Oh you knew it would be. Though I am a little disappointed in the timing. It would make more sense to incorporate the change with the gamma reset but whatever, all my *** was moved months ago.

Under the current dynamic spawn mechanics it would make little difference to if Alpha mining spawns were smaller. As soon as one is depleted another one pops up. Yes, this would make it more tedious and require more time in locating new mining spots, but overall little change in potential mining capacity.

Gunner's idea about reducing yield, thus slowing mining is more effective and to the point for thos wanting a nerf.

However I disagree entirely with any Alpha mining nerf, despite worries of muti-accounts and easy-mode mining.

FOR GODS SAKE LET THEM *** MINE!!! It will only reduce the cost of minerals and free those of us who hate mining from ever having to do it again.

This game needs a vibrant economy more than anything else on the economic front and carebears do in fact provide economy. Why the hell do you want o 'make it harder' to mine on Alpha. You will NEVER EVER force people to play on BETA if they don't want to go there ...never. Some may be incentived for better yields, but they are few and far. And you still don't have EPI on Alpha.

Production, however should be buffed on beta to encourage more people to want to control outposts. More PvP yay! And carebears can still feel safe all docked up and cozy.

I was wondering if one were to deconstruct and then put up a terminal over and over for the next 2 weeks ...would this also effect the package?

More details on EP reset would be nice. I can see potential for abuse with low cost, low cooldown. I personally only want to reset this account. My other 4 are more/less to my liking.

Hopefully your cost/time structure is geared toward players that simply need to make one-time or rare adjustments. But I guess if you will be permitting skill lowering at a cost, the system could be quite fluid.

Please, do expand on details for Resets and Leveling Down

When I learned a few weeks ago that the Mission System would not be complete for Steam I pretty much wrote off this game as hopeless. Just get ready to see this post 1000 times.

Hopefully they buy the line about how hard it is for a "couple weeks"

...I really hope they do.

You tell us what the plan is.

Biker Gang Sympathizer

Change your terraforming or whatever, but seriously, you guys need some new bots and toys. If every "balance" is a nerf or a reset, just throw in the towel now and save us from a long, agonizing death. There are other games to invest my time in...

No I was not here in November to my regret. I could only watch the KBs. And I know Merkle is full of poop. I was quoting for he sake of illustrating both "ridiculous" and "deluded"

And it's "Rex"

Sorry Mongolia but...

If he goes through with it he should table until AFTER Steam. The rediculous Follow "abuse" argument will be even more irrelevant with Steam population. This is a low population tactic (and its not abuse in my opinion anyway).

Zoom, if you do Nerf Follow, the very least you can do is reset NEXUS and Remote Related EP.

Those skills are still useful, but in a completely different and/or limited way now. Anyone still wanting them can easily skill them back up. But many, especially those like me--with high points in NEXUS and other Remote abilities concentrated on one account--would prefer to have the option to choose a different path. It's only fair given this is a THREE YEAR OLD ABILITY.

I'll still use some of the good NEXUS skills, but on primary combat accounts, not support accounts. Isn't that how you want us to play your game Zoom? Take the sting out...

Objections from Burial, Line, Shadow in ...3...2...1

Not sure what you're patching but on the subject of patches:

Hope you reset Gamma and nerf SpT in same patch, not separate. It's convenient to have sparks while clearing out of Gamma. With Sparks nerfed And islands reset maybe you can go so far as to reconnect Alpha Triangle and make use of the Teles with no destinations.

Since Follow is three year old mechanic you should reset EP on all NEXUS and Remote related skills. Take the Sting out of an already highly controversial nerf.