Make it so you can only have 1 beta spark.
Make it so that you have to take the sap or the stability goes down.
Make it so that the SAP always drops loot.

Makes it hard for small or less active groups to hold more than 1 station.
You have to be active to keep it.
Non owners are encouraged to roam, looking for sap loot, or even have a go at an out of the way station...

Where's the line between PVP and harassment?

Is someone killing unguarded miners and haulers harassment? Is someone ganking a lone mission runner harassment?

If there's someone disrupting an operations either *** kill them or move. That's what Betas should be about not some bogus who-assembles-biggest fleet on SAP fights.

Its not about fair and neutral. Its about the current dynamic forcing two sided warfare as the only way to take a beta or own a gamma is to fight whoever is strongest and win not just one fight but most of them. This dooms emergent gameplay.

The game should foster lots of small entities who can fight each other yet have a place which is lucrative yet risky.

maybe you will be "home" when someone rings the doorbell then

Illiathos wrote:

Jita wrote:

Nobody forgot, with sparks it makes no difference and even without it requires three under station scouts and not 12.

Do you actually have a reason why stations should lock? There is nobody living on beta now. Nobody.

Station locks secure beta islands so people assaulting gamma need to cross alpha. It also rewards the corp owning stations with easier saps.

None of those reasons are about living on beta. People living on beta creates PvP. People living on gamma and alpha doesn't. Simple as that.

Illiathos wrote:

You people forget that there already is an npc outpost for every color in beta. Just 1 outpost is enough for a new corp. And remember, you could always pop a scarab from there if you had eyes and there is nothing anyone could have done.

Nobody forgot, with sparks it makes no difference and even without it requires three under station scouts and not 12.

Do you actually have a reason why stations should lock? There is nobody living on beta now. Nobody.

Tbh its all for nought without other changes too. Its a single step in the right direction but there's another four or five needed to get critical mass and move people to beta

Illiathos wrote:

EDIT: Now I'm saying we can fix the "one corp to rule them all" aspect of spark and keep them, if we just limit them to a specific island group (red, green, blue)

Also that makes no sense. People would just set the spark to the island where combat is and be able to switch back and forth at will.

If we up to just allow spark only 1 faction Island and 1 for Gamma, Beta, Alpha that would still let you enjoy the game but Power Projection will be a bit harder.

As Syndic is mentioned, who can will use accounts

If you remowe sparks from the game you will remove my ENJOYMENT beacuse I need to travel where is the "action", interesting things happens, and that maybe means I will leave the game.

Illiathos wrote:

Tonnik wrote:

You can do lol 1 mech beacons solo so no that's just whining

I bet that's pretty damn hard, unless you have a mk2 heavy with great skills - so all in all, every newbie is still going to get hurt by getting very little solo ways of getting kernels.

Well the point is if we had a lot of low skilled solo players in game there would be no shortage. Level 1 mech beacons are actually pretty hard and not really solo content. There are lower level beacons if your skills are not great.