So what of rewards. So far we have some good suggestions including Wild Noralgis from Line (here) although I think it should be quite a rare plant - nothing like the forests of Helio and Triand you find on alpha/beta.

We also have good ideas for NPC farming buffs.

A further reward to throw into the mix would be a very large increase in facility points but not by just increasing the points on the facility. To use factory as an example, currently on alpha 250-300 points is not difficult to achieve - a module/bot can be produced for between 112-114% of base materials.

On gamma a factory facility should be able to push 1500 points at the top end whilst maintaining the balance between the significance of extensions, the CT and the facility. This would mean a module/bot could be produced for about 103-104% of base materials.

To avoid diminishing the value of the extensions players have sunk their EP into, all tech levels of facility have a base of 400 points upgradeable to 500 points but the Standard will double points from extensions, the advanced triple them and the hi-tech quadruple them. A small buff to the calibration lab and/or decoder forge and about 1500 points would be achieved with roughly a third of the points contributed by each of CT, facility and extensions.

Combine this with a similar system for refinery, RE and proto and suddenly we have a good reward for gamma

Your extra idea is a good one. Put one toe out of the 500m zone and no matter where you go turrets can lock and shoot you.

[EDIT] Just read this post: very similar stuff so apologies for duplication[/EDIT]

When asked by the players "Why 2000m building restriction around teleports?" the Devs replied that Hi-tech turrets can have up to 1500m range yet everybody still seemed to agree that a 1000m limit on building near teleports was the correct distance.

Being shot at by a static structure immediately on arrival is, I think, something everyone agreed would be detrimental to Gamma.

Soulutions suggested have been the 2000m restriction - (too much sand taken out of the box), or a syndicate protetion zone around TPs (we've been there before). How about MPC turrets (and only MPC turrets) not locking anyone within 500m of a teleport and a 1000m building restriction. That way if you feel the need to defend a teleport you have to do it with players, players can still shoot you when you're stood on the teleport.

I think the reverse, land first, people will follow. Get the land and give PvE content a space to thrive as OP suggests and DEVs have hinted and then 1K people online is more likely than on the current land space.

Yes, I'd even go a bit further than that. The danger I see with such a narrow list of invitees is that large numbers of players may feel unrepresented.

I think every corp on the server should be invited and if they want their 5 minutes they should have them. Not sure how useful their contribution is going to be if they've not planned or gone to Gamma in anyway but they should be invited. If some corps don't reply to the invite then fine; if some corps are happy for others to represent them because their views are the same then fine; if some corps feel they have nothing to contribute then fine. Just don't deny anybody the opportunity.

[EDIT] Above post by Calvin wasn't here when I started typing! Seems to answer some of the issues I raise above[/EDIT]

This certainly isn't the way the power blocks in the game appear from where I play ... and where did you get those names from? I really think you should be using more neutral names rather than ones invented by CIR in their Soviet Union role play.

FYI Alsbale alliance and Hokk alliance are completely seperate power blocs who very recently set each other blue for some operations. In fact, some members of the Alsbale alliance are red/yellow to Hokk. We have completely seperate plans for Gamma and have invested time/NIC in Gamma completely seperately also.

AIG? A neutral alliance formed mere weeks ago, are they supposed to represent, the "rest of the server"? Where do STC fit, a major player with Gamma interests but not really part of any of these alliances despite occasional joint operations.

Involved parties needs a rethink otherwise a lot of people will feel unrepresented.

+1

but there would be a need to make a least one raw material minable.harvestable without charges. Free arkhe with miner and gun module should be all you need to make EVERYTHING in the game. But unless you can mine the ore required make charges without charges, that ain't possible.

It does look horrible.

A 50% opacity, RGB 128 grey looks pretty good - and its sort of concrete coloured too.

The splodginess of the lines is due to the actual land tiles which are highway (I've tested) so I'm guessing that removing the splodginess may not be as simple as it may appear.

One of the problems with having spawns all over the place is the new dynamic raw material fields. Too many spawns could make mining really difficult after a while when all the non-spawn raw material fields are exploited.

One solution could be a new type of assignment spawn which might work a little bit like beacons do at the moment.

For example: Assignment directs a player/squad to a location under some story based pretext and when a player enters the said area a wave (or two, or three) of NPCs will spawn. These NPCs will, however, be invulnerable to any player outside the squad which "owns" the assignment and will not aggress any player outside the squad either. If there are no assignment "owning" players within the bounds of the assignment area for, say, three minutes, the NPCs will despawn and the assignment will fail.

Just an idea.

Including the SAP hacking module? Or is that icon supposed to look like that.