EVE General Discussion

What are you talking about?

You are wrong. We will be getting more structures to play with. And they will be unlinked. For exsample, right now if i want to make a carrier in wh space, i need a pos that much be fueled an online, i need a x-l ship array, and then i need guns and crap to make sure no one shoots it.

In the new system, i have two choices for making my carrier, i can deploy a citadel and put a x-large ship service moduel into it, and build my ship. OR I can deploy a 'Manufacturing thing' in space, put the x-large service moduel into it, get a bigger bounus and make my carrier. I don;t NEED a citadel to do this.

And there are no faction flavors at this time, as its not relly needed, but diffent structures will have different looks. So the drill platorm (i think) will have a more minmatar feel to it.

In addition, they have not ruled out being able to skin these, so you could add faction colors in the future.

New structures give you MORE sand and tools not less.

I would of course respectfully suggest reading the dev blogs in their entirety. Personally I think this will be good for Eve if done in a realistic fashion. My only worry is cost. I would hate to see a destructible platform have exceedingly high construction costs that negates it's very purpose. I don't want to see it end up like the current POS system where new players / corps / alliances start with unrealistic expectations only to fail and leave behind carcasses orbiting hundreds of moons. But then again, that is how we learn the hard way, by failure.

Someone at CCP thought putting intensively developer resource-consuming stuff in the game would be cool, but neglected to give it a purpose from a game design standpoint. That part will be an afterthought to justify its existence.

This is done often and is the reason for nearly every failed feature the game has, as I am sure you are already aware.


Though it was certainly fun to say it again.

Someone missed that part where POS mech had to be replaced with something less headache-inducing since like 2006.

The point of citadels is to be destroyed.

Enjoy.

CCP can't and won't fix the POS code ("the first Starbase structures were added during the Exodus expansion in 2004"), nor make outposts destructible, so they are trashing it all.

Citadels, the first of the new structures (that basically replace outposts), use the new structure codebase, and allow for new structures and features to be added... plus they can be destructible.

The first dev blog on new structures:
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/back-into-the-structure/

What is a citadel:
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/shake-my-citadel/

Citadel capture and security:
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/citadels-sieges-and-you/
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/i-feel-safe-in-citadel-city/

CCP Ytterbium wrote:

Unlike existing Starbases, you won't need multiple guys to operate the weapons. Those structures will be like ships, so you will only need one guy to control them all. The Starbase Defense Management skill will be reworked into something else or refunded when Starbases are removed.

It's a giant capture node.