a large percentage of XL-SMAs killed are empty, that many people know how to risk manage. Of course, there are the odd few who go away for long periods of time/die at the keyboard e.t.c and so periodically those sort of 'spectaculars' will show up...

(was that Avatar really Sort Dragon's?)

You have to consider it against the reward of being able to step outside the coffin for a short period of time to do fun stuff - this is a game afterall.

I guess they don't have alts where you live.

Thats why you dock in your shiny new citadel and trade it directly...

Cant wait for citadels to trade titans, I cant count the number of titans that have left the "safety" of my pos when i handed them over to my buyer on their own

the amount of salvage in need for t2 rig for citadels and especialy for xl size one is ridiculous
also no trade goods are in need for citadel production

either fix the loot tabble of the salvage (the drop rate and the percentage should be higher and with better analogy )
or simply add few trade goods in rig making and cut the slavage needs by alote

As consideration given to "I Feel Safe" / 'relocate my stuff' as we go about building Citadels and destroying player dropped stations (with no word on NPC conquerables yet)

There is the matter of max item limitation of Item Hangers at 1000.

If someone loses a Constellations worth of assets the move could easily exceed 1000 items since...

1. Simply adding things to hanger doesn't stack
2. BPCs don't stack at all
3. Station containers won't repackage until it has been vacant for 30 days.
4. It's possible with station container collapse to far exceed 1000 items

Typical null loot variety can exceed 300
BP collections can number hundreds
Materiel for an Industrial character going from Moon goo thru Alliance Fleet supplier can far exceed 1000 items.

5. Contract system currently limited to 200.

Well, POS's aren't being removed until all 8 types of structure are in the game and we have 100% overlap of functionality.

That beign said, do we know how much a XL assembly arrays costs? They can certainly dock there as they are built there

What about a XL drilling machine, we have been told we can reprocess them, so they should be able to dock.

Do we know how much any of these structures cost?

Citadels are the biggest, badest and most expensive, with good reason, they are your home, but to think they are the only one of the 8 that can dock a SC/Titan MIGHT be strecthing it as we have no idea. So until we have a better picture, i think you are crying over the possibility in 2 years someone might spill milk