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).

You forgot the range links that are vital to letting everyone anchor off the orca and drop directly into its Fleet Hanger while still being able to reach 90% of the belt.

Converting the existing MWDs over to this new system

So if I want to kill a <1 million ISK deployable structure i need to shoot it, wait 48 hours, and hope that I come back within 10 minutes of it starting to regen its shields?

That's absurd. Space will be littered with them because they will just not be worth the coordination and effort to take down. They should require some tending to be capable of recharging their shields, and have a 24h reinforcement timer at the maximum.

What is the duration of the mobile hangar in terms of lifetime?

So if I want to kill a <1 million ISK deployable structure i need to shoot it, wait 48 hours, and hope that I come back within 10 minutes of it starting to regen its shields?

That's absurd. Space will be littered with them because they will just not be worth the coordination and effort to take down. They should require some tending to be capable of recharging their shields, and have a 24h reinforcement timer at the maximum.

The Anchoring skill is required for the two most advanced of these structures (the Cyno Inhib and Siphon). The Depot and Tractor Unit are intended to be fairly entry level so they do not require skills to deploy.

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.

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.

You know to the second when it will come out of reinforcement.

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

Taking one down, as the mechanics exist today, is a giant pain in the ass for no real gain.

I think that's the point. If they're supposed to facilitate guerilla warfare, they need to be hard to get rid of.

That's fine, but they cost under a million ISK. Even if you go through all the effort of removing one, it's completely and utterly meaningless because they're so easy to replace. Hell, why bother even storing them for the long term? Just bring them out whenever you go roaming, drop it when you need it, and scoop it when you're done. Or just leave it in the off chance you don't have one later.

I can easily see space being absolutely littered with these .