Two questions:

What will the cyno inhibitor cost (roughly)?

What happens to a cyno that is already up when the cyno inhibitor activates?

Do we know if NPCs will agro onto tractor structures?

So how do we get these new structures? I didn't see any mention of BPC dropping or seeding or any other distribution technique mentioned in the Devblog?

So if I complete a site and drop a tractor unit, will it continue to function while I warp to station and grab a noctis?

That's a great addition to the game, almost as important as modular POSes (almost :p), so good work

But I got a few questions :
1- I understand the mechanic and meaning behind the mobile depot, but what was exactly the goal behind the two days timer ?
No fuel needed, no cargo 'lock' during reinforcement, no control over exit reinforcment time... Don't you think that the defender is (too) heavily favorised ?So heavily that nobody would ever bother shooting the structures ? The absence of structure lock in reinforcement also means that if a player, in the middle of a fight, drops a mobile depot, you just have no ways to prevent him from using it. Apart from killing him of course

2- Along with the "why would we bother shooting it" is also the question of how long will the depot stay between 0 and 25% shields ?

3- Is there a mail to warn the defender about his depot being attacked ?

4- Are NPCs shooting the depot and any other new deployable structure in general ? EDIT : Answered : NO.

What I'd like to see for a future re-kit of Mobile Warp Disruptors, if possible, would be to work with this new "drag and drop" system, and then have a menu option allowing corp/alliance mates to scoop it later if they so choose (so that you can deploy it quickly, but also don't have to be there to pick it up again). I understand the allowance of others to scoop it is less relevant for t1 smalls, but if I decide to anchor a t2 large on a gate to screen a mining op and I have to log, I don't want to lose my t2 large just because no one else can pick it up again.

Shouldn't all of these deployables require "Anchoring I" trained at the least? They are, after all, being anchored in space. This would also disallow Trial Accounts from using them, which is a Good Thing(TM).

There seems to be a pretty big dichotomy to the way defense of a depot is handled compared to the defense of a mining POS.

From the patch notes, it seems like a depot owner will be able to scoop a reinforced Depot, then immediately re-plonk it to refresh the timer and put all his stuff back in. In essence, as long as you log in once every two days, your mobile depot and the stuff within is Perfectly Safe.

So for Mobile Depots, being "active" enough to defend your depot perfectly means once every two days.

Compare this to the attention needed to defend a Mining POS from siphons. Where the amount of attention needed by the owner to perfectly defend the POS is every time a siphoning alt logs in. This can be once every day, this can be whenever the siphoner feels like it, it is utterly unpredictable, and thanks to "waste" from a siphon, even if the owner checks on the POS before the siphoner returns, he still loses money.

so, the activity time to defend something that
-costs 1 mil
-no upkeep
-anchors in 45 seconds
-requires no skills
-can be anchored anywhere
-needs to be probed down

is 2 days

The activity time needed to defend something that
-costs upwards of a billion
-requires ~350 mil in fuel a month
-anchored at set locations, requires hours to fully anchor
-requires anchoring skills
-requires owner to assemble a fleet to defend

is however much a siphoner wants to log in and drop a siphon.

What happens if the mobile depot is getting shot while it's anchoring. Does it go into reinforced ?

These things are functionally unkillable--and not even worth destroying in the first place.

CCP Fozzie, can you answer my questions? Can a pilot flagged as criminal use a depot? Will doing so be considered evading CONCORD as all the assets used in the gank are not subject to CONCORD destruction?

The tractor Beam unit, can it be opened by anyone? Pilot only? Corp? Fleet? Shooting grants suspect as mentioned, but is it steal-capable?

What happens to a cyno that is already up when the cyno inhibitor activates?

Does the fitting service works if the ship has less than 25% shield or during RF?

I mean, every once in a greeeeeat while, you'll catch somebody onlining a POS. You know, a large structure, immobile, and also (unlike the yurts) at a default warp-in accessible from the drop down menu. POSes also have onlining timers of somewhere between 7 1/2 and 60 minutes or so. It's extremely rare despite all of these, and when it does happen it's usually because the POS was being put up in a populated area (read: warzone).


So...yeah. 1-minute onlining timers. Gonna be loads of yurts blown up during that time period. Oh yeah. Loads.

Does this mean I should bug report fitting services working during reinforcement?

Because, as of last night, it was doable on SISI.

I'd like to ask if the rumor is true. That the mobile tractor is a signal CCP is ready to return to the dominance of BS jetcan mining. That CCP is ready to return to its original concept of a 100% PVP game with economic factors forcing most player activity into nullsec or wh. And that the era of special non-combat ships like mining barges as practical ships is over except in deepest sovereign terrorities under heavy guard.

That soon the only legimate player corp activities in hi sec will be enforcing Empire sovereignty as part of faction militia -- mission vs NPC rats or faction bountied players and player corps. That Empire NPC corps finally exert their faction sovereignty and have CONCORD flag any miner that is not part of correct NPC corp with criminal bounty for mining faction owned roids and ice -- cumulative bounties of 10% of what is mined. Similar for missioning and exploriing Empire resource sites. Rookie NPC corp taxing at 35% and player holding corps taxing at 50-60% for mining faction roids and ice. That CONCORD will be dissovled.


Please Please Please tell me its time to cry Havoc and loose the dogs of unending PVP war. No one should play who does not have a wardec state wherever they go ....except sovereignty conquered player territory.

Is the reinforcement timer on mobile depots affected by tidi?