Upwell structures

Upwell structure services

Upwell structures have wide variety of services available in them. Some services are available even in an unfitted structure but most services require a specific service module to be fitted.

Services always available:

• Tethering
• Hangar
• Ship fitting
• Insurance
• Repair shop
• Contracts, direct trading and deliveries

Services available as service modules. Thse services all require fuel to stay online.

• Market
• Clone bay
• Reprocessing
• Blueprint research
• Invention
• Manufacturing
• Capital ship manufacturing
• Supercapital ship manufacturing
• Booster reactions
• Composite reactions
• Hybrid reactions
• Reprocessing
• Moon mining

Out of these moon mining, reactions and (super)capital manufacturing services are the only ones with restrictions. All others can be installed in any upwell structure.

Citadels

Citadels are upwell structures meant to be used as operation bases. They receive bonuses to combat rig effectiveness, market service fuel usage and cloning bay fuel usage. Citadels also have the shortest vulnurability durations and strongest combat options making them easier to defend.

The three citadels are Astrahus (medium), Fortizar (large) and Keepstar (extra large). They have exactly same structure bonuses so the difference is only how much things they can have fitted, how long vulnurabilities they have and how much of a status symbol they are.

There is also special Upwell Palatine Keepstar extra-large citadel. This citadel has ridiculously high material requirements and only one can be deployed at any given time. So far nobody has built one.

File:Astrahus.png Astrahus (medium)

File:Fortizar.png Fortizar (large)

File:Keepstar.png Keepstar (extra-large)

Structure	Combat rig effectiveness	Citadel service module fuel usage	Extra	Vlnurability hours
Astrahus	25%%	25%	Only sub cap can dock	3
Astrahus	25%%	25%	Capital ships can dock.	6
Astrahus	25%%	25%	Supercapital ships can dock. Can use doomsday weapons.	21

Refineries

Refineries are structures of choice for refining materials, reactions and moon mining. These are the only structures that can do reactions or moon mining and also receive innate bonuses to refining yelds and both reprocessing and refining service module fuel consumtion.

The two refineries are Athanor (medium) and Tatara (large). The athanor docking is limited to only subcapitals while Tatara also allows rorquals to dock.

Structure	Refinery yeld	Refining/reaction service fuel usage	Reaction job duration	Extra	Vlnurability hours
Athanor	2%	20%			20
Tatara	4%	25%	25%		20?

Moon mining

Main article: Moon Mining

Moon mining can take place only at refineries anchored within 250 km of a mining beacon and fitted with a Standup Moon Drill I service module, which appears on the outside of the structure as a giant laser turret aimed at the mood. A single cycle takes 1 to 8 weeks depending on setup. The steps are as follows:

1. Anchor the structure within 250 km of moon mining beacon. The beacon can be warped to from the right click menu in space. Only one refinery can be placed within range of the beacon.
2. Set the length of the desired mining cycle. The amount of ore brought up with each cycle is directly proportional to the cycle time, so choose whatever works best for your schedule
3. Fire the laser at the moon. This will break off a chunk of the moon and allow it to be pulled away from the surface.
4. The mining turret's tractor beam will gradually pull the chunk away from the surface. It will continue to move into position until the time you specified in step 1.
5. Fire the laser again, this time at the moon chunk. It will explode into a lot of little chunks, or asteroids.
6. Send forth your minions miners to mine the asteroid belt. Have them bring it back to the refinery to turn it into precious moon goo.
7. While your miners are busy killing rocks, you can get started setting up the next cycle.

Savvy players may note that this results in much more risky gameplay than previous moon mining mechanics. The predictable timing of mining cycles combined with the high value of moon ores makes moon mining belts a prime target for pirates. Refinery operators should prepare a response against any attacks, as well as dealing with ninja miners attempting to steal moon ore.

Engineering complexes

Engineering complexes are the structures of choice for research and manufacturing. Research and manufacturing services installed in engineering complexes consume less fuel. In addition the engineering complexes have innate bonuses to manufacturing material usage, manufacturing and science job duartions and manufacturing and science job installation fees.

The three engineering complexes are Raitaru (medium), Azbel (large) and Sotiyo (extra-large). All three limit their docking to battleships and below so once a built capital ship comes out it can not go back in.

File:Raitaru.png Raitaru (medium)

Azbel (large)

Sotiyo (extra-large)

Structure	Material requirement	Job duration	Job fefe	Engineering service fuel usage	Extra	Vlnurability hours
Raitaru	1%	15%	3%	25%		9
Azbel	1%	20%	4%	25%	Can build capitals	18
Raitaru	1%	30%	5%	25%	Can build supercapitals.	36

Structure mechanics

Tethering

While tethered, you'll see this icon on top of your HUD.

You'll also see a faint cyan-coloured effect coming from the citadel, while you're tethered.

Tethering is a mechanic that allows pilots with docking permission to stay close to an upwell structure without being targetable and without taking damage from area of effect weapons. Note that you can still be bumbed until you are out of tethering range thus breaking the tether.

In addition to making your ship safe, tethering will also repair your ship shield, armor and hull while also repleshining your capacitor. Tethering will also repair damaged modules fitted on the ship and damaged drones in drone bay. Modules and drones in cargo or in space are unaffected.

Tethering occurs when the ship is inside the docking ring. The docking ring is indicated by a dotted line around the structure, in this case a medium Astrahus citadel.

The following actions do not break tether:

• Move around in space as long as you remain close to the structure.
• Use the directional scanner.
• Launch probes, use the probe scanner and recall probes.

The following actions or conditions will break tether:

• Locking a target – will break immediately as lock starts, and won't refresh until target unlocked.
• Moving outside the tethering range (see range below).
• Activating specific modules, as below:
  • Burst Jammer module.
  • Command Burst module.
  • Cynosural Field Generator.
  • Siege module.
  • Triage module.

The following actions or conditions will prevent tethering:

• Having an active weapon timer.
• If you're warp disrupted or scrambled so that the offensive strength overcomes your defensive warp core strength (see warp disruption for more information).
• If you do not have docking rights at the structure.
• A ship that has been ejected from and is unpiloted will not be tethered. Your pod however, will be immediately tethered.

While tethered you're unable to take certain actions:

• Cannot activate smartbombs.
• Cannot launch bombs from a bomb launcher.

Fitting

Fitting an upwell structure is much like fitting a ship: if you have the roles required to take control of a citadel, you can just open up the fitting window and drop module in just like a ship. [1]

To 'online' the service you must have fuel in the fuel bay which only seems accessible while controlling the citadel. [2] This is the same with the fighter bay (which works like the carrier version, if not more buggy) and the ammo hold (if you want the Missile/bomb launcher to reload automatically the ammo must be place in there [3] [4]

Upwell structure fits can be saved and shared like ship fits, but currently fitting from a saved fit is bugged [5] [6]

Skills

Citadel fighters can be used without fighter skills and fighter skill bonuses do not apply.

There are a few relatively quick to train (2x) skills that affect Upwell structures:

• Structure Doomsday Operation: 2% reduction in Arcing Vorton Projector duration per level
• Structure Electronic Systems: 3% reduction in capacitor consumption of all structure electronic warfare and tackle modules per level
• Structure Engineering Systems: 2% reduction in capacitor consumption of all structure energy neutralizers and point defense batteries per level
• Structure Missile Systems: 2% bonus to all structure missile and guided bomb damage per level

see also: Skills:Structure_Management

Structure browser

The Structure Browser has information about what structures and stations are accessible and what services they offer. You can find the structure browser in the NeoCom under "Business" or by hitting the Esc-button and setting up a shortcut for it.