I find it funny that the people with the most power in the game in terms of money and assets, are the ones that started this topic. while the people who dont have that much money and assets yet with more active people, are able to topple some of the stations.

the way I see it. the mechanics are working.

This isn't about stations, or saps or anything to do with them.

Its about sparks.  Go to Villes thread to discuss those issues there.  Zoom please clean up this thread of OT stuff..

New thoughts over reading several slanders toward the game were playing.

Commit sparks to having a cooldown based upon the distance of spark. 
Example.

You spark, as the bird flies, 1km.  Your cooldown is 1.6 minutes until you can jump again. 
1 Meter = 0.1 second of cooldown.  It will compartmentalize SOME jumping and still allow grouping of power blocks, but distance jumping is offset by a waiting game.

Burial wrote:

Not hard to protect an outpost from 1 assault.

Says the guy with no outposts... Says the guy who thinks 'waiting' is an effective strategy when the enemy shows up with a 'blob'.  One guy in an assault in the off timezone is all it takes to bring a station down up to 20 pts.

I know people don't like that the game unintentionally copies EVE mechanics but we really need to look at their ownership mechanics (which aren't perfect by a long shot). There should be 3 locations around a base (Saps) all should be destro with 3-5 x the current hp and more resists than current. When all 3 are destroyed the Real Sap goes live with in 12- 24 hours if taken the Outpost is put in to Contested (0%) its open to all.

Now we would need another mechanic for deciding who wins the OP like a very large Passive hack that counts per corp not per agent, Corp A has 3 agents in masked lights skirting Corp B 5 agents in Heavies. Of course 5 is more than 3 but the Sap will stay contested until only Corp A or B is the only corp in the Passive area for 2-3 hours. Timer pauses when other corp enters control area.

Once control is established the 3 Destro control points go live and process can be repeated.
Destro points should have a passive repair mechanic.
Destro points should produce a Gamma style alarm.

Now comes the problem of Sap loot. and old saps
Only agents from the owning corp gets access to a set of extra daily missions. Only the CEO gets a mission that would be difficult to complete alone but one that would drop up to a current full active hack drop. Other missions would include harvesting noralgis for PLs and mining epi for PLs, Combat missions with PVP ammo rewards.

Maybe Ville can put in some ideas on productions since I'm just a go getter when it comes to production.

Edit. Only 2 Beta stations can be held by one corp.

@Gwyndor: You don't have to be a supercomputer to figure out, if the urn has 20 balls in it, then the average number of black balls is 10. If a similar mean-reverting random walk has upper and lower bounds 40 nic and 50 nic, then on average the price would be 45 nic. It doesn't need to change particularly fast to add texture to the market - roughly hourly or daily would be fine - but transaction fees would make high-frequency trading unprofitable anyway (that's what regulators in the real world recommend to curb HFT).

@Jita: is there a major source of nic other than plasma? Don't you need nic to pay prototyping and manufacturing fees?

I guess I just never got that argument. If you see someone drop an armored, why didn't you just drop one of your own as soon as you see them drop it? Then you just follow them if they jump... Really not that hard of a concept...

I've been saying that since, forever.  God forbid you disagree with Jita,because you will get barraged by personal attack after personal attack.  To the point where you don't even want to post.  Which is EXACTLY what he wants because then there's no one to disagree with him and his circle of cronies can be made to seem like the "majority of the community". And what baffles me is how little consequences are given by the moderator.

Smokeyii wrote:

I'll flat out say it, the game would be 1000x better off if cir/phm wasn't playing. Hands down, if you guys disappeared tomorrow, my shrunken Perpetuums might actually grow again.

Guys. YOU NEED BALLS OF STEEL TO WIN PERP!

For 6 months you've been losing bots at a rate of 10 - 1, maybe worse?

4 years in Perp is a long time. No reason now why PoE won't be here in another 4 years.

In that time, somebody will rise to the challenge.

Your puny rag-tag ensemble of has-beens and forum PVPers suck at doing Perp, as displayed once again at South *** last Saturday. Losing to weekend warriors like me.

Perhaps if YOU and your ilk leave perp it would be 1000x better when the server and forum is free from whiny babies, pathetic attempts to win via obvious manipulation of opinions, BS propaganda, trolling and attempts to influence developmental directions. You simply do not need to use such methods.

Tl;dr
Just play the game, play to the best of your ability and enjoy your wins or 10-1 losses with zero access to end-game.

Or gtfo.

Have a nice day, Roboteers...