well i can set the other bases offline, is what i am suggesting.  As long as they aren't attacked we are good.

That's cool, is the other bases bothering you out there?

yep.

Zoom,

I agree, the assaults got decent roles.  Light ewar bots have no survivablity versus other lights.  Mechs/Heavy pilots don't have range to engage without suffering from explosion damage problems.  Meaning the 3% to 5% really gimped the versatility of different fittings in order be able to do anything else but the same old cookie cutter.  Seth mk2 still out dps mesmers with greater range.  Long range tackle is not viable(desperately needed with mk2 velocity 10 mech mk2s).  And players in Pvp feel that.  More importantly there's no easier counter on the table to the cookie cutter except:  bring more dudes.  Don't think we don't remember the ewar nerf!!

I have a raid group going on Friday nights, we are looking for 1-2 more healers plus an additional dps.

Why are we still even discussing this?  Here's what I'd suggest to make this less of a hardcore game of asset denial.  Put access panels at the terminals that let you:equip, access personal equipment and corporation storage.  The only thing is you can not create storage for corporations.  Keep the lock out mechanic and in order to have corporation storage, you'd have to at some point get inside the terminal to make the corporation storage.  Also corporation storage costs pay to the station owner.

Dev Zoom at least give us(veterans) something with the next patch.  Like lump the EP system with like syndicate supply crates.  Or a new syndicate robot, something.

I'm going to give you my full two cents here.  I am not going to go into great detail because no one at AC will care or read it anyway.  But here we go:

THERE HAS TO BE WAR, but it can't be ALL OR NOTHING.  PVP is great and good but there needs to be something worth while to play for.

All or nothing stems with the territorial warfare aspect of the game.  People LOVE taking bases on Beta and gamma and using them and settling into them but we are hella close.  And the random timers are great mini game but they aren't friendly to corporation based game play they are for alliances.  Which worked 3 years ago because there were people playing, and not EVERYONE had T4 gear and there was a little bit of luck/skill game play involved.

What needs to happen is threefold.

Step One:

Greater restrictions on Beta management need to exist.  For example a corporation can only own 1 or 2 stations. 
MORE NPC OWNED BETA TERMINALS NEED TO APPEAR. To allow safe spaces.  (The PLAYERBASE WOULD LOVE YOU IF YOU MADE CARBON COPYS OF ALPHA AND MADE ADDITIONAL BETA TERMINALS OUT OF THEM). 

Step Two:

Syndicate robots, reused animations.  We don't care..  I have stacks of thousands of robots in the station in tellesis just hanging out there.  We need something different!  This same things applys with uping a T5 class thats linear progression with maybe some negative stat modifications.  Something to put Veterans in the field mining, producing, moving assists.

Step Three.

QoL items for your playerbase.  Gamma needs less NPCs.  And more semi afkish things the community can take advantage of.  Like deployable mining towers that the players fuel themselves.  So we can spend more time doing LESS GRINDY BULLSHIT.

I've started back playing WoW full time again.  And you know what a massive developer did?  Instead of trying to speed up the grind they push people to end game content where they can be raiding/pvping in under a week.

I should be able to buy 2 million EP for $100 if I want too in this game.  Or spend $50 for a black robot.

Your moving to Themepark dynamics, it's time to get the yellow ! over npcs.

New players can run heavy mechs day one.  See the post about Mroq

So did you scrap the npc AI rework?

I'm play world of Warcraft and preparing for new xpac in August.