First off:
1.
Alpha 1 should always be 100% safe. its the noob zones so leave them in peace.
2.
IF any of the ideas posted in this thread do happen it should be on Alpha 2 islands.
As it stands now An alpha 2 island is divided up into "zones". Lets use shinjala as an example.
Shinjala has 7 zones. I propose that zones that have a TP that leads to a beta island get the reintroduction of Police towers 2.0. And add some of the outer zones with police towers.
So safe zones:
Dampalor
Teqolec
Inqular Bay
Police tower protected zones:
Koija
Avash
Inqular Peninsula
Ordurai
I would recommend tho adding a WHY Between Dampalor II to the station.
Police towers 2.0 wouldnt work like 1.0 So no towers with a area of protection.
The idea:
All acts of aggression are punished by The Syndicate. I propose that there be 1 police tower placed at the station on each alpha 2 island. This tower will fire a OMGWTFBBQ missile that will fly off to kill the Aggressive player.
FLIGHT TIME will matter. this will mean. Say u want to do some mining in Koija But your only 100m into the "less than safe zone" the flight time of that syndicate missile will be very short. So if you have at least a light tank on u probably will live. & the bad guy will get roasted
The bad guy also knows if he can find a target WAY out on say the Inqular Peninsular Hes going to have alot more time to kill his target B4 he gets whacked.
Doing Police towers like this does away with the old problem of police towers.
But it also calls for a new type of pvp flagging. call it criminal flagging. Once u get this your dead any where u go. you cant log. you cant use TPs.
For the Police tower its self ide imagine something like a missile Silo. That launches cruise missiles. The Syndicate uses human tech & isnt bound to use the Faction Tech that is found on each island.
So what does doing this all mean?
First off new player with better skills will still be able to go to an alpha 2 island get to its station & do their thing with out fear of getting ganked.
But if they or others wish to get to some better spawns or a better bigger ore deposit further out theres some risk. tho they know if they can hold out a nice syndicate cruise missile is on its way.
Also i say unlike the way eve does it. Any 1 who gets a criminal flag can be shot at / killed by any one. the criminal flag is basically a big .. plz execute me now to any 1 near by
any way thats just my idea for how this could work if the devs went this way.
Also as population grows ide recommend adding more Alpha islands that work on this same principle having the whole island working on this system.
this could provide a gentle scaling up to the free for all pvp zones.
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PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?