Starbase defence (with guns control) and flying ships inside the forcefield (because cannot dock) don't seem to have replacement since Mooring means no pilot inside and docking means ship spinning and no view of space.

What are the plans for these ?

Very interesting, I foresee a major logistics effort to replace all structures though, if I understood it correctly we would have to replace them with the new things?

Also looking forward on more details about the mooring system, the radius things and of course if this might mean we will be seeing supercaps for sale on the market.

Imagining an outpost gets destroyed, and all the content and stuff gets ejected into space for the owner to scoop within the time, could a massive amount of canisters affect lag or similar with many thousands of new objects in space?

/c

Have you decided how ownership will work on an ongoing basis?

For example, if we launch a new structure and set it for corporation/alliance use, can a spy with the appropriate roles then come along and set it for personal or public use? If set for public use who can change it back again; anyone?

How would unanchoring structures work? I'm especially thinking for structures where players and dock or moor ships.

Really excited about the proposed changes, really happy good work!!

Some questions:

How fuel will be used and which types used with which structure?

The size of ships needed to deploy the XL Stations?

edit: Will it be possible to transfer the new structures, in a similar way to POCO's?

I think this direction is a vast improvement and I am looking forward to its development.

Three things I'm worried about:

1. What is my extensive pos blueprint collection going to be good for?

2. The datacore thing. I don't really see the point. Why do you think it needs change?

3. How am I supposed to deal with the fact that a french accent is going to trigger a sizeable nerdboner for the foreseeable future?

Don't **** this up please, the implications on many other game systems are massive

I love almost everything about these ideas -- good work! I can't wait to play around with some of these structures.

That said, I have a few reservations based on what's been presented so far:

With some of the examples for assembly arrays or research laboratories, there aren't entries listed for the smaller sizes. Is this a deliberate decision at the moment? I think it would be a good idea to have small, affordable entry-level structures for people who are just starting out

At least with the examples presented so far, it feels like most of the fitting options are to do with combat capabilities -- I think it would be cool to have more industrial upgrades for some of the other structures (things like more research slots or mining yield bonuses come to mind)

The biggest problem for me is service slots. It feels really weird to change the role of a structure by adding something to it - like changing a frigate into a hauler by adding a module. It sounds like the intent is to have one-size-fits all structures, and to discourage stacking several structures in the same area. I'd love to go in the opposite direction - separating out structure roles into individual structures that players could arrange in their own way and fly around would add a lot in terms of customisability and immersion. Undocking from a mooring structure and heading over to the insurance structure would feel a lot more like being a space pilot rather than just pressing buttons in a station services menu. I also think making structures smaller and more focussed would make them more flexible and easier to iterate on individually in the future.

tl;dr being able to put together a small town of individual structures would make me feel more like I'm building a home rather than just renting someone else's

No racial towers - no racial fuel?

One thing that I would like to see is overview availability of structures BASED ON STANDINGS. As in, you can warp to a structure without having to scan it down or get a bookmark if its configured to allow you based on being in a corp/alliance or having standings.
If you DONT have standings to see it from anywhere in system, you've gotta probe that **** down yourself or get a bookmark.
AN EXAMPLE: I decide I want a base of operations for just me. I anchor a personal large "station thing" or whatever, and set it to personal use, and use personal standings to decide who can access it. Since I only have my alts set to personal +10, this new structure shows up on all their overviews anywhere they are in system, and lets them warp to, dock, moor supers/caps, and access everything in and on it. Nobody else in my alliance, corporation, or any other randoms can see this structure if they aren't on grid or running combat probes.
That's the vision I'm seeing. I want that. Give that.

If the new structures are fittable, will they also have drone bays and allow for drones to be deployed when under attack?

So with the Large size structures (New POS) only being attackable via entosis (look at the pics in the blog attack method all says entosis) you have gone and taken away the primary use for dreads once new sov goes into effect and carriers have no more repping use either.

Questions:

- How are you going to handle multiple structures affecting the same system wide effects?
- How are you going to deal with the amount of structures in space that this is going to generate? (imagine systems near Jita.. the amount of structures on each)
- Why the total removal of the shield forcefield? This is still better than mooring for supercaps unless you want they all to die at some point
- What is the strategical benefit of this system over the old system in combat situations?
- What is the limit of on grid structures? Otherwise we could just build a giant lag city of hell to protect ourselfs since there is no forcefield
- How would you handle the pain that is going to be for players if we start to spam systems with little market hubs? Am I going to warp 20 times inside the same system to fit a ship?
- Why a player will prefer the new system over outposts since his itens are (by far) better 'defended' inside outposts? Isnt this going to nerf nullsec A LOT instead of making people a little more happier?

I really like the changes but I'm quoting above as I had a totally different understanding of what is being contemplated. Right now I can have my POS do almost anything I want it to do (within PG and CPU) but your new structures seem to be role dependent. Does this mean I'll have to have separate research, manufacturing and refining "arrays" within my WH system rather than a single or two POS with all the necessary current arrays (with all the extra fueling etc headaches that enforces)?

2 - There is really only one major benefit to Sov holding, reduced fuel bills. Will the new structures have this applied or did CCP just sneak it out without anyone actually being aware.

2 things popped up because it was weird:

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67008/1/Structure_ISIS5-01.png
No reinforcement on a medium sized building? Seems unfairly risky.

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67008/1/Structure_ISIS5-02.png
No medium sized research lab? What happened to single player use of all roles?

This picture is absolutely just a mockup. We don't have that level of detail to share with you yet. Sorry if that was misleading.

What about abandoned structures? Please take the opportunity to fix that flaw of POS design. They should be hackable or something to prevent the current clutter.

And I imagine the Observatory will have effects on Local?

I may well have missed it, but there's something I have yet to see a clear answer for:

Currently one of the primary roles for starbases is as a strategic base. During invasions and longer-term skimishes they're often dropped as a staging location to support fleets in various ways. While most of the specific functions here do seem to be covered, the proposed structure roles list doesn't include an obvious analogue for a military base.

What are we expected to deploy for supporting members during a war in enemy territory? Offensive drilling platforms? Aggressive research labs? Hostile market hubs?

I can't be the only one who thinks that seems a bit silly.