EVE General Discussion

Its a sad day for us lowly industry types as I watched our Astrahus shields be blown through in about 45 minutes.
2 missile launchers, ECM, painter and weapon disruptor did absolutely nothing in defense of the not to mention the fighter dron squadrons that posed no threat as they were zerged by the aggressing fleets drones.

It was so bad it was comical honestly as the Citadel was completely useless in defending itself.

I'm not complaining, just letting everyone know that is considering setting one of these up that, its pointless unless you have a huge alliance to defend it. Otherwise, it wont even be able to blow up a single ship of the fleet has more than 2 Logis.

I expected this to happen when we put the thing up but I thought I would at least have fun blowing up a few ships as the Citadel was being worked over. Nope. hah!

Tomorrow I will get to watch our armor be dismantled. :(

You also can't changed fittings at all after the first phase either so no strategy changes. Just sit and watch it go boom!

I will say, the guys that Wardecced us know what they are doing.

I don't think it is intended to be defended alone against a group of organized people.

Working as intended. Go find some friends, then put up a new citadel.

Just because it is bigger and more expensive, doesn't mean it is necessarily "better".

It's a fallacy many people believe to be true, but it will only generate content for people who knows better.

Our corp isn't really big enough to defend a well structured fleet. Lets be honest.
We recruit miners to build things to sell. PVP pilots like FW/Low/Null Sec corps.

It's ok, we will lose this one but like everything else, Im learning a lot about how much less and less I like High Sec.

have ye tried.

Any corp that offered assistance in the defense of the Citadel would be granted Free Reprocessing, Clone Bay use and office space.

The citadel has only been up for 2 days so not enough time to really get anything else going with it.

If you want an office in Stegette, jump clones, etc. This could be a good way.

That's the spirit! Go to LS or NS, or even w-space, make new friends, kill some of them...get killed by them, have some laughs, then put up another citadel when you can get your friends to come help you.

The fighters are bugged and even if that wasn't the case the citadel itself is not a substitute for a defense fleet.

Given CCPs notorious history of putting out intensely bugged content you should have done your research before putting one up.

Secondly welcome to EVE, you don't get to have a thing if you can't protect that thing and somebody else really wants to deprive you of it.

Sorry for your loss.

It's unfortunate but you could have learned this lesson a week or more ago, if you'd read reddit/r/eve. Because Citadels were announced on that forum (and to a lesser extent here) with forum posts along the lines of "we blew up the first citadel!" "first in highsec!" "fist medium blown up" "first citadel destroyed for our group!" "yea we got one too".

Citadels are:

- way too expensive for what they do (especially if you're thinking of replacing POSes).
- way easier to kill than properly set up POSes.
- a PVP magnet.

The math (cost vs. their stats) has shown this since before day 1.

The game is very healthy because so much value is getting blown up, and CCP loves it. The release trailer shows exactly what they wanted to accomplish with the Citadels release (more things getting blown up), so it's definitely NOT false advertising.

It's working as intended. And now wait until you MUST set up a industrial structure to replace your POS... a industrial structure which obviously won't have the defensive capabilities(?) of a "**C*I*T*A*D*E*L**" thus will be far easier to burn down for a juicy KM.

There's no need to wait to the discussion on the new structures, they are industrial facilties, thus they can't defend themselves any better than military(?) Citadels. You couldn't defend your citadel, then your industrial facilities will be even more doomed: better target than POS, and a softer target too. You should join a large group, hire one (unless your attackers are blued to them) or just stop paying a susbcription for this nonsense.