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Would these be better sold as BPC from NPC's then? It would be a constant isk sink but you would have no way of getting a better researched copy?

Please consider adding Hydrogen batteries to the Component fuel block, those items have hardly any use, besides t2 shield extenders.

5 years should do it....

Will these citadels in any way make use of the high-tech items found in the data sites? Seems to me like an opportune moment! I quote :

Reactions aren't likely to exist in the same form that they do now. Same for moon minerals. I wouldn't think too hard about it at this juncture.

thats my biggest concern here as rigs are usually a fair chunk of a fully fitted ship as it is, surely there are enough worthless salvage components that could be used as the bulk for the new rigs instead.

Copy time or cost probably should be changed - I think copy time is the big outlier here. You have some idea of how many of these structures you expect will exist but my guess is a few dozen at most in the first year. You shouldn't be able to make many more bpcs than structures intended to be deployed. You need a bpc market of course - not every null alliance can be expected to put up 700b to get their foot in the door - but you've got to have it so the bpcs any one bpo can produce are some fraction of expected demand. With a base build time of 30 days, I'd set copy time to at least 30 days and probably much more - unlike supercapitals, there is no need for you to copy this bpo to produce with it safely. You can produce in-station off the bpo itself so copy time can be a freebie for when the bpo is not in use and can be longer than the production time, even several multiples of it without it being a big problem for the market.

The bpo cost of these is 10x what a titan bpo costs, the bpc copy time is ~1/6th of a titan bpo copy time, and most titan bpcs are pretty cheap. Leviathans are the only one where the bpo isn't glutted but even those run only 1-2b each.

I'd probably make it a several month base copy time so that you get people buying the bpos initially so they can get a leg up on deploying them and use of the bpo is tilted more towards manufacturing than copying. At a minimum producing them and copying them should be roughly the same time or at a minimum at the ratio of t2 bpos. Copying in 1/6th of the time to build it seems way, way off.

on the other hand, your large citidel is like a million times more useful than your pos with weak-ass weapons, easy theft, and the like which is why you're desperate to deploy one

edit: and bad reprocessing, bad interface, no market, i mean the list goes on, you're getting a gigantic gift that vastly improves wormhole life to the tune of what is essentially an outpost and you're complaining about the cost of building a freighter? we've been paying 20b+ for the features you're getting at 9b (including the freighter).

Regarding freighter requirements in wormholes, remember that, with sufficient trust, you only need one freighter for an unlimited number of deployed citadels.

It also puts a measure of security for your wormhole, as enemies attempting to set up inside your hole will have to anchor a medium to build their OWN freighter.

Thx, I'll try not to panic too much.