EVE Online Kicking Over Castles Update Arriving Very Soon

EVE Online’s Kicking Over Castles update is arriving soon, December 10 in fact.

The major changes to structures are as follows:

• Defenders can no longer choose a day of the week for exiting the hull reinforcement cycle. Structures will exit reinforcement at the next available hour of the defenders choosing (+/- 3 hours) after the following durations:
  • Wormhole space: 1.5 days
  • Low and Null security space: 2.5 days
  • High security space: 4.5 days
• Updated vulnerability windows now takes 30 days to take effect (instead of 7).
• In a solar system where the Activity Defense Multiplier is above 4.0 and where an Infrastructure Hub is held by an alliance, pilots that are NOT members of that alliance will be unable to deploy medium Upwell structures (Astrahus, Athanor and Raitaru).
• The random jitter range on reinforcement exit times is increased from +/- 2 hours to +/- 3 hours.

Additionally, it looks likes a ship piloted by an attacking faction won’t be able to receive tether from any structure if that ship is in FW space. Also, any structure owned by an attacking faction can’t tether to any ship if it’s in enemy space. Be sure to check out the full post for additional details on tethering and FW structures.