Recruit him, theres a triandlus shortage on isle 3.

Every time Burial and later Jita (two persons) brought up station locking over the past year it was slammed down with overwhelming negative community response.

Repeating the same suggestion over and over again obviously has some effect on Zoom's perception otherwise we wouldn't be discussing it for the Nth time.

If you want an active Beta population, DEV Zoom you need to give veterans and newbies alike reasons to go out there and fight for owning it or using it. Without a reason nothing else will work. You can make Beta 1's crappier then Beta 2's, we will move to Beta 2's and the Beta 1's will be empty wastelands with unlocked stations, so brosef can go mine Epri there and go looking for miners to gank somewhere else without having to worry about someone taking his station away from him.

That's the reality.

Everything else in some magic fairyland where theres a queue of people on Alpha waiting for stations kept locked by a privileged few, is poppycock.

If this is about increasing activity and population, increase tangible rewards on Beta and nerf Alpha into hell like I've been saying for years.

If this is about poor Burial and Jita going out to Beta without getting gangbanged, make a separate island-shard for them and their 5 cronies from the roundtable and give their accounts a one-way trip to that shard and let them play in their own little world.

As I already told DEV Zoom, unlocking Beta 1's turns POE's home-island from Fortress Domhalarn into a freeported zone, and provides convenient untouchable staging grounds for anyone looking to launch assaults on our Gamma bases on Kraslovsk.

Furthermore, it forces POE to haul out our massive stockpiles out of Domhalarn, as we've been actively living there and doing industry on Beta there for a very long time, and we like our station income from our industry.

While POE is not the largest alliance in the game and is only comprised of 3 corporations, we still represent a large percentage of the actual active playerbase and as such it would be nice if DEV Zoom at least moved our assets and our Gamma island for us, since this change would effectively be taking away our home - something no entity or alliance in the history of this game ever accomplished.

Thats part of the advantage of owning a Beta 2 though, their under-utilization stems from not enough gain to warrant using them over a Beta 1 island. Your proposal turns Beta 2 into Beta 1 with a worse tp layout, and I dont think that would be an actual incentive to use them.

Engaging in corp & intrusion warfare should be a prerequisite to claiming most of the reward on Beta, otherwise why bother making the effort to scan and show up and fight for it? Beacons and ammo can be aquired from missions, cortexes from artifacting.

As someone in a leadership position in an alliance I would never house our people in a Beta 2 as-is, nevermind if you added a NPC terminal.

Converting some of the old Gamma islands into Beta 0's with a few NPC stations on par with Alpha 2, and buffing Beta 1 and 2 so they're vastly superior (and worth contesting) would create space and incentive to go for actual territory.

Gamma's should be deep behind Beta 1 and 2 in the chain, not something you reach from Alpha 1 or 2 in a jump or two.

The overall picture of the game should be structured so it makes sense for a new corporation to work their way up the chain and fight for more territory as they're growing their internal structure and organization.

Blobs are conglomerations of a lot of players, and as someone who terminated quite a few blobs in the history of this game, I would rather roam an island where there's 50 people chasing me after 5 minutes, then roaming 50 islands looking for 5 people playing grabass in some NPC terminals.

Turn Domhalarn into a beta2 island then, because you kowtowing to Jita and Burial (as always) turns our secured beta & gamma into no-mans land reachable from Alpha and the surrounding stations.

We're the only alliance actively using beta and gamma for a while now, you seem quite happy to change things willy nilly with no consideration how it impacts people playing.

It took a Dev intervention to breach Fortress Dom.

99% of suggestions revolves around reverting years of development with zero idea or consideration for the problems that resulted in community outcry for the features we have now.

It will be entertaining to watch how far will zoom go with his appeasement, which after the Gamma revamp would pretty much be flat out admitting every development decision in the last 3-4 years has been a mistake.

Player owned and lockable beta stations should be vastly superior to alpha 2 and npc beta terminals in terms of production and benefit from owning a station.

First goal of a new corporation getting fat on alpha should be to invest and risk assets to capture their own beta station.

It stimulates the economy and PVP.

Unlocked NPC terminals on Beta should not be anything as good as owning a station (and investing the effort and assets involved in keeping it stable).

Send me a mail in-game.

Haven't seen any CNEX around in a while, I think most of them paused playing.

Whoever brought enough people to match us would then have to

a) Consistently beat us in the field
b) Consistently show up in same or larger numbers

Because we grow after every fight, win or lose, as word of fun spreads through our community.

Also, fixed your post. CIR owned and lived Beta long before stc ever showed up to be the cannon fodder for RG.

We fought and won against the best PVPers in this game with actual unlimited supplies. Didn't see us whining about losing a fight or two. Then again you wouldn't know that, you threw away your alliance and ran away to stage on Alpha and "harass" dupers.

Spreading out the problem doesn't solve it, it just further caters to your group of 5 actual players to sneak around and try to get a kill or two, at the expense of every corporation small or large that's trying to hold a station.

You have no capability to hold a station ergo you won't, unlocking them allows people like me to simply come live in the Beta station of whoever I feel should be evicted.

The only stupid thing here is your pointless attempts at wit and intellect.

If he's doing non-mech beacons - MEANING DPS HEAVY MK2, RR FOLLOWBOT in sufficient quantities - he might as well be doing mech beacons and earning more.

Ergo to keep it simple for you, if you're doing beacons you might as well be doing mech beacons.