Well, the problem with NPC Spawns realy hurts new players at the moment.

Just for excample the the level 0 mission where you need to kill&loot NPC. As new player your lock time is slow and so your changs to finish your mission is pritty low when there are 3 to 5 more advanct Player with Assault bots and Sensor Boosters.

So you start, sit in your fency little Spider .... and notice, that you need 30 mins to finish your mission as the spot is totaly overfarmed.

You see excakt the same bot 500 meter left/right/top/bottom but with them you can't finish your mission as they aren't in the red area.
And this is the real problem . Area bount missions, not NPC-bount missions.
If I have to kill 5 drones ANY drone should finish the mission. Not just the one in the red little cicle. If I have to loot 7 items from "1st star xxx" ANY "1st star xxx" should drob this items for me. Not just the one in this little red cicle.

This would of course need some code changings.
Check on kill "player has mission x need to loot item y related to this bot-type? add additional loot y".

600 new players in (2) days...

They can't possibly adjust the spawn rate to fully account for 600 new players, and while the idea of dynamic spawns is great, if it's not already coded, by the time they finished it, 50% of those 600 will have moved on (no one expects 100% retention of the latest Eve inrush) and many of the remaining will have joined corps and moved off the Alpha-1 Islands.

So, the effort for dynamic spawns would be wasted, as the 'swarm' of new players will no longer be in the starter areas. So the only benefit would be to now-vet-players farming fast spawning NPC bots that dynamically match thier kill ability; great for them, not so great for balance.

This shortage will adjust itself as players progress. The best way to STOP farming of the lower mission npc's is to make it less profitable to do it.

Slow the respawn rate, but create multiple spawns areas, so that OP players killing the 6 NPC's in 1 minute will have to wait 5 mins until they respawn, but the appropriate level player will kill them slower and will either never kill them all, or only have a short wait for the next respawn. And if one site is busy, they can optionally go to a second or third, that are far away from each other, but the same dist. from the outpost.

For Alpha-2 spawns - competition isn't just about PVP on beta, lock faster.

lol... are you calling me a PVPer?

Something else is growing too, if you know what i mean

Graphical representation of bitterver migration from eve

i didn't realize they were doing that until i looked at my loot after a drone kernel collection run. after noticing that people were leaving the mission loot behind, i've started doing the same. everyone benefits!

Corporate development of alpha2 territory is a neat idea. Would give carebears 4 lyfe a way to change the map. Toll roads and outposts that can change hands only after a bidding war would add a sense of vibrant life to otherwise static territory, and would also serve as a handy player scaled sink for nic if it gave preferential access to better factories. Even better if they generated half the income from taxes that would otherwise go to npcs from markets and service usage. Would give alpha2 outpost owning players an incentive to encourage others to migrate out to their territory.

Okey Dokie!!
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No Effect just a active"Imagination".

There they go again, taking credit for the result of the devs wiping a corp....

You really don't understand what that means, do you?

1) The only items showing more sell orders are T1 items.  Most of the T2 & T3 stuff is gone.  T4's last due to high costs so few are able to afford many of these yet high-demand items are also disappearing.

2)  New players are the cause of this.

3) Many of the new players are from EVE and are joining other new players from EVE but some are finding their ways into existing corporations as well.
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1> There are TONS of spawns.  The problem is that you have to navigate back to them and everyone wants to hunt as close to the main-bases as they can.  As such, the more distant ones still aren't being hunted much.

A major problem here is the terrain.  Walking around mountains and around valleys...  Not too bad if you can plan on it yet many mountains and valley paths, where you need to go into them, lead to dead ends so you run around and around trying to find a path that works.

--- Some barricades need removal to provide more pathways - fewer dead-ends.

2>  Put highways between the outposts and terminals on the islands.  The long run versions would allow folks to step out anywhere along the path making faster transport between locations.  This would also make possible getting to more distant spawn points more readily - spreading out the hunters.

Not "instant gratification" with teleports at every single location but enable faster, direct movement where the players can exit the roadway at any point.

3> Sorry but I've yet to play any MMO where the NPC's had to follow the rules the players do.  Some things we just have to put up with.

Right now most of us new guys can only build t1 stuff, so that's all you're seeing us put on the market. In a few weeks we'll have saturated that and moved on to t2 and beyond. Prices will come down with the increase in manufacturers not tied to a single corp.

As the market becomes more liquid and dependable, hoarding gear and minerals in commiecorp style will become less and less useful. Why? Because doing it all in house is a pain in the butt, and it's a horrifyingly irritating distraction when your core competency is pvp. It just makes sense to have a few duders who haul stuff -- minerals, rat drops, etc -- out to a central market in a safe zone for sale, and come home with a bunch of mods and cash for use in DER WARZ. Plus it's way less organizationally demanding, so there's less chance of burnout or accidental errors, and makes it easier for new corps to form up and head out into pvp.

So while things are stuck in commieland inhouse production nightmares for now, the development of the primary markets in alpha will eventually develop to the point that none of it is necessary and corps can slim down and focus on what they like best: building, mining, killing, what have you.