Wait are those stats your corp or all of steam? Because less than 25% using a Teleport would be bad enough for one corp, but ALL players? That's a huge red flag.

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It relies on their ability to take a beta from me or my friends and put us in a position to choose if we commit to a campaign or let the island go.

Rising to the challenge and playing the game.

CIR fought a costly war as newbies to take our own island against veterans in the domhalarn civil war and we were by far the weakest of the 3 Beta alliances at the time.
JOKE fought a costly campaign against M2S and us to preserve their own island, eventually merging into RG.
-77- was alpha based for the longest time under their former ex-ECORP leader as we proactively hunted them across all islands.

Do you think any of us got where we are by being handed everything on a silver platter?

We could have been eaten.  We could have let ourselves become a shell corp for a bigger corp.  We could have disbanded as soon as we noticed CONS getting help in the form of bots and personnel creating a force we can't possibly repel. 

There are a lot of things our noob corp might have done to stay in the game.  But it wouldn't be our corp anymore.  There isn't enough player base to recruit enough noobs when all we can offer them is a cold hard, boring existence clawing away in the dirt in the hopes of having fun one day.  Meanwhile larger corps and shell corps can offer so much more. 

Shure, there are things we could have done to keep playing the game. 

Really nothing we could have done to be our own corp.

At that point you're better off lurking over to something awful and just joining goons to play eve. Same experience bigger game.

A game this small, with a population this small, cannot support the kind of power differentials that currently exist while retaining new players expected to create emergent game play.

A game like eve can.  Why?  A few million subscribers and a few hundred thousand star systems.  The world is big enough. 

It's the difference between an eight hundred pound gorilla in a portapoty and an eight hundred pound gorilla in a football stadium.

I'll be visiting the football stadium.  How about you?

Patience, perseverance.

Continue to build up resources and attempt small incursions ino Beta for ganks and small fights. Before you know it you'll be improving and having an effect. I played on fringes for many months as have most new pvpers to game. You guys have a good size player base. Don't lose heart so easily.

And this game does need more islands badly. Once Gamma comes back Beta will open up more.

Oh, ZOOM, how about a *** Gamma update already before the steam engine explodes!