IMHO you should feel your speed to understand how it's important

Steam? In my Perpetuum? NO WAI

Porblem isn't people are using assaults for roaming, porblem is - people using them MOSTLY. I want to see mixed roaming groups, much more mixed.

It's not an actual CIR problem. I don't think DEVs were planning to see people roaming on one type of bots mostly. That was with light ewars, now it's with assaults. More tactics, more fits, more robots - that's what we need. It shoudn't be a bot-of-the-week game, in other case why don't just remove every bots but arkhes and use them in all ways? THAT will be balanced.

What about some special module that grants syndicate protection on user so he can't shoot or be shooted by other players? Or kinda pvp flag on alphas. Such thing should be permanent unless you turn it off (unfit). After that - welcome to the painful world!

Such thing will allow alpha corps to do whatever they like on betas (actually, there will be no safe zones anymore), and when they feel they're ready - they can join pvp competition. Alphas will be no more safest places to mine, that will force ppl to use theyr betas more. With radars on outposts that will be even better.

Such protected people can have some restrictions in something - to stimulate them turning protection off.

This idea has been taken from Neocron world - runners there have special implant right from the start - Law Enforcer. It fits one brain slot so you can't use it for any other implants, and it can be putted back in while your level is lesser than 30.

Find 1, 2, 10, 100 more such newbie players and you'll be able to more or less compete old players. This game more oriented on team-play i believe.

And square-select all controlled units and right-click sending them to attack emeny island.

People like them stealth, thats it.

Ewars aren't combat bots, theyr role is different (and they play it well). Assaults are still looking for theyr niche, and all these changes are exactly about it.

Well even on vanilla alphas observers have a chance to kill you (depends ofc). New alphas...well...didn't was there yet, so can't really say how dangerous they are. But if you don't want to see them as pvp unsafe, then they should be even more dangerous.

Another thought - what if miner npcs will actually mine? You know, they spawns near mining spot, come there (with some defence ofc), mine for some time and then leave. So you'll need to have a fighters with you or wait until mining spots are safe. Also it can create additional resource sink that can help economics (prices lesser than 2 nic on almost any resource looks a little...frustrating)

Make alphas unsafe, just a zones around teleports and stations, as it was earlier. Raise rewards for misisons spotted in unsafe zones.