Final cost of production, ability to sustain PVP.

As you are a sportscaster now, not an agent. I will let it pass this time. No hate, just sick.

Peace

U trollin or what? PVP success is measured in ISK, i mean NIC.

My gameplay is actually not all that affected by the changes.  I can only play for a few pre-defined hours on specific days so no matter how many intrusions are occurring at 2am or 2pm I will not be there.

For many of us who were active on beta before I2.0 the problem was lack of other people to play with/against.  It stemmed from the imbalance of risk/effort vs reward and lack of incentives encouraging small groups of people to venture out on beta.

Since the changes I have not seen anyone new try to move to beta and take an outpost.  The fundamental reason for this I think is that you gain very little while being pounced on by predatory corps who would fight each-other for a piece of your pie. 

Perhaps its too early to tell but judging by everyone's mood, the new system is not encouraging anyone to try to move out to beta.

As for the people talking tough and saying that everyone else is not hardcore enough for beta, well we will see how many of you are still active in three months time when there's nobody left to shoot.

So are you looking for a corp or just unhappy with the low population?

I suspect the game still has a reasonable number of subscribers.  There is just not that much to do.

You can mine, farm, scan for artifacts or waste your NIC on pvp in which you can't actually win anything.  This leads to people either staying on alpha or joining the blob because everything they can do in a small group is easier and less risky and most importantly no less profitable as a blob.

Devs I do appreciate that you need to make changes in small incremental steps.  I am all for that.  However, I would ask you to please think outside the box.  What is important now is not the specific game mechanics you use but what kind of game play they encourage.

If only care-bear (alpha or beta) activities are profitable there will be a lack of pvp.  Some of you may think 'well that's fine, I only want to pvp every now and then' but remember this: if players don't get blown up there is no demand for bots or modules and market dries up.

Are you asking to force alpha players to move to beta ,so they can farm kernals? Alpha = less rewards,many of us, although in corps and low player base, do most things solo, you can't expect me to take my heavy to beta solo, its far to risky for the rewards.

I wish I could get into the forum trolling wars between my ingame "enemies" and my allies but I just don't care. Its fun to have a few exchanges in GC or here with Lemon, Ville, Syndic et al but w/e. And my view on Syndic's recent punishment is that I really didn't notice his ingame absence nor did it affect my gameplay either way. Now he's back and simply a more likely primary target when I'm on a roam. Maybe others should take that view?

But this post (and thread) is about I2.0 feedback so here's some:

I think so far the mechanics of I2.0 are great and make for some fantastic gameplay (for Beta and general Pvp). Defending kinda sucks if no one comes but maybe that will be tweaked a bit. The real problem seems to be the low server population.  But I don't think the Devs should alter the I2.0 mechanics because of this, it's a sound system. I believe you have to make the game for how you want it to play, and not accomodate a current and (hopefully) temporary condition. To that end I would ask the Devs what is your advertising and marketing strategy for the near future? Please tell us how you will push the game for more subscribers. This patch is a good first step in revamping Beta for corp empire building and warfare, and coupled with the recent Npc spawn changes and revamped assignments (Pve stuff) I think you guys are on the right track. This system would work extremely well with 20-30 islands, or a few additional continents, and a 1000 active players but what is AC doing to achieve this? Just curious .....

Also, Nova, don't ever stop blobbing, please. I like a strong enemy, and the challenge. But I like the open-endedness of the sandbox that allows you to, even more. I really want as few restrictions on gameplay as possible (but understand the need for some parameters) I'm having great fun lately fighting and killing you guys (and dying!) And its been a blast

I'm quite sure you have to actively play the game to come to this conclusion. Where are you Dazamin?

There is nothing wrong with logging into a game every 2 to 4 hours in every 24 hour period? 

Even if you mean 'on average twice at random points in every 24 hour period' that is still nothing short of insulting to the community.  Why the fetish for alarm clocking?  If you are going to say that statistically the times when you can and can't be there will cancel out, why discriminate against people who actually have a job/are in education?  Why not remove scanning for intrusion times altogether?  You could always balance attacker/defender advantages using intrusion frequency, stability gain/loss per intrusion, and the difficulty of taking a SAP.  There are endless possibilities.

btw does anyone actually think the specimen processing mechanic is appropriate for the current system?

TLDR: Remove scanning for intrusion times and re-balance the system around that.  Stop expecting players to dedicate their entire existence to the game.

So Ville, any update on your opinion of scanning?

Yeah agreed Ville.

However I think the defenders should automatically know when their saps go vulnerable or at least be notified anywhere on the island.

I mean is anyone attacking Norhoop actually gonna move in there any time this year?  Hardly seems like a representation of player activity on an island.  More like institutionalised griefing which would only be much worse with a larger population.  This mechanic encourages blobbing of the worst kind.

Don't get me wrong, removing scanning and changing nothing else may lead to too much of a defender advantage as things stand.  Perhaps some kind of re-balancing would be needed (in small incremental steps).  However attackers would have to use the people they have online at the time rather then arranging a CTA once they know the time.

For those who like massive fights and CTAs, perhaps that could come later with PBSs.