You can't just throw it on low population. PVP was scarce even directly after the Steam launch when subtracting all the Norhoop kills. I'm not saying that closed stations are the sole reasons for PVP being dead but having them open would be way better instigator than waiting for anyone to attack your over-sized alliance.

Betas and Gammas should not revolve around one entity being able to shut everyone else off from all of the content.

Annihilator wrote:

good question.
would you suggest?

I would suggest that the energy requirements for a base are high so that it takes effort to keep one active. I would further suggest that when a base goes inactive it forgoes all of its reinforcement timers. This way if a base is active its a reasonable time sink (say 20 man hours a week) and if that time sink is not kept up with the base can be completely destroyed without the defender able to use the reinforce timezones to pick a fight.

Annihilator wrote:

I could try to explain you why, now that i have figured out most of the "hungarian" math used on those highway nodes.

But for that probably would need to make pretty pictures, and wonder if its even worth to explain?

in short - as it is now, you probably wont be able to build a really long highway that is stable across the island without using multiple terminals. Use them to accelerate your movent within your 2km diameter base and for reliable concrete placement against unpredictable tree growing next to your terminal

Then why even use them?

Cassius wrote:

I think Zoom you have eliminated one of the greatest features the game had. The creativity and detail you could build with beacon terraforming, and the subsequent bases will never be duplicated. All you had to do was adjust the terraforming limits.

I still think you Devs could have kept the old 'unlimited' slope terraforming with Beacons AND used ZONES to contain the crazy island-wide terraforming graffiti. Unfortunately I have so little time for in-game play, much less time for in-game testing. I hope the new system works out.

And another thing, why do green bots neut, suppress and ECM ?  It's like you make group play but there's 65 people playing, wtf?  Hello?  Ewar needs to chill out on these lower tier mobs.

focus on the immediate problems

I think you forget how small the world is for people that aren't in your cult Gremrod, get off your ivory tower and try to see it from the position of a new struggling corp or group of players that only want to PVE.  You'd effectively limit their game to 3 islands

There are people who never leave Alpha and would likely not play if they were getting ganked there.  I have seen 'no suicide ganking in hisec' used as a selling point to newbies more than once.

Gremrod wrote:

Ludlow Bursar wrote:

What's the point of police towers? Why invent something new? (Well, re-invent)

If you want security just spawn a bunch of mobs that de-spawn when they've done their job. Even opens up the possibility of zones having different calibre of mobs.

The main reason is to have a progression of security. Right now we 100% safe or 100% unsafe.

Yes, I get that. But why re-invent the police tower when there's a perfectly good way to implement security progression now without having to bother.

What's the point of police towers? Why invent something new? (Well, re-invent)

If you want security just spawn a bunch of mobs that de-spawn when they've done their job. Even opens up the possibility of zones having different calibre of mobs.

Can you clearly explain how police towers work?