All the new alpha islands have a lot of ore on them. I realize you're seeing m2s there, and think it's unbalanced because of that, however it's a great place to gather resources. I don't see it as a huge threat to the entire game.

Just players taking advantage of the good spots. You'll notice with the spread the spots on alpha will be decent as well.

Other corps knew of the good resources there as well, RG, TOG etc. I don't think you've seen them.

I don't see much unbalanced about it to be honest.

Dont focus on the sidenote of that first post.

I am seeing more and more player there - i wrote that also into that post.

The questions is: WHY are there corps that have now unlimited access to beta islands with better outposts, better spawns and better ore deposits... oh wait, why do we have 100 cycle deposits on attalica, with roaming npcs and stuff that can happen, but 255 cycle deposits all over tellesis which is relative EMPTY.

and unlike any earlier expectations - CIR is Powermining the same spot day after day, since the expansion went life.

And they are mining a a blob of rivelers.

i just mentioned m2s as the most used quote from them since early beta was "no risk no fun" - and now they are all farming on the themepark alpha island with the lowest risk factor you can imagine.

From the blog post:

I think, part of the NPC issue with Telleis is simply that many vet's, including myself, far out EP/equip the 3 and 4 star bots; but choose not to go to the harder spawns on Beta.

Alpha-II's aren't meant to be the hardest spawns. If farming NPC's on Alpha-II required 6 months of EP and MK-II bots, then PVE players would have nothing to do after they 'conqured' the Alpha-I islands after 2 months of EP.

Point being that I can take (3) 4 star Ewar and (2) 3 star assault DPS with my Baph MK-II with T4 lasers and tuners and level 7 basic skills. However, if you tune that spawn to where it is 'difficult' for me, then the 3 month EP player with a MK I won't have a chance.

Minerals and Roaming bots, I agree with you completely. The only difference I can see in alpha-I vs. II is the distances to outpost. On Alpha-I, your never more than 2-3k from an outpost or teleport when mining. It would be highly challenging on alpha-II, with it's single outpost, to get your 50 kph Riveler on/off the field when your 4-5k from an outpost or TP. So, while there should be roamers, they should be 'slow' mechs and 'rarer' then on Alpha-I.

Titan isn't supposed to be rare remember, so putting 12 islands worth of Titan on 6 islands is going to result in red fields.

Some adjustments are needed, but keep in mind that Alpha's 'are' carebear Islands and the added 'logistics' for beta corps to move titan around isn't a negligable factor in the equation for having titan red tiles.

24 Rivelers would be ... like 3 acutal players right

I jest, but mining is one of those activites that lends itself, and rightly so, to multi-boxing; much more so than combat. After getting there and setting up, it is rather boring and 2-3 accounts per player allows other combat players to concentrate on protecting the group and/or NPC farming (which is much more difficult to multi-box).

Replaced Indy tuner with ECCM -.-

I hope it was a superior, because if it was a grand one I will laugh hard

havent met the superiour observer since the small unanounced AI change, but i never saw it repairing itself the two times i killed it, though my seth can stay out of its ecm/demob/dps range anyway.

I think your whole argument is not valid until you can look around the other A2 islands. I've been living in Tellesis, only because my corp operates there.

Max plants on Tellesis is 50, and they are harvested out near the terminal and heavy traffic areas.  Move away from it and that fixes your problem. Heaven forbid that you need to be in a light bot to harvest the hard to reach areas. Until I see other islands, I see no problem here. If anything, once I have a good foot in the door in EP and cash, I might explore other A2 islands since the A1 are laggy. I only go to B Islands to Ninja the high end ore. So sooner or later, I will get blown up.

Zex, you should not only read the first post that is already 4 weeks old with 4 patches inbetween your answer and the start of the topic