EVE General Discussion

That's precisely what a sane operator of a Citadel, especially and Astrahaus, would have on standby during the vulnerability windows and with an active War Dec. I'd never put one up betting that I'd get lucky and have it just stay unmolested all the time. The War Dec is crucial though and those have some alert/aware time before they engage, unless you're talking about Lo/Null where the War Dec is unnecessary, then the Citadel has to be manned for defense during every vulnerability window... and that means a stationed fleet.



I think the idea would be to have small gangs find them in WH space and attack them. I'm not sold on that idea being right though. Too many in known space to attack and deal with, why bother with WH space?

Now, on the flip side, the Astrahaus would be the perfect bait option for those small gangs. They come in, attack, and a host of defenders boil out of the Citadel like an anthill, pointing and wiping them off the face of New Eden. That would chill the small gangs fervor for the tactic.

CCP has been pushing players to move into citadels by making NPC stations more expensive, so if CCP makes insurance a citadel service module that requires fuel to run (like the market and clone service modules) then you can expect CCP to either make the cost of insurance in a citadel cheaper, or to increase the cost of insurance in an NPC station. To compensate, I'd expect CCP to direct some cost of insurance in a citadel towards the owner of the citadel.

Oh, Demica, I thought of another way citadels are better options than NPC stations, a way that I don't make much use of so had forgotten - refine rates at nearly 90%. (I think some fleetmates were saying they're getting 87.5% refine or something like that?) Plus, you can have a clone that has expensive, high-end implants for refining and don't need to worry about losing it since you can instantly swap clones in a citadel without any cooldowns.