What did I do about NPCs again?

Zoom doesnt listen to me and I doubt he ever will.

As a CEO I want there to be reasons for my friends to log in on a daily basis and enjoy the game instead of playing other games and only logging in for EP or jabber pings.

Alpha economy should revolve around NIC and trading more then around actual ores locally mined.

Zoom could you share the Devs thoughts on two questions;

- Assuming youre a corp leader, why would you want to capture a Beta outpost?
- Assuming youre a corp leader and Beta stations get unlocked, why would you want to make the extra effort to capture a Beta outpost?

I'm honestly curious.

Lets pretend we wont be listening to your TS and read your corp chat.

Evidently corps need reason to contest the Beta outposts, otherwise in 6 months there wouldn't have been tumbleweeds rolling around the 10 outposts we gave up to the community.

Also evidently, corps need reasons to recruit newbies into their organizations. It's a lot easier for a new player to integrate into a well oiled existing organization, then to hold our collective breath and hope 30 of them manage to bump into each other and make a new corporation.

With sparks gone, power projection will finally be solved. With field terminals Beta will be more accessible.

The key questions Zoom are;

- If you're a corp leader, why would you want to capture a Beta outpost? What does it give you?
- If you're a corp leader, why would you want to work with someone else's corporation?

Put yourself in our position and look at the problematic through our eyes.

Corp-leaders keep 99% of their corporations playing other games simply because there is nothing for them to do in-game, and it's been like that for a long time.

Like I said before, we've been progressively restricting the game back towards what it was on release over the past 3 years, it's proven that it doesn't work. Let's go the other way! Expand the game in all directions, add more reasons to play and fight.

Otherwise it'll be the same 20 dudes, except they'll be blueballing in untoucheable terminals until they can run out to huzzah an argano somewhere.

Bending the facts?

Do you or do you not have 6 JOKE members + Annihilator, in a meeting of 10 people?

Where is the community being represented by whom, Sunny and Obi? Or Race Drones who despite being a HERO, doesn't speak English?

What a... joke.

You can always talk to a random PHM player and tell them daddy sent you.

Then we can talk about being an upstanding contributing member of society and occasionally murdering everything as available.

Any new corporation can be out on Beta in a week, tops.

Most don't have the knowledge, many more get dragged into alliances and thrown against people they're not ready to fight.

Ofcourse I disagree with it, narrowing the gap between Alpha and Beta got us to this point where we are now. Countless corps and players vanished off the face of the earth when they got out to Beta and discovered they were better off staying on Alpha and farming spawns forever.

The game cannot move forward by any means if the Devs have to make it revolve around a 5-10 man corp being self-sufficient and relevant in the game.

Not all content should be accessible to solo players. Not all content should be accessible to 5-10 man corps that don't want to work together with anyone else.

Narrowing the gap between Alpha and Beta has been the guideline since 2011, there is a proven track record that if there is nothing for players to strive towards, they'll just get bored and go play something more fun.

It doesn't have to be exclusively vertical.

Space cannot be a problem because there is no competition for 10/15 outposts! Where are the wars for control of Norhoop? Why aren't we making joking remarks in C/D about Kentasomalia? Because nobody cares about stations that are more hassle managing SAPs every 10-16 hours then actual reward, on islands that are only better then Alpha by the fact there's Epriton there.

Go the other way. Make the gap between Alpha and Beta drastical. Make the gap between Beta and Gamma drastical too.

Give players something to fight over.

Unlocked outposts and reinventing the wheel from 2011 isn't "something to fight over".

Zoom you and the Devs should be more involved in this discussion, ask some questions etc.

Or if you've made up your minds lock the topic and lets move on.

He's trying to say that in order to attempt tanking X number of turrets, a heavy has to be fit correctly. However, you cannot fit enough range extenders and any sort of a tank (even with maxxed extensions) to allow you enough maneuvering room so that you can walk into range, take a few hits, and back out.

Without range extenders, most robots would be evaporated by turrets as they attempted to close to their native 300-500 ranges (since boosted turrets open fire at 1km+).

The culprit being that a number of modules (not only range extenders!) don't have an appropriate extension in-game that reduces their CPU/Reactor cost. For example, the range extender has nothing that reduces the reactor fitting cost.

Either a new extension (like Economical engineering) or adding unaffected modules to existing extensions would probably solve most of the problems, at the very least it would bring us one step closer to a balanced Gamma experience.