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Mining/harvesting on Betas should also be more efficient than currently, and not just to station owners.

Thats rubbish. We did the whole industry thing from initia just fine.

It is true that if you live on the same island you are probably going to have some sort of agreement. Thats not to say  you have too - look at when Norhoop was opened for new people, multi factions on the same island can happen. Its more likely to be one faction per beta island though. I'm of the opinion six factions are better than two.

There are more mechanics for this now too - if they increased the mineral spawn rate it would be feasible to box your station in with walls and an entrance and have .. relative .. safety with minimal scouting.

Of course it matters. Its the difference between double plate shield making it back to station or not. sure you will die sometimes but not all the time. Walla kind of have their place as an anti roamer mechanic. bombs imbalance that somewhat but nothing is perfect.

I was sure Titan was on Beta?

Also pretty much plus one across the board.

What gets me is the complete balance of the system.  Alpha1 are terrible, rightfully so.  The outposts on alpha1s have some facilities that are comparable with alpha2.  But the others facilities are terrible.  Then we have alpha2s across the board decent facilities across the board.  Then you move into Pvp area.  You have beta 1s and 2s that have either two facilities a little better than alpha and the rest on par with alpha2s or two really good ones and the rest on par with alpha 1s...  Then gamma has the best of the best.  Anything in a Pvp area should be the best of the best.  Betas should have more facility points period.  I said this very thing 3 years ago dynamic ore systems don't work on beta.  Because: fixed red spawns, too dangerous and logistics heavy.  Why risk miners and transport on the field for HOURS when I can mine semi afk on alpha and do just a quick logistics run into beta to refuel?  Same thing goes for gamma and annoying roaming npcs,  the packs are too big on gamma for a single combat to handle so you either have two choices:  force group play, good luck with server population or mine it on alpha and haul it in.  Forcing group play is good in some instances but if I need a sequer load of HDT And I roll a riveler out to mine it, I shouldn't get pushed away from my mining area by roaming npcs every 5 minutes, it's bullshit.

the risk of beeing killed afk needs to be the same on all islands.

robots need to explode on regular basis - thats the core of the ingame industry.
since PvP is to unreliable to achieve that, it needs to be solved via NPCs.

the game has not, and will probably never get, the critical mass of players to remove assets from storages at least as fast as they are produced...

99% of suggestions revolves around reverting years of development with zero idea or consideration for the problems that resulted in community outcry for the features we have now.

It will be entertaining to watch how far will zoom go with his appeasement, which after the Gamma revamp would pretty much be flat out admitting every development decision in the last 3-4 years has been a mistake.

If they listened to community outcry the terrible balancing patch would be reverted.

*Watching the wheel be reinvented

Opening Beta 1's wont address any of your above mentioned questions on its own, and in the current state will only change how players are being herded and purged. (especially the two alliance one)

New players have no mechanics to combat a vet players like myself targeting them on a Beta 1. The only way to overcome me would be superior numbers 10+ and some fundamental knowledge.

Back when Beta was populated, alpha based players had the golden triangle as a economic foundation for combats on top of industry. (Hopefully new assignments achieve this access to nic?)

Until new players can support their basic needs in a cost effective way(INTUITIVE METHOD) to grow and learn they will continually leave the game.

Vets spend 1 day of effort for a month worth of supplies. I remember having to organize 20+ players to produce a few days worth of supplies.

Now you have a worse situation than launch as a new player but the added pressure of hardcore players free of any obligations besides seeking a 'thrill' or 'pvp' hunting. (The same feeling the server had fighting M2S dupped fleets)

Lemon we know the problems, you don't like my solution (which is fair enough), come up with a better one. If this station *** doesn't work in the next six months we need a plan c, d, e etc.

It has to be low dev work, potentially high impact. If its gonna work we'll ofc support it.

Mining could be fixed by something as simple as increasing the amount of fields on an island and adding an island-wide public aura for yield that stacks with outpost auras.

This is the same stuff I'm talking about, you could cross over Gamma and Beta All day long with things like deployable turrets for defense and Offense that are 15 ~60 minutes long.  That you have to Power Manually.