Do you not understand how non-affiliated sites ARE a representation of the DEVs and there products?  What are new players supposed to think when you go on there are see people spewing racists, homophobic, and hateful remarks at each other.  What about Valve,  say Perp applies for Steam.  Valve starts to look into the game to see if it meets the requirements, and is a product they would like to see on steam.  They come across the kill boards and see that ****.  What are they supposed to think?

I hope your being ironic, cause if you don't understand how that affects their game and their product,  you should never be put into a PR position, or own your own business.

OH HELL YA!!  The market is gonna be packed!!!  Thank you!! Thank you!!

Surprise Surprise, negative Nancy strikes again!!

From here on out can we call this Beacongate?  It sounds more official that way.

@ DEV zoom:  I hope you guys were looking to stress test your servers, cause over the next couple of days they are going to be pushed to their max.  With one little statement, every player in the game just went:  "Oh ****"  and will be doing beacons from here on out until the Nerfbat drops.  Also, I don't know where you got your "~50" beacons number but that is quite literally IMPOSSIBLE to do.  If someone was consistently running 50 beacons at a time, your servers would catch fire.  The MAX we have been able to pull off is 10, And that is REALLY REALLY pushing it.

I completely agree with Tux, from the beginning we had good leadership, and as our corp evolved, it only got better.  We have had 3 CEO's and our best one yet is currently in charge.  We hope he stays there for a long time.  Secondly, it might sound counter intuitive, but Lemon, you yourself had a lot to do with STC surviving.  For about 6-8 months we got the **** beat out of us by Eharm, M2S, Hun, and many others.  I'm not calling anyone out for killing noobs.  We wanted fights, and the vet corps delivered.

The fastest way to learn in this game is to loose.  Then figure out what you did wrong, and don't make that mistake again.  More EP and better equipment is always helpful, but its the tactics that win battles and that's what we needed to learn. 

The fact that we came in as under dogs, and knew the odds were stacked against us galvanized our corp.  Yes we lost players, but who hasn't.  The players we did keep were the players, who knew that one day, we would be able to stand toe to toe with anyone, we might not always win, but we have evened the odds quite a bit.  Our entire corp hated Eharm (In a good way!)  you were the threat that forced us to learn, adapt, and eventually thrive. 

If any of the newer corps, or newer players read this.  Trust me, IT GETS BETTER!!!  But like everyone else, you are gonna take a beating.  The best advice I can give is talk to the vets,  go on roams with them,  listen and watch what their FC's do, and after the battle, ask them why they did it this way, instead of that way.  Most of this game is learnable on your own, but PVP is fluid, dynamic, and it is full of surprises.  It's also very dependent on the FC's style.  Borrow from others, but develop your own.  A lot of people B***h about the blobs.  But what it really comes down to is tactics, and having more guns then someone else is a good tactic.  It can be beaten but you have to know how.  You have to know when to fight, when to run, and when to die.  One last thing.  Always die face forward, guns firing.  If you run, you die.

Edit:  Grammar

You seem to think that the gamma changes are what led to the population dropping.  But seeing how the population was low before the patch seems to make your point moot.  And the gamma patch saw a huge number of players come back to check out the new gamma system. 

So from what I am hearing from you is that: If the devs would listen to you then this whole low server population thing would not have happened?

This games problem is not getting people to check out the game, Its getting those people who do check it out to stay and sub.

And yes i do realize that your are not the OP, but when you come in and make snide remarks and offer no suggestions its kinda hard not to think your nothing but a troll.

Energy transfer from a logi bot crosses my mind.  And with logi you don't even need a local rep in the first place.

Edit:  plus greens don't need accum to fire.  A 6 missile volley form a gropho cost around 25 accum to shoot

Yes, it would Completely unbalance the game.  wanna know why?  cause then you can run an armor tank and a shield tank AT THE SAME TIME.  You can run 4 plates in the legs, and a med shield in the Top with 3 hardeners.  do you not see how completely unbalanced this would make it?

Edit:  Why should you have to wait a month to get a gropho mk2?  Because everyone else had too.

Can a Brotha get an amen?

This is the heart of the problem right here.  With the Devs "Fixing" of production and destroying the production niche by allowing anyone and there mother to produce.  Why in gods name would I buy anything off of the market when I can produce it for almost free? 

When producing at a gamma facility with T3 facilities,  there is a 3% difference in material cost between my maxed out production toon, and my combat toon that has no production skills.  This one little "Fix" completely destroyed the market and screwed over every person that invested tens of thousands of EP into being a good producer.  And to add insult to injury the devs refused to refund the EP that people invested into production, basically giving the bird to every person that invested in material eff.  So thanks for that

Secondly, internal markets will always trump open markets.  Why you ask?  Because I would rather sell the mods and bots I make to corpies at cost then sell on the open market for a profit, because 1)  my corpies will use said equipment to kill our enemies and 2) I don't have to move it anywhere, they buy it where I produce it.  Also the fact that there is a max of 30 day sell orders, completely discourages me from putting anything on the market.  I produce mk1 bots in stacks of 100.  I cannot sell 100 mk1 bots in 30 days and it is a lot of work going back around and putting my sell orders back up.  I just don't care that much to do it.

Edit:  I also for got to mention, once you reach a level where you can produce your own equipment you don't need NIC anymore.  I can make over a billion NIC in less than a day running beacons.  Why do I need to sell anything?  I don't need the NIC.  I do this once a month and then buy ICE for all my accounts and still have NIC left over.  So why would I go through all the work to sell anything?

You are completely missisng the point of this game.  Ok, so from your perspective, ill just let people who are not known enemies roll out to our gamma base and just stroll around looking at all of our defenses, figuring out strategies for breaking in, maybe safe logging a fleet there.  Do you not see the point that i'm trying to make?  Don't parade around and say that new players don't have a chance.  I was in STC from the beginning, we got the **** beat out of us for about 9 months, until our pilots started maxing out skills and getting into good bots.  But the bots and EP was not what made us be able to defend ourselves.  SKILL is what allows you to succeed.  You can stroll around in a T4+ fit mk2 heavy all you want, but if you don't understand how PVP works, and what strategies work, and HOW TO WIN A BATTLE then you will lose every single time.  You seem to fail to realize that neutrals now, can and usually will be enemies later, and no one in their right mind is gonna allow neutral players to walk about on there gamma island.  Gamma bases are Multiple billion NIC investments, not to mention the days of work that go into them.  No one is going to allow people they don't know to stroll about in there base, nor should they.  And if you think that corps should, you are insane.  you can come into this game and say, "All of this will be mine one day".  STC is proof of that.  we came in as noobs, got absolutly annihilated for almost a year, we lost multiple Beta OP's to much more powerful corps.  And now we are on top, we can compete with anyone in the game, and most other corps besides <12>  wont even engage us in mechs or heavies.  So your point is completely invalid.

That's exactly what I was thinking of.  The first time I saw what an ECM does in this game I was kind of confused, because a true ECM does nothing of the sort.