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Hir Miriel

Elves In Space

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#1 - 2015-08-16 14:20:32 UTC

Being excited is terribly exciting, and a great way to sell an idea.

But I just can't get excited about citadels.

For me to get aroused, these citadels, these little pieces of Eden, would need to have some sense of proprietorship, be our own little place in space.

Part of that would involve being able to be creative with it. Making a house a home, our citadel our cottage.

That's an emotional attachment I could be attracted to, rather than the fear that some numbies will come along and wreck everything while I'm offline.

And while fear is a powerful motivator, it's not one I enjoy having in games.

I understand that for many the new citadels will be wonderful, but I'm having trouble finding any emotional link.

~ ~~ Thinking inside Schrodinger's sandbox. ~~ ~

Lfod's Ratting and Salvage 392
Lfod Shi Lfod's Ratting and Salvage Likes received: 392	#2 - 2015-08-16 14:22:39 UTC 4 I just want a medium place to call my own. No guests allowed! pffft! ♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫

Sunshine and Lollipops 27,526
Tippia Sunshine and Lollipops Likes received: 27,526	#3 - 2015-08-16 14:23:36 UTC 4 The many threads that keep popping up on the same topic. That's always exciting.

Hir Miriel

Elves In Space

Likes received: 377

#4 - 2015-08-16 14:33:44 UTC

Tippia wrote:

The many threads that keep popping up on the same topic.
That's always exciting.

I'm not a fan of these forums, so I don't keep tabs on the niceties of post management here.

For issues like Citadels, which feel like a missed opportunity, then I think it's important to tell CCP what I think. As far as I know these forums are the way to do that. My apologies for being one of many people who post that way, I do try to be as unboring as possible.

~ ~~ Thinking inside Schrodinger's sandbox. ~~ ~

Alavaria Fera

GoonWaffe

Likes received: 6,953

#5 - 2015-08-16 14:57:54 UTC

Hir Miriel wrote:

That's an emotional attachment I could be attracted to, rather than the fear that some numbies will come along and wreck everything while I'm offline.

And while fear is a powerful motivator, it's not one I enjoy having in games.

Sit in an NPC station and RP as an npc.

I hear that 5z has cheap shipping from highsec

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?

Mercur Fighter

Aliastra

Gallente Federation

Likes received: 9

#6 - 2015-08-16 15:44:30 UTC | Edited by: Mercur Fighter

Hir Miriel wrote:

I think the new citadels are great, because right now structure bashing is one of the most boring aspects of Eve. It's worse than mining, ratting, or mission running.

With the new structure system, perhaps players will look forward to killing structures. Because they will be generating juicy kill mails, a pile of frozen corpses, and loot.

Perhaps now capitals and supercaps will be relevant again, and they will be used to generate structure kill mails.

It seems like killing the new XL Citadels will generate a kill mail that's equivalent to killing a Titan.

Alavaria Fera

GoonWaffe

Likes received: 6,953

#7 - 2015-08-16 17:04:13 UTC

Mercur Fighter wrote:

It seems like killing the new XL Citadels will generate a kill mail that's equivalent to killing a Titan.

Entosising current structures just makes them disappear, with no killmail.

Okami Syndicate 3,673
Akirei Scytale Okami Syndicate Likes received: 3,673	#8 - 2015-08-16 17:38:55 UTC 4 PRO: A better POS system that removes a large number of headaches and allows docking. CON: It uses the Entosis Link bullshittery that will almost certainly get me to give up on WH space if it remains in its same sorry state by the time citadels come around.

Starbuck05

Abiding Ormolus

Likes received: 357

#9 - 2015-08-16 17:50:17 UTC

Akirei Scytale wrote:

PRO: A better POS system that removes a large number of headaches and allows docking.

CON: It uses the Entosis Link bullshittery that will almost certainly get me to give up on WH space if it remains in its same sorry state by the time citadels come around.

Pretty much what she said .

I mean it would be nice .. if you-re in w-space to live from a Citadel instead of a POS , just seems more comfortable ... but on the other hand .. constantly worrying about vulnerability timers and random wizzards coming along waving they-re wand at your Castle seems rather ... meh ...

Just because i am blond does not make me stoopid !

The Scope Gallente Federation 34
solrac lara The Scope Gallente Federation Likes received: 34	#10 - 2015-08-16 18:03:19 UTC THEY ARE100 KM WIDE IMAGINE HAVING YOU OWN DEATH STAR !!!!!!1111


Tippia Sunshine and Lollipops Likes received: 27,526	#11 - 2015-08-16 18:07:57 UTC solrac lara wrote: THEY ARE100 KM WIDE IMAGINE HAVING YOU OWN DEATH STAR !!!!!!1111 That's a very tiny Death Star…

solrac lara

The Scope

Gallente Federation

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#12 - 2015-08-16 18:10:14 UTC | Edited by: solrac lara

Tippia wrote:

solrac lara wrote:

THEY ARE100 KM WIDE IMAGINE HAVING YOU OWN DEATH STAR !!!!!!1111

That's a very tiny Death Star…

If im not wrong the first deathstar was 120 kms wide while the second one was 160 kms not as big and there is also the fact that the deathstar is a sphere while the citadels are i dont know squares or something like that but its a start Blink

Tippia

Sunshine and Lollipops

Likes received: 27,526

#13 - 2015-08-16 18:13:44 UTC

solrac lara wrote:

Tippia wrote:

solrac lara wrote:

THEY ARE100 KM WIDE IMAGINE HAVING YOU OWN DEATH STAR !!!!!!1111

That's a very tiny Death Star…

If im not wrong the first deathstar was 120 kms wide while the second one was 160 kms not as big but its a start Blink

Wookiepedia quotes them at 160 and 900 km respectively, and as we all know, the internet is always right.

Eli Apol

Definitely a nullsec alt

Likes received: 649

#14 - 2015-08-16 20:05:04 UTC

Alavaria Fera wrote:

Hir Miriel wrote:

Sit in an NPC station and RP as an npc.

I hear that 5z has cheap shipping from highsec

"...existing NPC stations and outposts (before we nuke them that is)"

Love me a goon that doesn't read the devblogs and then spams the forums :)

but what would I know, I'm just a salvager


Alavaria Fera GoonWaffe Likes received: 6,953	#15 - 2015-08-16 20:15:34 UTC 1 the npcs will get citadels but they won't be destoyable by us Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?

stoicfaux

Likes received: 6,283

#16 - 2015-08-16 20:30:22 UTC

Tippia wrote:

solrac lara wrote:

Tippia wrote:

solrac lara wrote:

THEY ARE100 KM WIDE IMAGINE HAVING YOU OWN DEATH STAR !!!!!!1111

That's a very tiny Death Star…

If im not wrong the first deathstar was 120 kms wide while the second one was 160 kms not as big but its a start Blink

Wookiepedia quotes them at 160 and 900 km respectively, and as we all know, the internet is always right.

Let's see, we know how wide the Death Star trench is because we know the size of an X-Wing (Mark Hamill's size and the close up of Luke and X-Wing on Dagobah) and since we know the Death Star is a sphere, we can determine the radius/diameter of the Death star based on the size of the trench (i.e. how many trenches "tall" is the Death Star,) so that means...

/nerdgasm

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.


Alavaria Fera GoonWaffe Likes received: 6,953	#17 - 2015-08-17 03:03:14 UTC 1 But really they're not that exciting, was that what you were fishing for, basically? Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?

CODE.d 6,149
Arthur Aihaken CODE.d Likes received: 6,149	#18 - 2015-08-17 03:12:12 UTC 3 Entosis links. Can't you feel the excitement? I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.

Sigma Special Tactics Group 8,697
Herzog Wolfhammer Sigma Special Tactics Group Likes received: 8,697	#19 - 2015-08-17 05:05:09 UTC 2 Citadels man. Catapults and boiling oil and stuff. Bring back DEEEEP Space!