I completely agree. Asset safety via magical space fairies has no place in Eve. All structures should have 50% of the contents destroyed and 50% drop as loot. Don't build what you cannot afford to lose.

I really like the 'built-in Target Spectrum Breaker' idea of Skia Aumer, soft cap as opposed to hard cap, and can be implemented using something already in game (though would need some tweaking I think).

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Now, none of this unused junk really contributes to the game play - it just clutters up the database and makes it run slower.

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It's the same problem in highsec - the EHP is of the XL is just way too much. The L citadel is proposed to have more EHP than the current large POSes and they are already rarely attacked now in low-class wormholes or in highsec - the tedium is too great. However getting 20 battleships together is at least plausible for a smaller group. But the XL? That will never be lost unless one of the largest groups in the game takes enough interest in you to rope 150+ people into an structure grind. It would take tens of wormholes even to get the battleships into a C2 and a XL in a C1 would be even safer and require more people. This design seems to fail hard, even worse than the current POSes, for allowing players to use boredom as a defensive strategy instead of requiring an active defense.

They either need to be limited as to where they can be deployed, there needs to be some way to deliver capital-level DPS against structures in highsec and low-class wormholes, or some mechanism needs to exist to make them much more vulnerable if left undefended (maybe based on entosis ?) so that a group of only 20-30 people have a viable strategy to attack them without grinding them for 10+ hours. As it is, the L and especially the XL will almost never be attacked because of the time cost for the agressors in low-class wormholes and in highsec.

Target Spectrum Breaker affects ships that are otherwise immune to electronic warfare? I did not know this...

There aren't enough mercs in all of highsec to field 200 battleships at one time. And that would be only to contest an undefended tower, not one that was actively defending. Only the large nullsec/former nullsec groups can bring the number of players required.

I have no problem with players being forced to put something on the table to contest them (like capitals), but whatever the value of that force is, it has to require less than several hundred players to accomplish. A single player should not be able to put up a tower that is all but immune to the combined efforts of less than 200 other players.

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They either need to be limited as to where they can be deployed, there needs to be some way to deliver capital-level DPS against structures in highsec and low-class wormholes, or some mechanism needs to exist to make them much more vulnerable if left undefended (maybe based on entosis ?) so that a group of only 20-30 people have a viable strategy to attack them without grinding them for 10+ hours. As it is, the L and especially the XL will almost never be attacked because of the time cost for the agressors in low-class wormholes and in highsec.

I believe it has been made clear that you will be able to scoop the structures, but you will lose the rigs which will make up the bulk of the cost and provide the bulk of the bonuses if you do so.

Seems fair to me. If you want the flexibility of dodging a wardec, you just don't install rigs. If you want those bonuses, you have to commit to defending. Worst case though, if real life keeps you away, you just lose the structures and the rigs and your assets are magically teleported somewhere safe.

As a suggestion, please explain invulnerability and vulnerability windows from a lore point of view. ....

BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yea..... I'm sorry. You are just being unrealistic here expecting to be able to solo kill an XL Citadel in an hour. We are talking the largest heaviest shielded Battle Fortress that players will be able to make.
Just because you want to be able to troll anyone who builds one solo.... doesn't make it reasonable.
Also buying minerals off the market does not remove the man hours spent mining, and miners don't afk like people claim they do, and are just as important players as everyone else.

In which case CCP will have made the game too easy and are swayed by the possibility that someone could put an XL into a C1, not sensible at all...

You did read you won't be able to do that anymore with Citadels right? They take 24 hours to put up, start in hull right when that wardec comes in and 24 hours to take down

So you become vulnerable for a significant period then the structure finally unanchors.

For anchoring:

The structure goes into a 24 hour invulnerability timer. No damage can be done during that time and the owner cannot cancel this action once it has been confirmed
The structure will come out of the invulnerability timer with only its hull layer active and vulnerable to attack (enters the vulnerability states above).
As usual, any damage done to the structure while it is vulnerable will cause the repair time to start. Please note however that in this case the structure will only have hull layer available GÇô it is not a fully operational battle station yet, and as such is even more susceptible to damage than usual. Which means if attackers can take it to 0 hit points it will be destroyed on the spot, there will be no further invulnerability phase.

For unanchoring:

Unanchoring may only be started if the structure has full shields and is not within a repair timer. This is to prevent some early bail-out should it be attacked
Once the unanchoring process has started, the structure will become invulnerable for a specific amount of time
Once the invulnerability timers runs out, the structure will be vulnerable for damage yet again, with having a repair process identical of whatGÇÖs been mentioned above. This time however, shields, armor and hulls will be fully available

Structure capture mechanism is planned to be returned to old way which means capital ships taking away hit points. I propose hybrid model (old and new) for structure capture.

1. First you need to destroy structure shields and structure goes to reinforcement. Then you need to destroy armor + reinforcement and then structure to zero.

2. Then structure gets full hit points and structure is in freeport mode and command nodes are activated. Who wins this command node warfare gets structure control. Shooting structure with capital ships when it is in freeport mode is useless.

Comments are welcome for my idea.

Wow, you really believe that??? I've lived in Null for the better part of a year and it is much safer and considerably more lucrative than it was in highsec. Maybe you should leave your CODE fleets and go experience more of the game, you seem that have a warped view of it.