Sorry.

I'll have to respectfully disagree with that as a solution.

Completely agree with you on fast ill thought out fixes.  I'm certainly not asking for it to be done tomorrow, just that it be something the Dev's consider.  For now I'll keep collecting the treadmarks on my chest and hoping for the best.....

I just have no idea where that came from.  Beta holders need the ability to defend themselves, but small groups should have the ability to roam.  A small group can be a nuisance, but can't really threaten a Beta Alliance's security.

Edit - Good points Lemon, but at this point I always run less then 20, by a lot, and I'm far from casual.  For myself I'm not asking that the game be balanced around my small group playstyle, just for the ability to do it.  As it is now, when I set foot on beta to a strong degree my survival depends on the luck of not blundering into a detector that I can't counter detect.  That doesn't sit very well with me.

That's a very interesting idea, which I like a lot.

Edit - and the more I think about it, the more I like it.  Even for small groups, it would pay to spread out a bit, and larger groups would have to spread out a lot.

While I would certainly welcome your ideas into the game Sundial, my own feeling is to nerf detectors and maskers into the ground.  If I had my way, detectors and maskers would be:

T1-25m
T2-50m
T3-75m
T4-100m

After that, each level of detection or masking skill adds 10m, for a total of 200m max.  That would still be an enormous advantage in PvP.

This would make them tactical devices, and not an all encompassing Star Wars Defense shield.

There was never a “pirate” game like in Eve, but small group raiding was once pretty common.  Now it isn’t.

Edit – The origination of the term “pirate” in this game as far as I know, and if I’m wrong I welcome correction, was coined in a post on these very forums from a member of M2S.  After ECORP had been ejected from Koykili by the combined efforts of Southern Dom and Infestation, the dedicated PvP people from the former Northern Dom alliance started small group harassment of the corps still on Dom.  Amid much forum smack talk, a member of M2S made a post something like “Didn’t you get the memo?  ECORP is the new cool pirate Corp”, or something like that.  That’s the first time I remember “pirate” being mentioned.

2nd Edit - or at least mentioned and sticking.

You can break through gates, keeping eyes on them isn’t the end all be all.  To open a different can of worms, I blame detectors and maskers for many of the small scale PvP woes the game is having, but that’s a different issue….

I have a lot of fun in that little badboy

Anyways, I'm not here to name names or call anyone out.  I've seen what I consider complete BS from every major Corp, and also gotten some very cool small scale stuff from just about all of them.  Everyone has to play their own game, but I think most will agree that grinding new corps like Nex, Foom, or FC out of the game just to get some quick cheap kills is a bit short sighted. 

Give them some good small light/assault fights.  Tone down the fits a bit, and if they do win so what?  If you get run over by another large roaming group, again, so what?  I have permanent treadmarks on me I've been run over so many times, but I bet I've also had more great 1v1's then most people on the server in the past month.

By the way Sundial, after my last fantastic 1v1 with Xelobain, you can let him know that he now completely scares me.....

My memory has gotten a bit fuzzy, but if I’m recalling correctly we learned on launch day that manipulating EP can be a tricky proposition.  Best to leave that sleeping bear be.