The current system creates an environment for only a handful of factions to flourish.  If you are up against a mega alliance, you MUST make your own mega alliance just to take and hold on to one station.

In my opinion you will only ever have 2 sides with the current spark situation.  25 factions, you are dreaming... The one big guy will always keep everyone else off the betas.

Sparks have made Nia much smaller.  There is no place to hide, so in order to hold anything you NEED to be with one of the big boys.

This situation will deter new players from sticking around (except for the one who want to belong to a large alliance).  And even then, when large alliances lose at PvP then you have large numbers of players quitting the game, as I have seen over and over these past years.

Penalties:

There must be penalties for use of such powerful tools.

If there is a penalty, a decision will have to be made about whether it is worth time/penalty to accomplish whatever the goal is of moving from point A to point B.

If I live in Alsbale, it should be a big deal to geographically leave there to help someone else somewhere else.

..but, it is not and there is no decision to be made because there is no penalty.   I move and help a friend the pop back over and continue bearing or whatever.

its like if the game Checkers had no rules and you push your opponents pieces off the board

If you think a cooldown is the key to fight a megablob, then you are wrong. If devs really think it's a wonderful idea to have, only thing PVP-wise that will change is that I will move all the bots that are spread out between stations to Alpha2 terminals and start to blood-spark and Interzone where action is. After that it's just constant interzone games. If you think you can get SAPs with inferior force then you are wrong.

Only thing smaller force can do is perhaps gank a bot or two before others get there due to few extra minutes it takes to warm up an Interzone.

If you want to fight blob then think of something else. There have to be better suggestions.

Perhaos so that if you don't have LOS you loose some EW strength/demob weaker?

That other game always has a consistent way of introducing new mechanics, their moto is for every advantage there must be a drawback or penalties as Gunner says.

Actually this game uses this a lot when you fit any robot and other stuff.

Where is the drawback when spT was introduced?

There were two sides months before spark teleport arrived. When CIR, eHarm, CHAOS were so powerful they could stamped on everyone a "rest of server" alliance formed to fight them. Its pretty much been two sides every since with smaller corps joining one side or another.

Spark teleport or no spark teleport I think two sides is pretty much inevitable eventually whatever mechanics are in place. The best we can hope for is the corps within each "side" falling out with each other at the same time and the simultaneous break up of both alliances.

The best fights this game had was when players brought fleets from Alpha2's.  Many fights spanned whole islands and sometimes took hours.

If only we could only go back to those days...

Yes but those fights stopped not because of Spark Teleporation but because players moved to gamma, leaving betas a deserted wastelands. Perhaps assignment patch can revive those islands, if not then I don't think you will find the kind of PVP you like very soon..

Your still missing the point.  No ones point fingers.  We are identifying a bad mechanic with players in mass.  Jesus Christ do I need to get the crayons and coloring books out?  Even DOTA2 has cooldowns on instant travel.

No!

They stopped because of walls. (A barrier to movement).
Sparks are adding to the "lack of movement", therefor less pvp.

Movement is good, movement means pvp.

We need a cooldown on forum posting.

Also I would like to point out, first we dont want to make this game like all the rest.

Now everyone is citing OTHER games to attempt to prove there point.

I want a one of a kind game. 

People keep discussing PvP in the context of just One fight.

As if the future of Perp has one fight per day.

You guys dont see what it will be like.

This is what it will be like:

Log in, there is a huge fight in Als with 100 vs. 100 assaults.

At the same time, there are six other skirmishes in Dom and Hock which involve other groups of bots of less than 10 each.

Also, there is a Gamma assault going on in XXXXX island.

These fights end and three more start up in other areas.

This is what we should be dealing with and clicking one button to be everywhere is going to have a great effect on those fights, because you really dont have to do anything to get to them.

It shouldnt be that way.

You should have to make a decision to mobile tele to Fight A or B or C, but cant do all because the are seperated by DISTANCE.

60 minute forums posting cooldown timer

The point isn't if it needs a cool-down, it does and trying to argue against that isn't going to get anywhere.

While the need for the cool-down is clear, it's not so clear about how long it should be. Remember that the cool-down only starts if you select a bot. Meaning the only thing we really need to look at from a time perspecitve, is things that you would go to a station to undock for.

And with that, I'll have leave it to Lemon and Merkle to figure out if it should be a 1 min or a 1 day cooldown.