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As I understand the changes the new Citadels will eventually replace POSes and POSes will be removed from the game.

Currently if someone wanted to, for example, compress ore in high sec they would probably use a small POS tower and a compression array along with a little fuel. A small POS tower and compression array would cost somewhere in the region of 100 million ISK plus the negligible fuel cost to compress a billion ISK worth of ore.

If in the new system a medium sized Citadel has to be used to complete the same task the outlay will be six BILLION ISK plus costs of additional modules and maybe rigs as well instead of the previous 100 million ISK initial outlay.

So my question is will there be a new structure type other than Citadels to complete tasks such as compression of ore in high sec systems

If not I suppose the alternatives are to either allow compression as a service in NPC stations or allow the Rorqual to operate in high sec systems. Unfortunately both of these alternatives come with obvious problems. So I would suggest a new type of smaller structure needs to developed to complete compression of ore in high sec systems.

Too many people are scared about the cost of the Citadel compared to a small POS (as in just using a compression or maybe some invention etc.). This is NOT the main fucntion of a Citadel. The other new structure will handle that at prolly a fraction of the cost of a Citadel. Like the Mobile Drilling station (or whatever the name was) will handle compresseion of ore and aid mining way more than a Citadel. Yes these structures wont be coming now but neither are the POSes going anywhere so just contunie using them.

What i would like to know, are the POS batteries (guns/ecm and so on) going to maybe be convertd to Citadel guns? Maybe keep the better stats? I know you said that no faction modules will be as of yet, but later on?

Also the cost of the BPOs are not going to really matter, if even just a cuople would be bought now, after a year or so there are so many copies that the prices will be stable. Tou the X-L might be still pretty exotic :)

it only takes 30 minuts with a few friends and you stand to lose 70+ billion isk. I am sure i can get 40 friends to spend an hour of Eve 3 times a week to do that no problem

I can't actually tell if you're boasting or complaining, but in the latter case, you can blame the wormhole community for that being the case. Asset safety was originally going to apply to wormholes.

The dev blog price for a medium citadel is stated as six billion ISK and not 600 million. If it was 600 million I wouldn't have raised this issue.

I could afford a Rorqual but the Rorqual cannot be used currently in high sec. I would not advocate the use of the Rorqual in high sec either with its current stats as that would further collapse the ore/mineral prices.

Relatively new pilots and probably many others would not be able to gather six billion up to access compression in high sec. I am asking for CCP to retain a reasonable, in terms of ISK cost, method of compression and increased reprocessing yield as we currently have with the POS system in high sec systems.

Buy a BPC for cheap and build it for 600 mil

Ugh. I really daft now. Apologies to all for my mistakes there. So it will be more expensive to do than currently but not that much more. Problem solved then on that one. Wasted my time typing didn't I .

Good thing the estimated price is more than twice this.

Please reconsider needing a freighter to deploy large citadels. There are existing capitals in many low class wormhole systems. Once POS' go away those pilots will either be trapped in their ships, have to self destruct or have to build a land locked freighter, all ofcwhich seem rather burdensome. Alternatively lower class wormholes could be enlargerd to allow freighters through.

You can fit a Large in an Orca, which will be cheaper than a freighter (and if you do any mining, you probably already have an Orca or Rorqual).

Any group who have capitals in a C1 should be able to handle the cost of an Orca (or even a Freighter) to set up a large, especially considering the Medium can then be pulled down and sold for almost no loss (or even a net gain if you buy with Buys and sell with Sells).

As for it being a one-use thing, it's only a one-use set-up if you never have your sandcastle knocked over.

Edit :: With so many people complaining about the need for an Orca or Freighter to launch a Large, I'm tempted to resub my Orca pilot (when Citadels are released) for cartage and set-up of Large Citadels in peoples' C2's and C3's. A service where the character would join their corp temporarily and would haul the Citadel into the hole and launch it at the desired location, then leave the hole and move on to the next group. This would require more trust than most wormholers are willing to give, though.