maybe its a terminal or outdoor interactable that only spawns randomly.. and first person to touch it, becomes it...

think of the kill mails..

This is great!  Couple of points:

1) Doek and I converted your ME% to the full points formula as follows:

INT((CT Efficiency Points/(CT Efficiency Points +100)*100)*2*.255

for the number to add to bases you listed above.

2) There are a few items that have a -20 modifier applied to the base item that typically were added as new higher technology items (sensor suppressor tunings, etc.).

Going to test this more broadly and with other members of our corp but this was huge help. Thx!

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When or if someone provides the formula, can the devs put it on the wiki? The formula pages on the wiki are quite helpful.

I apologize that I haven't read the entire thread.  I am likewise certain that I don't fully understand all the concerns but I think I see most of them.

What if we changed the mechanic of owning stations rather than sparks.  Make owning stations based on some CEO/Corporate skill that is expensive.  Owning one is cheap, with the cap of station ownership less than half of all stations.. and make it about picking the RIGHT stations rather than getting all of them.

Then change the spark mechanic to allow corp only use of a teleport between corp owned stations.  This would make it so corps could rally to their own troops and defended their limited stations easily..but not provide offensive advantage for teleporting.  The point is to create incentives to select from all the available stations those that best serve the corporate interest but provide a game limitation on no corp every being able to dominate the entirety of the station inventory.

It won't prevent alliances from cooperating, but the teleportation limits the cooperation instantly (has to be planned for all to arrive on time) as well as provide more roaming/away from station convoy ambushes.  This spark limitation would not apply to alpha 1 or 2.  Ie., don't impact the industrials as harshly.

An example maxxed pvp character (spark 10) with maxxed corp would have:

Up to 4-6 stations that can be owned of the 18 stations.  The member would use 6 of his teleport sparks on those terminals, leaving 4 sparks for alphas.

A intermediate player with moderate skills (spark 7) could have 2-4 stations of the 18, with the remaining
3-4 for alpha.

The new player (spark 0-4) with newb corp could have 0-1 stations fairly easily.  Leaving 2-3 teleports for alpha.

Uber alliance with 6 maxxed corps could conceivably control all stations, but that would mean significant ep investment, major coordination, and could be challenged at weak points for other to break.  The alliance would have to roam to support the member corps instead of just insta-jump.  Also limit the number of stations on any one island.. maybe to no more than 2/4 1/3, preventing a corp from "owning an island".  They either recruit an alliance corp to join them or they leave themselves open to island warfare with enemy.

I intended this as a balanced submission, not as a partisan post.  Be kind.

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