EVE taught us why this model sucks. Google "moons" and "ice" if you don't have first-hand experience.

Actually, while this would be interesting for the market and could also be an interesting piece of contention to create some tention/political shifts it would ultimately lead to larger alliances as there will be people that don't want to trade onto the market so they will expand their numbers, and by extension, their footprint on the world to trade internally.

I don't think anyone really wants this.

Though overall I find this an interesting proposal, you have to admit this is a serious issue. Alliances are already large, and this would create extremely strong incentives for alliances to become even bigger, or discriminate and mostly take players using a certain faction. Though it's good to dream that these corps will trade with each-other, they are unlikely to do so. Of course they might try to ninja-mine a bit, but after a while they'll realise it's easier to just merge the corps.

I like this all however the way i would do it, is create factional "attributes".

Some form of bonus added to whatever was being made, perhaps per type of item created (such as weapons/ammo, armor/shield, industry mods and other secondary mods.

Keep all the resources as is, but add factional "rares" only found on the related island.  Except ill call them catalysts to reduce confusion.

When creating items one of these catalysts could be added to imbue the item with its effect.

So, for example, anyone wanting to make industrial mods with a faster cycle time mod would need to go to the factional island where that catalyst would drop and farm for it, while farming on another island would produce catylsts that increased output.

Either way i like the idea of giving me a reason to go to another factions island, but i dont like the idea of limiting the most vital materials, especially since you cant do missions when in a diffrent faction without penalty.

This needs to be done to facilitate newer players not in a corp, as those are the people in the game hurting the most and the most needed imo.

Not to get off topic but those not in a corp are treated to a market void of variety and prone to overpricing due to the lack of "need" for the most active individuals in big corps to buy and sell through the market.  Seems they are more or less self sufficiant and that leads to a very inactive market with little variety and even the most simplest items out of price range for anyone remotely new.  Thats the biggest issue i see with the market.

Reducing the location of standard resources is only going to further hurt these players.

I would take it into a different direction. Only titan and HDT should be available in abundance on Alpha (meaning big fat red fields). Everything else should be less common (medium yellowish fields) to discourage a playstyle many corps employ (including mine to a degree) of basing on Alpha industry.

It would also give extra incentive to fight to hold your Beta outpost rather then start ninja-hauling everything out once the attacks start coming in. Main problem in Beta is that we got the carrot now in the form of L4 facilities & rich fields & rich NPCs, however the symptom hasn't been cured that rich fields (everything except Epriton) & rich NPC's are still available on Alpha.

At this time any corporation can "log on alpha alts" and stockpile stuff Alpha-side until the attacker gets bored of controlling their outpost, and ninja-capture SAPs in preparation to re-crawl into Beta until the cycle repeats.

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Also a good way to stimulate "faction ores" would be to increase the amount of PL-XX that drops from mining those ores on those islands. Perhaps they could implement a PL-YY(100? 150?) that could only be gathered on the faction islands?

It's not a nerf, it's an incentive to making the game more busy and less /afk-bot-farming. If I want to fart around Alpha thats my choice, but the game shouldn't be rewarding me equally as it rewards the players that risk getting shot by other players and losing their stuff.

While there are 5-star heavy mech spawns farmable on Alpha, and red nodes of everything but Epriton on Tellesis/Shinjalar/Hershfield, Beta will just be an appendix where players go to get bored out of their minds until they quit.

Can you farm/get as much money in EVE's highsec as you can in lowsec/nullsec? I'm pretty damn sure you can't. That's the trade-off for Concord's protection.

You *** NAILED IT.

Just Sayin
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I'm sorry, I have to disagree with you on most of your points.

Farming on beta is more rewarding, in all aspects then alpha. There's only 3 spots on all the alpha islands with 5th star heavies on it, and they're usually camped out. There's 5th teir heavy spawns in a short walking distance of most beta outposts. And considering explosions on beta, they're actually easier to farm there. And on top of that you have epriton, which you can mine and sell a portion to pay for all your other ores the alpha guys mined for you. PLUS the outposts there on beta pay more nic for the plasma.

I played Eve for several years, both as a high sec carebear mission runner, and as in a 0.0 space holding major alliance (Razor). As an ordinary pilot, the best way to make money out in 0.0 was doing exploration sites.  When you compared doing anomalies or belt ratting, mission running wasn't that far off for equally skilled/experienced pilots. Considering Perp doesn't have exploration sites similiar I would say the above benefits for being on beta outweight stayin on alpha, in a pure money making sense.

If Alpha was so good, why does anyone at all live on beta?

*edit* Back on topic... This has been discussed numerous times, and while I somewhat like the idea of there being island specific ores, I'm not sure it's a good idea. The main thing that drags about the game is the vast amount of time spent moving from one place to another, and alot of other people I've spoken to have felt the same way. The new freighter would probaly help, but I've a feeling it's going to be even slower then a lithus (meaning longer point A to point B transit times) which is bad.

We either need more highways, or raise the base velocity of every bot by 100%. THEN add more islands.

where the hell did i write "nerf alpha" ?

where does a noob build t3-t4 items?
please reread my posts.