Now, our questions - Were we just unlucky that our citadel was spotted during the anchoring process? If we were to try again, would it be potentially be better to have it so that the anchoring ends at a time that's just inconvenient to attack? Maybe around downtime or something like 6am? Also, does anyone have any other potential tips for us? We've learned a lot already but we're always learning more. We're taking a few days to go over the options and come up with a solid plan. We're thinking it could be a good idea to try again, but also we're wondering whether we should look to join our little corp up with an alliance and then learn from them. We had a small gang together for defence but we were quickly overwhelmed by a fleet of 30-40 ships and they spent the next hour plinking away at the station till it went pop. We knew that we were taking a risk but we all agreed ahead of time that we needed to be fully prepared to lose the citadel in the 15 minutes following anchoring. We figured this could work out for us based on what we'd seen on zKillBoard - From that data we saw, there seemed to be a lot of empty Astrahuses going pop but not many manned ones and figured that once an Astrahus was online it would be a relatively safe haven as people don't seem to want to invest the resources needed to take one down unless the owning corp has done something to really **** someone off.

Our plan was fairly simple - find a quiet C3, setup a citadel and use it as our base while we learn. We've never done it before but we've been playing EVE for a while now out in nullsec and we thought we'd give it a try. Hi all, Me and some RL friends are in the process of starting out our own little worm-holing corp (there's basically 4 of us who are active).

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