While I do agree that beta could use some additions like those Never suggested, as it is right now if you are smart about it you can make plenty from beta's as they are now. For the most part they are pretty empty of people. Play smart and you will profit.

However if added plasma, kernals etc etc will get more people out there doing their thing then I'm all for it. Not just so that there are more people to roam and kill right now but so that other individuals and corps can develop the industrial backbone to provide great wars as well as to start filling out the high tiered stuff on the market.

I also agree that while alpha shouldn't be nerfed as it is right now it should also not grow anymore. As it is there is very little reason not to do most of your mining and npcing on alpha. Maybe some overcrowding and not enough mins to go around will help push people to learn, adapt, and to expand to beta islands.

Sorry Zoom, we were late giving him his meds.

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

Mitix, thanks for doing this up it's much appreciated.

Just thought I would bump this for those who are interested in a bit of story. It is fanfic so it is unofficial however it's a pretty good read.

Much Obliged and good work on nailing the problem.

Currently the market needs some love, potential for you to make money there but would be alot of work to be in a good position to do it. Main reason I think for market issues is that most corps just maintain an internal corp market and don't use the market in game.

As for other stuff to do well there is the grindy stuff like NPC'ing, Missions, and Mining. Artifacting is pretty decent, you could get some decent items and it can be fun. Then of course there is PVP. You can do solo PVP however expect to get overwhelmed by bigger bots and plenty of them shortly after getting seen. Joining with a corporation would let ya participate in the roaming squads that many of the Beta corps do. There is also the outpost intrusions which like in EVE let your corp take control of an outpost. There is likely some stuff I missed but it's late and I'm tired.

There are still many improvements and things to add to this game, however it is still young and the Devs are great for trying to accomadate the player base's wants and needs. Hope your enjoy the game and stick with us for awhile.

While I do think the game would be better off if we avoided the alliance mentality, for all intents and purposes there are already alliances, conglomerates, coalitions whatever you want to call it in existance now even without ingame mechanics to allow the management of it.

People will always want to form groups for various reasons, the most common of course would be mutual protection. I would love it if there were enough indenpendant corps or even small alliances on every beta island.

So that being said if it doesn't take alot of time, energy and money to implement some alliance features then fine, alliances will be a fact regardless of if there is an actual alliance mechanic or not.

Having the corp pay to make and issue medals would make them have a bit more meaning as well as add a NIC sink to the game. Being able to design them ourselves (likely with a set of premade pictures/icons whatnot. I'm sure many of us have seen this before, but it would add the feature for those that like their shiny stuff as well as a needed NIC sink.

By myself I am able to cover all 4 of our teleporters and I'm not the only one who does that on our island. Generally speaking it's easy for us as well as others I'm sure to have a scout arkhe or light bot sitting on beta side of all our tele's that connect to other islands. Provided the scout is paying attention (ie having sound on so you hear people jump in) you are going to have a hard time sneaking onto the island. Due to the multiple teleporters connecting to each other now I keep the scouts on beta side, yes it reduces the warning time till enemy jump in but they still get scouted coming on to the island. The only way you arn't getting spotted is if scouts arn't deployed or scouts arn't paying attention. There is no real ninja way onto the island.

With an increased radius as to where you teleport into well it would be a double edged feature, on one side yeah you might sneak in or they could have a mech with a detector going. You would likely not make it back to the tele in time to survive, also if jumping in as a group you would be scattered all over the place.

Not sure what would fix this without breaking something else but definately would be nice to have some sort of ninja route onto an island but one that is costly or limiting in it's effectiveness. Other wise people just won't use the regular teleports.

Wow, sorry to hear that dude. Hope your family and friends are ok to. See ya when ya get back.

I would love to be able to pull various chat channel into seperate windows. This would allow grouping of like channels. General channels like recruitment, help and general chat in one window, intel channels in another. The important part would be being able to drag the windows ourselves so that they may be grouped or seperated according to each players preference.