I'm kinda curious what would happen to the political climate of this  game if Infestation just up and left it one day.

Oh yay, PvE content just what this game needs.

In other words, OP, you want to be able to go into enemy territory and kill NPCs in total safety, is that it?

I suggest joining a corporation with holdings on one of the beta islands already, or forming up as a corporation in force and doing an op on beta islands in force.  I suggest right off the Hilmanoc teleporter (there is both mining and NPC hunting available not even 1000m off the teleporter. 

You can't live on alpha and expect to just come into land held by an opposing force whenever you want without consequence.  You have to take the bad with the good.

With all due respect, some of our best roams were assault/mech roams.  The enemy knew they could catch us, which made them engage with an equal (and often larger) sized force, rather than run, but they were still beaten with superior target calling/tactics/organization.

This is a great idea, I'll have a code you can have when the time comes.

Minecraft: the single greatest threat to the Infestation alliance.

Sad, but true.

I am having the same issues you described, although my ping is around 150-170ms.  The rubberbanding started a day or two ago, like you said.

I was part of two kills, both Nuimqol.

They both had something like a 600m lock range.  The Kain had ECM and a 250m or so demob range.

The Mesmer was nearly two shotting it seemed like, suppressor support helps. 

They both dropped all t3 gear and the the Mesmer kernel was worth 330k, while the Kain kernel was worth 260k.

Just remember that interference must first 'accumulate to critical levels' before the debuff is applied. 

A blob traveling as one will have the debuff by the time they enter combat, while the debuff may not be applied to the smaller force (by the larger one) until combat has been engaged in for an extended period (at which point it is likely to be over anyway).

Why are you shooting drones?

Ok, ok, would it make you feel better if infestation swarms your island with mechs instead? 

I suppose at least then you would have ample time to dock up and avoid losses; either way we wouldn't really get a fight out of you.