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Did you moved the citadel 5 km away from your ship. Then the shadow changes from red to white and you can anchor it. If you have already done this, ignore what i wrote here. Then i cannot help you.

Currently in a POS you simply enter the shield and you can access / move almost anything. Will pilots similarly be able to access personal and corp hangars [that they have rights too] while outside Citadel on the Tether?

You cannot even warp to the bookmark from the persons and places window? Weired.
I couldnt warp to it first time, because, it said i were not in a fleet. When i joined one with an alt, i could.
I could even use the -warp to fleetmember-command, when she was docked inside the citadel. If this is intended, i like it.

unfortunately, didn't have anyone docked in it. We have two setup in the system, and whilst the second was anchoring, we were testing the weapons on the first one. Only when we tried to do an alternate fit on the second, found we couldn't warp to it anymore.

Not the end of the world, but next time will park one next to a planet warp in point

Basically you are saying you hate eve. and everything it stands for, nice.

Why can they "not possibly fight" these entities? None of the war dec alliances field anything more than 20-30 in thier (rare) structure bashes and those are usually multiboxing talos against unarmed/offline towers. Usually they are fielding a dozen guys. If the industry corp, who gets to choose when the fight happens multiple times over an extended period, is incapable of fielding a force to fight this with all the advantages the citadel gives them they simply do not deserve to have a citadel, that is eve. If a corp that weak must continue its existence it should join an alliance, that is the whole point of alliances, mutual defence.

Obviously paying a defence force would cost more than the war dec cost. I mean you could have defended it for free but you divested yourself of your responsibilities so obviously you need to pay a premium.

It is amazing how you underestimate people. Truth is unless you have annoyed somebody so much the war deccers brought 10 times the force needed to actually kill the citadel a half dozen guys in anything from bombers to ewar cruisers will disrupt an attack enough for the citadel to do the rest.

An Asturhaus can change its weaponry instantly to suit the size of its target, it does omni damage, it cannot be out ranged, it cannot be firewalled, it cannot be jammed. On its own it fields the damage of two battleships and a carrier with no range constraints. it can also field the jamming of a scorpion, the tackle of recons and the neuting of a 100k range curse. All on a platform which cannot be killed for at least 30 minutes. It can also source defenders with replacement ships.

So you are basically saying that it is unfair that a corp who "cannot possibly win" a fight at a time of their choosing in high sec with the back up of an unkillable carrier, 2 battleships and 3 recons having had the possibility of arranging allies before hand might get bitten by "don't fly what you can't afford to lose"?

Depends what you are shooting at. There are different missile types for different size targets and different launchers also. Each launcher can do anything from 180 dps (anti frigate missiles on anti sub-cap launcher) to 11000 dps (anti supercap missile on anti capital launcher). Medium citadel has 2 launcher hard points, large has 3, extra large has 4. All do omni damage. So 360 to 22000 dps on a medium from missile damage. Then you have the fighters which is the same situation, varies depending which fighters you use which will ddepend which target you are fighting. Fighter stats are not correct on sisi atm so dps figures are meaningless. It is however roughly the same capability as a supercarrier.

TBH you don't know what an "industry" corp is.

Lets abstract from the current citadel state and move to a further point in time where medium citadel is supposed to replace curent POSes.

POSes in highsec are currently used (among other things. Maybe some people have other uses, but that's what I do with mine) for T2 and T3 invention/production. First because they have bonuses that overcome upkeep costs at pretty modest manufacturing volumes. Second because that's the only way to reversse-engineer. Stations simply don't allow for it. If you want T3 reverse-engineering, you must use a POS.

Now contrary to popular belief both activities DO NOT require a large corporation. In fact, one of the appeals of the crius expansion was the talk on then-undisclosed "team" mechanic which people first assumed to be a form of actual player-to-player teamwork that would benefit manufacturing if you wanted to do it with your friends. Sadly it turned out to be an underwhelming bidding contest.

The T2/T3 manufacturing itself does not require a large corporation. In fact, unless you also deal in resource extraction, which quite frankly you should not be doing because it's economically sensible to specialize, it's easier to manage the production chain alone, and the only benefit of the corp is sharing POS upkeep costs (and quite frankly a single person can easily load a small tower with enough work for it to be profitable).

I suspect heavily that the current HiSec POS population is part compression tower for mining corps (those guys do have numbers), two parts individual R&D towers for people doing solo T2/T3 production.

The removal of a viable solo R&D tower option will just sqeeze the small business out of the market and impose a minimum entry requirements for these activites (at least in regards to T3. T2 can be reasonably done in stations, possibly less profitable, but manageable) that quite frankly does not correspond to how people actually are comfortable doing these things.

Time will tell -- and from what I've read, POSs should still be around for at least another year, so there's a long time still for CCP to polish and refine the mechanics.

At the moment on Sisi, station guns are amazing powerful. With a medium citadel, I would be shocked if you couldn't destroy much more isk than you would lose.

Structure missiles can have a range of about 750 km, with more than 11,000 DPS on the large missiles, or 490 DPS on the smaller ones. Plus neuts, webs, target painters, fighters, and so on.

With that kind of range, Logi will be vulnerable as well.

I had a carrier attack the Keepstar I setup, and it was destroyed in just a few seconds (even without resorting to the DD).


Although I don't think it will be difficult to survive and prosper in a medium structure, mitigating the risk of living in one is an important part of Eve -- building an active defense, finding and joining the right alliance, and so on.

Look at those of us who live in null, where there isn't a need for a wardec before attacking. We survive and prosper just fine. In fact, if you're in the right alliance, it's usually safer in null than in high!

Someone on SiSi told me in the Singularity chat channel that anchoring is bugged right now…

Why?
Do they not work in Highsec?
Or do they not any Damage to a Battleship for example, when it is webbed, maybe doubble webbed?