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Awesome stuff! The concept sounds really interesting and i think you are heading the right way.

The only thing i disagree with, is point 6. "Fate of stored items on structure destruction"

First of all, having the option between the "Wreck" and the "Container" method, i think the first one is far better.
When destroyed, the structure breaks into several pieces, each becoming a lootable wreck.
But, in my opinion, they should be lootable by everyone, not just the owners. This would be a great opportunity to provide potential for conflict and additional fighting.


Only players, that are currently online and docked? What about those players, who docked at that station and logged off?

Just off the top of my head, but i could imagine some kind of emergency eject from station.
Before destruction the station ejects all docked active players in their currently boarded ships, to prevent them from certain death.
If you are in a capsule your pod will be emergency evacuated and shot out in space to a random point in the system. Offline players logging in would also spawn in a random spot in system, but in their pods (actually not sure about this point )


Anyway, good job CCP and keep up the good work!

Looks promising but I will wait before more information is out. This could go either way really easy.

It seems to me that there is not enough room for asshatry. Either you are moored to the structure or docked - either way you are 100% safe unless the structure is destroyed - which for larger structures is likely to be rare and for the smaller pos like structures will still take a considerable fleet. There should be room for people to make dumb decisions and for activities such as bumping from forcefields - the game design should not promote near perfect safety.

Also the pos redesign seems lacking - Right now - there is some thought put into pos design, e.g. guns on the bottom or top or balanced all around? This leads to strategic decisions as to how to attack pos - for instance you can attck from the top and be out of range of the guns on the bottom, etc.... Now the Pos is just being turned into just another red + to shoot. So all of the strategic decisions are being removed with nothing new added - seems to be just a needless dumbing down.

Finally structure management should not be too perfect - there should be room for corp theft.

Also personal housing - needs to be limited in both numbers that can be anchored and the locations where they can be placed. It is already difficult enough to find folk in a system - if there is unlimited housing which can be placed anywhere - it will be impossible to locate folk.

Try actually reading the dev blog:

Stick to your guns in terms of letting people put these things anywhere, including hisec, do not listen to people who do not want people to be able to put Administration HQ's in hisec. If I want to do that then why not... Why all this Grrr hisec?

I hope and expect that all these structures can be used in WH's, though of course wonders about NPC agents in WH stations, seems a bit odd, but no big beef on my part.

The destruction of stations is a tricky one, the realities of this along with the issues of time zone requiring TZ play cannot be ignored, we all like realism, but we have to accept that this is a game not RL. That being said there is of course risk management, you should only put into stations what you need, in reality that was always the case when you went to 0.0, though after a while bloat sets in... I like the suggestions that you have come out with here in terms of access to your stuff, but people have made a point in terms of ships that they have made but are not able to fly, but they will need to be in fleet with someone who can fly them and so easy to deal with. I think your suggestion works for me and is what I would define at just the right level of hand holding.

The changes will really open up the game, this is damn exciting and all credit to you CCP.

EDIT: In terms of destruction of stations, how about you can take it with an entosis but if you want to blow it up then you have to do it the old fashioned way...

If the new structures are fittable, will they also have drone bays and allow for drones to be deployed when under attack?

I think it would be more beneficial to be able to manufacture and reprocess within close proximity or same station. Maybe not best available in one station as that might not be balanced enough, but at least give the option.

One of the great things about last year's changes to highsec POSes (dropping the standings requirement and the sec system restriction) was the quick and simple nomadic lifestyle made possible for otherwise cumbersome occupations like light manufacturing and mining groups.

Retain this so we continue to feel like all of Eve is at our disposal.

Otherwise, very exciting possibilities.

Questions:

- How are you going to handle multiple structures affecting the same system wide effects?
- How are you going to deal with the amount of structures in space that this is going to generate? (imagine systems near Jita.. the amount of structures on each)
- Why the total removal of the shield forcefield? This is still better than mooring for supercaps unless you want they all to die at some point
- What is the strategical benefit of this system over the old system in combat situations?
- What is the limit of on grid structures? Otherwise we could just build a giant lag city of hell to protect ourselfs since there is no forcefield
- How would you handle the pain that is going to be for players if we start to spam systems with little market hubs? Am I going to warp 20 times inside the same system to fit a ship?
- Why a player will prefer the new system over outposts since his itens are (by far) better 'defended' inside outposts? Isnt this going to nerf nullsec A LOT instead of making people a little more happier?

This is exciting news! I beg you, CCP to hear my plea. Let the deployment of these types of structures be done by "tug boats" or special mobility modules. This may sound crazy, but the idea that we could have these new structures as a galactic command ship with an independently functional manufacturing capacity and military hub as you migrate from space to space. The one thing Wormholes had the capacity to do was to open a universe of exploration. What it has become is a new dimension of the old world, which is traversed nearly as regularly - leaving no more room from exploration. Give us the chance to drift a bit. We don't need planets and solar systems... we can use comets and spacial anomalies to subsist with. Give us something to discover. Eve needs more game play and not just reworking of the old stuff. This may not be a complete idea but it has potential. Like it and make adjustments and expansions to the idea, but don't let it die!