I am lurking in NPC nullsec, I don’t really feel like I want to go to nullsec having done that before, though it is pretty good when you are in a dominant alliance like I was with Tactical Supremacy. I am aware of skyhooks and the new sov system, but I also know that it turned into a complete mess and had to be adjusted and that was not enough too. Many alliances are holding off on it.
I have an intel channel for the area of sov and at one point people were reporting when skyhooks got robbed, but it was so frequent that they don’t even bother anymore, it was also happening in the TZ when no one was on. I think the skyhook and new sov systems have made the entire sov turn into big alliances only, and if you are limited to one TZ, you are completely screwed. So with that in mind I did not look at what you wrote, as it was a turn off, sorry, so I went back and looked.
I must admit to being a bit fed up with structures, my biggest annoyance is that these new moon drills, they are now being dropped all over the place and PvP groups have blue agreements not to shoot each others. And the people that had Athanors and were actively mining them are seeing those so easy to kill Athanors removed and these passive ones put in their place. And no one is shooting them. For the small guys this comparison says it all:
Metenox Moon drill - Shield 1m HP, Armour 1m HP, Structure 24m HP ???
Athanor - Shield 2.4m HP, Armour 1.2m HP, structure 1.2m HP
20 times the amount of structure HP, and you give that to the best PvP groups, as I said CCP are clueless, that was why in desperation I asked for the siphon to be enabled on Metenox drills, in features and ideas. Not that I do any moon mining of course, but others do… Anyway, I better stop as I am likely to get annoyed enough to not renew my sub if I keep thinking about this. But I think putting passive moon mining back in the game is an absolute disaster…, but to make them as strong as that, shows a level of cluelessness that is awe inspiring!
So to take that into account, I think if we are to use structures in any sense and in the past I had suggested observatory’s that enable a war in a system, a constellation or a region, but I said that they had to be vulnerable all the time and really easy to blow up, so people would try to do it and aggressors had to defend them. I like having a vulnerability for war deccers, so perhaps pushing that system instead would be a lot better.