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I would love to see a few things that we have with other structures, that we don't have with the Upwell Structures.

1. Set standings for auto attack when a neutral or negative standings person comes within docking radius of the structure. Just like a POS. The target gets scrammed, webbed, and fired upon if they get near a pos with those mods installed. Structures they can't do that.

2. When will I be able to search my assets in Citadel? I virtually live out of nothing but citadels in 0.0, but I have to search manually for anything I keep there. I can't just type it in the search box and it only bring up the structure that item type is in. I can do it for stations, but I can't do it on Upwell structures.

3. I would like to see turrets of different sizes and types for Upwell Structures. We could put 3 different sizes of guns, or missle launchers on POS's but we can only put missiles on structures. Guns are an instant hit, but missiles have flight time.

4. Increase the amount of armaments allowed to be installed in the high slots of Upwell Structures. For example, the keepstar bash in M-0EE8.. Other that time dilation and the DD killing some dreads. It was pretty boring.. I would like the structure to be more defensive. They are pretty toothless right now.

The key problem with Upwell structures, IMO, is the lack of incentive for players to attack them.

Attack someone's POS and you usually get nothing or nearly nothing, but you can get the occasional lucky 10 billion ISK loot haul (or, in one case I know of, a 35b+ haul). This creates a strong incentive to engage POSes, and for the defender to actively defend them.

Attack someone's Raitaru and you are guaranteed nearly nothing. Plus it takes a good deal more effort to kill it. The defender doesn't lose all that much either, and so will often ignore the attack.

The only reason to attack a structure is to **** in someone else's bucket. This is sometimes fun, but isn't in line with most of EVE where content drivers exist.

My suggestions:

- Change the safety tax from 10% to 25%.
- Give the attacking entity 80% of this tax. (How you determine which attackers get this may be a difficult call).

That simple change will result in citadels (other than a handful in Perimeter) becoming conflict drivers.

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Second point.

Market citadels have accelerated trade centralization in New Eden.

14 months ago we had 5 trade hubs with >1T in sell orders.

Of those Hek and Rens are totally gone, Dodixie is dying, and Amarr is sick.

Present mechanics centralize trade in Perimeter/Jita to an extent that, IMO, has gone too far. This has in turn centralized highsec activity in the Forge region (and I have a good sense of this from doing medium scale production and noting system indicies, which gives me a sense of gamewide industrial activity - I represent about 0.06% of gamewide production activity, which peaked at about 0.20% when I took on major production contracts for Burn Jita).

I don't have the solution here but I think sales tax should scale with a system trade index.

Player made insurance policies would be cool. Would address the issue of underpaid insurance policies for T2/T3 and open up for a whole new world of scamming. Like, my insurance policies would have lots of confusing fine print that basically made it so that I only cover acts of CCP. Or Bob.

Your question about corps and upwell structures lacks the answer; "we already own one" ;)

And the one I missed; My friends already own one.

Simple idea to deal with abandoned citadels.

No fuel = no tether, no RF timer, always vulnerable, no damage cap, no asset safety.

Yeah, I agree with this as well, especially since something like an Astrahaus has such a small window of vulnerability, a window completely set by the owner.

What I would really really like to have on all Upwell structures is a biography page editable by the structure administrator.

The hideous titles a lot of structures have ought to be on a bio page and could be done a lot better there. Likewise a lot of things currently on a structure owner's corp description page don't really belong there.

Notifications of Structure services offlining and unanchoring & reinforced would be nice. I can undock and see these things but notifications would be nice.

"However, that has not happened"... meaning you don't think salvage prices have increased and more people are salvaging? I dunno. Not ALL salvage has increased a lot in value, but some t1/orange salvage that used to be near worthless (Contaminated Lorentz, IIRC?) have certainly risen a good deal.

I know someone who builds citadel rigs and is constantly trying to get more and more salvagers to sell their salvage to him directly rather than keep selling it as usual in trade hubs.

As a person who loves to salvage, I'm doing my part to fulfill the demand for more salvage. Buyers need to raise the price they're willing to pay to encourage even more to jump on board and start salvaging more.

Oh, and plz, more t2 ships dying in Amarr/Ashab/Mad/Niarja, I would love to whip up some more blue salvage in between generating orange salvage!

Way to contribute to the discussion. Really valid. Really on topic. Good job.

If the benchmark is antimatter rather than plutonium... um... I've got millions of rounds of ammo that are fueled by antimatter. It's so cheap and so unregulated in-game a toddler could get hold of it. So, I guess we'll take this as official confirmation that reactions are going to be allowed in highsec now. You heard it here folks, thanks Steve!