I guess I don't see the value in Perpetuum Crossfire/Jerry Springer outside "ratings"

Particularly if there can be a DEV on the panel, I'd like to know what they think rather than listen to "You're a Blob newb!" "No, You're a Blob newb" "You just dock up and sit at your OP" "No you just sit at your OP"

All of which is demonstrably true of almost everyone.  I still think the first thing I listed is most important however.  A PVP game without any PVPers is shut down PVP game.

Piraat and Brother Thelonius Ale? Cause they sure bring out the OCD ;D

weeks  ...  if they had Hulu ads there would be thousands of newbs in day .. just look at what it did for Rift and that game isn't half as good as this one.

that's what i'm saying, it's not faster or anything else, there is no benefit to using it at all.

same cost, same time to make, same result; everything the same between lvl 1 and lvl 2.

agree, +1, nice work AC

not different, happens all the time, big spikes or going to N/A, disconnects, etc.  seems the same to me.

You could ask them to remove it for you with the customer support email, since you're on a trial they probably would *shrug*.

First, I'm not sure what POS is, I'm assuming this is an Eve term since it's not listed here and probably means Player Operated Structures (?) in this context (I never played Eve but I've seen plenty of video and read about the game and I know there are Player made/operated stations so this is my best guess).

I see potential problems with this, particularly, that an item like this would be tied in to the new event notification system.  If that's the case it would be trigger alarms every time someone touches a plant which essentially kills the plant-pirate mini game.

Even if it's not trigger events I can see people sitting there with an alt monitoring the panels to make sure the numbers are going up (growing cycles) not down.

I see the idea of having panels in the ground that have to be a certain distance away. That's not bad, other solutions might be a timer on info, say instead of a constant stream of info it updates every 15 or 30 minutes, or maybe even some form of mini game similar to artifact scanning or based on the can codes something like, the panel has a 2 digit code and you get 5 guess per 24 hours and if you get it right it shows the plant locations and if you guess wrong on the 5th try it sets off an event trigger in the notification log with a tone and does the same thing after 30 seconds if you stop guessing in the middle and notifies the owner.

Certainly there is potential for something to be implemented that doesn't take anything away and adds to the game to make it richer.

The way they wrote the post it appears that regen is cut in half.  There is a lot of titan on beta so if they move all of it over that will be tons.  Will the player base increase?  The active player base will in the *short term* definitely increase.  There are probably 3x or 4x as many active un-played accounts as there are players, maybe more.

I think we'll also see a huge increase of ore on the market and the prices will drop through the floor *short term*.  Once it's gone the regen nerf comes in and people start having to hunt and peck.  I don't think this will affect beta corps at all.  I've already seen more rivelers on alpha than I've ever seen, it seems like people are working on depleting the easy spawns first.

It's true that we don't have all the patch data, but as it relates to mining, we have a fair amount.

change for the sake of change isn't always good arga, it's just different and can easily be worse

The way it's worded makes it sound like they're increasing the rate of gain 50% while reducing the regen of the ore by the same .. I'm not sure how this could be looked at as anything but a further mining nerf.

This will make it so much easier to kill fields and have them take weeks to grow back, and Beta corps will for sure descend like a plague of locusts and suck up everything they can now before they head home.

There is no reason why a Beta corp can't afford to have another set of mining bots on alpha for strip mining and not even have to move their fleets.  This will go very poorly for Alpha corps/soloists/small corps and not help the market the way I think they think it will.

I don't think this would be nearly as bad if all the Alpha ores hadn't already had deposits cut in half.  I wonder what research they did that indicated removing Titan from Beta would some how be an economic stimulus.  The reasoning seems very weak from where I'm sitting.