So by your logic the only way to equitably make this affect everyone is to remove the follow command completely. While I applaud your effort sir to make this an all or nothing issue, that is simply not the case. Whether it has to do with flagged or not, it is applied to all equally. It just may happens that some feel it more than others. This is the nature of game mechanics. The SpT change will affect all players equally, even though some may "feel it" more than others.

The idea of this thread was about the nerf of the approach mechanic. "This can be used for nice things like coordinating squad movement, but also things that are borderline pay2win (using a second account support bot as your pet basically)."

I think there are plenty of good uses for the mechanic, we just need restrictions to keep it from being abused and causing an imbalance in the game. If you really think it is that bad, then by all means remove it completely. I just dont see it as being as big of issue outside of pvp.

Actually, The DEV's have already done this Aaron. Now upon subscribing for the first time new players receive a bonus 20k ep to get started. Which is now enough to get into a mech from day one. That was actually a pretty huge bonus to help out new players. You can only do that so many times though....

I think the hope at this point is that enough new players join to make the remaining number of veterans insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It wouldn't take as many as you think....

I still think within 3-6 months any new player can be competitive ep wise with vets. The biggest advantage that vets have at this point is accumulated wealth and knowledge of game mechanics, imo.

That is the problem, you guys look at this as some witch hunt against you. It affects us all equally. This is about balancing the game and making it more fun for everyone. And if it helps makes Steam more of a success because of it, we all should be for it.

Great work as usual Ludlow.

No, you want one heavy to be able to gank anything leaving a beta terminal. You should have to have a pvp op standing guard with multiple people outside a beta for 24hrs a day to keep people from hauling out. Not trying to spark in and undock after the tele is warmed up and they are halfway to it.

You are going to have to put in a little more effort than to kill a lithus, I agree. Sounds like you are looking for easy mode, not me...

Ok, so I am asking is this now how it will always be done? I don't care how you are going to do it. It just will need to be consistent. The previous way at least had that.

What if the server was down for 2 hours? Are you just pushing any saps that happen during down time back and have all of them all open as soon as the server comes back on?

Is there any amount of delay between when the server comes back up and when the saps open?

If there was an hour until a sap opens, but then server goes down. Is there going to be an hour until the sap opens once the server comes back up?

And if the sap was halfway done, will it be halfway done when the server restarts? Or will it get reset 8-16 hrs later? Or will it get restarted once server restarts.

Or is this just gonna be some random thing where we will have no way of knowing and we just have to hope it never happens during some critical sap?

Yes to all of the above. Its all happening seemingly sporadically, but often. And it is all recent as of the last few weeks. Chat lag is driving me nuts.

One hitech repair node, that must be a big score for you guys... It must suck to be broke...

Even my arkhes are mk2.