Simply said, because you can do the same things that you could do before there was a spark teleport system, only without long and boring walks.

Celebro try to play a bit without sparks. Give it a week. Can you do it?

INB4 rage and s**tstorm.

Burial I like the instant teleport too, but like in life, you can't have your cake and eat it too. It's too OP for large forces that want to abuse it, I don't think STC is making the most of it tbh. edit not saying they should.

It's not possible to do anything about it correct ,you know, they just need to instant spark there and defend it with full numbers so why bother, if a smaller force wants it (edit) they cant win, only option they have is join bigger force or get recruiting more than the others, because its a game of 'who has more active players'.

So this is really about a scenario where a smaller force could ninja-take a SAP, because without sparks the major force would not be able to get there in time on foot? (Assuming they are not there in the first place.)

Celebro, for some reason you are under assumption there's no drawbacks to sparking, while there are. Spark teleport limits, logistics involved, locked outposts and so on, not to mention you still have to travel accross the islands to reach SAPs on neighboring islands and so on - which is exactly the same thing that would happen without spark teleportation(walk from Alpha2 terminal to Beta2).

Let's leave that behind for a moment. I want to point out there are many drawbacks trying to keep all outposts for yourself. Look at the intrusion times and think how long even the biggest entity can hold all the SAPs protected, even with spark teleportation, against 4-5 smaller forces while full well knowing if they're not at their A-game, they could get wiped and SAP could be taken. People burn out and spark teleportation is not an instant i-win button, there still is a lot of work involved and it comes out nowhere in this game as clearly as trying to protect a lot of SAPs 24/7.

For some reason, the people who lost Dom are saying that they quit and they "gave us the island" but I remember very well of us ninjaing their SAPs for weeks while they all were under combined protection of 12, 62nd, PHM, CHAOS, CIR, AIC and friends. People burn out and we eventually got what we wanted, against superior numbers.

In the end, give beta islands more meaning and people will fight more furiously over the control.

No Celebro, what I'm trying to point out is that your whole argument is based on powerblock owning a lot/all the beta outposts while conveniently leaving out how much work it actually is to do it. You are trying to screw a lot of players over while not realising that even without sparks, defending SAPs would execute in similar manner.

About your example:
This is, again, just part of the bigger picture. You are again, conveniently, leaving out a lot of facts. When you look today's SAP times, you see one of the biggest facts you closed your eye on. SAP times: 14:00, 13:53, 12:37, 12:08, 12:03, 11:49, 11:47, 11:47.. and it goes on. You see how many times are all together? And this happens 24/7! Now you mention that 100 man force is in one outpost, protects it and then suddely appears from another outpost. You again leave out big, well-know fact: You have only 10 sparks, combined with another fact that you would need way more sparks than just 10, not to mention delete your gamma sparks and actually train Spark Teleportation 10 on all of your 100 players - and you are still not even close to your example! Now you might say "But you only need to have spark on 3 beta terminals and you can travel?" That's true but now we are at the point I've been trying to explain from the start: You will defend the outposts just as effectively as you would without spark teleportation at all, from Alpha2, with interzone teleport.

This is also why a lot of the examples shown in this thread fail. Few sentences of some situation you think shows your view from good light, while leaving way too many points unmentioned.

Sadly only few players here notice it.

You seem to leave out some facts too of how the Intrusion system works. Station owners don't need to defend all SAPs to keep the OP. Attackers need to take SAPs in succession to be successful. So large force dont even need to be at all SAPs to keep the outpost, if it was the old intrusion system it would be different scenario.

Just another few pages...

@ Martha. M2S did own every outpost in game and CIR and co did too at one point.   Even with out sparking,  which fully proves celebros point.  Logistics for an operation required a 1 hr form up and a 1 hr logistic train.  Your a little too green to remember and you never played at CIR and Chaos peak.

@Zoom. It's about tactical decisions.  Sparking would be ok if there millions of players and hundred thousand islands.  And it took literally monthes of 8 hr days to scout every island.  But it's not its the ability to scout every island for inhabitants in 8 hrs in one day.

But if you think it's working as intended can we remove interference too?

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