Altera is my new hero.

Close this thread TBH.

M2S held everything pre-sparks under the Intrusion 1.0 system, for which you had to sign up to show up and be eligible to do SAPs, and it was only twice a week. Currently in the Intrusion 2.0 system if you've noticed, SAP's are happening twice a day per outpost usually. Therefore, your argument is invalid.

With the changes Zoom is putting in with regard to field terminals and the taxation system, coupled with the facility point rebalance, will make Beta worth living on for corporations. Spark removal will insure complete world domination will be more difficult.

Coincidentally, the taxation system will provide an incentive to solve conflicts before they blow up into full blown wars, and cooperation will be a viable (and lucrative) alternative to extermination by default. NRDS will be a viable alternative.

Although regardless of any changes, JOKE and a few other corps won't own outposts, because POE will say no. Newbies on the other hand... good luck to them, hope they enjoy the game.

From that forum campaign conducted by 2-3 people, the Devs got the idea for changes that murdered EWar and EnWar, which brought us this current balance.

And then like I said then, instead of 5-10 Vagabond mk2's, 5-10 Zenith mk2's, 5-8 Ictus mk2's and 5-6 Mesmer mk2's we put 20 Seth Mk2's with 10 RR Riveler Mk2's on the field.

"And at the end of the day 2>1, always."

"Told you so"

Taxes from field terminals create an incentive for the owner to decide if he wants to open the outpost up (thus attract missioners and whatnot, all sorts of metagame deals are opened up here for player-choice), and with a small tie-in to outpost stability affecting pay-out reward (therefore, indirectly the tax volume itself) the real incentive would be to own and actively police your station versus afk-emperoring and/or ninja-missioning.

The playstyle and mentality of living on Alpha (no risk) and collecting all the cream on Beta (reward) needs to be curbstomped out of the game, because it is detrimental and toxic to the population.

+ What Altera said. Sand, not concrete.

Time and time again we have accurately predicted the results of changes.

I have a giant "I told you so" card to play on 90% of the problematic changes in the game.

Listening to Jita, Burial, Annihilator and their cronies is what created the current metagame.

Bumping this post to create the illusion that ANYONE besides Jita, Burial and their corp wants even more unlocked stations besides 3 NPC terminals, is pathetic and transparent.

1 change didn't bring about the current metagame.

It was consistent and thorough forum campaigning from Burial, Annihilator and a few other cupcakes from a defunct corporation to nerf our "unbeatable" EWar / EnWar compositions, by indirectly buffing Heavies.

Then we unveiled our new "unbeatable" tactic - we can and will bring 50-100 people in heavies against your 10 and pound you into the ground.

New forum campaign - unlock stations so 10 of you can run in circles around Beta and our 60 can't kick you out.

As Noodly mentioned, we predicted this would happen months ago.

The brightest point in this game right now, is that apparently the Devs realized what you've done and are finally developing the game on good tracks without your toxic self-centered feedback in the equation.

And we can see it stings you greatly.

If it wasn't sub-required we'd come visit you there, still have chars on chars on chars full of mats.

Will you keep the thingy where after you complete 10 artifacts another 10 spawn for the player?

POE, being evidently the largest and most powerful alliance in the game, has never had problems with new players.

Our members have started many initiatives on Norhoop, Kentagura, and Alsbale to incubate newbie corporations and help them grow and enjoy the game. Cons, who are now a part of the Partnership of Equals, is a product of our incubation programs on Kentagura and later Domhalarn. NSE is also a product of our incubation programs on Alsbale.

As part of our community outreach, we take great pains to contact and assist new corporations that come into the game. Our knowledge is shared freely with newbies, and every newbie corporation is warned against allying up to our enemies or to us, as no newbie corporation (or indeed, any other vet corporation) can dream of sustaining a conflict against us.

Some newbies listen and prosper, some newbies don't listen and die. At the end of the day, your vet corps will never have room to play and re-establish yourselves in the game because we will make it so. For reasons X, Y, Z. Accept it and come to terms with it.

Vets are irrelevant because you are divided into microscopic factions with long standing grudges that won't be resolved, and the factions will mostly cancel each other out. And if that doesn't happen, POE will murder all of you anyway 2-3 days after the horn of goondor is sounded, so it's a moot point.

It's necessary to repeat things.

The system itself of anomalies and beacons works fine on paper, the only thing most of the complaints about beacons can be summed up as "its not worth doing 1 then moving to the next anomaly". Meaning, nobody is complaining about the system itself - just the reward of the activity being too low for the player-investment.

Another consideration is that with the (very well considered and very welcome!) change to deploying L1 beacons on Alpha and L2 and L3 on Beta/Gamma only, there will be additional risk for players to consider before choosing to do them.

TL;DR

The system is fine and will work great, but you will need to tweak the rewards in the future for it to take off the ground.