The guardians going suspect accidentally was certainly entertaining for the couple hundred spectators.

Otherwise though it seemed like the attacking composition was easily immune to the citadel itself by a large margin.

Will be very interesting to see going forward, just how refined an attacking doctrine can be made.

It seems that even just two guardians would have been more than enough.

Highsec citadels defences are a joke. It's really only the defending fleet that matters in highsec, not the citadel itself.

and thank bob for that

Yes, thank bob that blob superiority is maintained, and that small defending corps have no chance in owning a citadel, only the mega corps.
No wait.... That's actually utterly terrible. A Citadel is meant to be a space fortress and act as a significant force multiplier allowing the defender to fight outnumbered. The joke result of citadel high sec defences means that it's badly missed it's aim in an entire sector of space.

I didnt see the fight, did the defending station have weapons or did it get taken down too fast for subcap launchers, rigs, and whatnot

Will be interesting then when we get market citadels going up... they will get attacked nonstop

When we see the first Fortizar go down then we will know.

Thanks to whoever anchored this in Perimeter, you certainly have created alot of content for many players!

Defences for the Fortizar and Keepstar are essentially identical to Astrahaus in high sec. We reported it in the feedback thread prior to release, but it seems pushing a half baked feature was priority.

It was clear from the beginning that - other than a POS - a citadel would not be viable for single players or small corps.

Perhaps owning a citadel, but using a citadel is open to every player.

If you cannot defend your structures, you shouldn't deploy one and just pay to use one which is owned and maintained by someone else exactly like POCOs are today. This design is nothing new and part of putting more of the universe in the hands of the players.

Not every player needs to own a space station. If you don't want to bother with defending one, pay someone else and just use theirs.

But really, I am not sure this battle should be taken as typical. There are some nasty features on citadels that will allow a defensive fleet to get the drop on an attacker (and no defensive fleet showed up). Further, there isn't much of a loot reason to bash one, especially given that the attacking fleet is committed and at risk for at least a minute (does it make sense to risk hundreds of millions in ships for a few hundred million ISK in minerals and salvage?). It will take some time before we see how New Eden adapts to these structures and we see how vulnerable/invulnerable they are. Larges will be significantly tougher, and XLs will be impossible to kill so there is also that to consider.

All this says is that an unsupported or unmanned medium Citadel is not much of a concern for a small fleet which we already knew was the case.

I really hope CCP is going to change wardec mechanics before the rollout of all structures is complete, because at this rate not many high sec structures will ever exist. Current war dec mechanics were already broken before this, but they are highly incompatible with the way structure vulnerability works.

Because of the pricetag POCOs while not cheap, are not even in the same league as Citadels.

Poco killmail...meh
5 or 10bill citadel.... that will be wanted, and thats the cheaper end of the spectrum

They had some ships in space which died, three Navy Domi's.

EDIT: The defences look chickenshit to me which is rather sad, what's wrong in having a challenge in this game, must everything be easy?

I really hope CCP is going to change wardec mechanics before the rollout of all structures is complete, because at this rate not many high sec structures will ever exist. Current war dec mechanics were already broken before this, but they are highly incompatible with the way structure vulnerability works.

The problem in highsec, is simply that the sort of stats you would need to give a citadel to allow it to survive in the hands of a small indy corp, against the indiscriminate war of the major merc alliances, would be entirely over the top..