im not a person how demands anything for product that is not mine... but that bug is indeed anoying in a enourmous way. a soon fix would be appreciated.

1.: there is no king
2.: if there is a self proclaimed king with a larger e-pen then you have it still can have fun fight him. we did that long enough and it was fun. (no names given )

back to topic:
yes there should be a fifference in the islands. there should be some materials that are scatterd over the silands. and of cource you will need most of them. but there should be not a "better" island. there just ahve to be stuff that is avalibe here and other stuff that is avalible somewere else. so no island is better. so a single island will not to the job.

on the other hand this also has a downside. you just expect things to turn out the way you will like it. that ppl, corps, and alliances will trade or fight over it. i will predict another outcome. the STsyndic outcome. there will be at least one or maybe even two alliances that will try to get all that they need for themselfs. so they will make big powerblocks so that they can have all they want. and this will be bad for the game. as we have seen before.

so this is basicly a double edged sword. dont try to cut yourself. you may have a reverse efect even if you have the best intentions. humans like to do idiotic things just because its to their "benefit" or fits their ego.

dont get me wrong i like the idea of ilands with different resources and maybe other things that will bring pros and cons. but i think you have to be carefull with that.

i like the idea of a player build arena and player organiszed tounaments, but i think will not do the job alone. if you want to do it now on beta with walls only then i think it will be a failure because the arena is limited to that walls and the surface that is avalible.
i thinkt it will be better to wait for the gamma islands to arrive (even if this will take quite a few months) were you also have terraforming avalible. this will allow you to build a good arena where you can use terain and walls to build a real good arena.

just my 5 cents.

kain with 6 autocannons will look nice...

this sounds good. but you will have to use (hungarian) math to find out if it realy will not be too overpowering in some cases.

but in general i think this is a good idea. maybe even some more modules that could use this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdAe-sDJfdg
one of my favorites

first: all you complain is that you can no longer gank miners.

sorry but its a poor thing to gank someone that can not defend anyway. and in most cases in the old system they were just prey with litte chance of survival at all. even with some detectors. because 2 mins are a realy long time. and a small roaming gang could be everywere in that time.

now the miners have a chance to defend assivly. so they can get save (log out or tele beacon) in most cases before you can breach the wall. well i think thats good.

on the other hand i dont like it either that entire islands get walled off completely. kilometer long walls everywere. artifact scanning is no more an option because your movement ways have been tribled at best.

the problems are not the walls that protect the miners. the problems are the walls that block the hole islands.
if you want a fight then come to have a fight. not to gank something that can not shoot back.

so for your post its still a
-1
wrong intentions, wrong reasons. but a +1 that some thing is wrong with the walls.

back to OP:
in general the idea is not bad, but i would not agree with the outpost things.

i would bind walls not to outposts but to thething that we dont have atm. PBS!
so if you have a PBS you can place walls in a certain radius around it. that will help walling off entire ilands with 3km long walls. with PBS comes costs and maybe a special module that prevents the decay or baybe a slow self repair for the walls.

an additional feature that may be worth a thought (even if it makes no sense from the logical point of view) is to limit the number of connected wall segments to a fix number (not saying what the number should be). a wall only works when it closes the gap you want to be closed. if there is one hole then the wall is for nothing. so if you limit the total lenth of a wall your option for spamming will be limided, because you can not wall off too large areas on plain field. you can wall off on smaller gaps between mountains, or on strategic locations, but it will have its limits where and how it can be used. but that is just a thought.

this is the right way +1

i like the idea of the areas that can be controled insted of only the outposts.

maybe it needs some more thought of how it can be controlled, but the idea itself is good.

+1

-1/2

decorational plants with incubators would realy look dumb...

we can talk about the plants you can harvest, but i think this will not realy be nessesary either.

maybe we can rename the incubators to planting device. problem solved.