I've banged this drum since its removal on gamma to be fair and all the way through the round table.

Well I think the problem with colixium under current mechanics is that with enough power and assets you could put a full defence base on every colixium spot in the game. You would then use that exclusive control to produce stuff that gives you a further advantage maintaining that power.

lol, you have forgotten that you have implemented the "factional" ore as alpha minerals
and the only PvP-risk component in crafting was, and still is Epri and depending on server population, noralgis.
Not that the little variation of items availiable would support something more advanced.

and what is this ingame economy that you are talking about?

When gamma was active 90% of the PvP happened on Beta so this is just not the case.

Moving epriton from Gamma was worthwhile while Gamma islands were shut off unassailable helldeaths that take 8 hours to break in to. That was a problem because islands were self sustained behind walls - without those walls there is no problem. Now all its going to do is make Gamma unpopulated wastelands that are an expensive folly.

We've said it before and i'll say it again Gamma should be Beta mk2 - extra incentive, extra risk but essentially a PvP area that makes you good money to use.

Well I would agree there should be a progression but since you dont have time to code Gamma incentives properly the answer isn't to just then think lets not have any. Epriton would provide a reason for bieng there and when you have time to look at it properly by all means remove it again.

Can you think of any reason to mine at all on Gamma now?

Up the mission rewards and artifacting on Betas. There were very good rewards with the old system, not everyone was complaining about betas, other than the complete safety in mining Epriton on gammas.

Other than that it would be a good idea to split Epriton in 3, one for each faction, that should make things interesting.

Yeah that was my point too. Epriton for beta, colixum for gamma. (And I would actually split colixum into 3 factional minerals, not epriton.)

The fact that colixum is currently only used for Scarab Mk2 does not change this concept (I'm not counting buildings as an incentive). The plan is to build on this with new modules and robots.

Splitting Collixium into 3 racial types? Sounds more like a headache

God. Out of retirement to agree with Stranger.

With the current terraforming and slope limitations and module terraforming only, every single base will sit atop a pyramid.

Can anyone at all come up with a valid reason why this won't occur?
Anyone??

Epi needs to stay on Beta. Forever.
If Gamma relaunched today with the same manufacturing bonuses over Alpha and Beta I would build and defend a base there. The production facilities alone are worth the investment. The bandwidth limitations preventing a full facility base built in one location is stupid.

Zoom you are scrapping Gamma 1.0 when all it needed was some limits, and trying to create Gamma 2.0 with all sorts of new rules in order to prevent what, stretched texture details??? Because you are the art guy and don't like how the look? The playability and functionality of the game should be paramount over art any day. The beacon system as Stranger excellently put it allowed for incredible diversity and creativity ... This is lost now.

Throwing the baby out with the bath water when all it needed was a little more soap.

Zoom build a base. Show us with the tools you are forcing on us how to build a functional playable defendable base, worth our time and investment again. Stop just testing mechanics "coding" and test playability for once, ***!

That's good news, but unfortunately I suspect it will take a lot more dev time to implement new modules and mechs.

Edit: What do we do with gamma in the meantime on live server?

Isn't gamma supposed to be "endgame"?

The economy was "ruined" as you put it by the fact that you could mine in complete safety forever and ever and ever. There's nothing wrong with a self sufficient gamma island, with the previous bonuses for building, PROVIDED THAT THE ISLAND ISNT' DAMN NEAR COMPLETELY SAFE>>> like it was before. I don't know, from my perspective why would I spend time, resources and risk my assets to move *** out to gamma in order to be able to build *** there? Much safer and time efficient to just ship stuff FROM gamma to an alpha 2 and do production there.

If people move to a gamma island, it gives NEW PEOPLE somewhere to move and still be able to aquire the same *** as gamma folks, except for colixium. So now, the bitter vets move to gamma, the new players move to beta, pvp happens, mining epriton happens, game is good. There's a logical progression there.

Look at this realisticly not from some lofty idealistic viewpoint of what could and should happen. There's MAYBE 3 groups of players in the game that will build bases on gamma, and one of them currently own's 9/10th's of the beta stations.

That's my point.

If the vets move to gamma and start fighting over that, their attention will be away from beta which gives new players a place to exploit for their own purposes. This is a good thing! They can get their feet wet on beta and should they desire use that to fuel their push for their own gamma. All good for the game.

This is key, with epriton on beta gamma corps will always want to control beta