As a regular scout in w-space, I can only emphasize again Enta's point : removing this huge intel tool will be incredibly detrimental.

Maybe a half way meet between removing the full power of d-scan while allowing us at least some intel would be to have the possibility to see who and what is in the station once you're on grid with it.

A second concern I would have is timers : how do you intend to deal with the unavoidable station games that will come out of this ? As it is today, once you're out of the forcefield it is possible to bump you and keep you away. The way docking works, it will be much harder to get somebody out of docking range, and thus decrease the risk of undocking in a shiny ship.

I live in wormhole space.

The problem of intelligence is key.

Currently, supers cannot dock with an SMA of any size, so they are either always in space and visible, or logged off. Mooring doesn't affect them.

Capitals, though, CAN currently dock. Forcing them to stay out in space where they can be scanned is a HUGE boost to intel gathering (wormhole space or not).

I don't see why changing poses and how they work should penalize us. We should still be able to do after the patch what we can do before the patch.

Right now, there aren't a lot (any) details, so it's hard to give comments other than at the macro level. Show us some stats, and we can give better feedback.

Another element i want to throw in here is the idea of soft mooring which works a bit like the current POS shield so you can still move around and use dscan etc within range of the structure but you cannot target anything and you are invulnerable.

It is basically an area invulnerability effect around the station like a remote rep or similar. It allows you to warp to 0 or undock into relative safety.

You can of course be bumped unless you do a hard mooring or dock up.

Thoughts?

Basically not every structure that you can live in/out of should allow docking. Docking should be expensive and a commitment to deploy and maintain.

What's the point of mooring? Genuine question this, not being funny. Why would I want to moor? Why am I doing this? It's not been explained what the reason behind wanting to do this is? To access cloning? To access fitting? Certainly not accessing the market since you're separating this from the main docking area? Why am I mooring? We can't debate the pros and cons of the idea without this question being

I don't know why you don't just do this instead of making things difficult for yourself, code and balance wise, with mooring. Intel is the only thing gained over actually docking the super in the station as opposed to mooring. Everything else is the same; cyno into moor radius, mooring games, etc. Yes you get emergent gameplay like hellcamping the station but again, exactly the same as docking.

Intel wouldn't be different to how it is now, with people logging off in POS's and their ships disappearing with them, and we seem to do just fine with super intel. Locator agents, killboards etc are all just as effective as seeing the actual super moored there on station, if not more so due to their range and ease.

Of course docking supers is a big thing, so perhaps balance it with the introduction of your new station sizes. Stations require upgrades to go to your max size (ie 100km or so), and those upgrades simultaneously allow for supers and maybe titans to be docked. The majority of lowsec would not have these stations, save for a select few (hello emergent gameplay), which would prevent risk free travel of supers across Eve without proper preparation.

/2c and the 2c of hundreds of super pilots

I don't get the point of adding in more penalties to owning a super capital.

Why would anyone ever moor something ever? What am I getting from making my super vulnerable when I moor it, over just logging it off in deep space?

Actually, they are both wrong. I am fairly certain you can have whatever you want in a super's cargohold, fleet hangar, and ship maint bay and the the super will still go into the CSMA.

I can log off at a safe in low sec. Can't be bubbled, can't be tackled. Take proper precautions and it'll be safer than mooring, especially if entire fleets log off in the same spot. What happens to my ship when I log off? Do I pop out of space? If I do pop out of space and I'm moored, can someone else moor at the same spot? How do they know I'm there? What happens if the structure I'm moored at is attacked? Am I suddenly vulnerable to being attacked with no hope of being able to escape or fight back because I'm not online? If I'm 'ejected' somewhere in the system, can I not simply be scanned down and attacked? How many mooring slots do we get? What happens to the rest of the fleet? What if we have more Supers than systems?

What I'm getting at here is that mooring should be a short term solution to allowing you to 'dock' in order to access something you need to be able to access. CCP should not remove POS, POS should simply be restricted to being mobile deployable shields. There's too many unanswered questions and the whole thing as a long term solution opens a can of worms.

I don't see having to work in order to gather more accurate intelligence to be a problem.

Please explain to me how a POS allows you to log off safely for two weeks. Then I will believe your argument has merit.

Much as I do believe Moored ships should be safe and do an auto 'safe warp & log off' that can't be stopped if the structure is flipped. Otherwise people will just never use Mooring for more than 30 minutes.
But I believe you are asking for something that a current POS does not provide.