Yes, edited this correct . Squad member

Edit: Weird thing is that relog helps until the next docking, than it is gone again

This could also be an issue with your provider doing some traffic handling. As far as I know the game could be errornous be considerer Peer2Peer Network. Some provider handle this traffic special.

Your standing with all Player corp is  0 as long as you are member of a start corp. In a player corp it can be -10, -5, 0, +5 or +10 (see corporation management button => relaition => achieved reputation when you are member of player corp).
For beta bases you can see docking rights on map without even entering the island by checking on map if there is a sign next to base indication you are not allowed to enter (traffic sign => red filled circle with white bar inside)

And btw I'm sorry for the bad market situation. This is topic to other threads here, it would not be ideal in any case atm, but the removal of spark teleport and the NIC flood due to assignment gave market two severe hit.

If I could do harvest assignments on gamma It would break the game.

in this game you expand cargo hold by taking the next larger bot. And if you think about it, cargo expansion as module has no useful meaning, at least on alpha island it would need a real major drawback to have some people not using cargo expander on haul bot if one would be available.

It is a two stage problem, as Dev Zoom already declared the complete problem in other thread.

The mechanic of tp anomalies on gamma is game breaking, but till now intended by Devs.
The problem is, that a real Bug in combination with broken game design leads to the fact, that best attack force for a well defended gamma base is atm a sequer fleet with bombs. As it doesn't matter if base has turrets or not you can do severe damage and only way to stop this would be a real large defense fleet 24/7 active.

Nobody with sane mind can say that this is how it should be.

Not in that term. Each new player is aware that he needs to spend more time for same stuff than a veteran. This is nothing that differes PO from other games.

The new player lost are those not able to buy any equipment right now regardless if they would like to spend 5x the NIC it would have costed 2 month ago. Just check markets for stuff you would like to see on every market and see how empty markets are at this moment.

NIC is a resource. This resource is now ~5 times as available as 6 month before.
The fact alone is not the sole problem, but the fact, that it is instant implemented and never ajusted.

Imagine if you bring patch that increase mined amount by 5 or reduce mined amount to 20% to see what you did there. Such changes need to be slowly adopting with a lot small steps over 1-2 year time frame, not in one patch.

Together with still not correct bot patch, still buggy gamma and the patch that rendered existing Gamma bases in defenseless bases over night you have some issues to see why a real lot veterans left game the last 6 month (we have today similar playerbase than 6 month ago, but at least 50% of the actual player base were not active playing the last 12 month => imagine how game could be if it would have been possible to stop those veterans from leaving)

Well to be fair most tickets are reacted on a short timeframe, but some tickets seem to get too low priority and seem to get forgotten which makes it sometimes nasty.

Next week my oldest still valid open ticket gets 2.5 years old and concern imbalanced market price difference for ammo among different islands. Not a direct bug, but confirmed unintended and still not fixed.

My oldest open ticket up now was not accepted to be a bug and I could archive it today after removal of spark teleport made it obsolete. So in fact this thread helped archivating several obsolete tickets, as I inspected the old tickets.

To a certain degree you can influence drop rate by the priority in which you open the stacks.

I urgently suggest you allow those players who are now in negative EP to downgrade some extensions to get back to at least +2000 EP without speding credits or reimburse credits needed for do this.

I hear a lot complaints of new players who spend their EP in a not ideal way and need now to wait for several month to spend the the next EP right.

If you have spend your EP in wrong way and need now say 1000-2000 EP to correct this by adding a necessary extension to have the fit working, you don't wait 2 months playing active. A player new in game will not even wait 5 days.

One part of this problem is there since the balance patch last year, now an mech or HM can be very fast compared to an hauler.

But several other factors determine the speed a caravan closes up.

If you observe a caravan NPC group passing by, you could notice, that usually none of them moves straight line with full speed. The larger the group, the more obstacles on terrain the more they have a zigzag course. This zigzaging allows you to be faster on long term and only if they sprint towards you, you loose. This changed in my feeling since 3.7.1 patch on gamma to be less zigzag. I assume that your modification of terrain blocking has this side effect.

Before the  3.7. patch, the island layout on beta had several implications on the Obs way that lead to the fact that you could easier get out of their way.

All these points summed up lead to an overall increased problem where we had no problem one year before and now step by step unless it feels like a problem as the moment you see obs on your radar might be the moment you already lost your bot. If you move with half the speed of them you can only escape if you manage to move sideways out of their path for more then ~400m in the time they close in.