Not hard to protect an outpost from 1 assault.

Says the guy with no outposts... Says the guy who thinks 'waiting' is an effective strategy when the enemy shows up with a 'blob'.  One guy in an assault in the off timezone is all it takes to bring a station down up to 20 pts.

I know people don't like that the game unintentionally copies EVE mechanics but we really need to look at their ownership mechanics (which aren't perfect by a long shot). There should be 3 locations around a base (Saps) all should be destro with 3-5 x the current hp and more resists than current. When all 3 are destroyed the Real Sap goes live with in 12- 24 hours if taken the Outpost is put in to Contested (0%) its open to all.

Now we would need another mechanic for deciding who wins the OP like a very large Passive hack that counts per corp not per agent, Corp A has 3 agents in masked lights skirting Corp B 5 agents in Heavies. Of course 5 is more than 3 but the Sap will stay contested until only Corp A or B is the only corp in the Passive area for 2-3 hours. Timer pauses when other corp enters control area.

Once control is established the 3 Destro control points go live and process can be repeated.
Destro points should have a passive repair mechanic.
Destro points should produce a Gamma style alarm.

Now comes the problem of Sap loot. and old saps
Only agents from the owning corp gets access to a set of extra daily missions. Only the CEO gets a mission that would be difficult to complete alone but one that would drop up to a current full active hack drop. Other missions would include harvesting noralgis for PLs and mining epi for PLs, Combat missions with PVP ammo rewards.

Maybe Ville can put in some ideas on productions since I'm just a go getter when it comes to production.

Edit. Only 2 Beta stations can be held by one corp.

No, you are removing content, Even if the terminals started off with the original production designs, remember some had boosts to Refining and Factory, while others had prototype and reverse engineering.  Maybe even at 0 stability the bases still offered you 50 points to the specific roles it previously had in intrusion 1.0.

I REALLY liked the system in Intrusion 1.0 were I could Rent a station to my enemys, In Example:  The station was open and the enemy had to sign up for a battle.

I did not like the endless amount of station games that came from open terminals and all the trash talking station alts that spawned from it.

Why I remowe content?

But if you wanted to say, the Alpha marketers will be in trouble then yes (me included also). They will. But the issues is we would need PVP, and we would need targets for it.

Just remove the intrusion charges for beta, no scan times known. We will see how this small change, will make a big difference for the better.

So one man corps taking saps?

That's a population problem not a game design problem.

Anyone should be able to hold a terminal if they can defend the saps. If they aren't there to defend the saps they shouldn't have the terminal. That's whatthe devs intended and that's how its working. If you aren't capable of stopping one assault from taking your sap every 8-16 hours then you should stay in archage

Yet another PHM/CIR "We want moar content" thread, when you could have all the content you desire so simply.

It's not even about should 1 person be able to take a sap, but the fact that there's so few people in the game that 1 person can take a sap when there's no-one to defend.

You know how many times you guys have thrown it in everyone's face that if you can't defend it you don't deserve it? Now you're saying that 1 guys shouldn't be able to take a sap in someone's "off time?" Give me a *** break. I'm gonna do it.... Yep, here it comes!!!!

If you can't even muster enough to defend against ONE *** ASSAULT, then maybe you don't deserve to hold that station.

Oh, no he didn't! Yes, I did, just use your argument against you.

Even if it's you guys attacking someone else's sap the exact same thing could be said. Again, the problem isn't with the mechanics, it's with the players, both the lack there-of and the blindly allying up because they're (to use sindics term) risk-adverse.

This is my point:  In the current mechanic during an Alliance offtime 1 guy in an assault bot can completely hinder the corps main incentive to move out to Beta.  So if an Alliance wants to properly "hold" a strong industrial presence they need to develop into an alliance that can cover 3 major timezones. 

Everyone here wants to make it so that 3 or 5 guys in one timezone can hold a Terminal.  The problem is the suggested ideas is not scalable with size AND its one sided.  Because 3 to 5 guys who live in an area could flip a terminal and station through dedication, but how long does that last?  Until you flip a station then those 3 to 5 guys once again will need to take time out of their game play to then DEFEND and WAIT and do a mission item.  <----That doesn't sound like fun.  In fact that sounds like the people suggesting those ideas never CTA'd for 4 days straight before.

*Edited Note* -  Those 3 to 5 guys would be subjected to that one same guy in an assault bot hitting Their Saps in the off time zone, creating a perpetual loop of chaotic mini game of capture the station, leading to even worse, more incentive to join a major alliance and create a super blob.

What I liked, was Owning a station and having an enemy live out of it and you collected rent.  We can't do this in the current setup because if the stations are open then opportunists would be open season for hitting SAPs, which would be fun for like the 5 to 7 dudes who like hitting the saps and moving along, but would completely disrupt an organized alliance ownership of an Island.  Because they would again be bombard constantly with the SAPs going up and down.  Hindering any kind of incentive to want to live out there.

And to address our Alliance owning all the stations, what do you think is the logical progression for a PVP alliance in a territorial warfare game?  It's to get pvp and gobble up as much land as you can to produce those Major fights.  Let's face it you don't get heavy mech/ewar mech fights out of 100 % SAPs, you don't get a 20 on 20 battle after an assault bot ghanks a miner or a harvestor.  And there needs to be an active charismic leader on the other side of the fence who understands that a Strong Industrial backbone is key before sticking their neck out in the PVP arena and biting off more than they can chew while practicing and having fun.

They key to all this is having fun.  Which we are all having very little of in this game.  The vets don't want to twirl around in light bots and the newbs can't run heavys.  So we have this massive player base GAP.  We have Brand new guys and then theres the bitter vets.  There is no enthusiastic middle ground.

TL;DR version:

All the steamlings left to play something else and it's back to 20 dudes.

There's plenty of people to fight in AA.