I see corporate dialogue is spilling over.

No it's *** to think people are going to trek all over an island with 500 million worth of assets to do possibly what 15 million Nic worth of drops?  Think about it Beastmode would you risk that?  Let's not even consider Pvp what happens when a wave spawn produces 8 vagabonds and a demobilization kain then observers roll up on you?  You ever try to do ANYTHING involving industry on gamma?  Even 5 minutes a group of npcs roll up on you.  Ask yourself, why isn't gamma populated?  Well simple it forces way to much group play 100% of the time.  It's not casual friendly and it's more work for 5 people than gain.

I get Gammas end game content, but when there's 25 dudes across the world playing...  Scaling it a bit to make the QoL game play for those people really that game breaking??

Maybe YOU should realize who your talking too and realize WHO avoided broken beacon mechanics internally.  Instead of pointing a finger.

The devs made the decision they didn't like beacon pits. They adopted it so you can put limited amounts of beacons in one place.

Despite this clear intent you lot decided to abuse the mechanics to do what was clearly and explicitly not intended.

Once the Devs found out they had to change the game to prevent it removing AOE. You lot decided it was everyone else who was at fault despite this being a clear reaction to abuse.

Even after this change you lot were STILL abusing beacons to the point that they have now been removed.

And your whining about it.

Really you should take a look at yourselves and the impact your behavior has had on this game and its success.

I like how this goes from "me" to "you lot" real quick.  Some of us did things the old fashioned way.  So quit assuming and harassing people about committing exploits that not everyone used.  ***.

Say please.

If you were around for the old tech system youd say it was like masturbating with sandpaper with a picture of Jita looking at you from behind.

So it would take 8 people two days. Big deal.
You can make excuses for abusing game mechanics for gain if you want but the fact is its unbalancing to the game world and has serious consequences. Its no surprise that corps like NSE and Cons go from assault roams to constant Seth mk2 usage – it’s funded through abusing mechanics. The same way that PHM and CIR got their stockpiles. Qwerty macroing behind gamma walls, CIR account sharing industrial accounts, using cargo exploits, abusing mission mechanics, abusing beacons. All this creates an industrial base that allows constant PvP without industry and therefore puts these people at an advantage vs those that do have to do industrial work.
The Devs have time and again advocated this behaviour by doing nothing about it. A full wipe wouldn’t help without a change in Dev behaviour.

As for research, it’s another example of terrible mechanics that encourage people to leave. Once you have completed the tech tree Kernals are useless. They built a system that requires work to get to a point and then forever after that zero work. That’s just bad design. It’s the same with EP – once you have trained what you need to train it’s there forever.  The game mechanics encourage people to leave, to stop killing rats, to stop trading for kernals.