I guess, but you can still do that exact thing if you are not flagged. So all you really did was discourage people from flagging up unless you KNOW it will be a competitive fight. While before there would be a chance of a kill or some pvp action, now the small gang never flags and goes home.

Is all this spin and trolling necessary? Outside of a small handful of noobs, everyone who reads this forum really knows who the Aholes are and who they are not... Even the Aholes are nice sometimes and the nice guys are Aholes sometimes. Just some choose one path more than another.

And in my personal opinion, if someone is gonna call out Jita for it, it probly shouldn't be Ville...

(No offense, Ville)

Its short sighted, bipartisan comments like these that destroy any ability for mature adults to actually have beneficial discussions about this game and its direction....

Such a shame that some people can't see beyond their own personal/corporate agenda to actually try and take an objective look at some of the issues being discussed... (sigh)

Actually, the forums were a much nicer place to hang out back when CIR couldn't afford a subscription to play the game...

QFT

No one said that every person doesn't count, just the more people you have the less what they do matters..

And can you really max out a hvy mk2 with only 700k ep? I feel like you are not maxed in every applicable extension...

I would still try to mine with the hauler when possible. then just pack up a little early and then use all the accts to haul at the end of the day.

But perhaps most importantly, get someone into a scarab as quick as possible. Even sequer mk2's can help early on..

Pretty much agree, but you can remove/change/balance  game mechanics that allow *** to negatively affect the game in a disproportionately large way.

And I have to agree that if a defender isn't actively defending an outpost the stability should not go up. I would even still say take it a step farther and if the defender doesn't defend several saps in a row the stability should drop. It would be a great mechanic to open and unlock beta outpost that aren't in use, allowing new players to move in and/or take over. And would not affect significantly any outpost that's actively being used.

Next, while it may seem like the game world is small and needs more space. I suggest you have to be very careful in how much space you add. I feel like the amount of gamma islands added to the world in comparison to the population caused more problems than it solved. It made the game world so huge and difficult to traverse in the interest of finding action. And allowed the "turtle" gamma islands to be built in the first place. More beta islands is interesting though...

And somewhere Gremrod mentioned that the population is currently higher than it was when STC reigned... Judging from what I have seen, that is not the case. We are at about the same point.

Bump, just to show its not all about corp tags....

Reposted from another thread as this topic is probably more fitting.

How about something where there is the 1 hour window currently for an attacker to take a sap. If he takes it stability goes down. If it is not taken, then immediately afterwards the owner of the outpost has to complete the sap in say 15 min to get the loot and stability increase.

You could then have stability decrease if the outpost owner goes more than 2 saps in a row without taking it, or some such. And even tie the station lockout mechanic to it. Where if the outpost owner does not complete his sap he then loses the ability to lock out the station. Do this in conjunction with maybe a 75 stability or better to lock station maybe.

Add in that only the corporation that owns the station can spark into it. And we may just be having things. If the lockout is not gonna be removed, and Im still on the fence about it, tbh. Then it needs to be made much more difficult to do. And really should only be able to be done if a corp is LIVING out of the outpost.

Even a little random 15 minute timer twice a day that only shows up if you are docked in that station to go and do some menial task to keep your lockout ability. That way you need your corp living in that outpost to have a good chance at keeping the lockout up. Idk, just spitballing here.

Just another idea. Anni's idea about the mission being given during the last 15 min of sap or something for a defender would be ok also.