1. Turrets were never meant to defend a base on their own. If you rely on them without being there in person to defend your base or scare away some trolls in Arkhes, you're doing it wrong.
2. It's probably a bug (haven't checked it yet), but due to my point above it's not an exploit and noone will be punished for it.

edit: And yes I realize that gammas don't really work like they were meant to work with such a low amount of players.

We have laid down the basics for the new system, but we still have to find solutions for a few things to make it work as a whole. At this point I don't dare to promise anything but a blog is in order soonish.

This is also why I wouldn't want to go into details yet, but the new mission template system will be driven by the available objectives around the mission request location, randomly picking them. This means that the final mission reward will be constructed based on the chosen objectives' type, level/difficulty, and the distance between the objectives. Regarding betas and gammas, there is likely going to be a "danger money" multiplier on top of that.

dont defend, we take the base and play more other games

defend, we kill you and take the base and play more games

there is no downside

Sparks allows us to easily do this

i can say it a billion times

I'm starting to think this is a good idea actually.

Although I wouldn't go as far as losing stability when the owner doesn't do the SAP, since that would be as bad as not being able to defend it (ie. losing it to another corp), and I think we need to make a distinction there.

So I'd say stability simply should stay as it is when the owner doesn't do the SAP, but shouldn't increase on its own.

I think you don't understand, people change.  Things happen.  People change in Real Life because of different reasons.  I have changed.  I'm sorry if you being stuck in the past hurts your imagine of me, but honestly it wouldn't matter.  You and your CEO need someone to hate.  I'm just glad you choice it to be us.

Rex Amelius wrote:

Hunter wrote:

1) Because of this is content and DeVs spent a lot of time for it's development.
2) It won't balance anything. The overpowered alliances anyway will stay overpowered.
3) The first one who will suffer - it will be noobs. Also they are first who will leave after such changes.

1.) When I take a dump in the morning it's content. But I still flush no matter how many posts I can squeeze out in the process.

2.) Removing sparks will not change CIR 77 ability to stomp everyone wherever they want. It will change WHERE CIR 77 WANT to stomp everyone as logistics gets HARDER. I know ...multi accounts etc, but not everyone has 5+ combat accounts and without sparks each account is less effective logistically. It'd be much harder to get people where they need to be, and then back.. Nevertheless, it will still take lots of time for CIR 77 to start giving up on the ~we didn't want those stations anyway~ given the starvation for action.

3.) What's noobs got to do with it. They have low EP for sparks and stick to alpha anyway. The ones who do venture to Beta will be LESS likely to have a blob dropped on them in minutes. So it HELPS them.

Someone that makes a lot of sense.

Gammas need Spark TP, Betas and Alphas don't.