Zoom, are you afraid to add the option of "no change at all"?
Because based on your current active player base, that would win hands down. Right?

Right now I mine in COMPLETE SAFETY ON MY ISLAND. The changes I am suggesting would make it exactly as safe as mining on Beta, the only difference is the destination that the gamma miner has (safe base) vs the beta miner (safe external). Both have the 3 minute tele warm up time that leaves them vulnerable. But I explained this in my post which you quoted but clearly don't understand.

I guess I will let you guys talk me out of nerfing my own base. Lol, idiots.

You are suggesting a change to SpT to make the game better.
I am suggesting a change to Gamma to make the game better, a change that I think is a far better choice and would have way more effect than your SpT change.

You guys go on about our self interest ... I just suggested a change that would decidedly nerf a HUGE ADVANTAGE my side currently has. And yet you are too stupid to see it. Lol, just lol.

Also make the poll respondents reveal how many terminals, outside of Beta 1 NPC terminals and Alphas, that they can currently set sparks to. That will quickly show who has and needs sparks. Pretty sure the poll would follow exactly who uses and doesn't use SpT.

My opinions are for the good of the game, not my self interest.

Since you probably still dont understand Estamel, I am suggesting a change that would prevent Gamma teleports from being walled off.

Heres a suggestion. Limit sparks to 2. Plus a blood spark.
But allow player built teleports on Gammas, only accessible on island (ie you cannot interzone to them)

This limits the current SpT that clearly is the sole reason Perp is not bigger than EvE and has amazing and constant PvP (sarcasm possible)

This allows industrials to use their islands for industrial purposes.
And while we are at it how about some sort of structure limit on Gammas, something balanced that would allow for the creation of player fortresses but make difficult the creation of island fortesses.

Seriously, this post has much better ideas to fix the game than the 55 pages of bullshit you are listening to, Zoom.

Estamel, reverse the question.
You had stuff in game and lost it. You don't have the power to take it back.
You are crying to change things to get it back without investment.

How easy do you want it?

2 ways to look at anything, right?

@ Tonnik .... When everyone in game had roughly the same assets, or dedication, there was not an overwhelming majority owned by one group.  SpT for large numbers will make it difficult to hold something. You will need strength to hold something. But shouldnt that be the correct way?

Terrible idea. You are trying to fix PvP and you are punishing industry and everyone else.
I have 7 sparks. They are:

Hersh
Brightstone
Kara
Dana
3 stations on Imidero

My blood spark is to another Gamma.

My sparks on gamma are for industrial uses, mining, harvesting, etc.
This is a game of conflict. If you wish to stop Gamma expansion by a Corp it sgould be stopped by guns, not mechanics. This is a game of empire building, and there is a reward for those players who continue to play the game for the long haul. Your proposal shifts the focus to the casual player and hit and run PvP. The casual player doesn't need to play this game month after month.

These limits royally screw the indy player. And, once its implemented, you will see it do nothing to fix the root causes of why the game is stagnant. The Epi change was the first and best step in the right direction but it wont be apparent until stockpiles run low.

I guess 50 total pages of people stating "its a broken mechanic" has finally convinced the Devs its a"broken mechanic".
When it wasn't. A simple 5 minute cooldown, nothing more, would have sufficed and eliminated most of the arguements of it being OP.

I don't argue my position on this from a political standpoint, nor from a position of what I currently have or have access to. I think this is wrong and bad because you are suggesting a change that drastically affects a much larger area than what you think you are correcting. People forget what travel was like before sparks, and before Gamma, I mentioned in Gen Chat if I want to haul items from Hersh to Imi, its 45 minutes. I spend 45 minutes of my game time every time I want one Scarab of goods moved, and at least half that time is in an area where I can be killed, Isn't this enough of an opportunity for my enemies to kill me if they so choose? I guess not.

The limit of 10 sparks is perfect. A 5 minute cooldown would be enough. Blood sparking only to current set home base, This is all that would be needed to balance SpT. 

You guys want players to invest in this game. You will make it so the best way to play is casual encounters, That defeates the point of building bases, taking saps. Living in the game. Is this what you want?

Funny, I thought we have this dance everytime because everyone

A) has an opinion
B) access to internet
C) is an ***

Any game I've ever played has a player base that cannot understand how the designers left out x, refused to see y, and have no idea why they didn't think of z. Perp is no different.

One thing is clear, regardless of how small the Dev team is, or the health of the game; the Devs here have been far more available here than in EvE.

I honestly think the Devs added the EP tie-in without understanding how it would randomly negate a current fully researcher PT who just doesn't happen to have 250k EP saved. I don't mind the conversion of
Researched tech to the new RP equivalent; it should make resuming where you left off ROUGHLY equivalent to what you had (barring the EP bottleneck)

But Zoom's only response since I asked that question was to comment on the x100 multiplier.
No word from him about the possible EP bottleneck

Tux, you be trolled!

There are no EP and RP requirements to polish swords and kill orcs.

And Ville on the off chance in your troll you actually have a valid point and belief in not making things easy, I completely agree. When I joined I had an Arby vapourized by a Roaming Kain Observer outside of ICS A ... That did not discourage me, it encouraged me! Make the game more challenging by far! Orange spawns .... Ghey! Remove. Noobs gonna learn and appreciate, by dying. But hard mode doesnt = unattainable.

I am hoping this is simply the Devs being open with us and giving us a look at upcoming ideas (which we ALL yell and scream at them to do 24/7) and from our feedback realizing this particular concept has an issue (EP tied to research creates massive EP bottleneck that randomly eliminates researched techs)

So, thanks for being open to us on this, Zoom. We the players may have pointed out something you might not have thought of. Since its conceptual at this point and not implimented ... any thoughts on the direction you may choose to address our concerns?

Also both Celebro and Tux have some decent ideas. Since this will affect the long term indy charcaters the most, some way to adjust their current invested EP would be the best solution. My Combat doesn't need an EP reset because of this obviously.

And I should add that for myself, I have at least one account with enough EP banked, and enough kernels kicking around, to probably weather this whole change, as currently proposed, just fine. But it would probably be terrible for most existing prototypers and that would be bad for the game. And I just want the game strong.

Sadly, and I hate to sound a bit like you here, but there is nothing new about Perp.
The main article writer plays a number of games and he has been focused elsewhere ... Really RPS is about a number of games. That said the result of the articles, namely STC, is active and solid in game and will continue to be for some time.

Scanning skills help, but the way it works is one Character can only get one spark ... so if you have 3 characters they can team up to get one faster for the others ...  hope thats clear enough, thats how it worked last year.