This is where your logic breaks down completely.  Beta risk (killed any time anywhere outside a station by people or NPCs which roam in massive caravans and ridiculous 1 or 2 man juggernauts) is, literally, infinitely greater than Alpha (no risk at all anywhere).

Perhaps.

You're actually strengthening the arguments about how Beta needs more reason to be there (financially/gear wise) and Gamma will likely need it even more.

Instead, we get a huge explosion damage nerf making the laughable Beta NPC farming potential even more ridicule-worthy.

Personally I'm from the camp that is generally against nerfs and more about buffing.  Beta needs a buff.  If Gamma never came back I'd be fine with it tbh

My goal when I wrote this wasn't to rub noses in the situation. It was intended to promote better content. All content outside Epri requires group, not just because it's group oriented but because you need to 'herd up' to handle any PvP that might come along. It's a legitimate balance.

But, there is no way reward competes at the productivity level right now when compared to Alpha. It's a scaling issue throughout the whole game. Typical Tier 1 spawn drops 30 plasma, a Tier 3 averages 50 to 60 and take much longer to kill and repair from. I can take down 5 Tier 1 in field time faster than I can take down a single tier 3 all aspects taken in to account. Add to that I am keeping all of it. I don't need to share with 11 other people, Beta NPC farming is just not on the grid as far as lucrative.

I'm still holding to the risk illusion. If hostility is on the Island or near an Epri spawn, you really don't risk. You just log out Industrial until it goes away. Much like it was on Alpha2 before, if a resource shows up on a red spawn you can't do much about it. The spawn system is infinite and absolute and mining under siege is impossible. There isn't a risk ration. You can or you can't.

tl:dr Beta sucks.

I have asked this question in another thread already and I am going to repeat it:

From your point of view, what exactly is your intended incentive for us new players to go beta?

I know it has to be harder and includes more risk, but there also has to be a bigger reward. If I can run beacons all day on alpha and can get ALL the loot, while on beta i not only risk my bot, but ALSO my loot (more risk -> less reward), why should I go there?

Yeah Zoom. I'm curious too.

We were using mechanics and you couldn't do anything about it, so the Devs threw you a bone and changed superficial stuff around so you can stop pestering them.

Naturally this develops into a pattern, so the bleating will continue. And I'm sure there's a few hungarians over there happy to give ol' chums a ring when needed.

Which players were 'busted'? and can you please describe said 'bust'

Did anyone get a 'timeout' as in some form of ban?

Did anyone get his 'toys' taken away as in some type of loss of nic or assets?

Did anyone 'take the ball and run home' as in force Devs to break more mechanics to dam the flow of tears?

I heard a rumor that someone lost a game of kickball. Rather than playing another game he ran to the nearest teacher and complained that kids were eating too much ice cream.

Sadly, .  I miss hunting NPCs on Gamma and Beta.