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not really. citadels are a massive benefit to small groups. Small WH groups for example no longer need to risk having their stuff stolen in shared POS facilities. And the citadels cost zero fuel to provide basic docking/storage capabilities. That right there is a huge buff to small group activities.

EVE has always been an MMO so if youre complaining you cant do everything large groups can, you are correct, you are playing the wrong game. Try Elderscrolls or something singleplayer. But this game has never hurt small groups.

I still kinda want to know if we can blow up the chunk "as is". There's got to be some room for things like sabotage, hit & run, interference, etc.

There really ought to be points or moments of vulnerability independant of structures and their state. If a small gang has to deal with the structure mechanisms to cause problems, that's kinda upping the ante beyond that level. Sure, said small gang could engage miners, but you know how that works - target denial is protocol. After that you get n+1.

If it isnt violent, can I at least hack something? Either via roles abuse, or externally with ship+fitting+hack mechanism? This kind of mechanism seems very complicated to me, from all the math for orbital mechanics to all the gear required to control the process - got to be some way to throw a spanner in the works

Q: Will the distribution of minerals stay as they presently are or will you be able to pick the type of minerals based on the time it takes to tractor the rock. Such as, these moons give all gas, these ones give all R8 etc.

Didn't see you answer the question about, have you replaced a relatively dull part of the game with an even duller part of the game?
Yup

Clever boy you can read my current employment.

They'll be available in WH space, and you'll be able to do reprocessing and reactions in them as normal.

The only feature that won't be available in WH space is the bit that mines moons.

Can you relay to the Art Department that a 20km for the Medium and a 30km for the Large would be perfect sizes...

I'm also going to assume more info and possible models will be revealed at Fanfest?

As an addendum to this point. How long will the asteroid field last once popped? Atm current belts are permanent, anoms and such are 4 day cycles. Will these have a despawn rate if not mined out or simply last and therefore clog up the moon until mined out? Will destruction of the refinery reset the belt as well or cause a despawn timer to commence to gain a new harvestable chunk on a delay?

As it stands from destruction to new goo cycle would be 7 days for the RF cycles, 24 hours to anchor + any despawn timer, and one week for a new moon pull.

Here's my 1/50 of a dollar.

Reactions should be able to be done in Hi-Sec. This won't increase the amount of raw moon goo mined but it would give an opportunity to set up Hi-sec reaction farms. Maybe offer reaction bonuses similar to refining bonuses to Lo-Sec and Null to give an incentive to react in those areas but give the players a choice.

Also, I know this will NEVER happen, but it would be fun to set up a mining platform near a asteroid belt and just **** that belt every day. Could create some good conflict if miners get sick of their "home system" being taken over by corp structures. Never happen, but fun to think about.

It is worth thinking about the foreseeable economic consequences of this proposal.

What do we know?

We know that the same tech II input materials are going to require significantly more player effort. So the price will rise for these inputs, as players make choices about how to spend their available time.

NOT EVERYONE HAS MORE TIME TO GIVE TO CCP. Important point, hence the caps. I think this point escapes many CCP directors, but it is a fundamental fact of the real world outside CCP.

So, given the same amount of player time spent mining, moon goo will increase in price. Thewrefore all tech II things will increase in price.

What else do we know?

We know that tech II ships and modules compete with navy and faction counterparts. we also know that the tech II line wont be getting any buffs to reflect their increased price with increased value. Therefore the choice for the consumer will be bigly moved towards the relative value of navy and faction ships.

Navy and faction ships are supplied in the same way, so their input costs stay the same. Their capabilities are not nerfed. Their value for money skyrockets, relative to the tech II ships.

And then what happens?

It is an interesting fact of the former USSR, that great planned economy, that it was never illegal to purchase imported cigars from Cuba or fine coffee from bolivia. You couldnt buy these luxuries in the shops of moscow during the soviet era, but they were never banned.

You couldn't buy them in Moscow, a vast city, because nobody was willing to pay party members the two months salary of bribes that it cost to get a small packet of coffee and ten cigars.

The cost was so great, and the value so relatively small, that the market simply collapsed. There became no market at all, for simple luxuries, in the glorious planned economy.

If CCP do not begin to understand that their customers have choice in the market, and that they cannot impose their plans upon the player base, they run a very real risk of watching as all the industrialists simple stop logging on, and go to invest their time in a more vibrant choice of entertainment.

This change effectively destroys the value, the value for money, of a popular line of ships and modules. It offers nothing to replace what has been made less attractive.

CCP staff look at the numbers and talk about price, as if price and value are the same thing.

The price of coffee and cigars was huge in Moscow in 1988. The market value was about zero.

You will not grow the eve economy by forcing people with choice to adhere to your simplistic little plans. People will simply leave.