I agree with you on a lot of the points and there have been a couple of OK ideas to nerf/fix them.

Probably the easiest solution is to buff teleport beacons so they are smaller(1U perhaps), add more internal connections throughout the Alpha and just flat out remove Spark Teleports. Why try to balance something that is extremely hard to balance.

Standard beacouns could be 1U, emergency 3U, armored 5U and interzones stay as is.

// Now some might ask whether it's really that much better to have the Spark Teleports flat out removed than 1h cooldown. Sure, if the devs are going to force us with traveling the old way, they should make sure we don't have to drag a Sequer with beacons with us most of the time.

I like this altho i wuldnt mind having sparks in the game but my opinion is 24h like eve or even 18h reusage

I was thinking some thing similar to beacons but think armored needs to be higher were a Assault cant carry it or some thing like that

And tbh a teleport scrambler is much needed whit this change to!   there must be a hard counter for evry thing
Even the broken signal detectors!  and no detector > masker! ((

You're assuming that the 4 man corp that decided to try their hand at mining on beta didn't just decide to say screw it and quit the game.

Any new population that comes in is at an extreme disadvantage, as a lot of the existing vets have over a million EP. Fixing spark teleports and whatever else isn't going to change that. The very best solution is a full wipe and re-launch. I'm sorry for you handful of vets that'll cry oceans of tears over that, but I'd gladly wade thru them for a REAL chance at keeping 30-40% of the people we hope will join with the steam launch.

Epriton on beta is a good thing. It's meant to be rare and valuable. It's neither when you can sit in a walled off compound on gamma and mine it till the cows come home.

Detectors should be removed from the game or nerfed a lot. Why is it a good idea to be able to see stuff from 4000m? Stealth masked assaults should be added. I'm talking mechs and lights will only pick them up @ 200m. That will make the target painter role and module a needed and valuable asset for pvp.

A beta only undock timer after spark teleport would solve many of the problems that people associate it with being overpowered, while also maintaining the guys that're defending its reason to stay the same, by allowing them to spark to Gamma/Alpha with no cooldown or undock timer.

tl;dr - Best options - full server reset
         Next best - beta only undock timers upon spark teleport, nerf detectors, add stealth assaults.

24h spark teleports are pointless. Could just be removed and be done with them. Benefit is that then all the movement becomes observable and predictable which is good for pvp.

Without going over teleport beacons, sparking should stay as is.

again and again i see the attempts to shift the balance. this is ridiculous. So you going repeat again and again, depicting the visibility of really important discussion, troll everyone who disagree with you and so on?..

Facts:
1) There are good example of new corp who not cares about spark teleport - RAD. They always come from telesis and shoot stuff.
2) DeV's said GTFO stupid noobs to alpha and shoot t1 stuff. Nothing to do on high content for newbies. Anyway veterans are pushed to beta now and noobs never survive here.

WHAT ACTUALLY VILLE WANTS: He wanna provoke somebody under beta-terminal, login and undock 2-3 ppl, shoot him and safely dock in. At current time  PvP too expencive for him because of:
1) killing any bot requires deploy armored teleport beacon, and anyway it remains too dangerous.
2) Often something doing wrong and they lose bots (sad)

How this change will affect the game in real?
In one hand there will be "good" effect that small corps (maybe) will take some betas. (lol, of course they dont ).
In the other hand the game became to pay to win type. Richest people who paid lot of accounts will be ready perform PvP everywhere. (TBH: it's already pay to win type game. Because of you are really powerful with support alts on your tail)

What about this "new" topic? - Well... Our opponents have a problems: Epi removed from gammas. Chaos destroyed, their Alliance disbanded. They didn't care about spark teleport until been beaten. They didn't care about anything. Now they cant do anything serious and ask for changes to have more chases.

...So this is an endless whining. It will go on all the time. I dunno maybe some time Ville and others will grow up. But i'm pretty sure it happens after closing perpetuum online project.

it gives nothing.

I bet u the DEVs aint even reading this stuff any morre

Ville is asking for win button? I think your just afraid of losing your win button is what it is. Also... would you really call last night's failed hotdrop on tonnik fun when you undocked 10 on one guy?

and TBH, I doubt that last part, there are some that seem like the kind of people who would use aggressive distress beacons to kill you, im sure of it

I also think beeing able to lock players out of stations that contain missions is a bad mechanic.
I dare say make all beta 1 NPC owned  and beta 2 player owned hek maybe revert 1 of the gammas in to a beta
2 iland?

Personally you wanna Beta island (domhalarn) and win the battles. Be honest with everyone and yourself. You missed the times when you came to novastrov from domhalarn (when the enemy alliance sleep), shoot lonely-ones and ran back happy like a kids...
World has been changed. DeV's spent a lot of time for this. Their time too expencive to roll it back.

Easy? It never was easy for me. More than: many times you've got me alone (vs 5+ ppl).

I agree with Hunter that the most likely reason behind these threads is that they want to have an effect against us.

But regardless, should big powerblock be able to hold down Beta outposts they have no use of?

Now with the Epriton move, I think best for the game would be to have as many people on Betas as possible for PVP and industry. Get the wheel moving.