About the proposed speed increase, have you noticed how when you shoot a target moving between plants, it often looks like you are shooting directly at a plant even if on your screen it looked like you had line of sight?
How much worse is that going to get?

Not to mention you would be changing the balance of the whole game, but that's needed anyway.

I think the problem is not locking itself but that SAP stability goes up when nobody shows up. Imo it should just stay the same when nobody does the SAP.

Also the pvp zones are too small for the current mechanics (sparks, interzone and other TPs, pvp alts, gate alts, detectors, probes ).  There are too few islands, too few connections leading on/off pvp isalnds and the lack of connections between different beta pairs is just mind boggling (any news on the new TP network?).

As a side note, if this is ever implemented, it may be worth considering making maximum stability higher (160-200ish) so that corps who want to have their max aura can get there without having to alarm clock against some solo ninja in the early hours of the morning.

Needs someone who can sort out the economic/pvp-pve and fitting/bot balance in the game.
But most of all, someone who is willing to create an ecosystem where players are rewarded for doing things that are actually fun.

At some point I remember a gamma vet asking on these forums:
What do you want us to do on gamma?

Have we seen any answer to this question yet?

I would go further and ask:
What do you want us to do on Nia?

Yep, you can

Yep, and the only fun content for a new character here is pvp (especially if they run one account)
PvE is just better in other games, sorry to be so blunt.

+1

It's a meta-sandbox (aka gravel pit).  You have to grind the stones yourself to make the sand.

Well, it's no JOKE

I actually think the best thing for the future of the game would be if the devs stopped working so hard and just played their game as a day job for like a month

I also have fond memories of the good old days when you could take out a fleet of T2 fit assaults, just roam around and get a fight with a fleet of a similar EP/tech level (ok that's a lie those were always rare occasions).

Lets not for get why people actually farm NPCs.  It's to get resources for bots to use in PvP.  Even the carebear who will never PvP is still farming for, ultimately, the same reason.  Its just that someone else will blow up those resources in PvP (or stockpile them until the end of days).

Now in the good old days you could get PvP in cheap fits and not feel like a total scrub all the time but times have moved on.  Players have a lot more EP and many vets have large stockpiles of Mk2 mechs/heavies.  This is not a bad thing but it exacerbates the glaring imbalance between the amount of time players spend farming and the amount of time they spend enjoying the fruits of their labour.

"All work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy."

TLDR: make NPCs as tough as you like, just make it worth the player's time go out and kill them.

The list of ways of playing this game that are "wrong" just keeps growing.

My mining bot transfers energy to my scarab so I can run a nexus and two small miners on it, is that wrong as well?

Thats all missing the point anyway.  The question is why are miners are taking a hit here?