Jita,

Nothing to stop that. But the alt won't be able to just sit and watch troop movements. But it will become standard practice to throw a sacrificial arkhe through the gate to see what's there. The beta group will already know you're coming because they will have eyes on the alpha side.

The only thing removing the safe zones does is make it mandatory to camp the gate.

Excellent, so I can count on your support when the first QQ thread starte up about how deleting is still broken!

Shin,

Dec 2011 - Mechs are expensive and take a lot of EP to drive. Very few are used in PVP, most combat is with light and assult bots because they are cheap; there is lots of cheap battles, and few expensive battle with mechs.

Dec 2012 - Mechs are cheap and everyone has the EP to drive them. They are used in PVP all the time. The Heavy Assualt Tank is expensive and takes 12 months of EP to drive, very few players have them and they are not used in PVP.

The point: The bulk of PVP will always be between cheap bots. There will always be a bot that players are drooling over to drive, but will not be used in general PVP because they are too damn expensive.

As a side note: Its still going to be relative to how much you play though. Even if you have the EP your still going to need NIC to buy and replace your bot, whatever model you are driving. Players that are on 4 hours a day are going to outdistance the 4 hour a week players. OMG.. I'm going to say it... if you want level progression go play wow (I FEEL SO DIRTY!!!  LOL). But seriously hard core players that put in a lot of time are just going to be able to afford better equipment. Casual players will need to join a generous Corp to compete.

Agreed. No reason to log in if your just going to delete the account.

Its 58,500 EP to go from Industrial 5 to 8, which is 40 days to drive a Riviter, assuming the transport is heavy too, start saving now and you'll be able to drive it when the next big content patch comes out in Feb.

If new pilots could get into mechs, and afford to lose them, they would be the new 'low cost bot'. Then it would be boring blobs of mechs in combat.

Thank you for posting here.

Continual "high cost" bot combat is unsustainable. Even with unlimited resources it take time to roll mechs off the line, and they die much faster than they can be produced; and no one has unlimited resources either.

If there is some game mechanic that stops low cost bot combat, then pvp will be 10-20 minutes of pew pew and 5-6 days of nothing.

*bump*

We don't actually like holding hands, Life just makes us do it; something about being a team building experience... or step 8 of 12, not sure what he meant by that.

Remove the gate safety and the gates will be camped, its a choke point.

The only question is who will be camping the gate and who will they be farming.

Next topic: Make alpha teleporters randomly suck people through, because sitting on the beta side for hours waiting for someone to step through is boring.

I wasn't all that happy with the responses, but they did respond to input.

Well done and thank you.

Edit: PS. Dev's are posting in other forums, can they also post a link here on the offical forums so we can all follow without searching all over the Internet?