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Perhaps I should have been more specific. Your objection is, apparently, that they're going to exist and actually be usable for their intended purpose.

Yeah my objection has nothing to do with them being effectively unkillable. Nothing at all.

Yeah they have to spend a whole minute scooping it up and redeploying it. So much effort needed to keep it alive. So much.

I am usually quite sceptical (at best) about additions to the game, but I have to say that I appreciated the change of mindset that made CCP Fozzie write:

These Mobile Structures are all personally owned

Unlike Starbases, these Mobile Structures belong to individual pilots, not to corporations
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This means that even CCP might finally begin to understand that 2003 is over, that modern players don't come with many hours a day to play the nice but demanding "community game".

It's hard to belong to a relevant corporation when one can play 30 minutes a day at random hours.

Now, FW, seen as a "casual way to PvP" begun to fix this issue but we still had the non PvP structure requirements that demanded the players to either be in a good enough corp or forget leaving hi sec. I have lived the low sec lone wolf style and even WH lone wolf but I felt it to be not really fun. Imagine having a pirate corp attacking my low sec POS, who's going to come help me at say Aussie time zone? Being at least able to setup nimble, flexible stuff at my own times and at my own responsibility without having to resort to others might show as a step back from the "forced community, be in a blobby null sec corp" EvE mantra but I and others will definitely enjoy it.

"please bar all advantages to interacting with other players in this massively multiplayer online game thanks in advance"

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Mara about the practical invulnerability of the mobile depot. The ability to scoop and then redeploy the unit while reinforced is pretty OP. Coupled with the tiny window of opportunity to actually kill it, it would have been almost impossible to remove one even if you killed the owner. He could just come back in a new bubble proof interceptor and scoop redeploy again. Near zero risk.

However, with the now extended shield recharge timer, it isn't as difficult because the thing will have to now recharge from 0 shields to above 25% before it will benefit from another reinforcement timer. Therefore you will now have a reasonable window of opportunity to warp to the depot and kill it.

If you are lazy and the depot owner is not, it will stay in place. If the owner is lazy and you are not, it will not stay in place.

Systems with a significant and regular population, such as ratting systems, will have people warping to these regularly to check and/or reinforce them.

This rewards an active play-style on both sides. Thanks to CCP Fozzie for the adjustment.

oh, right. inb4 bomber pilots use these to swap between bomb launchers, probe launchers, and covert cyno fits. vOv

Haha! I had no idea there was so many null bears outraged about the idea of someone using the space they don't. So many null bear tears and Rubicon is not even out yet.

How hard would it be for at least the mobile depot and the auto looter to auto generate bookmarks?

Expanding the window of vulnerability means that a mobile home that was reinforced living or dying depends far more on the actions of players rather than a passive game system recharging the shields for you. I'd think you'd approve, what with how much you whine about POS and "passive income" - clearly you think passive things are bad!

Can someone explain to me why a hostile spaceyurt in your space is such a bad thing?

The spaceyurt consists of two components: an internal storage and a fitting service.

The fitting service is disabled immediately by putting the yurt in reinforced mode.

The internal storage is inferior to that of a secure container, which is unscannable and therefore practically invulnerable.

What is so bad about spaceyurts that doesn't already apply to anchored containers?