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You're going to convert 2b NPC price BPOs into 6b NPC price BPOs that are about to lose some of their utility to the new refinery structures? Astrahus BPOs have already been reselling below NPC due to overbuying and people hopping on new bandwagons. I could understand if you were wanting to ease the transition from outposts to citadels, but we're more than a year past their introduction and have already purchased and researched the BPOs we require. This might've been worth doing back when Citadel was released, but now you're just devaluing peoples' investments in the BPOs from the last year.

Could you let us know why you're doing this? Also, please check that the extra items won't be sent to impound like what happened with SKINs and fighters as it can be very expensive to get them out of there, which is pretty unfair when they weren't there before.

The first part of my first question in this thread still seems pretty relevant.

I'm just going to echo what people have already said regarding WH gameplay. If a new, POS comparable structure isn't added then a large portion of WH gameplay is going to wither and die, basically. I don't live in WH's myself, but I can appreciate the strategies used, and this kind of emergent gameplay is something that needs to stay in the game IMO.

What about an array that would allow "Renter's" to have their own facility to dock and launch from?

The Renter's Hub would be smaller hubs capable of handling 10, 20 or 30 hangars for neutral players to base out of. The Renters's Hub would be free of combat involving the Citadel but could still be attacked none-the-less.

Some considerations regarding blueprint refunds in general:
* In most cases it is much better to transition them to a different blueprint type instead of giving isk for them. Then we can treat BPOs and BPCs the same and we are not losing the research value of a blueprint.
* The exact reimbursement is normally only announced (and decided) after the NPC sell orders are removed from the market: Then there is less concern if the worth of a specific blueprint increases a bit through the reimbursement (otherwise it could be abused too easily :) ).

"These structures will continue to operate for some time longer and any jobs started before the August patch will complete with the bonuses intact."

Will research jobs that are still in progress roll into the new fortizar structure after the big day and continue to research, or will they fail? I purposely start very long research jobs in outposts because I don't have to worry about the outpost exploding several months into research and losing my progress.

I can understand that reasoning, but it's too late. We've already purchased, and we know from the MERs that a lot were bought, and researched the BPOs we wanted for these previous Upwell structures (citadels are over a year old now). If you were to replace the BPOs at the same time you introduce the relevant Upwell structure then it'd be less of an issue and we could plan around that, but what you've done is left us in limbo for a period of time and are now giving us things we didn't ask for nor need.

Sure, it'll be nice for me to have my Outpost Platform BPOs replaced with more expensive (at NPC price) BPOs, but it comes at the cost of undermining those who chose to invest in Astrahus BPOs for three times the price, or perhaps there's some relation to the worth of ISK when these old BPOs were bought more regularly? Will you be replacing Small Ship Assembly Array Blueprints (50m ISK NPC) with the closest equivalent, a Standup Manufacturing Plant I Blueprint (1b ISK NPC)? That'd be even worse, but it sounds like a good investment for me.

Mostly just want to know whats happening with the Tukker and Hyasyoda modules. I trust CCP to build an effective module for it but this means I will have to remove defensive modules from an EC to fit this? I sincerely hope it is not a rig as that would make things seriously complicated. Maybe ECs could get a "specialized" fitting slot to fit one or two of these that will not impact it's defensive abilities. I appreciate that CCP is going to replace these modules with something similar and not let the arrays just be forgotten. Several industrial operations are built in lowsec entirely around the Thukker and Hyasyoda modules and would be in null or highsec if the arrays didn't exist.

On the subject of Structures ......

Why o Why Do the Medium and Large Engineering Complexes have Vulnerability Windows THREE TIMES LONGER then their Citadel counterparts ?

Med size = Citadel = 3 hours / Engineering Complex = 9 hours
Lrg size = Citadel = 6 hours / Engineering Complex = 18 hours [ 2x Med for both]
XLrg size = Citadel 21 hours / Engineering Complex = 36 hours [ 7x Med for Citadel / 4x for Engineering Complex *]

*[ I guess making the XLrg Engineering Complex vulnerable for 63 hours was too, too much overkill ? ]

I did not know it was possible to hide under a rock in space!

Like most things, In Theory, sounds nice.

Now the question becomes = Would you like to have an NPC free dock staging point for your enemies right in the middle of your space ? Hmmmm Me thinks not.

I do however agree in part that the " Immensea " stations should remain unconquerable and more importantly Unanchorable stations.
But that is not going to happen.
Things going boom is what makes New Eden go around, and makes people buy PLEX to replace it