He has quietly condoned harassment, account sharing, exploits, macroing and deliberate game breaking while doing largely nothing about it. As a consequence the economy is beyond repair and the type of behavior that would get you banned in 9/10 MMO's is now common place enough to boast about on the forums.

Beacons however is something that is just insane. Right from the point that the Devs said this behavior is not intended and took steps to stop it there should have been action if it continued. Nothing super serious but escalating temp bans would have been appropriate. This would be what, fix number four or five after the original attempted fix?

How in the world are you going to stop people breaking your game with exploits if you do absolutely nothing when you catch them. Your encouraging people to exploit to compete. The amount of stuff injected in to this game by it is unbelievable and this 'aw shucks' every time it happens is one of the main reasons there is no future for perp.

Didn't you move on to a game, or did that tank already?

Then why have you done nothing about the people doing it over and over and over again.

I'm not talking about fixing the mechanic, you can spend all day fixing every little bug thats in the game and never ever keep up. I'm talking about dealing with the people who are deliberately abusing these mechanics. You do realize that once this is gone there will be something else? And then something else after that.

You will NEVER fix all the ways to deliberately gain advantage by abusing mechanics, no game has. You will only ever deal with the people. Despite concrete proof - you sat and watched him! you still do nothing. Its the same as macros. The same as dragging red mobs. The same as ASCII art on your forums. If you do nothing it keeps happening. If you temp ban people they start raising tickets asking if its ok before they do it, or they just don't do it at all.

Look how well that view is working out for you. You've had to attempt to fix the same issue four times before removing it from the game completely. In doing so you have removed the point of PVE with static spawns on Beta. Is that fixing the root issue?

Meanwhile assets are flooding in to the game to the point now where your economy is a joke, your balance is none existent and people don't even have to PVE.

It's very easy to formulate what is not allowed, you said it in this thread. If you've gained serious advantages using a mechanic that’s not intended you’re at best abusing mechanics and at worse taking advantage of an exploit.

It’s very easy to track when this is happening – it’s a simple database pull of items created per day from missions / beacons / mining spawns / any other source. Add that to a data pull of where these assets are going by corp / station / player and look for spikes.
It doesn’t take a genius to know if hundreds of blue 1 star mech beacons are getting used  in a week there is a reason why.

I actually told new recruited members to not donate to the corp.  They asked why?  I told them because once you have what our corp has we can fight 4 wars and still survive for a solid year losing 3 to 4 bots a day and not be freaking out.  It's when a corp reaches THAT point that the game is ***.  I mean literally think about it?  If Me and a handful of people can outfit our players in robots day in and day out how in the hell do you think a newer entity can compete?  It's complete madness to think how much T1 and T2 have been generated from beacons, etc..  I have 22,000 medium armor plates.  WTF am I going to do with 22K armor plates???  The reason I ask for a wipe is simple.  Beacons have *** this economy:

October 2014:

July 2014:

July 2014:

I'm not sure if the following posts from 2013 and 2012 and 2011 would agree but there is so much dropped for the beacons.

PLAYERS DO NOT WANT TO DO BEACONS TRADITIONAL WAYS BECAUSE THEY STAND RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU WHEN THEY EXPLODE, MAKING IT PRETTY HARD TO SUSTAIN

Why not do it on alpha, cause then I have to haul it to Beta or gamma.  And my haulers have like 100% chance of getting scouted coming in so I can only make one trip before I have to send combat through 100% of the time.  Not worth it.

Doing beacons on Alpha is worse then doing beacons on Beta.

There's no risk involved whatsoever.

It's not only about tracking the volumes, it's about creating a setting where assets get reliably removed from the game. The killboards have looked terrible for most of the game and no surprise assets are bulking up.

Always the newer players getting *** over.

Stockpiles aren't a big problem that requires a server reset. Most of in-game stockpiles would dry up in a matter of days if there were ~200 man fights happening, like during the SovNov vs M2S world war.

Attracting and keeping players is the big problem. It won't be solved overnight, one step at a time. The Devs are on the right path so far, with field terminals (and consequently better missioning) slowly spreading through the layers of the game, and incentives for people to fight for Beta outposts which will later on translate into incentives to fight for Gamma islands.

One step at a time.

They need to bring back roaming PVP too not barricade people even further behind defenses. Roaming PVP is the casual PVP type. Casual players want to hop into a bot, go to Beta and kill or die trying. Do a real bot and equipment rebalance, remove proximity probes under the teleports and fix those annoying scouts sitting under teleports.

Focusing solely on SAP warfare is bound to fail. People go there to win or don't go at all. Noone is going to merely test the surface with a couple billion worth of assets.