Happens in real life too.. I used to do concrete work in my younger years, it's amazing where plants will grow.

I can understand what you are trying to say but without any limits it will end up like when walls first came out. People just went crazy walling off islands. If any man and his dog can get cheap probes I can see a situation where the islands become infested with the bloody things. Even if you put a short timer on them like an hour, people will just fill up their cargo with them and run around replacing them. Bots move fast now and probes take minimal cargo space.

I'm just concerned that if you ( and I don't mean you specifically, I'm talking generally) slowly remove different play styles like guerilla stealth tactics, just as an example, you are reducing the 'sandbox' and making it less open world. When you're a small corp (even if you are vets) there are not a lot of options when it comes to play styles.

We (OTHERS) believe that mechanics like probes actually remove/reduce the ability to have a diverse choice of play style and as such detract from what should be an open world MMO sandbox. We need content/mechanics that encourage diverse play styles and add to the 'open world' feel for corps of all size and we just don't see any evidence that probes contribute to this. Now, in the long run we may be proved wrong and we are fine with that. If you can show that they have contributed to a more diverse play style we are happy to admit being wrong and move on, but at this stage we just can't see it.

I usually never have a disconnect, but had one tonight. Just the one and only on one character. We (in OTHERS) have been running , off and on, the  WinMTR program as suggested and we think, stress the "THINK" that the lag may be better..

We will engage in some pvp over the next couple of days, maybe weekend, and see if this is the case or not..

Ok more or less agree with most of those suggestions, especially the corp management idea, I'd go even further and also suggest adding alliance management tools.

I have to somewhat disagree with the beacons/NPC spawn removal suggestion for the following reasons:

1. There are no tier 5 mech spawns on alpha

2. Removing the tier 4 mech spawns is just another nerf for alpha hobo's. One of the main reasons we can't keep people playing for longer than 6 months is the lack of content. I'm not convinced removing more content will be more incentive for people to stay.

3. Lets be honest here, not everyone prefers to pvp. There are people out there that prefer to PVE, and their money is just as good as anyone else's so putting systems/mechanics etc in place which, more or less, forces them onto beta is not going to wash with them. They will just leave and play something else. I would love to see 1000's of pve people running around alpha because a pve'er is just a player who hasn't yet realized how much fun pvp is, and the bigger the pool of pve'ers then the more chance of getting some of them to pvp!

As far as the colixum suggestion I will just say this, he who controls the spice, controls the universe. So any group of players, no matter who they be, either now or in the future that have dominance over gamma will naturally always ask for more uses for that product, it extends their power. This is more a population issue than anything else, as can be said for most of the issues at the moment.

ohh I forgot the probes point. What is it about these bloody probes that has you guys so infatuated ? From our point of view they should be removed from the game entirely. I mean, take a newbie who wants to do some ninja epri mining, he jumps onto beta and straight away his presence is announced! Where is the "ninja" in that ? From our point of view all the probes do is act as a deterrent to newer players to go to beta. There is no "stealth" available when there is a bloody probe up at every TP entry to the island.

my 2 cents as requested..

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Couple of nice fixes in there, good job..

Any news on the lag issues ? I think there's a lot of people not playing because of it.

You might think it's clear, but not everyone thinks so. Just saying it needs more HP doesn't say WHY you think that.

It's been like that for a while, and no-one has seemed to complain about it, till now, even when we all used to use probes. Personally I don't give a rats you can make it 1000000 HP for all I care. I just wanted to know why you think it needed more HP after all this time them being in game.

This is true..

Ok well the end result is the same for us in AU and NZ. We have no control over the routers along the way, never used to be like this and been playing for 4 years. Have no problem playing other MMO's,  including shooters.

I guess I will have to rethink what we do, kinda rules out pvp for us and considering the amount of pve content, sorta gives us no real reason to play.

PS: To give away, Abbu outpost, would be appreciated if we got the weekend to move out.

Zoom, look at the lag and time stamp on the bottom right, those images are in time sequence first on left, last on right. Now Ryni is in a different country to us and he was experiencing the same thing.

This is true, the number of players listed in a corp is not an accurate representation of active players. In our corp for example we have 7 active players, that is players that log in at least once a week. We used to have 6 but a member returned and has become active again.

Good point. I had not considered this, it seems only fair that if a support bot (remote rep/energy transfer) flags when supporting combats, then bots running NEXUS that support flagged combats, should get flagged as well.

I don't understand what the problem is ? If you are flagged and jump to alpha the flag carries with you, if fact the flag time is extended. It's up to you to get organised in time to catch the offender, either on beta or alpha while their flag still exists. If the intruder can get on beta, achieve their objective and flag up in the process, then get back to alpha even while still flagged and get away, then more power to them.

By asking for mechanic changes ,you need to be careful you don't remove guerilla hit and run tactics or any tactics that may be applied by smaller corps like ours, if you remove that then you may be removing reasons  to pvp ?
 
Just seems to me like your asking for mechanics that allow you more time to get your superior numbers organised.  Be careful what you wish for, it may bite you on the backside in 6 months.