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Actually I believe CCP have gone back on making your current ship & pod getting blown up on Citadel destruction.
Because they realised how stupid it was to be safer logging off in open space than inside a citadel.

And you can remove Citadels, they are not 'permanent' like Outposts. It just takes time and they get a vulnerability window at the end of the removal process where anyone can come shoot them.

Never assume any BPO will be reimbursed or converted to a new item.
CCPs stance repeatedly has been "youve gotten use out of it" as a reason for lack of reimbursement.

There is, however, an extremely good reason for this stance. It levels the playing field for the new mechanic.
While it may seem unfair to lose all of the hard work and time it would be even more unfair to newer players to release a system and then make them compete directly against perfect BPOs.

Look at the character creation date. I've been listening to it for a while... nm.. this isnt my main.. HE"s been around for a long while.

Understandable point of view.. but in CCPs case they take the lesser of two evils.
If they provided market cost then they would have to establish what market cost was.. are we talking peak value, 6 month value, that one expansion in 2006 value? It rapidly becomes an opinion piece that will never satisfy a significant portion of the player base.
Additionally if you convert that value to isk and materials you create other major problems. What if I just finished training the BPO to max? Is it fair I get full value compared to a guy who maxed it out 5 years ago? The same applies to minerals as it does to leveling the playing field. A sudden infusion of wealth as reimbursement can never be balanced enough to not be unfair to a majority. This is why the logical and fair thing to do is just say "you've gotten use" and remove them.

Even consider for a moment.. You mention people leaving the game over a lost item in this manner.. Statistically consider that while that is a sad case and rather extreme it is still a very insignificant majority of the player base affected by the change.

First rule of Dev Work or GM Work... Do what gives you the least amount of hate mail.

Mainly because POSes are terrible pieces of **** that are complicated to manage for players and have a horrendous mess of legacy code and should have been replaced years ago.

The better question is why the new Structure sizes and costs don't line up very well with the sizes POSes come in.

I have a small concern with the deployment of the citadels: The current version of having the 3D mesh with the interior structure of the citadel showing translucent in the placement process is in my opinion nothing but a useless fancy. Judging by the video footage available of the placement of an M Citadel, it is hard to discern what is what on the structure even on that "small" version of it, especially where the undocks are or where they face.

Instead of this useless fancy, I would like to see clear and more opaque mesh that really only shows the outer shell of the structure and undocks displayed in a different color or some other means to highlight where they are, and in addition their undock direction indicated with arrows.

He's referring to being able to get out of a ship for short periods of time, which otherwise cannot dock - tethering doesn't apply to unmanned ships in the way it has been described. This is completely different to existing mechanics.

better yet, why isnt this stuff released yet? ive seen this crap on the forums for MONTHS now.

Also, does this satisfy replacing all outposts as well?

Perhaps L's and XL's might be better purposed and a break-downable outpost that can be flipped with entosis, but if the enemy flips it, your stuff is required to be shipped out, or you pick it up someplace else for that 15% fee.

Why the huge push for rediculous killmails? congrats.. you killed the XL.. now theres no more outposts. If you wnat to hold this system, you need to build something fast.

You want to set up what? How many cap's are limited in a medium structure tether?

these objects have been in demand for years. not months years. Yah i went to mcdonalds and pre ordered a bigmac for 3 months from now. so no, since the last few years of mostly no new updates, no it doesnt take THAT long to code some new buildings.