Choosing not to act on defence , is not a valid reason

No one has said everywhere at once, but it comes quite close to that, so it's OP, please change soon.

What would stop the leading powerblock from getting the station back from the attacker after underdog finally manages to capture it? All the moves in favor of the attacker work in reverse too once leading force is attacking.

It seems like with current SAP system, blob is always in favor and it wouldn't change with changing sparking. Whoever manages to bring bigger blob to vital SAPs will win the outpost regardless if they just took the time to get the times and few hours each day or were living on the island 24/7.

Perhaps the change here that is viable is to make defending/attacking an island easier to the party that actually spends more time on an island.

- Easy way to do it would be to make intrusion times not scannable all the time around the clock. It could be so that event is brodcasted on an island that SAP time is scannable and you have 1 hour to go and scan it. You can get the time only by that method. If you don't see the brodcast you have no way of knowing when the intrusion time is scannable or not.

- Another (nicer) way is to add an item with low masking(talking about 20 masking or so) under the terminal for 1 hour and only during the time the item is there is the outpost intrusion time scannable (because broadcasted events suck imo).

The way SAPs themselves and the point system works is great imo.

(Just something fast thought up, there are probably better ways.)

Once a large force gets even (1) outpost below 50%, the island is theirs; regardless if the other (2) outposts are owned. That's not really an issue of sparking, it does make it easier though.

Where sparking comes in is being able to jump between islands to defend SAPs. They literally don't have to spend 1 sec on the island, other than SAP defense. With probes and arkhe scouts, they don't even have to have a presence while a SAP is active, unless someone shows up.

They don't even have to respond to every SAP, just if the outpost gets close to 50%, since they don't use it anyway; they simply own it to deny it.

Pointless enough to have you alarm clocking forum posts   My work here is done.

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

I touched on this is another thread. Why must we think this way: Alpha->Beta->Gamma where gamma is some sort of end game. Just make Alpha, Beta, Gamma different types of zone where, beyond some fundamental activities (mobs, mining etc), you can do different things that you can't get in another type of zone.

Hell, stop calling the zone types by the hierarchical names Alpha Beta Gamma and choose, i don't know, Syndicate, Intrusion and Free islands or something.

The abuse with missions started when the spark teleport was introduced. There was no problem before that, other than the mission rewards were skewed. Not the actual delivery of the missions. Randomizing missions does not do much other than prevent spark teleport use, even so I think it can still be abused when random but lets leave that for another thread.

All this below.     Thumbs up.

Gunner why do you place quotation below its confusing.?

+1 to your last 3 post

Would you like a module that allows you to place quotations anywhere in game?

See what I did there?   ;p