PLEX you to...:) and by the way i have no clue what plex is.

ok i can make a alpha outpost my home, and garden all day long, and make good nick. But wait, i cant refine there, or recycle, or whatever, because each outpost only has two functions set for 50, the rest are 0.  ouch, i have been hit over the head with the risk reward hammer...i should go to beta if i want better production... right? and i did. This is the first game i have ever played that has safe zones...so beta, or free fire zones are ok with me...One thing i DO know about pvp is you have to have targets to shoot at or players leave...pvpers have to have gear or they leave. And pvpers are not grinders in the correct context.  Up jumps meta gaming, multi toons, commie way of business. The one with the most alts wins... So where does that leave me,,a single toon?  waaaay behind... does the game want to wait until i skill up to be able to mine, or haul with a mech, or have a garage of bots so i can lose ten or twenty being a target and making someones game time fun. Its going to have to.... 

I have to play out of alpha, because if i so much as set foot on some god forsaken island, any beta outpost i play out of will be lost in a week, because, just because. The peeps throats i shoveled kernels down to supply gear for me,,,are gone. I have to make my own stuff, because the market is empty. Sad story,,,naw, i dont mind. Ill get there, But kernels are not around like they were once,,,if i could change anything i would have alphas like they were before alpha2s  lotsa crap everywhere. And let me be honest, i tried the "give all your kernels to dickweed here because well "all" get tiered gear quicker' for over a year now...and i still have to buy all my T4 stuff, and bots...I cant believe i am the only one that this has happened to, and allot have left because of wasted time relying on someone else...that says sooo long,,,been fun for meh,,,laters..poof...goddamn.

lol,,,they should have AI walking around on alphas with players names that have let their subs go, or have been awol for months.  Honestly, one game addressed empty start zones with programed AI including haulers, miners, that stocked alpha stations, or markets. So noobs 1 did not feel alone, and 2 had stocks to mess around with, even with limited functions at alpha outposts, that make noobs move stocks for better results when playing the market.  Stocks over noob lvls were consumed by the station, outpost, for something, or included in missions, which could not be accepted by advanced players.

But your insight Ville is noted and i respect your opinion.

Correct me if I am wrong bud, but alpha two stations have all of that stats at 50?  You could work out of one of those and get decent returns.  Beta outposts don't mean instant death.   Ninja mining epi is kind of a touchy subject, especially with just one account.  I have multiple accounts, ones I use for mining and harvesting on gamma and a production toon, and various combats staged in locations as I need them. 

Imo the outposts on alpha 1s need to be revamped to have a reason to go there.  Old days they were great to get Titan by and stage for a large move to Beta or simply to stage an alpha side pvp assault.

Plex is basically a system where players buy timecodes and sell them on the market for  player buy orders for in game money.

With three outposts on alpha1 islands,,,any mining or farming is three times faster then any alpha2 island. Run outside the outpost, mine harvest within 100 meters of the outpost.  no city streets to deal with. mazes, all open country..  If someone is working out of the the outpost you like, there are two more to check out.  I have a sequer and a gargole at three or five outposts, on two different alpha islands. Why i am not filling plant orders is that i need kernels to finish t2 med harvester.  The 30 minute spawn has helped with that,,,out of four spawns it went up 3%  let me see,,,,ill be ninja farming in three months,,,yeaaa. So alpha1 outposts are good storage terminals, with easy access to basic commodities. And if one goes there, they will see peeps exploiting these features. 

Right...we need a reason to access alpha 1 outposts.  I will use one or two that was in another game,,please forgive me if they seem more of a fit for gamma.  The use of outposts for staging is such a cool one that i will leave that to the devs if they are even contenplating such a thing. 

But consumables can be tied to alpha 1 outposts.  Production efficiency can be tied to food stuffs...ie water, grain,  manufactured foods, (comes before organic foods, because organic foods are more premo then man foods.) then organic foods.  No we don't go suck water, or harvest grain.  Some outposts have a tick that inject grain into the market at that station. Some water.  when water meets grain, it makes manfoods at selected outposts.  When manfoods are hauled to other outposts, they make organic foods.   Ok where does all this jacking around get us...The outposts with 0 production lvls would go to 30 with water,  50 with water and grain,  75 with water grain and manfoods,,,100 with alll four.  Missions can be tied to this anomaly to enhance meaning to the meaningless  system currently used. The players that do the missions, keep outposts at 100 efficiency, and keep standings with 'that' outpost with the missions, get a pay off from their efforts.

How do we keep players from packing off the consumables, and wrecking production efficiency lvls?  That's not my call.  The devs might want the drama, of players griefing each other by stripping goods. Or they can have a hidden function in the outposts.  I haul 80 units of water to a outpost, it consumes 10 units a hr, but when i sell the water to the outpost 1/3 of the 80 units are hidden so the station will make manfoods for three hrs. I have time to find out who offscounded with the water. cry, start a war,,,or go steal his production stuff. One cannot believe how much a simple thing can impact play, among pve players.  The profit from the water, grain, manfoods, organic foods, is basic npc tiered.  profit is enhanced with the inclusion of missions with the consumables.  And yes the missions can include stations that interfear with existing production lvls. This means a outpost far far away sees that the outpost your working out of and caring for like a baby,,,has water, or manfoods, and wants them, and generates a mission to get it, that pays like a slot machine, and you know someone is going to be after "your" water....:)

But anyway,,,

Was great jabbering, i have to go play in the sun for the next month..I have a bad case of fishing fever and have to be rushed to a lake for vitamin B.

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