Syndic wrote:... And it didn't cross anyones brain to try tweaking the range of hitech turrets instead of this fiasco?
That seems like it would make the most sense, except perhaps the devs are worried that reducing the range of the high tech turrets invalidates the extra cost/research to make them instead of advanced turrets?
To me the idea of being able to insta-pop anyone who jumps onto your island is a little worrying, and expanding the no build zone around the TPs seems like the best solution. Just a shame that it wasn't figured out before the patch really
Besides that, i did have one idea whilst listening to the conference. And it's not fully fleshed out so i expect it to be shot down immediately ;
What if you could choose to put your buildings into a sort of 'protected mode' similar to the reinforced mode. Whilst in protected mode buildings cannot be harmed, but they also cannot be used by the owner corp. So if a corp has a timezone with very low playerbase they can put the buildings into protection during that time, and sleep soundly. Obviously there would have to be several limits on the use of protection mode:
1) You can have a building in protected mode for a maximum amount of time (say 24h) and there is a cooldown before it can be used again, either a fixed time (12h?) or proportional to the amount of time it was protected last (50%?)
2) It takes an amount of time to activate/deactivate (30mins or something)
3) Whilst protected ALL functions of a building stop working. So you would be locked out of a protected main terminal and unable to mine with a protected mining tower. I'm not too well versed in how each gamma structure works so this may be impossible. I'm just spitballing here
Basically it would mean that corporations could avoid being alarmclocked and could have a chance to defend on their own terms. They could sleep easy knowing their base will still be there when they wake up.
Anyway there are probably a million problems with what i just said, so fire away