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You will likely find they are in the same state once outposts become citadels - I doubt Devs will be changing how office rental works. So if your stuff is impounded now - It should be after the change.

Worst case, it will all be moved to asset safety and you'll need to pay to get it back but that is unlikely...

SO now we have a dev blog confirming this stupid change is going to take place. CCP has mastered the art of ignoring player feedback. Congratulations on ******* over most of nullsec.

I once thought it would be cool to have destructible stations and have the possibility to even loot them when destroying them. Also - null sec everywhere, no rules, new players can join one player alliance and that's it, no safety anywhere. As it is the case in real-world wars. I thought it would be cool and realistic to have that in a game. I see now I was naive.

Problem: a game is a game, and players in game do not react as people do irl. Maybe they do not even want to be forced to do that when playing a game. Players react as players - and players are known to burn everything around them just for fun, because it's a game, it's not irl, and that's how it should be. But because of this, the game becomes even more of a trolling game than it already is. Fozziesov added magic wand trolling, now - if there are no invulnerable stations, even more trolling will be possible.

"Let's just burn all Astrahus to troll the industry high-sec carebears, we don't care how much we lose, it's a game". And this will become the game of trolls, with fewer and fewer players really getting involved in the game - the MMORPG side of it. If you try to make a game "real" you cannot, by it's nature it is a game, you will end up with a trolling game, nobody will respect anything because of fear, or because of other things that make people keep the balance irl.

A game world cannot be kept "safe' by what keeps the real world "safe" (and stops us destroying ourselves with nuclear bombs for fun). That is why developers have to create artificial rules (like high-sec instant police), if they want to have a game world at all.

I don't entirely understand, does this upcoming structure transition affect hisec as well, and does this mean that the towers and structures my corp has bought and launched will be wasted?

So we currently have 69 “Immensea” Conquerable NPC Stations to be converted to Ultra Shiney Faction Fortizars
And 1335 [Total number built] Player build Outposts that will be converted to Shiney Faction Fortizars

All of which will be 1 of a kind, [ never to be made available again .... ever ] unanchorable prizes.

Can not wait to see the mad land grab to "claim rights" to these stations (especially the "Immensea" stations)
Just in time to claim them for day or so before the changes for the sole purpose of scooping them up the next.
Just to be sold, traded and horded as shiney bobbles by the stupidly space rich .01%



My .02 cents to CCP
Perhaps at some point in time between now and the upcoming changes you pick a random, untold, day to lock those stations down to their current owners.
If not, there is going to be a lot less places to call home in 0.0 as stations are carted away to be sold off.

But of course, that will never happen because stuff getting blown up is what pays the bills after all.

Thank you very much, Nasar Vyron, I'll inform my corp members that the towers will need to come down, and the equipment out there, or will the towers and arrays still function?
And are they doing the buy back on BPOs? Because we spent a lot on the Astrahus, EC, tower and array BPOs and all.
And please tell me it's optional because i'll not trade them if i can still use them.

I think that if they are removing the towers they should reduce the requirements to build a new EC because that's affordable for upstart corps founded by new players with barely anything, so they'll now have to start with an EC intead.

so what becomes of my drug lab , Structures like it, and all arrays?

Well thank you very much Nasar Vyron, o7.

I tried to skim through to find this answer without luck, but what happens to our outpost control towers, defensive anchorables, etc?

What happens with the current Outpost Eggs? Do we get reimbursed for them? Will they be converted to rigless faction Fortizars? Why allow outpost eggs to be built still if they cannot otherwise be planted?