Oh here is an alternate way.

Make it so that Beta outposts are producing epriton automatically for their owner only. That would give a reason for having one, fight for it, fight for disrupting enemy economics etc. Then there will be hauling to gamma, roamers will get their food too. Make the same thing on Gammas with special kind of facility and for Noralgis. Then yes, remove epri from Gammas and forbid nora on Betas. That should give enough trade and traffic between those two, risky and tasty. And still, you need to mine/harvest non-rare material.

As an additional, make rare resources racial, that will make things even funnier and probably will stick ppl to their races or force them to fight for more islands/terminals.

Static epi spawns would make stations worth something to a corp to take. Passive epi is the opposite and dumb.

This sounds like a very familiar problem from cousin steve that was heavily nerfed lately for this exact reason. Large ammounts of passive income just leads to a big blue donut napfest and alliances holding territory not to use it but only to receive passive income.

You should need to be active in your territory to receive bennefits from it.

A small ammount of passive income is ok though, it just can't be overdone. It should be a perk, not the reason to own an outpost itself.

Some people search for the logic in the devs decisions
Some people theory craft situations to try to influence devs decisions
Some people voice their opinions about changes that will effect game play

Others just troll .. .

Change is going to happen in this game .. the best change improves the population, general game play and the over all player experience ... If you agree that this change will provide a better player experience .. understanding its drawbacks then its good ..

I'm not against the change but the game needs more than moving minerals around to "improve" it.

I've left by myself. But you go whine about spark tp cooldown in that another thread, still better than this trolling attempt.

Oh btw speaking about mk2 and t4 - if you didn't planned ppl use them as a standart, why did you guys made them better then? Atm best tier-balanced items in the game are t2 and t3 light lasers.

Alpha2s are trading hubs because they have best production bonuses in safe environment.

I think minerals need to get their volume divided by 2-3 and commodities by 4-6.

Right now, it's not very feasible to mine and haul with just your mining bot alone. If devs want to promote solo ninja Epriton mining then it's something to probably look into. Way harder to pull it off if you have to go back to the field container with a Sequer or just bad mechanic if you have to use an alt.

If mineral volume gets divided by 3 then Argano can fit 450k Epriton and Termis can fit 900k. Not bad at for small ninja operation if Epriton price is 15-20NIC.

Currently, T1 fit Argano sets you back about 400k and filled with 15NIC Epriton you make back 2.25m. It's not too bad but if you calculate in the time you spend preparing and mining, plus all the expenses it's not that good anymore, not to mention theres a chance you will die.

It Doesnt matter what color i post in the facts are the same .. . Just as gunner stated this has positive sides ... but it also isnt a "fix" its just a kicking the can down the road to hopefully retain players and increase player activity. This is what zoom said as its stated goal.

Ville you mis understand me ... this will only give me time to take a break from production and focus more on pvp ... I fully intend to take advantage of the changes But i do look forward to the whine that will be spewing on the Spark Teleport Thread once these changes happen .. .

Beta has a good role to play , missions/tokens, fastest way to get beacons as well as SAP loot. Nothing has changed. Its a good zone for early pvp adopters to learn the ropes, but you just painted a big target on 6 islands.

Self-sustaining gamma is why there are still players left in this game, the optional beta presence is because of spark teleport, we still need beta for research, there could be much to improve in this area, nerfing gamma to help beta is not a wise option.

'As they once used to be', is why you lost so many players before, which killed pvp. Are we really moving in circles with this?

From the guy crying about spark teleports?  sniff sniff.  Anyone else smell that?  Ville has the distinct smell of hypocrisy and shame.