+1, I don't know what the island layout is like because while I have the test client I haven't loaded it.  However anything at all that makes travel time longer for anyone, especially newbies, is a very bad idea made worse by hampering faction exploration choices.  I know I re-rolled from green to blue inside the first 2 weeks when I started.

I think that the triangle needs to stay, but not just for newbies.

The economy in the game is weak anyways, and removing the triangle will only it more difficult for trade to happen.

This.

Leave them as they are, make the highways not suck complete *** (not holding my breath on this one)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

New players, which all start essentially with nav 10, won't have too difficult a time making an exploratory trip around the islands.

You can see though, where seperation by distance will make local markets and trade between factional Islands more viable.

There will be no market after this. The market is bad as it is now, not to mention hauling-online. Now further separation of islands is the worst thing that can happen to this game. There will be no trade hub, and the last 2 global market producers will not haul stuff around for the general market. Corps will close themselfs on gamma, and then alpha will die off slowly.
Nubs are inpatient and finicky about leaving the game, lets not give them any new reasons for that.

oto-moto said:

"Nubs are inpatient and finicky about leaving the game, lets not give them any new reasons for that."   < I also see this, and think, so that is better for newbies I think than a market thing, because we dont have players dont have anything.

But first I just ask to see the opinions.

That's what we are talking about Kaz.

Putting in direct TP's between factional alpha I's would create a short cut between main terminals. While this would allow new players to Island hop, it would reduce the travel distances for trade.

In order to have viable trading, the distances need to be balanced between painful and inconvient.

T4 frames and no Nav skill means that new players, that are wanting to visit the other Alpha I Islands, can still do so occasionally without it being painful.

But with multiple hops it's still far enough away that beta players coming onto the Island will choose to purchase items at the local market for a premium, instead of taking the additional time to travel across 2 more islands.

Sorry we weren't clearer about tying the two together.

Splitting up the markets would be good if they weren't so weak in the first place. Expecting 3 major trade hubs to come out of thin air is pushing it abit imo.

well atm expecting 1 trade hub to come out of thin air is pushing it lol

With the new teleport distribution I don't think it would be to terrible to have all of the alpha 1 islands have a massive highway over haul. these beginner islands should have highways from the main terminal to all of the outposts and the exterior teleports. I think this would help beginners get around to explore. I don't think Beta needs highway at all.

Highways:
Alpha1: Massive highway system to and from all teleports outposts and terminals
Alpha2: working highway system to and from main terminal to exterior teleports
Beta 1: (as is ) no highways
Beta 2: remove the highways they only add to in-balance between beta 1 and 2
Gamma: no highways

alpha highway traffic should be refocused on moving people form exterior TP to terminal not exterior Tp to interior TP.

+1

In fact market have already moved partly from original alpha to alpha+ because the seller don't want to move the stuff they build and they build on alpha+ instead of alpha for the better facilities and more important the better ore supply. There are things you better buy on alpha and things you better buy on alpha+.

In case of further quite bad supply of minerals and plants on alpha compared to alpha+ this won't change. So I say +1 for short connection between the three alphas while please maintain some travel time between alpha and alpha+.

For the newbies (and also the items newbies will buy and sell) I consider it good to have short distances.
It should also be possible for new red players to buy argano or sequer from a more active market than Asi

For the different markets we lack simple agents buying on market, so no reason to build complete independent markets. And to be honest if we had three times the agents,  would not expect the market situation to change on long term as there is no utility to specialise on market, as you could not really specialize in prototyping, there is no place for specialized markets.