I'm going to give you my full two cents here. I am not going to go into great detail because no one at AC will care or read it anyway. But here we go:
THERE HAS TO BE WAR, but it can't be ALL OR NOTHING. PVP is great and good but there needs to be something worth while to play for.
All or nothing stems with the territorial warfare aspect of the game. People LOVE taking bases on Beta and gamma and using them and settling into them but we are hella close. And the random timers are great mini game but they aren't friendly to corporation based game play they are for alliances. Which worked 3 years ago because there were people playing, and not EVERYONE had T4 gear and there was a little bit of luck/skill game play involved.
What needs to happen is threefold.
Step One:
Greater restrictions on Beta management need to exist. For example a corporation can only own 1 or 2 stations.
MORE NPC OWNED BETA TERMINALS NEED TO APPEAR. To allow safe spaces. (The PLAYERBASE WOULD LOVE YOU IF YOU MADE CARBON COPYS OF ALPHA AND MADE ADDITIONAL BETA TERMINALS OUT OF THEM).
Step Two:
Syndicate robots, reused animations. We don't care.. I have stacks of thousands of robots in the station in tellesis just hanging out there. We need something different! This same things applys with uping a T5 class thats linear progression with maybe some negative stat modifications. Something to put Veterans in the field mining, producing, moving assists.
Step Three.
QoL items for your playerbase. Gamma needs less NPCs. And more semi afkish things the community can take advantage of. Like deployable mining towers that the players fuel themselves. So we can spend more time doing LESS GRINDY BULLSHIT.
I've started back playing WoW full time again. And you know what a massive developer did? Instead of trying to speed up the grind they push people to end game content where they can be raiding/pvping in under a week.
I should be able to buy 2 million EP for $100 if I want too in this game. Or spend $50 for a black robot.
Your moving to Themepark dynamics, it's time to get the yellow ! over npcs.
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