people will understand that in order to kill a settlement you must first kill its power sources then the rest will fall .. backbone nodes and energy transmitters are really weak and will need to be replaced on a regular basis as they stand.

here is mt train of thought:

when attacking a PBS you will not assault it directly you will cripple it first which means killin power supplies and boosting structures then go to town on the bigger structures. i know HP isnt then end all high resists would help as well but PBS needs to be worth while in order to work having some one cut wind around your PBS and it falling down is not my idea of worth while.

Q :Whats the simplest way to take out 20 turrets ?? 
A: Kill their power source, they will run themselves dry

Tower should be changed to mask other structures around it not the bots around it

So here is  my point.

Today I got in a Gropho MK2 with the following fit
head: all tuners +1 co processor
Mid : all launchers
Lows shield and recharges

yes this is a junk fit and it was done with no rep bot

I was able to out range and kill all but laser turrets ... the back bone energy node took me about 3 minutes to kill

either the resists are not being calculated properly or

a 10 man gang of Heavies long range fit with or with out rep bots could wipe a med sized PBS settlement in an hour or so down to the HQ which will go into reinforcement....

ALL  Structures including the terminals need to have their HP multiplied by a factor of at least 10(form what the test server started at) in order to withstand a decent assault. booster nodes take about 1 minute to kill in a single heavy.

automated defense should slow the opponent down yes but as they stand they are a joke.

to make turrets effective they all need to have a range of 1000 meters and have a surface hit size of ~ 3.0

Also this may not be intended but everyone can see everyone's network layout so if i was going to plan an attack i can just look at the map and know exactly where the targets reactors and energy transfer nodes are..

this needs to be fixed

With the new teleport distribution I don't think it would be to terrible to have all of the alpha 1 islands have a massive highway over haul. these beginner islands should have highways from the main terminal to all of the outposts and the exterior teleports. I think this would help beginners get around to explore. I don't think Beta needs highway at all.

Highways:
Alpha1: Massive highway system to and from all teleports outposts and terminals
Alpha2: working highway system to and from main terminal to exterior teleports
Beta 1: (as is ) no highways
Beta 2: remove the highways they only add to in-balance between beta 1 and 2
Gamma: no highways

alpha highway traffic should be refocused on moving people form exterior TP to terminal not exterior Tp to interior TP.

Terraforming Suggestion:

Can we remover the "smoother" from terraforming? i think the leveling charge is good enough to make a flat plain for a building. smoothing just seems to be an extra UN-needed step in-order to place a building.

I read what has been said here and the one thing that i agree with is that there needs to be a reasonable counter to suppressing. Sensor Amp's are not counter to suppressing if that is what the Devs are thinking.

What i think should happen is the module gets split into two classes one is for locking range and one is for locking time. the suppressor doing both (even with out tuners) is hard to defend against.

i think suppressors should only be able to reduce locking time / used in conjunction with a ecm makes sense.

A new ewar mod should be made to reduce locking range

could you imagine if the neut not only took away accum but lowered your recharge rate and or how much accum you could gain back from injectors / rechargers ? thats kinda the same thing with suppressors it effects two attributes at once.

I think in general the new tuning is a "step" in the right direction for ewar but they need to be notched down quite a bit before the live server.

solo terraforming  ... you know late night when your trying to help the corp out and theres not many others on to help you terraform

Awesome : ok issue solved ... 8)

Tux/waits for faction building to go kill it

so i guess well see the first faction structures in about a year or so ...
good luck to those who do get the research completed they will be instant trillionaires.