Max (or min) hit size will be around 1.45. Med Gauss guns with top skills have something like 5 dispersion, which can be adjusted further with stabs. So it makes 29% hit chance for one single Gauss gun without stabs.  Oh yes and for that, Locust should have skills at max, Evasion module fitted, and under the Evasion Nexus effect. Without announced med weapons changes, that doesn't look good.

IMO, base value for Losuct could be reduced to 2.5m, Vektor - to 2.25m? that would make accordingly 15% and 10% hit chance without stabs. Which is good, isn't it?

That would be nice and game if not on daily basis. Says, once per 2-3 days.

Point is, that once you capture an outpost, you're involved into continuous SAP defence, which leave you almost no time for everything else unless you're a no-lifer. As an adult man, you have to spend 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for work, 2 hours for a ride from work to home and back (it's all average), which leaves you up to 5 play hours total. SAPs are occur every 8-16 hours, that means you have 0% chance to successfully defend next SAP, and roughly about 31% to defend a SAP after that in your primetime. That's kinda...low.

Ofc you can say that you as an attacker have exactly the same 0% and 31%, but hey. Difference is, that there can be only one owner but multiple attackers, which means that for successfull defence I have to form up alliances covering as much TZ as possible, while attackers can go solo. That sounds like an unfair advantage of attackers. and makes defending harder than attacking which is, combining with risks and rewards of owning an outpost, makes the outpost ownership close to meanless.

Ah yessss, and ofc current mechanics meants that with about 50% probability I will be busy defending my outpost at the primetime (forming up fleet, moving, defending, and all the stuff), which leaves me close to nothing free time of my primetime, making me unable to do whatever else it's need to be done to maintain my corporation.

Unskilled agent on the gamma facility will get higher efficiency % than fully skilled agent on Alpha 2 base (for example). But that doesn't mean that fully skilled agent will have waaaay higher efficiency on gamma.

Must be something about this:

efficiency = points/(points+100)*100, where points = factory points + extension points + reputation points

As you can see, after the certain level of total points it's change makes lesser and lesser influence on the total percentage.

You can't "own" an island. The only thing you can own on Betas - is 2-3 stations and some space right around you that is within your optimal range. All that TZ bullshit - it's just an excuse to avoiding fights.

Been there, doing that. Ended with all of you guys turn into ninja sappers when noone is on. Exactly that chance for a small corp, uhu.

Recycling efficiency, along with other production jobs, is based not only the extensions, but also factory points and your relations toward factory owner (or reputation, in case of NPC factories). Alltogether, they give your total efficiency, but, after the certain level any changes will make lesser influence on total value so might be it's your case?

those assaults will take their niche. you will see.

WoW - US only? and what's the minimum level of lazynes is acceptable?

Lags are independant on whatever, they are just exist.

Syntec Arkhe-only, mechs/hmechs only med modules then?

Well, it's not like solve-them-all solution, but still something. At least, common liquid ores rices might grow-up a little

I've rechecked it in all the possible ways - Zom knew what to do. It's really well-balanced and bugless, no matter how will you mine, amount of EP will be the same. Good job, mr. Zoom!