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To bad all war are based around griefing.

then won't the containers be camped to hell because the owner would have to come back?


if anything, eject containers that warp to a random location in system with coordinates EVE mailed to you. I guess they can be probed, but make it so the owner has an actual chance to retrieve the assets, rather than just walk right into an ambush. Otherwise it's another "EVE favors the aggressors" moment.

The owner is given a period of time to retrieve their assets as the dev blog states. During that time the containers are not scannable allowing the owner the opportunity to recover the goods in relative safety.

Now the converse is true. The owner knows what is in the containers and may choose not to recover them. The owner knows when the time elapses and the containers become scannable. The owner can choose to be the one laying the ambush!

To add another twist, allow the owner of a container that is hacked to obtain kill rights on the one taking the contents.

How are the skills going to work, are we going to have to train up a whole lot of new expensive and time consuming skills now to do these new structures? Please say no.

Also, tower loots? Currently there is incentive to war-dec and kill towers to get their loots....seems like this will be gone if either of the main ideas means we can't get it..

I love the changes, just one thing which is a concern, current POS mechanic being terrible and all that still offers good protection for small corporations in wormholes, they require a significant fleet and time commitment to attack especially in low class WHs.
I just hope small corps in low class WHs will still be able to gain some relative safety against bigger opponents as last thing we want is for big fleets just search out all smaller opponents and use entosis mechanic to loot and get rid of everyone that can't field big conventional fleet.

Love the work, just don't forget of the little guys....

This is not true. I do it a lot, purely for profit. Searching out offline or undefended highsec towers, trying to figure out how capable the corp is of mounting a defence, waiting for the 24 hour period before being able to attack and anticipating the shields going back up before the countdown is complete, killing the structures and waiting for the drops, often in the context of war targets in local or surrounding systems (often from other corps). This is all great content.

It is not difficult to defend against this sort of thing. For target selection, towers fall into two categories: offline and online. If offline with anchored research, industrial, CHA, PHA, SMA etc then it is immediately war decced. If online, a large tower will rule it out for me because the grind is too much of a deterrent. A small or medium tower with ANY defences at all is also ruled out because there are easier targets out there.

This is not griefing. It introduces consequence for lack of planning, lack of foresight or laziness. It introduces excellent and profitable gameplay for whoever can be bothered to go out and find good prospects and is willing to risk their own assets in war decs.

All I can say at this point: Finally! I've been waiting for POSes to be wrapped up into a single structure since I first read about them ;)

I think the biggest issue that will need to be addressed with these changes is how you handle the assets in outposts of players who are not currently subscribed. those of us who are subscribed will have some kind of heads up that its time to start moving anything non-essential, but unsubbed accounts have no such warning.

with the number of people who regularly take breaks from the game for longer periods of time, only to return and be very active (have done so myself) it is imperative that CCP find some way to "clean slate" the outposts for that pool of potentially returning players.

the best option I've seen floated so far is simply to have all assets owned by unsubscribed accounts and corporations where a member has not logged in for at least 2 months moved in a one-time deal to the nearest interbus station in a 0.6 highsec or higher (0.6 avoids most highsec islands in lowsec).

the only reason a single specific station is not suggessted despite it being easier to code is that this move would produce content for haulers and other services if/when those players return.

is it slightly heavy-handed? yes, but it is also the easiest way to avoid damaging player perceptions for those returning to the game after this system goes live.


all that being said, I look forward to new structures with interest, as it looks like making single star system a true home is within reach, instead of needing 3 or 4 for a complete service set.

if what is shown on the slides is correct, it also means that the wormhole crew will be getting a MASSIVE quality of life buff with what looks like offices and docking on smaller structures, and personal-use structures. which I cannot support enough (even though I don't live in J-space, those dudes deserve better support services for the risks they choose to take daily)

Fantastic blog, inspiring ideas.

Let's do this.

The tools and mechanics to find other players are already in game. They are called spaceships. Checking Dotlan or the in game map to look for ratting activity, cynosural fields, etc. needs to die in a fire. Make people get out in space and be active to get intelligence. Same goes for local chat.