Criminals should not be allowed to dock up. If you want to dock you should be in a system where you are not flagged as a criminal.

It's reasonable that if a player can spacewarp arcross a galaxy, concord can detect any and all violations within all of HS and LS then some minimum wage docking manager can see a red flashy thing on his dashboard and push the SCREW YOU SCUMBAG button to prevent a known criminal from docking in the station he is managing.

It's kind or rediculous that the docking manager can time and police agression not only outside his station, but anywere in eve (I can get a timer Hek hit a HS > HS wh and be prevented from docking in Motsu) right down to the second, but can't figure out that this clearly labelled bad guy is a bad guy.



Dearest CONCORD,

For the love of all that is fair and just, give docking managers a small raise and train them that flashy red is actually worse than flashy yellow and get this docking oversight fixed once and for all.

Suncerly,
Every reasonable pilot in eve

That would be fine but this game lasts for years and years and it would be a super bad game decision if something you did in 2004/2005 was un changeable years down the line.... People change what some one did a few years ago might not be there play stile now.

I agree that these new structures could open some interesting gameplay like that. Problem with your idea is that the new structures will allow anyone to dock. Criminals will be able to use structures put up by third parties as well as ones installed by their alts/associates meaning it may not always be clear who to wardec. But since docking can be restricted as well it could open up some interesting game play where some station owners allow criminals and some do not. So perhaps down the road, when we have an ecosystem of player stations, it might be feasible to lock gankers out of NPC stations but you still have the problem that is where their stuff ends up if the citadel is taken down or destroyed so I am guessing it will never happen.

But these new structures are going to be a real boon for gankers it looks like. They will serve as unassailable staging posts with this new docking/undocking invulnerability - no more risk on the undock. Gone are the days of setting up insta-docking and undocking bookmarks. They also eliminate the need for a dedicated Orca alt. They can be placed in systems without stations eliminating the only real vulnerability window for a -10 ganker which is taking a gate, and can easily be taken down in the event of a wardec. And depending how people choose to set them up you can just use another corp's citadel and not even worry about catching a wardec: it will be interesting to see how people set them up.

They will also simplify logistics for ganking organizations who can use them to dispense ganking ships across New Eden by using private markets. Every ganker can set one up with an alt corp and share them with the greater collective meaning it will be impossible or at least expensive to wardec them all. But I guess there will be some in-space vulnerabilities now which could drive some fights.

All-in-all though, It's a good time to be a ganker.

No, it was pretty clear from the blogs you can scoop a citadel at anytime. Of course the design is clearly in flux, but the original blog said that if undamaged they can be scooped whenever you'd like but that will immediately start a one vulnerability window after which it can be scooped. Plenty of time during the 24h run up to a war to pull in your staging posts. You would lose your rigs, but as you pointed out you don't need any rigs for a mere staging post.
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Risk comes from players, not mechanics, and as long as the vast majority of those in highsec are going to sit on their butts and scream impotently for Someone to do something(TM) I don't see why CCP should waste any more time on you whinebears. CODE. have had POSes up multiple times over the years and no-one has had the fortitude to come at us (even the people who had declared war on us at the time), so what makes you think this would magically change if we were driven out of stations in your crusade to nerf highsec into the ground?

This all sounds a lot like "if highsec was much safer, players would have time to accumulate enough isk to progress to PvP in lowsec and nullsec". Followed by "if carebears had this" and "if carebears had that". You have more than enough tools to deliver risk directly and indirectly to our pods - use them.