That's something that can happen regardless of Spark Teleportation. There's many stations that could be used without even using Spark Teleportation on Tellesis and Attalica. If someone wants to do it he will find means.

So maybe this is just me but I am not making a connection on how redeploying from the nearest alpha terminal is the same as sparking and redeploying from another terminal on the same island after already engaging someone.  Would you mind clearing that up.

If the majority thinks it is healthy to allow what I have stated then by all means lets allow it. I will wait to see if this is another "I told you so"  or I could be entirely wrong and it is balanced.

The record to beat is 3 days from the the first use to the balancing patch, currently held by the debut of the ERP Artemis.

Second place is either the L-Demob nerf or the Teleporter mechanic revamp.

I really am not comfortable with a flood of new players showing up knowing that I can on my own kill upwards of 25 at a time. Then be able to instantly move around to maintain supior positioning and mobility, while also having the ability to drop the red curtain in the same fashion. They tend to provoke that behavior in me and other *cough *cough

There is more than one way to keep a roaming group of assaults/mechs/HM's flagged and tied up on the field be it legs of plates or properly fit turtle tanks.

The idea is not for me, but rather the game as I love the ability with spark teleportation currently. However your average joe facing you or me utilizing this against him and moving bots that appear to be godzilla to him at every corner. He will not want to keep playing for very long.

If I were to spark to alpha I would need to have a bot large enough to move a interzone or beacons and the travel time involved+charge is significantly longer than spark-counter fit-deploy-intercept-win.

As the attacker you have already shown your hand once spotted by a defender. I am then able to pick and choose the perfect hand to beat you and deploy as the defender. You hand them almost guaranteed superior positioning no matter your move. The odds are very quickly becoming stacked in favor of one side, especially in a full loss death game.

Spark Teleport Is fine as it currently is ...

Taking something away from people makes them mad. If devs wait until new players get used to sparking around, then nerf it, they will be much more likely to rage quit than if the mechanic is already in place when they start playing.

I would say devs are better off making the current die-hard players mad now by over compensating and then slowly decreasing the timer after there is a decent player base.

Why, how, and when.

Why, the mechanic is over-powered and provides a huge advantage to vetern players with lots of EP to spend on sparks with vast supplies of bots and modules.

How, still open for debate, my suggestion is a 1 hour timer that starts when you select a bot.

When, still open for debate, but there's no advantage to waiting until the WHY becomes an issue, as it will result in taking something away from new players that wasn't really a problem for them, and likely cause de-subbing.

For now, I'd stay away from changing a feature that makes this game a lot less tedious, and honestly doesn't upset balance. I'd be surprised if there are more than 10 people that have this to 10, and even so, there's a lot more business to be done than setting it to every beta terminal (and loading it up with enough bots). We can discuss hypotheticals all we want, but with all the proposed 'solutions', I'd hate to be the guy who's needs to explain this one in the game manual.

Besides, never heard of setting a trap when your opponent is really getting that predictable?

Arga you are clearly someone whos not listening to reason..

I still love you Arga.

If (post steam launch) people leave because the devs nerf spark teleport it tells me one thing ... they didnt need to nerf spart teleport.

People left after the wall nerf because the DEV's did a "wrong" thing by nerfing walls

People did NOT leave after the probe nerf because probes were TRULY over powered. there was no reason corp should have PERP CCTV and see what everyone was doing on every island. 99.9% of the game population agreed.

People  leave games when DEV's make "not so wise" changes to quite/calm an outspoken segment of the population in many cases. which in many cases that segment of the population was on their way out anyways they just need an excuse to leave.

This feature is been in the game for over a year now. I think if it was drastically overpowered like you all are claiming it would have been changed long ago .. the wall change took less than 60days if i recall correctly to get nerfed into what it is now. I find it hard to believe that all of a "sudden" its a problem.

it feels more like a "small segment" of the game population wants something changed so they are not at a disadvantage ... and are trying to speak for those (steam players) who dont even play the game yet. This I assure you (Devs) is not the case ... We have all seen this charade many times before ... it is different now. Theres always going to be a few people crying about something ... I would say take it to a vote or pole ... because i assure a large % of active players / subs (trials dont count) do not want changes made to spark teleport. all i see is a hand full of people whining.   

Keep up with the shenanigans their going no where fast.

Spart Teleport is balanced, working, and fair as it currently IS

TL;DR .. READ IT ^

Stop hitting Return...we dont need a three page post from one guy.

Gunner keeps going back to the mission system...forgetting its going to be changed.

Memory Loss?

Its like I'm speaking a differing language.  Why wont you Learn.. WHY!

I like this side of Gunner, its the not quite angry side, but with a touch of Butthurt.  Just a smudge.