My concern with mooring supercaps/titans in a structure is that it would STRONGLY encourage blobbers to just non-stop camp that area. The whole idea of this new sov, I thought, was to avoid having to have 50k coalitions go and grind out smaller guys with 1500 man fleets. Yet, if you had intel on specifically where someones supers/titans were, than what is to stop people from just ignoring the sov in the area and just permanently camp the moored supers/titans? It certainly seems like it would be very difficult for smaller groups living in an area to "adapt" to a CFC-like entity just going straight to their moored caps and just sitting there. The only option would SEEM to be N+1 tactics of having a bigger blob to defend your assets then the blob next door.

Right now, we are kind of doing that to s2n by going only for their high value targets, ie. staging systems and money moons. We know what to hit and where and there isn't a whole lot anyone can do about it. So if I'm s2n in the new EVE, why would I create a high-value target for attackers that they can just launch a blob at in what amounts to an i-win button?

This seems like just another hoop to jump through. If you can beat the enemy for the gate then you can just as easily do it for the structure the ships are moored to. No point to the mechanic in that regard, it just lets you avoid camping, which is already a thing you can do to a POS.

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I think the long and the short of this is that if moored ships get destroyed or cut loose when the structure they're attached to is destroyed then the majority of supers pilots won't use mooring, or at least won't use it for any length of time.

And you can't bubble up an Acceleration Gate?.

I'm not seeing anything here that requires the acceleration gate to function. You can do absolutely all of this either with a private password protected POS or under the Mooring system with the stations without the acceleration gates. You don't even need to worry about bubbles if you keep an Inty somewhere else, you can just warp directly to the structure, dock up, and you're back in your coffin away from home.

The concerns that I see as more valid are those involving stepping away from the game with a ship left Moored for longer than a reinforcement timer. If you can't do this then you still need an alt per Super at which point why bother even taking them out of the ship.

Heck, how's this for a vision of Mooring mechanics:

Moored ships are visible in space, they are effectively docked in a special Hangar and the pilot who docked them can set permissions for the Alliance by roles as well as on an individual as a white-list(EG: Anyone with the new role "Titan Pilot" can access this Titan, oh and my three Alts just in case). This prevents a Super from being easily stolen, unlike a current POS shield, and means that in an emergency the Super is accessible without needing to log in the character who last piloted it, whether they logged off while Moored or not, which helps in the event of vacations or random instances of "oh our Titan pilot was a CCP employee and got outed... crap!"

Optional but really cool: Moored ships also come with a special Captain's Quarters that looks out of their ship into an active picture of Space around the ship, instead of the generic current CQ experience. I mean FFS lets at least give the Flying Coffins a couch and a wet-bar.

If you log off in a Moored ship you can either leave it Moored or use the current Safe Log-off mechanics functionally identical to logging off in a POS shield. When you log back in the ship is Moored at the station.

In the event of Station destruction:

• All Moored Supers and Capitals, regardless of occupancy, initiate an emergency Jump to somewhere in the surrounding Constellation.
• If the player logged out in their Super they can see their current system location on the character select screen and if they log in it's as if they had previously logged out in space at the place their Super panic-jumped to.
• If they were not in the Super when they logged out a Bookmark is created. This could be sent to the character only or to a specific list of people or roles. Possibly the same list that has access rites or a different list entirely.
• This bookmark acts like a DED escalation site in that it doesn't exist until someone with access to the Bookmark initiates warp to it. At the bookmark is the Super Capital in question which is now a probable object and can be retrieved and Jumped away.
• This bookmark does not expire. It's a Super Capital, it's not like it's going to just evaporate...

I think this strikes a nice balance between docking, safety, and not nerfing current mechanics. The exception is Supers being visible while Moored vs the current Safe Logoff setup. The reasoning for this is that it's currently very very easy to track down a Super and I don't even have to go to Null to do it. I can sit at a Locator Agent in High Sec feeding in names off of ZKillboard and get the current location of every Super pilot that's shot anyone in the last 3-4 years. Throw in the potential for scraping the Character Bazaar and I can probably get most of the holding Alts too. Since a Moored super without a pilot is immune to this I feel it's actually a buff to hiding these things since you actually need to go out and Mark 1 eyeball a structure at a specific point in space to definitively determine where a Super is located, rather than just paying some Agent in High Sec to tell you the system.

One Crazy Idea addition

I also have a crazy idea for putting these empty capitals inside Deadspace sites with Sub-cap only access rites. The Super then needs to go through a start-up sequence to online the ship and all modules one at a time. During this time it can be scanned down but is only accessible through the Acceleration Gate and can only be attacked or defended by a sub-cap fleet. The pilot running the ship can use any modules as they come online, with guns being first, followed by support modules, and lastly the tank. After that the Deadspace Pocket disintegrates and the Super can jump away.

I think this sounds like a super cool idea, I also think no sane Super pilot would support its implementation since retrieving a Super floating in space will already give them enough grey hairs without having to sit around for 30 minutes hoping no one takes an interest in their well-being, or dragging around a huge sub-cap fleet on retrieval duty.

Last thing we really need is more people in supers though perhaps?

Just give out sov lasers

I don't think it would be wise to nerf supers so severely, remember were talking about ships and fittings with a value of 25b plus.

Forget mooring, sounds nice but is just a pain. So far most of the ideas around this feature and the future of supers sounds like a plan to make them an arse to use and no fun at all. Let them dock, CCP gets possibly thousands of potential resubbed accounts. Knock off the potential for a few million HP, remove the EWAR immunity or at least rework it so to hold one down you need X number of points meaning several recons could tackle one. Leave everything else as is. Maybe make them T2 carriers for the sake of continuity.