Inability to trash assets during reinforce time is good thing, and if it is missing in current WH citadel iteration, it should be added.

Currently there is no way to get out of a sieged and r-caged POS while the attackers maintain a presence, so the only thing the defender can do is self-destruct ships or log them off.

Honestly, I don't see how making items unable to be accessed/trashed during an RF timer makes a difference. The defender still looses all the stuff they couldn't safe-log with.

As much as I support this idea, you do realise that wormhole space will burn if this happens, right?

This is an important topic. Sieges are a very important part of wormhole life, we must protect this content at all costs.

If you are tethered you can safely log off

I suggest storing all valuables in tethered Orcas only docking when necessary - If someone decides to blow up the citadel you log off with the goodies & they get the empty citadel container.
Of course dedicated attackers could spend a billion or so to Anchor a new Citadel and have someone online 24/7 to try and get you... Now that's some serious dedication

Gone is the age of scanning alts in wormholes - I propose storage alts

The comedy that would ensue probing down a loot pi+¦ata orca....

Even more bothersome is that fact that CCP makes recovering assets an available option to nullsec bears just to coerce them into using citadels shoving aside the fact that the main reason for sieging anyone's home, regardless of location, is to get loot or harvest tears or both, but apparently, nullbears must be protected from experiencing such torture at all cost. It's time to rid of any loot protection of sort from CItadels and outposts after destruction, apart from NPC stations obviously.

Item trashing has been available for a long time in POSs before entering reinforced mode but I can see how removing it completely will foster more evictions in wh space.

Even more bothersome is that fact that CCP makes recovering assets an available option to nullsec bears just to coerce them into using citadels shoving aside the fact that the main reason for sieging anyone's home, regardless of location, is to get loot or harvest tears or both, but apparently, nullbears must be protected from experiencing such torture at all cost. It's time to rid of any loot protection of sort from CItadels and outposts after destruction, apart from NPC stations obviously.

Honestly, the only thing more annoying is your typical nullbear rage-posting about how wh life is too easy on the sub-forums.

Trash items is already disabled in Citadels when in the final reinforce (once all the armor has been shot through) and this applies for kspace and wspace. Activating the ship self destruct will also drop the tethering.

Citadels will be very big and have multiple undock points, so it should be impossible to bubble all of them, .

you need to be online to trash items. if you're hunting for loot you need to be looking for the corps that have failed and are inactive. if nobody logs on to trash their **** then you get the loot. if you're going after an active corp then you're probably doing it for reasons other than loot.

Trash items is already disabled in Citadels when in the final reinforce (once all the armor has been shot through) and this applies for kspace and wspace. Activating the ship self destruct will also drop the tethering.

A) Citadels have superior defences over a POS. You can only be attacked on times you've set.
B) Any improvements to wormhole PVE apply to all people running them, not just the big corps. As the sites now need to be finished to get the good loot, they are going to circulate more and you will find them spawning more often.

It's the same damn thing with every new thing that gets added to the game. People want to kill it. Once citadels become more common and CCP gets the balance right, they are going to be much better than POS.