You know what I would do if I was one of those players.  Join one of the corps who has one.....oh wait

But seriously, if/when the population rises the Beta's wont be owned by any single side.  They will be controlled by many different factions like it used to be.  This will solve many of the problems with both sparks and this change.

We already can solve world hunger, its just that no one really wants to actually do it.

I read it sir, and i agree.  Ninja mining was some of the most butt puckering excitement Perp has ever given me, not to mention that you could make huge profits from it too.

This has nothing to do with why beta's are unimportant.  The reason beta's were important before was Epri.  Without it, you and your corp producers were screwed.  The only place to get it was Beta,  thats why Beta's were important. 

Now with gammas I can roll out 5 riv mkII's with T4+ gear and clear 80 million Epri in 6 hours, in perfect saftey.  This is why beta's are completely irrelevant now.  There is no point because Gammas are bigger, better, and much much safer.  Add in the massive production bonus, and the ability to drop 200 norg plants and not have Nebs come through and burn them all down, and you have even more reason to never use Beta's except for missions and SAP's.

So when did you sell your accounts to Syndic?
Also, Burn the witch? He clearly weighs the same as a duck.

This has been stated numerous times before.  Make Beta's important again and the roaming will come back.  The entire reason there was roaming PVP, pre gamma, was because the only place to get Epri was on Beta, so you had to mine it there.  If there are Indy's on Beta, then the combats will be there to defend them.  Then you will have roaming PVP back.  Until this changes there will be no roaming PVP.

Then press the "Log in" button

I would be fine with this so long as a Dmg was increased on missiles to counter the loss of the LOS bonus of being able to shoot over some cover.  The reason that missiles get the semi no LOS bonus is because they are the single worst DPS weapon on the field, they also have the slowest firing speed.  Also, I wouldn't go so far as to say missiles are not LOS.  If missiles were truly no LOS you could shoot them from anywhere (Like you can with ECM's and Supp), but you can't.  I doubt anyone would argue that missiles are overpowered either.  EW on the other hand is extremely overpowered.

And on merkles point, why are the ECM and Supp tunnings badass and have almost no drawbacks, but the Enwar tunning for the ictus increases the amount of accum used by a significant amount.  That seems incredibly unbalanced.  Either make all the tunnings increase accum usage by the same amount, or make the Enwar tunning not use accum like the ECM and supp tunnings.  Plus the Enwar tunning is a leg slot which for a accum heavy bot like the ictus is a HUGE drawback when coupled with the major increase in accum usage.  I never use them for this very reason,  I would rather have a re-charger.  Not to mention the fact that the reactor needed to actually use one is rather substantial, especially considering the fact that every (non logi supported) ictus MUST have an injector on it.

This is true, except for the fact that your Offensive capability is inversely proportional to your defense.  The more neuts you use, the less defense you have, and if done incorrectly you can basically kill yourself in an ictus. Or you can not use your neuts and have a great shield tank, but what good is that?  This is not the case with Zenith/Vaga.  If you have an injector, you will never cap yourself out in a Vaga/Zenith.  This is does not apply to the ictus, even with an injector and re-chargers you can cap yourself out extremely fast.

This is my point exactly, why does the ictus and tackle have to stand out in the open, when vagas and Zeniths do not?  make it equal across the board,  LOS for all, or no LOS for all.  Make it fair.  Or you could balance the current system to bring vagas and zeniths more inline and balanced against the other bots on the field.  Either way I don't care, just something needs to give.

I really like Homers (I think it was his idea)  of long and short range EWAR.  make short range EWAR as effective as the ECM's currently are, but they only have a short range, make the long range version much less effective but allow it ti hit out to 700+.  Same for suppressors, even do it to Neuts/Drainers to bring everything inline.

Why should jams and suppression be any different from neuts and demobs?  Seems rather one-sided to me.  If I have to line up 700m of open space for a long range neut shot, jams and suppression should be the same.  Not to mention that being locked out by EW is far more damaging than a neut shot or two.  Atleast you can run for cover from Demobs and neuts/drainers, but for some special reason that no one knows, ECM's and Suppression get to go through anything?

I thought it was generally agreed upon, that at about 6 months of EP a Player would at least be able to compete against a vet account if they specialized into 1 area with 1 bot type.  That's really not a major gap, especially when considering the fact that if you are in a fleet you just need to contribute, not be awesome all by yourself.  And hell, if you join a Gamma corp, you can compete in the indy sector on Day 1.

Says the guy who is suggesting mining beacons to generate fields where ever we want then