Ok this is my first post on the forums. As a some what still young player i feel its time to voice my thoughts on the changes Jita and others are trying to force onto the the game. 1st point the new NPC changes are the 1st step in the wrong direction. Now people are saying its not right for 1 person with say 3 accounts to be able to go out and rat solo on an elite alpha spawn for hrs and make heaps. Why the hell not? If u have made the commitment to the game and put in the time to achieve that then why have it taken away from you?.

      2nd moving ores and essential things off alpha to beta will NOT keep people in the game who stay or generate pvp. The way to generate pvp is to have a base pool of pve players who can get rich enough quick enough where they have the fear of losing bots lessoned because they can replace it easier. All the talk i have seen from Syndik and Jita are not for newer players but enabling vets to keep what they have unchallenged and provide them with the opportunity to log in undock and kill someone and have their fun. That will NOT i repeat NOT encourage people to play the game and stay. For example if i was forced to go to beta and mine titan in the only bot i own at the time and get ganked how am i supposed to replace that. I would just say screw this and go and play something else, which imo is what already happened to the player pop, are u guys blind and deaf or what? Now with the current Npc changes i cannot rat a decent spawn with 3 characters even if that was me and 2 mates u still cannot do it (thk u Syndic and half my mates will not come back to play because of that 1 change alone nice work). How does that help smaller corps and noobs? It dosn't what it helps is vets maintaining a strangle hold on the game. The problem with the game atm is not mechanics its numbers and the only way to increase the player base is with content that is engaging and fun.

     My 1st thought on that would be something like a NPC intrusuion that happens from time to time similar to Eve and Firefall. This is something all players on that island at that time can come and be a part of. Have some decent loot drops and or bounty system and i promise u will have peeps join to play just to do those, whole corps dedicated to intrusion just like eve.
          2nd make it easier not harder to make money and build assests quickly so people are not afraid to say "Hey why don't we grab a couple assaults and go and see if we can kill something".

     Now everything i have read on what the older guys want changed is NOT going to effect u 1 bit. I have seen the screen shots of some veteran accounts and u see their wallet balance at 414 mil nic. Now u have made ur money u are rich u have no fear losing a bot cause u prob already have 100 of each plus the cash. It is going to effect the very new players u are wanting to join the game and they will not stay because the grind to be able to have fun is 100x longer and harder then it ever should be.

   Fun is what generates player interest and all i see about what u guys wanting changed is all about fun for u Vets not new players. I once saw the developer of halo 2 say if you can get 10 seconds of good fun into a game and repeat that over and over u got a winner. That is whats needed not more changes to mechanics that are not working atm because of POPULATION!!!!!! not because the mechanic dosn't work. The mechanic works fine with the player base to support it properly.

    Now also all the BS about unlocking beta 1 stations and everything is u Vets realising that without sparks when those changes come in its going to be harder for the power blocks to own the game like they currently do atm. This is why you want these changes, so u can lock down an island by putting ur own stuff into previously locked stations so u can gank and have ur fun!!! This has 0 to do with making the game better, and all about u wanting to be the big fish, big epeen, i am the best chest betters pure and simple.

         Dev Zoom this is Creative's game and while you should listen to the voices of ur player base u should NOTl let 2 people dictate where the game is going because i promise u it is not for ur or the games benefit that they want these changes. Now u are a business and need to make money, yes? Well my advice is start putting and building content for pve, all u have done for a long tiome is focus on pvp look where that has got u. I promise if u put in some fun content and make it easier for new players to have fun (pvp), by allowing them to get comfortable (rich) quickly the rest will take care of itself. This whole thing of moving and forcing players to beta is nothing but the vets not wanting anyone to build enough to challenge them and for them to have their quick kill fun.