Guess you didn't sell off your epi reserves to fuel your wall spam then have walls nerfed and told you won't get refunded. I'd much rather see a 97% balanced product with some minor tweaking then the 50-100% knee jerks we have been getting prior to the test server. Small list of knee jerks

Assault bots X2

Proxy detect mine X1 (complete rework including refund)

Walls X2

Quite a few other bots were knee jerked while the game was still in its opening months FOTM nerfs.

/agree with most of what has been posted.

Would like to see exactly what the devs are planning on pushing as a final product. To my knowledge there are still quite a few missing animations for mods and buildings. If they are all done then I says tweak the buildings DPS and start requesting PVB assault runs on the test server to see for yourselves. After that tweak them again and see what it looks like. The final product shouldn't require a knee jerk after release, a subtle finger flick or eyelid blink should be all thats needed to push things back to balance.

Skip this if you don't want my opinions in detail.

1. Terraforming: Seems cool is slow @ test server must be painfull on live server.
2. PBS and buildings: All seem a little week perhaps raise the HP and add some more points to resists or allow us to put up resist towers.
3. Turrets: All turrets are also weak in armor. Would like to see some other turret designs as well. (sniper turrets high range high alpha but very slow cycle Hint hint....)
4. New Mods. Haven't tested them in about a week but last test showed the Zenith becoming a beast with the Vaga lacking in some areas. Suggested get rid of suppressor tunings addition range de-buff and give ECM tuning a cycle time %-.
5. Research of PBS seems to be inline with all other research.
6. New scanning. Worked after the patch seems to be fine.
7. Distrobution of Minerals/Plants was needed for a long time and may if nothing else cause players to have a 2nd set of bots on a different color island.

Things that IMO should be included in this Expansion that aren't
1. Focused research. The abality to select a item or even a tree of items to focus your research on even if it costs you more kernals is needed.
2. Spark Teleport. At a cost and cool down you spark is teleported to a station that you must visit and set as your teleport station.

TL:DR
All is good if animations and finishing touches are being done to expansion let it rip. However please don't release it to early if more balance and fine tuning are needed. Lots of interesting threads in this section to read on whats "OP" or "Broke" or "IMBA" please devs read them and test them also before plunging ahead with the new chapter.

Problem at hand: Bases on defense will want to not allow enemy to terraform in the base or around the base.  Enemys on assault will want to be able to terraform near the base to disrupt the enemys defensive perimeter.

Solution is to allow all to terraform on an island anywhere they like... +
Once a base is placed allow slide bar function like beta terminals that slow the terraforming mod cycle time of those on the bad list. So I hop on to M2S island go with in 3000m of their station and notice I have perma terraforming debuff because of my relations to them. This means that they will terraform twice as fast as me on this part of the island. This will allow for great walls to be made but also make them reversable, for a determined group.

Failed to derail! Use an mk2 troiar to target mark something cause its so well sheilded you fool. Blob the only tactic in your tactical field manual?

Suppression is a very powerfull tool I agree and while some see it as over powered lets all raise your hands if ON LIVE SERVER you have:
thelodical 10
advance robots 10
suppression 10
long range e-war 10
long range targeting 10
*Khader Khan raises hand

Now before we all melt down and have a nerf this rage post who on live server has used a Mk2 zenith with suppressors
*Khader Khan raises hand
I'm fairly certain there are only 4-5 other pilots who run this robot Lemon(not sure which toon), Xelobain, Whys, and Sharkwolf.
From the looks of the kill boards last time you lost one was a year ago whys so you remember how easy it is to lose one when your outnumbered? Even if you "lock one enemy down". I'm not picking on you Whys please don't take it personal just wondering why your posting up math vs one robot when we all know you might catch some one solo but most likely no one will ever take an mk2 zenith out alone. So the point is moot and further more the zenith with out a sheild is paper thin its an E-war mech and needs a dps mech for support to kill its target to begin with.

Nothing is holding people in 0.0 in that other game and they do the same things day in and day out....

Wouldn't be opposed to a 24 hour power need on teleporters.

Thanks every one. We are looking for more people! All Timezone we currently have people from EU and US Timezones playing.

Stop buy our open chat <12> and have a word with us if your interested in joining.

Also if you have a contract, or just need some Mercs same chat channel.

This is all that is needed.

Which TOG the Beta TOG or that other TOG that isn't TOG?

I'd come and co-host with ya Grem or guest host if you just need a fill in for an episode. As for topics we haven't had a political landscape topic since NEX came to perp. Alot has happened since then. Alot of New corps and spin off corps. New Beta owners and what not. Might be a good one to pass the time until Test server and patch come out.