30M a week is a one-time payment for someone who's been stockpiling ore, prototypes, and T1 mods to recycle. Put up facilities, do what you need to do at max efficiency and vgg.

How many prototypes/CT's/Commodities can be pumped out in 7 days? 30 mil is CHEAP for max efficiency compared to the requirement of actual Gamma investment.

I honestly don't see the point. Either it's cheap enough where people use max facilities on Alpha, or it's too expensive where it doesn't make sense to use it at all.

Either way it seems to me that it would either be abused to hell and back, or completely ignored.

If it can be destroyed without a reinforce timer, I don't see why not.

WATCH OUT FOR THE LIGHTS, THEY WILL DEMOB US ONE BY ONE

From what Zoom said the field terminal position is generated (they're not placing them 1 by 1), so once Beta 1 is up and running it should be possible to patch it in for Beta 2 in a week or two (provided no gamebreaking bugs arise).

New content is priority for sure though!

REAL new content, no rehashes of rehashes though.

I support it because they're good simple changes that reward people who actively play the game and make an effort to get their corporations somewhere.

Single player experience is not veterans with 2-3 accounts botting a 4 star spawn on Alpha for ~20 hours a day. Single player experience is newbies coming in, doing missions and mining.

After Beta 1 and 2 are implemented with field terminals and taxation, it will be time to move on to NEW content instead of rehashing old stuff.

A lot of suggestions while good, can't function correctly without the foundation in place.

The mission rework coupled with the static NPC removal solves the game's biggest problems - vets botting 4star spawns on Alpha in perfect safety for maximum NIC income in the game. Conveniently, it also moves the game away from static grinding to more involved gameplay.

Field terminal taxation, facility point rebalance, and spark removal; they all incentivize larger corps to own an outpost and cultivate their territory instead of sitting on Alpha or owning islands they never use, while providing opportunity for lesser corps to make the effort and capture their own outpost. Further, if taxation is tied in to stability of the outpost, it will further discourage owning more then you can effectively control and cultivate.

The beacon rework opens the doors to wormholes/instances/whatever down the road.

I partially agree with Altera - NEW content needs to be the focus in the future, after Beta 1 and 2 are seeded with field terminals and mechanics are implemented for taxation and optionally reward differences between them.

Having a correct Alpha->Beta->Gamma progression both in the casual "risk vs reward" concept of things and in the more thorough "mechanic" sense is the FOUNDATION of the whole game, stuff you're talking about is irrelevant compared to sorting out the foundation.

Once the foundation is sorted out, the rest comes in and improves it even more.

When the dust settles the game will be a lot more mission-running oriented.

It's probably taking them a bit longer since the taxation wasn't originally planned.

The rules of the sandbox must be equal and clear for everyone, if the Devs step in every time someone stubs their toe then there is no point whatsoever in playing the game in the first place. The solution can NEVER be a Dev intervention into the sandbox, it simply won't work.

The solution, as I've been saying for years, is to give players a legitimate alternative reason to their default behavior. Nothing else has worked, can work, or will work.

Simplicity has its perks - I prefer Perp's landmark system to EVE's system. Perp's can be configured easily, EVE most people rely on overview packs to bypass the tedium of setting it all up.

Having said that, some of the ideas are really good - especially the independent passable terrain indication.

I think you can already have agent-based relation colors and corp-based relation colors.

It's worth noting that this is a trivial concern - the new system is better (kudos where kudos is due), slap a disclaimer on artifact charges about variations in accuracy and gg solved. Next!