Burial wrote:

Blocker, I know that new corporations are the future and creating a fun ecosystem for them to thrive in is the way to pull the game out of the trench. I didn't make the thread to push for unlocking, I only wanted to show that getting started on more entertaining content than Alpha is too hard.

Hopefully there's someone with a great idea that's easy to implement with a potential to make the game fun for new corporations, or at least get people thinking about it.

Yep I understand that the thread is not about unlocking, and the actual unlocking part will only impact those new players who want to go to beta. But if you nerf Alpha then you are, in effect, forcing  them into beta.

This will fail, and all they will do is leave, isn't this supposed to be a sandbox ?

If you want corps to build up slowly, make it harder for them to do industry. If you want them to build quickly, make it easier for them to do industry. It's not rocket science.

[edit] just as an afterthought, making industry harder also has the potential to contribute to players leaving. Making it easier may actually keep them interested longer because they can see progress. They may actually stay in the game longer., and the longer they stay the more opportunity to encourage them to PVP.

Dear Dev Zoom,

Please listen to Ville's idea and consider the potential that players can help out in designing new islands and assets, particularly given the fact that most vets around here used to terraform islands as part of their gameplay and they obviously liked it.

While I do not particularly believe that station unlocks would result in a mass exodus from Alpha to Beta Islands, I think it's a good idea to put in NPC stations just like beta 1 and see what happens. In such case I think 2 stations are ideal and I would go as far as say they should be reasonably close to each other so as to lessen the problems with station games.

I believe that as some people said, firstly it is a problem of population (which you just need to advertise etc) and secondly it is a problem of a small game world (spark teleports - few islands - small islands, easy to set scout eyes etc..) Please remember that Eve has hundreds of constellations and traveling the universe from one edge to the other takes hours. I remembering riding in darkfall and it took like 5 1/2 hours in real time to ride from one end to the other. A large game world would give opportunities for groups of players to find their own corner sort to speak. It also helps with regionalisation, be it resources, trade, market etc. As it stands now, I can be in Shinjalar or hershfield in a matter of 20 mins tops? 10 seconds with sparks.

My solution is perhaps a bit out of the box, as it would need to create smething like this:

http://i.imgur.com/rZSnAst.jpg

You will have a very large island like twice as large as gammas or perhaps larger.
Divided geographically into 3 main sections (where role wise the factions all wanted to set a foothold on the new territory)
You will have 6 NPC stations, and one very large in the center (like 3X the size of tellesis station)
While GAMMA islands are all about production, base building, Fortress fighting, nora farming, artifact hunting - this central DELTA island will be all about the Ultimate NPC hunting, so you will have:
- NPCS that drop tons of plasma,
- Small groups of T5 npcs like 2 or 3 max that a solo player can take them
- All npcs roaming so you are constantly on the move.
- Best mission rewards from npc stations.
- Same pvp ruleset like BETA
- Ability for people to put up few buildings like gamma like just small towers for example (open to discussion)
- Some terminals sprinkled all over the map so players can 'bank' their spoils while pveing but cannot dock inside for safety should pvp occur.

- Anton

So..  I just had this crazy thought since we are onto missions now, what happens when everything turns into roaming mobs and your trying to do a L5 combat and roaming mobs roll up on you?