Well either way the Syndicate itself is going to just be a conglomerate of people.  All it takes is a couple of SPAIS!!!   in the programming / R&D dept to bypass any 'shielding' of a tech nature

Unless the Syndicate just invaded an existing communications relay from the native robot residents, ya?

edit: or really, wouldnt there already be entanglement between the sparks on nia, and the implants in the agents?

Eh?  Which Bapho sound?  Walking?  I didn't notice anything wonky. O.o  It just sounds like a low-pitched rumble to me of it's little feet pattering...

Yeh that's quantum entanglement, or as Einstein referred to it, "Spooky action at a distance."  It's basically how a particle light years away from an entangled partner can recieve stimuli simultaneously.

In other words, instead of a signal reaching a bot through a wormhole in 20,000 years, and the signal coming back 20,000 years after that, it happens instantly.  (or at least in 50-200ms )

It's .. quantum.  And stuff.

I suspect any confusion is likely being caused by lore being fuzzy at the moment.

This.  Originally this came up on our corp forums and I was expecting to hear from someone who was going to participate in this podcast (and had asked them to pass on that I was willing to come on as well) but they dropped off the radar - no idea what happened to them.

I'd be willing to come on and speak as a NeX officer, if that would be hepful.  I primarily handle personell and diplomatic issues and work on the collection and re-dissemination of information through every department in the corporation.  At least this is how it will work when we're done the initial cat-herding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8

T4 light frames are painfully expensive for a ground up starting corporation to use on ops.  Looking at the market trending and keeping in mind the possibility of the market having been polluted earlier due to item exploiting (looks like it started in april from this graph, and ended in June) they will consistently sell on the market for approx 1.7mil. 

T3 lightweights about 30 pricing at 420-430k.

I have industry running the numbers now but I suspect that this is quite inflated due to a) few T4 prototypers and b) 'It will be used against us' + 'nic is meaningless (for established beta corps)'  pheonemon.

As 99% of the new corporations are fitting assaults and mechs primarily for PvE at this time (as they all tend to follow Rule 1: Don't pilot what you can't afford to lose) the pricing is daunting at best, crippling at worst - which is why people are focusing on making the most NIC/hr as they can, and there are cries of 'courier missions broken' - likely primarily from people running one account and not doing them . 

It is difficult to afford what is being put on the market while internal corporation industrial ops can not generate the modules that are needed/wanted for ANY purpose, at least at this time.  There is no guess as to when the prototypers will unlock T4.

For the moment I am not even thinking about NeX, though by watching the corporation function I have a small microcosm to view in regards to playstyles. 

The current influx of players that I have seen are: Independent, Capitalistic, Paranoid   This means that regardless of the SIZE of the group, the advancement will move at the same speed as a smaller group.  The smaller group will get overall less kernels, but the larger group will tend to use more of their influx for personal need (selling on open market).

All of this to support the argument - yes, if we could just grab a T4 frame, we wouldn't be newbs.  It sort of feels like telling a noob in any game "just fit Fabled/Faction/Purple gear lol."  Which, yeah.

+1

No issue with selling something that my enemy will come shooting at me with.

Why?

Because then the enemy will come shooting!  PvP!

This would involve me having read stuff.  It already takes me 6+ hours a day reading corporation forums. :D

But yes, squad loot logger.  Primarily for selfish (unselfish?) reasons of a group working together to do something and then after the end of it, someone who was supposed to split things equally looking like the last person holding a shared check at a restaurant five dollars short and everyone arguing, "I paid for mine, I put tip money in too."

Which one of those lines is me charging to a blazing death in strike ops on Beta?

Good show, we await the fix.

Exhaustion over the past week is forcing me to have trouble putting thoughts into words   but some 'intermediate step' between Alpha 1 and Beta on Alpha 2 would be interesting (beyond longer roads and less convienent teleports to reflect its nature.  Corp. infrastructure of *some* kind would be interesting as long as it isn't solely unique to alpha 2 in all aspects, but something that could work as an 'industrial/infrastructure training ground' for eventual beta-dwellers' that would still be a full and exciting system to participate in on it's own.  My brain drifts to a certain mmo where you could build non-instanced structures from raw materials on the landscape... the 'rent' for the locale functions as an in-game currency sink to keep the economy rolling and encourages continued participation in the land location for corp or individual owner, and building buildings in 'that' game introduces an entirely new character class -- people pay builders to hail and construct for them, etc.

I have this sneaky suspicion the skies won't be clearing anytime soon... just sayin'.

*crawls back into tinfoil bunker*

If keeping the fits as private intel is that important (though I do suspect there is no AFK winfit; that player skill makes a SEVERE amount of difference here, more than elsewhere) the ability to save scanned fits would work just as well -- if corps want to keep these things for their own private intel, will work