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Hi,

As a solo and casual industrialist in high sec, i conclude that i'm pushed back to NPC station.

With my current POS set-up i was able to unanchor everything before a wardec kicks in.
I could lose some jobs in the process which was a good risk/rewards ratio.
This is impossible now.
So 700 M +rigs+module cost for the medium becomes way too expensive since i won't be able to defend it with unanchoring delay of 7 days. The investment will pop if any enemy corporation wants it (4 BCs shooting 30 min seems enough (see below posts)).
Including fuel cost (roughly 700M a month) it seems also not interesting for a single guy.

Risk becomes too high, rewards are too low.
I think all solo colleagues will come to the same conclusion.

One question to CCP dev, is it intended to remove solo industrialist from the game?
Or is there something i'm missing?
I'm sure you guys runs all the numbers, so what was the thinking process behind it ?
I'd like to read another dev blog explaining what do you want to do with solo indus.
The current Dev blog when stating for medium ECs:
"This medium sized engineering facility provides an inexpensive way for corporations to build their own base of industrial activities."
is clearly misleading.
As it stands POS remains better for a solo.

Some solutions:

1) is it possible to allow T3 production in NPC station ?
2) Is it possible to remove indexes so at least we can use crowded public engineering complexes (which will be well guarded by big alliance)?
3) is it possible to unanchor medium EC as fast as POS ?
4) create a small size EC able to be unanchored like POS, but not too shabby plz.

Well 3) and 4) do no remove the issue of fuel cost.
So NPC stations still remain more competitive.

You're sort of arbitrarily increasing the investment by almost a full order of magnitude. They're certainly more than a small POS, but no, the minimum is no where near "5b-ish".

There's always going to be an affordability barrier where an organization is just TOO small and TOO casual for a structure to be viable. That's not necessarily a horrible thing.

Bear in mind that the POS model essentially meant that you must have your own structure to take advantage of one. You couldn't feasibly just go use someone else's equipment assembly array to run a few jobs. That's not the case under the new structure model, and it will likely be the case for a lot of tiny organizations that other-people's-structures are the best option for them.

It seems pretty obvious that a shift away from, "This-here is my manufacturing POS where my one-man alt-corp can optimally build anything/everything conceivable," is an intended consequence of this.

The large one must allow Rorqual docking.

Whoever on CCP thought it was a good idea to implement the structure showing when a a super is in build seriously needs to have their employment with the company reconsidered. Like many others, I am a big fan of there being proportional risk to reward, things like having rorquals in teh belt mining, ganglinks being on grid, level 5 mission runners not being unprobe-able, etc, but this is just stupid.
Spies are everywhere, people fly through every system. Under the current meta, you protect your super builds through two ways

1: secrecy. The SSAAs do not have any visual indicator that something is being built, so as long as corp leadership keeps tight lips, no one should know when something is actually in build

2: diversions: by deploying 15+ SSAA decoy pos's, it becomes a guessing game for attackers, not only making it much more annoying to blow up the real one, but making it far more time consuming, providing batphones much more time to get the bats in

Additionally, SSAAs do not show up in local. I'm not advocating for this, but paired with the visual for a titan being built, it makes things FAR, far riskier

The fact that this must have been brought up with the CSM, and didn't draw enough criticism to yield change concerns me. This is a change making it so only a select few super alliances will actually be able to build supers, without paying hefty fees to protection alliances.

So by the look of it lowsec will lose it's building advantage in cap production? getting rid of the thukker component assembly without a good counter part in rig bonus thats sad

I was under the impression that these were going to be one group of structures. Apparently I have not been paying close enough attention. Still, this doesn't mean something couldn't have been said.

Also, WTB rig material lists.

So...what you are saying is that you want to build the most powerful ships in the game in complete safety?

I 100% agree with you, I'm also thinking to do my industry jobs either in a station with proper standing or to do it in an astraus.

Citadel are at least a massive grind that need to be justified by some reason, but a medium complex can be soloed by a single person in a Combat Battlecruiser in 30 minutes (i think)

I agree.
POS [in]vulnerability mechanics works excellent.

So... Can I install Standup Invention Lab I module into Astrahus?