... and what do you think will happen if they try to squeeze all those corporations into three terminals? There's no space to grow or do anything while other outposts are unused but locked, waiting for blob to put their teddy-gloves on out of boredom and letting them live there.

With or without sparks, game world doesn't support healthy number of alliances. If the developers want the game to be healthy, they need to either:
1) Add more Betas.
2) Fix current ones.

In my opinion, it's pretty stupid to saturate the game world with even more empty and broken Betas when only thing they'd have to do is fix the current ones.

Dude, it's not a PVE game. PVE is just a means for PVP. All the game needs is healthy amount of PVP for everyone not just vets and alliances and people will stick around.

*edit: Offensive. - DEV Zoom

If after seeing 3 influxes of players die off I still thought the issues can be fixed by playing, I'd play.

Falling back on the everything is fine rhetoric is easy.

Whoops, i misread the posters, my bad. Didnt mean to talk instead of you ville.

Ville, you always think we have ulterior motives, we are not looking for hand outs, that is not true at all, we want the game to succeed , and we all know the status quo isn't working.

YOUR status quo is not working.  Which is not login and complain on the forums.

Ville, I remember an old post of yours where you complained how boring it was to fight the same people over and over again and how territory control wasn't possible with the unlimited blobs, and how big problem two sides fighting each other were til one either gets bored or conquered followed by months of nothing to do.

Yet now, here you are justifying how 'everything is fine'.

It's just funny how opinions change when you're the one playing the system.

THREE times now, different alliances have captured all Betas. Three times. Do you really believe adding 10-15 minutes of travel time is going to change anything? If someone can hold all Betas with instant travel, they can hold all Betas with 10-15min travel.

You're so unwilling to fix any mechanics before people *** them to pieces. Only then you see the problem.

Good for you, have fun.

Open stations don't create space, they return an old problem to the table - PVP accounts logged off in someone's home-station.

It also creates "escape options", very similar to how mobile teleports used to be. With bot speeds as they are, the same people who stopped playing when they couldn't jump flagged through mobile tp's anymore, could now just run to the closest station/teleport and escape.

It's a dead horse that got beaten into the ground successfully with locked stations.

Corporations should invest assets to harvest cream on Beta.

The cream should be buffed though, as right now there's little to no competition for any station nevermind all of them. Give players tangible economic reason to constantly combat for control of the outposts, instead of "meh might as well live on alpha".

There's no encouragement for corporations to fully move to Betas if their work can be locked off during the holidays/weekend by a bigger force. Then, to get the main asset bank back, they'd have to fight against a locked station, against bigger force, with secondary assets stored elsewhere. Weeeeeeeeee.

Where's the motivation for corporations to move out of Alpha with these conditions?

The whole purpose of this game changed into *** after Beta locks got added. You are either part of the biggest blob and have the PVE content to keep some entertained, or not and have to live off of Alpha until you can take on the blob and repeat the cycle.

Or not play at all like most have chosen.

Where's the fun in that.. ? No wonder this game has no *** population.

More rewards also mean more reasons to blob up and more reasons to lock others off.

The cream part should apply to Gamma. It's the bread-and-butter blob content with huge sieges etc. Beta danger should come from other people trying to kill you.

Nobody gives a *** what an Alt whose to scared to show his main thinks.

Period.