Kind of, but not really, more limited in that it only works a certain distance (3k?) from the TP you would jump to anyway, so you can't jump to anywhere on the Island, but you can avoid gate scouts to a certain extent. You would of course have to get one or more ppl on the Island to start with to activate the device, and an active detector scout around the TP would still probably see you, just not a semi afk Arkhe.

Edited for less trolling and more discussion.

1) Larger Islands, yes please

2) No Outposts & TPs. Maybe, but I think that game mechanics should not change too much between different types of Island. I'd also be wary of limiting play in certain areas to those corps who will put up PBS, etc. I guess Island size would be an important factor in deciding whether it should have some kind of existing infrastructure.

3/4) Mobile TPs, I guess some kind of player built tp system would be kind of cool and make it easier to get somewhere, but there needs to be disadvantages to it, maybe its only one way, maybe longer instability timers and shorter protection timers or something? So you can jump to a more convenient location on the Island, but if you don't have security, you're very vulnerable.

5) Special types of armor, not really a fan of this at all, the second post Alexadar made makes more sense to me. crazy high DPS / Alpha strike with crazy high hit dispersion, and slow cycle times. Good for shooting walls terrible for shooting anything else. I would say alongside this would need to be a general rebalance of large weapons vs small targets. I personally think Med Weapons do too much damage against smaller bots (Although many disagree), but part of the problem is mech alpha strike compared to light HP, making Assaults / Lights kind of useless when fighting mechs. Maybe as a compromise measure, Mechs being able to hit small bots more often but for lower quality hits that do less dmg (So overall dps applied would remain the same) would be preferable I think, giving you a chance to use speed to get into cover, rather than being killed by alpha very quickly.

6) Depends what you mean by maintenance. Much like Intrusions every 8-16hrs, this could get old fast.

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Would be pretty awesome if only you could fit them to non Green bots without removing weapons........ Also I think I'd prefer Perpetuum Online to Who has the most Ictus Online. v0v

My personal opinion is that shields are a little too effective, but one change I'd really like to see, which I don't think would be too controversial would be some kind of indicator of shield level, ideally an accumulator bar like the armour bar (maybe only when shield is up?) Or as was suggested ages ago, the shield changes colour gradually as the accumulator level goes down. Having no clue if you're breaking a shield or not, and if so how quickly, really sucks for prioritizing targets.

Theres PvP? I thought we all just stood on SAPs these days????

Still a bad mechanic, still discourages ppl to actually live on beta, and still Syndic makes more sense than most in this thread..................... The end is Nigh

The rest can come later, but pls, pls, pls can you make SAPs take longer to attack right now, so we don't have to sit on the damn thing and can actually do what this system was supposed to be about, being active on your own Island.

Also leave specimen SAPs, as they are the only one that can actually be defended, ppl whining that they can't just roll over them in 1 min like the other SAPs is p funny

Maybe they should be able to tank 5 v 1, my point was there has to be an upper limit on active tanking otherwise it becomes really OP at lower levels. Theres also the issue of how many counters there are, if a Tyannos with neuts or something can at least cause you a problem, maybe thats cool. If you HAVE to have an Ictus with you then tbh thats far to limiting imo.

Ppl don't often spam pure DPS groups. they bring tacklers, ECM, Supression, etc and hell usually a troiar or two.

Thing is theres a huge difference between a bot thats extremely hard to kill, loads of HP for example when you're in low DPS stuff, or lots of EWar on you to make it hard to apply dmg, and something thats just straight up impossible to kill because you cannot break the tank with what you have .

Eyes on a chokepoint is not great, but you need to give some chance to the guys mining, the fact their detector spots you 3k away makes no difference, and with out any chokepoints, you would need a stupid number of detectors to spot out any further than that. It's risk vs reward, but your risk when going to gank miners is not that high, so tbh neither should your reward.

People talk about buffing local tanking and I really don't understand why. The nature of any kind of regenerating tank  is if it is effective in say 5 v 1 it will be OP in 2 v 1. I'd think the better answer for really huge tanks would be buffer tanks (For Shield I would mean a Tank that relies on amount of accumulator, not recharge), maybe even with RR support, which may need buffing? The problem I guess is the modules available don't offer enough for a great buffer tank (correct me if I'm wrong pls) and particularly with armour they make you ridiculously slow. Maybe in that way it becomes easier to balance, with local rep / regen tanks having sensible limits, Buffer Tanks being bigger, but of course can be broken by 1 dps eventually, and for the ultimate you combine a local buffer tank with a remote repper?

Disclaimer : I'm a little high on medication atm, so could be all crap