Currently you can scoop the mobile depot and redeploy it fully operational, even if it is in reinforced. I tested that on Sisi.

I kept trying to imagine CCP's thought process behind this but every time I did I came to the conclusion that there was no thought process.

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

Salvage drones ^^

You just solved your own problem by the end of the sentence. Good job.

If it's not worth the hassle, don't do it.

Explain to me why there should be invincible anything in this game.

They aren't invincible. Just a pain to kill. You already identified what you need to do to kill them.

Excellent, but a couple of points?

1: Mobile Depot that is in reinforced mode can be scooped and then immediately redeployed at full? Or no? If so, that's a problem.

2: Perhaps it would be better if when exiting reinforced mode with zero shields that there is zero shield regen until the shield is repaired to +25% by someone, or the base is scooped and then redeployed after a suitable amount of time has passed. Actually, I think it would be best if they simply didn't regenerate at all until repaired above 25% period, even after being redeployed.

I do find it strange that there is no loss in functionality when in reinforced mode though. I would have thought the fitting service would go offline at least.....

Maybe the idea here is that those darned goons can't blob my depot. I'm only a single player and blobbing my depot is unfair when I set it up in their spa--

Damn. Their space. The space they fought for. The space they own. The space where they're supposed to get advantages such as fitting services for owning. The space that's only livable because they make the effort to keep undesirables out of it. The space that suddenly is worth a whole lot less because just anyone can come in and set up shop making ISK in the space they made the effort to take and spent the ISK to upgrade while I'm bumming off their work basing out of an unkillable structure.

I know you mean Mobile Warp Disruptor because of context, but this is why we players call them "bubbles"

Depots will decay 30 days after the owner last interacts with it

Maybe the idea here is that those darned goons can't blob my depot. I'm only a single player and blobbing my depot is unfair when I set it up in their spa--

Damn. Their space. The space they fought for. The space they own. The space where they're supposed to get advantages such as fitting services for owning. The space that's only livable because they make the effort to keep undesirables out of it. The space that suddenly is worth a whole lot less because just anyone can come in and set up shop making ISK in the space they made the effort to take and spent the ISK to upgrade while I'm bumming off their work basing out of an unkillable structure.

I do want the depot to be a thing that works, it's just too good for the owner as it is, as I see it. But it does have to be skewed a bit in the defender's favour for the soloer to have a chance against the big guys, right?

Can it be improved like this?

Make the shield recharge slower, give it a one-or-two-hour window to destroy it. Have it so a cruiser or Bantam repping will get it to 25% shield in a timeframe of minutes. Put the structure mail back on, it encourages fights. That way, the attacker has a good window, and the defender has a good chance of saving it. And you have a better chance of both being at the same place at the same time.

Maybe the timer is randomised slightly. The defender knows the correct time the structure comes out, but the attacker has a margin of error.

And don't let players scoop the thing while it's reinforced. Continue to allow them to refit or take items out. They can refit to a combat setup or extract their most valuable stuff if they expect overwhelming force.

Ideally the defender can save their most valuable stuff in the worst-case scenario, but the attackers can remove the intruder from their space for a time by blowing up their base?

I don't think CCP intends these to be the object of fights, but the facilitators of other fights.

Then maybe make them worth fighting over.

Why bother taking sov, setting up a starbase or using a carrier for refitting or storing items? You can use this thing for no risk, as long as you check it once a day or just scoop it when you don't need it!

We will of course be watching how all these structures are used and adjusting accordingly, but remember there are already "structures" you can drop in high security space that are even more difficult to kill and similarly worthy of destruction (anchored containers).

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.