This kind of thread really shows you just how different everyone views the game and situations within the game.
@The Blob Wins
Sparking is not currently broken having 30 attack only to have 100 spark in to defend. It is when those 100 show up and drop 20-40 to keep you busy, while another 20 or 30 are sent to the other remaining outpost that is located to your flank and deployed from. We are talking about a force having the ability to move undetected to gain instant superior positioning and secure a victory every time. This is 1 Island with many outposts that this is possible. To resolve it we need to prevent being able to not only spark to a specific island to deploy and engage becoming detected but to also stay docked for sparking to another outpost that is more favorable to engage from as the dynamics change.
No one has done this to me but we all know this is possible. Any means to produce the same mobility on terrain makes you susceptible to being detected by either a detector main or follow account thus notifying me or the players of your movement. Which is drastically different than me dropping out of a terminal in front of you in a Kain being shot and flanking you in my Mesmer mk 2 6 mins later.
@Tux
Yes I choose to roam the sake of killing miners and running, I hate trying to be engaged in a challenging or engaging fight and if i could lose forget it I am docked.
@Beta Incentives
They exist, could they be more sure however beta is meant to be a building block to gamma. Beta is not meant to be the feeding ground for gamma. Rather it should be where people want to risk a little for a better reward while avoiding the competition for "safe resources".
We vets are supposed to be making our multi-tile siege bots focusing on taking out each other sand-castles while newer players are preparing to build their castles on beta and alpha. As we progress onward to more a growing population would ideally fill in behind to expand and explore the new content.
What we have now is a 0 to 100 by joining the existing power blocks and you are really only limited by your EP because if you know the right vets they are rich enough to supply you until you are self sufficient. When I was new I wanted to go to beta to be able to expand my research faster than alpha players and to kill anyone who tried cutting in on my spawn farm. Today their i can freely farm on alpha uninterrupted and if I go to beta their is a high change I die to a bot that kills me before I even show him on radar signature.
@Zoom
Let me ask you, Do you think that anyone could take Hokk from the hands of Styx with 30 siddy's following him on Hokk with the spark system? Not even 200 Steam players could pry them off that island. Bigger, Faster, Farther Shooting, harder and Higher Masked bots coming at them from every direction but hey they are still just trying to figure out how to go faster than 70KPH
Could you imagine the interference of 200 people, hope they would know what it is lawl
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