EVE General Discussion

If it's only a small one I'm sure no one will even notice it.

The initial structure devblog answers part of your question. The proposed maintenance costs for the new structures aren't in the blog released today. Bear in mind at FF they stated that these will take a while to roll out and the earliest structures will probably be the only ones released this year. These are very early phase discussions so I'd just keep an eye on blogs/announcements for the time being, participate with questions and feedback, but otherwise carry on with whatever you were planning.

Especially if it lasts for more than four hours.

So we're just done with phrasing, right, that's not a thing anymore?

Okay, wait and see is it.

Just if you're not aware.. you can place any control tower, anywhere in highsec now, without standings.
The only limitation (that I'm currently aware of) is that your corp needs to be more than 7 days old

Thank you!

Been reading the wrong notes, and stuck in a time warp it seems.

There's a difference between something being survivable enough to be practical and it being excessively difficult to destroy them.

POSes being able to equip modules intended to protect them against fleets of capital ships in space where capital ships are inherently cannot be used for offense is fundamentally unbalanced. Particularly considering the low time and isk investment required to set up tower and the near zero risk of losing its contents in highsec versus the fairly expensive fleet, 50+ man hours, severe risk and total lack of reward (due to the ability to remove or trash all POS contents at any time) when attacking it.

The current mechanics make organic conflicts over active POS structures really, really uncommon and when they do exist they're typically carried out by mercenaries which in turn results in carebear whine about faction battleship+logistics fleets and them being horribly outnumbered.

Structure mechanics should give people prizes they want to take and assets worth defending against their rivals and competitors who have similar resources to them. They should not be unassailable fortresses capable of repelling almost anything that can hold billions upon billions of assets with near zero risk of anyone ever being able to harm them.

Being the aggressor in a highsec conflict being too hard is a real problem, it allows merc alliances like mine to monopolize PVP in highsec because we are good at it and that's super unhealthy.

Future highsec structures should be closer to POCOs than towers, people can actually fight over those.

Meh, they will undoubtedly stick in some entosis-link loophole to turn these into huge "come troll me" signs.

It is very important to have content that helps bind people to being a part of this world.

I'd say making everyone have a house in space is a great idea, and sure make it safe, no biggie, it helps get new players in and attached, CCP can always add much more challenging siege PvP so that expert PvPers like yourself can enjoy content.

Having content such as safeish Citadels is an idea along the lines of not letting players lose skillpoints.

CCP changed that, and I think that was a good idea, skill gains are very strongly attached to the character, best to keep them forever.

I'd say make small Citadels safe in high sec, and make the gloriously huge content out in the wilds of space.

Variety for everyone, and a path players can tread as they learn more of EVE.

There's no value at all in something that doesn't actually require effort to have.

If "new players" can just crap out multi-million EHP death stars all over space without there being any reasonable possibility of anyone destroying them then there's no achievement in having one to begin with. Particularly if the thing is able to defend itself without assistance against a 20 man battleship fleet.

One of thing things high security space is in dire need of is points of conflict, which is something new structures can be. It is not in need of more perfectly safe, invulnerable assets. POCOs are a great example of an actually good mechanic, people continuously fight over the rights for them, they're cheap as hell but can't defend themselves, as a result conflicts of various scale happen involving them depending on where they are.

I don't care about me personally having things to shoot at, I've never had problems finding reasons to shoot things. What I'm tired of is nobody but us dedicated PVP people ever having the desire or ability to shoot at things. I want to see carebears reinforcing eachothers POS structures like they occasionally do POCOs.