The plant cap sucks a lot. The amount of spawns either needs to be bumped up or the cap needs to be bumped up. Trying to find plants on some of the new alpha's and beta's is ridiculous. I think we should get the ability to plant Helio and Tri, just like Noralgis. Of course, the incubators would be cheaper for Helio and Tri.

Whatever the case, we need a fix here, because plant harvesting is aggravatting when it's so sparse and in such little quantities.

You mean you can check and uncheck all the check boxes in the repair window by right clicking?? Didn't know that, thanks!

You can't shift select, but you can ctrl select individual ones so you can skip ones you don't want. But I agree, having them all pre-sorted by repair status would be nice.

The OP changes are an interesting way of making people pay attention to them more, but they wont solve the issue of small scale PvP not really existing. Why doesn't it exist? Because the main 'event' in this game is based on a set schedule, which in a sandbox( sorry for being blunt ) is absolutely STUPID.

We don't have a lot of people in game, this is true. But making people flock to OP's more with PvE benefits will likely only attract gankers and pirates. Sure it creates a facet of PvP, but it's not one that I think is intended. People living around these outposts are probably farming bots or mining, they're not hugging the OP's like the features want them to, to PvP.

We're still lacking small scale PvP objectives. I've said it before, we need some sort of POS system that's 100% controlled by players. Meaning, they can be attacked at any time and offlined to negate their benefits. Giving people the choice of when they want to fight will create more PvP situations. Granted, you will also probably need to give incentive to offline an enemies POS's, but that's something further down the road in balance.

OP's are interesting and all but the event to take them is static and boring. We need interactive PvP, we need objectives that have real-time effects that can draw people to them at any given time.

Until this happens, all we're going to have is over-crowded intrusion events and roamers looking for easy kills.

It would take a considerable amount of time for them to pick through everything and determine whom did what. Is it possible? I don't know, no one really knows how much they'd have to comb through. But I'm sure it's no small feat. But that's not the only part that's important, it's the affect those people had. I'm under the impression that a lot of people who had legit assets had those assets removed. It sucks, but again, how do you pick apart what those people would have had given that those cheaters in close relations had not been cheating?

I don't know if their wipe was something final, or if perhaps they will review the situation further after they have time to review logs. It would actually make sense to just wipe everyone related, so they can at least put the server up and not have those people affect anything else in the interim. As opposed to just taking the server down for who knows how long and affecting the players who had no part in what transpired.

It's not like leaving the cheaters alone was going help the game either.

I don't think we really need to know who the culprits are. That's really discretionary and up to the Dev's. However, knowing how many assets were removed would be kinda interesting to know. Not important, just interesting.

I don't see higher tier goods being on the market in abundance for a while. Most corps can't afford to be selling what they manufacture as they're using what they manufacture in terms of higher tier goods. Also, not every corp has all their research done, so that adds to the lacking amounts.

In time, more will become available as more people can spare to sell it. The game is too young anyway to have all that stuff on the market in healthy proportions. Some corps I'm sure can afford to sell random modules, and do, but that some is a very small % of the server.

If anything we can fill the market with T1 items, and that's something I'm looking in to myself personally. It's not hard to build up good quantities of T1 goods and for now, that tier should be good enough for newer players. For the time being if you want tier gear, well, you pay the price or join a corp and take part in their internal markets and production. Most corps *ahem* are still caught up in the arms race. During an arms race, it's not really prudent to be selling off your advantages.

I think some sort of POS' would get people on Beta's if they had a function. If they did something for you that you can't do on alpha. Maybe they mine for you? Maybe they offer you better refine rates? Quicker factories? Who knows. Something though, that you can't get elsewhere.

How will that open up PvP? Simple, allow them to be put offline by enemies. If your enemies dont like you, they can go suppress your structures by attacking them ANYTIME they want. No silly intrustions or schedules, ANYTIME. This will open up PvP in my mind because the element of surprise will be there. You can cause trouble when it's convenient for your corp. You'll have to watch your own structures as well. It will make holding Beta grounds more interactive. You could even add some sort of bonus' for offlining someones structures. What that could be is debatable.

Either way, it would give everyone something to do. You'd have incentive to be on beta. You'd have incentive to roam and fight other POS' and defenders. You'd have incentive to guard and you'd have incentive of successfully offlining other players structures.

From a tactical stand point, if we were at war with 62nd, we might have stuck around to fight you. You're right as you said before, we might have been able to take a few of you down and caused you more in financial loss than you would have done to us even though we would have been wiped out. That's a small victory in defeat and a good tactic in a long term aggression.

Last night was nothing like that though. We just wanted to have some fun, toss the ball around with you guys. You brought the NFL all star team in comparison to our college team. Let's face it, the fun in competition is the winner is indeterminate, anything can happen. When the outcome is certain before the game begins, it's suddenly not all that entertaining anymore.

We're not afraid of losses, we all fit with what we can afford to lose as going on a roam in to beta we expect to meet resistance of unknown proportions. Which for new pilots usually results in death.

You brought a force that would have clearly killed ours. CLEARLY. Which you also just noted we'd have lost. But you think the factor of us killing a couple of you would be amusing to us? Our FC is not stupid nor does he expect us to all lose our bots, just to let you guys wipe us off the map.

This was an arranged fight. Do you ask your weekly tournament entrants to fight the odds? No. Why? Because they wouldn't show up to hand you their NIC and leave with nothing. That's exactly what you asked of us last night. Maybe you would have lost some mechs, who knows. We don't really care.

When the outcome of a battle is unknown, that's when it's fun. It was up to your corp to bring what would be considered that fair fight you wanted. Instead, you brought a force you knew you'd win with and that we also knew exactly our fate when we saw you.

If you call that sporting and fun, I'm sorry, but our views very vastly.

No one can stop blobbing. Even with mechanics as such that we have, the blob will always exist. A blob doesn't inherently mean a stack of players all on top of each other, it means overwhelming numbers. These can be split in all directions of the compass to negate clustering, which is what bot explosions and interference actually affect, clustering, not blobs.

You can't stop people from grouping up and playing together. It's just not going to happen. A game mechanic isn't suddenly going to make a bunch of people not want to group up for a common cause. If there's a majority and they don't like you for whatever reason, they'll attack you with all the numbers they can muster and why shouldn't they? This is a strategy game and you strategize to take as few losses as possible, while inflicting the maximum amount possible on the enemy. This can happen to anyone. Anyone can blob anyone. If you suddenly find that you're the target of a blob, it's because of something you did. Don't go blaming game mechanics because more players than you have a common cause. Saying that a majority should comply with your minority is completely nonsensical.

Don't take this explanation as a support vote on my behalf either. I'm simply explaining a concept, that will always exist. Blobs are a tangible form of democracy, it's one notion vs the other and the minority typically gets squashed.

Find a way to deal with the adversity your views put you in, or you're going to have to face the odds every time you step in to the open.

The only people we've met with consistancy within our corp ops timeframes is 62nd. They seem to be around a bit. We've bumped in to a few other roamers, but they're typically not forces with enough pilots to compete with our numbers we bring. I almost feel bad we have to gank them, but they're targets ( and pretty much the only ones at that ) of opportunity and we don't go roaming to shake hands. Granted 62nd did have enough last night, but what happened with them is another story.

We're having fun. We'd be having more fun if there were sizeable groups to match our pilots gear and skill. Which is not to say we're awesome with a billion EP and T4 heavies, but rather medium-ranged EP pilots with assaults/lights. We'll keep expanding and doing our thing. Hopefully others will as well and the game will grow up to be a bit healthier and more attractive to long term players.