Supremacy wrote:

give us a teleporter system where we can go anywhere in alpha

lets call it

spark teleports

thank you for your contribution but spark teleports are a way to move your character only, and cannot be used to transport anything, so you are either trolling or missing the point of this request.

In the old days if you wanted to go somewhere you walked there, which typically resulted in 5-6 hours of roaming empty islands and still needing 30-40 minutes to get back home. SpT and interzones were brought in to combat precisely that time investment prerequisite for meaningful game participation. But as with everything that get's implemented, it was implemented haphazardly with zero consideration for what evidently more intelligent people were saying.

Issue 1: Force projection

Instantly jumping between 10/5/? locations for a laughable price with no cooldown? There's batshit ***, then there's this. Increase the world size, then turn it into a fish bowl with the few fish swimming in circles while the cat looks on.

Issue 2: No consequence

Did I mention no cooldown? As in, it's irrelevant if there's a fleet outside your station, spark away for an hour and mine a bit until they get bored & leave, then you can spark back and carry on w/e you were doing?

Solution: Kill it with fire

Whoever came up with this brilliant idea and didn't consider what long-term effect it would have is an evident imbecile and has no business making decisions. Unfortunately, since the afore-mentioned unidentified imbecile will no doubt keep making decisions, the only applicable solution is to tick on a cooldown on spark-jumping (8-12 hours should be sufficient, alternatively make it 24 and tie it to a new extension that ultimately reduces it to 14 hours).

Without that, the only thing you're doing is marginally increasing the fish bowl so the poor little fish have to swim a little bit longer. There is still no consequence for sparking to the wrong place at the wrong time.

TL;DR

Told you so, a long long time ago in an IRC far far away.

It does not fix the problem over A or B, as simply put.  By strategically placing sparks in the correct location, most of what is happening now can still be accomplished with very little more effort.

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Hello Dev Zoom,
Many thanks for speaking in this thread and the ideas put forward. While I do not speak completely for TOG, I agree that we need to spin from a time consuming to a nic consuming objective to wall maintenance. We do not have a issue with the wall maintenance and in fact were surprised it wasn't there at the start so Corps could plan for such a thing.

As feedback, in future when introducing a new game mechanic you announce the entire mechanic even parts of it that are coming(tm). This will prevent these types of threads in the future. A little communication can go a long way.

I believe you and the other Devs understand the concern the players have with the sudden change. So thanks for that. So from my perspective -

1. Vote No to removal of walls. We are adapting to the metric with a full understanding of what is needed and what we have learned over the last week or so. We maybe broke but we do not want the time wasted planning and building to be in vane. I'd rather grind nic than grind wall repair lol
2. Tweaking of the way walls are repaired, happy with what ever idea you have to change from time sink to nic sink.

@anyone that states Walls have stopped roaming/PvP. You serious? You must not be on Beta, because we have had more fun in the past week in TOG Corp then for months before hand. It has brought our Corp together like I have not seen in a long time with a goal and enabled us to have more PvP then ever before. Roams arrive daily, we have seen new ways of how the others are getting through the walls, how they are adapting to the changes. When Beta comes to it, we are pretty new and all admit to being noobs. But we are learning and we will try and make it now and bring more PvP to the server than just our roams in the past. To those complaining, what have you done to improve PvP in the past week other than troll in the forums?

Cheers

Duma

Supremacy wrote:

Only one entity will not agree to this.  They would do this simply for griefing purposes.  5 out of 6 beta islands good enough?

:::Lupus does a quick count of the posts in this thread:::

Hum, I'm only seeing one island's group of players advocating it...

PS: You have no business assigning motives to ppl's post to try and benefit your case.  I don't speak for Hokk, I don't even speak for M2S.  I'm just another player, trying to be objective about game balance because I want a healthy Perp.  Maybe you should try the same.