Test Server Feedback

So in-between the restarts this is my first impressions (please remember I have just passed my 70th birthday so tend to write in a verbose manner, sorry).

First I purchased an Astrahus medium Citadel, you need a ship that can carry 8,000m3 to transport it so not a big problem for most small corps.

My first try at deploying it went haywire, one because we had a sudden 1 min shutdown warning, the second because I couldn’t understand what to do.

Launching the ‘egg’, ‘deploy module’ call it what you will brings up a small popup with some very brief instructions (with a disable tick box), clicking the [OK] box takes you on to the next very brief menu bar (which hid itself under the chat window and caused me a minor problem).

Note: the title bar of the popup window has a placeholder (yes WIP, I know).
Note 2: clicking [Cancel] at any point did not as I expected drop me back one level but cancelled the whole operation and put the ‘egg’ back into my cargo hold, so I had to start over.

The main screen also dimmed and nothing seemed to happen, it wasn’t until I rotated up I noticed the ‘rings’ and ‘numbers’ of the tactical display and the Citadel Model did I realise I needed to be zoomed out really far to get an overall view.

Note: some kind of auto-zoom might be useful at this point (easy when you know how but confusing otherwise).

Moving the Citadel model into position was pretty easy but being colour blind I had to ask which was correct for the deployment position. Most of you will work it out just fine LOL.
Setting the times on the next page was a bit hit and miss but you can’t activate the Citadel until you get it right.

At this point my Citadel was deployed and normally you would have to wait 24 hours for it to ‘hatch’ but a very kind Dev popped in and onlined it for me. It looks amazing, pretty lights everywhere, docking ports all lit up and marker lights all over the place.
Dropping down at full warp in my Helios from above was a real wow moment (I wish I could have videoed it for you).
One annoying thing was the ‘Tether’ sound, the tether itself is ok (ish, don’t know how it will work with many ships), but the sound is way too loud and does not fade with distance (wip?).

Before I closed for the evening I deployed an XL Citadel (800,000 m3), I’m leaving this to deploy normally to see if it works OK.

All this is in a 0.7 system in case anyone asks.

I haven't seen this in the notes, so I wanted to mention:

As a wormhole dweller, it would be very useful to be able to use the POS component construction array to construct structure components. Presently you can't, it won't let you build structure components in a POS.

Thanks in advance! Super excited for Citadels.

are teh manual fighter controls not added yet?


also anti sub cap missiles are not seeded

Rigs seem to be ignoring size restrictions. I was able to install L and XL rigs an on Astahus. No warnings or errors. Bug reported it.

Also, can't seem to remove the rigs once placed.

There is another issue I am trying to work out that relates to the cloaking timer being stuck "on" - though I am not cloaked, whether i am in station, in space, or docked at a citadel. Does not change when changing ships or jumping systems. Only solution is to log off which removes it. I did not bug report it as when I logged back in, it was cleared, however, it came back after I had some latency causing me to emergency warp after jumping - the emergency warp took me to a random location, but did not warp me back to the gate. The cloak timer icon is resistant once again. Just getting screen shots to submit a bug report for that.

so uuuh light fighters shooting fighters

I noticed the same thing. I love the drag and drop but

CCP please add a pop out window in the groups that list every alliance in game, with check boxes that allow/disallow docking.
From what I can tell, there is no standings control, so there is no generic don't let -5/-10 from docking. And having to drag and drop everyone is going to be massive time sink.

It creates tactical versatility. Also, please remember something crucial about Citadels: unlike POSes they cannot defend themselves on their own.

Placing an unattackable base of operations, where you can teleport to at will, with stored ships and equipment, within your enemies home and ratting systems, because they do not have the correct TZ to attack it, is 'tactical versatility'?

This isn't 'Tactical versatility'. It's a death knell for smaller groups that can't muster the fleet to attack the thing for over an hour during their lowest TZ while being unable to defang it.




And a unmanned POS is dead in the water to any half arse group. To defend itself with any kind of effectiveness it needs to have 6-7 people manning it, and those people be prepared to defend it at any time.

A Citadel needs just one single person, for 3 pre-chosen hours per week. A single alt can cover it with complete ease.

Funny. Ad-hominem attacks. Check Dotlan. INFAMOUS has more sov and outposts than we know what to do with. We also have enough people to deal with multiple TZs

Shockingly enough, some people actually care about the people who aren't me.

A Medium Citadel on SiSi is as easy as BLOPsing in a BR, Citadel guns/mods shipped in by JF in perfect safety when it's finished, harder to find out about before it goes online than a POS, is capable of holding jumpclones and as many ships as you can put in it, and is insanely easier to defend than a POS, AND anything inside of it isn't lost when it's destoryed. And costs almost nothing.

You thought having a hostile staging tower in your space was bad, this is 10 times worse and 10 times harder to remove.

To me that is a massive buff to the power projection of larger alliances that only works against smaller groups.

There needs to be a time each day that you can attack them. At least then small groups can have the weekend to do something about it.

EDIT: Or Entosis points like on outposts now to shut down services. Or make it more obvious that one is being deployed in a system and who, with multiple points during construction when it's vulnerable. Maybe a warning to people owning sov that X alliance is putting one down.

These things aren't vulnerable enough to attack, and are too easy to put down in hostile space.

you mean exactly what is happening?




cits put up in sov null with out controll and index will have a longer recharge timer and i'm sure ccp will expand on this after some tq testing