nope, it's not about it.

more landmass = more travel distance and as a result - more risk and danger. those ppl who sit on alpha now will be even more unable to get on beta unless, say, mission rewards or kernel prices will be increased proportionally.

it's not enough to give small corps without alliances an acces to betas - they have it now (yes, it's possible on each island to pass through gate-watchers). they should have some very good reason to use that access.

i think they should get that reason. how long you can play sitting on alpha only?

if you increase kernel prices then you cause inflation.

If you have people with limited access to betas because they run solo getting more money from kernels then what do you think people with constant beta access are doing?

smaller landmass it takes people shorter times to find you and shorter times to get somewhere

bigger landmasses means it takes longer to find you and longer to get somewhere.

Nothing changes except for travel time

Esp. since fight are decided at the moment you undock and have a fixed equipment and groupm setup. If you get scouted - the attacker will have an answer be it a countersetup or just numbers.

If youd have means of hiding from radar (shutting down engines) you actually could create traps or dissappear to a certain extent.

More landmass and more transitions.

They are not escorting them now, they will not in future. More travel distance - more chances for encounter.

indeed, but all this island enlargement is about getting moar ppl on betas, don't it?

They just need to add delta and gamma islands. Make beta like alpha(no pvp). Add bonuses to mining on delta and gamma of 10 and 20% more mined and make the nodes practically endless. Delta should have times that pvp is allowed (like only during intrusion or 4 hours a day at peak population times) and times that it isn't. Gamma should be full pvp all the time. That way people can settle around the kind of game they want and keep everyone happy. Want mechs and don't want pvp? enjoy alpha and beta. Want controlled pvp? enjoy delta. Want full pvp? enjoy gamma.

• Add Gamma Islands

• Add security system whereby attacking players on beta island who are not PVP flagged with result in a negative effect

• Rebalance weapons, robots and robots speeds to make more sense.

• Alpha mining fields should be much larger but at least twice as shallow meaning that newbies will be almost unaffected but older players will struggle more and be forced to either have less return or moved to a beta+ island or further away.

• Add travel paths. These can be calculated by number of unique times a tile is travelled over against the total number of times a tile is travelled over.

• Cloaking/Radar masking for the cost of AP. Lower the range as which your robot can be seen on the radar and another module to increase the distance you can detect other robots on the radar.

the islans will be much bigger once they reduce the radar range (next patch) and reduce the max speed of dps-dealing robots to even/balanced levels.

please reflect what i wrote, combine it with your knowledge and alexanders post in the "nerf ewar speed topic"....

light ewar bots are not used for ewar... they can deal dps (even that it is low, its sums up with the mass) and run fast.

i dunno why the other devs talked Alf out of the "nerf ewar-speed" and increase the other bots base speed instead.
During the whole beta , the argument was - no higher speed as it will make the islands even smaller then they are now.

And its all for the sake of so-called roaming gangs beeing able to kill mining bots.

alongside came:
- logoff restrictions
(argument: a losing blob would just log off during a battle, minimizing losses - EvE tactic)
- mobile teleporter restrictions, rendering them almost useless for anything.
- PvP flag mechanics
- Teleport-lock (molecular instability)

just run around an alpha island with a non-lwf fitted assault or mech, and you will see how big those islands are if your speed is down to 40-60 kph, instead of 80-130 kph.

Yeah i proposed something similar in my pve/pve/trading interconnection idea. pvp should be influenced by a small political system on this island to polarizepopulation and to increase dynamics between players and their player decisions.

Speed is a big issue in this game due to the fact there is one travel mechanic and the fastest player in the group is always the most important.

Speed did reduce the size of the islands and it's an issue but what about when you want to travel and not PVP? Honestly I'd like to see LWF give a much greater speed bonus but remove a lot more health or effect targeting in some way.

Light ewar robots should never have had a DPS opportunity but due to balancing they're about to easily equip three T4 weapon tunings and a T4 Amp. 107 KPH DPS Intakt is greater in almost every way than a 95 KPH Suppressing Intakt.

A Zenith out ewars a light ewar robot easily but the massively reduced speed means they're only used in engagements of which most rights only last a few minutes once they've started the res tof the 45 minutes is spent dancing around trying to see who makes a mistake first.

Speed is not the balance issue really. The lack there of other travel options, fitting balances (Why does every robot has 2 set-ups that are optional and sometimes three? Where is the choice?) and the lack of players/conflict worthy locations.

Stealth is only going to make it easier for the alpha island dwellers to infiltrate enemy islands. It's not going to cause any more conflicts.

Best option? Take an entire alliance. Move the industry to Alpha islands, ninja mine anything you need (Which is very little) and then move all your combat players to the heart of the enemy. That way once there are 5 or more of you online, get ready and deploy. In a week the enemy will be sick of having to keep 10 people on guard at all times that they'll either leave, have their players leave and crumble or just out right give up and Q.Q on the forums about how it's unfair.

i would say low range.... the medium demob module should have a more effective demob, but a lesser range, so light-bots demob be still usefull.