Oh awesome! This looks pretty cool.

I like how they made it available for the mac/os client. Nice!

Well, the new Islands only have 2 outposts.

How having only 2 outposts will actually play out is going to be interesting.

The Old beta Islands now have 5 teleport locations, while the new Islands only have 4. In theory then, the new beta Islands will be easier to defend, but still more difficult than the now with only 3.

Having 6 more outposts though will have a solid impact on the game, especially with the currently reduced population. Assuming the existing alliances are already drooling over these yet to be released outposts, there will be a flurry of activity to become the first owner. Many of the current alliances have more corporations than they have outposts, so this seems like a fair assumption.

Logically, it would seem that each of the current alliances will 'attempt' to take the two outposts on their associated new beta. I would hazzard though, at this time, no alliance has enough active members to defend those new outposts; and with the 4 day intrusion schedule, its even possible and probable, to have 2 intrusions in the same day - but with crazy time frames.

In any case, there will be a new flurry of PVP.

I hope so.

Mah.i.prefer the new beta island without owners.full pvp.

Ah, we may but we wont formally put a hold on the territory.
Constant intrusions make you go "blargh..."

The holding land thing burns you out quick unless you have a huge group.

I'm a big fan of not owning space ie stain/syndicate etc

ps You guys gank me all the time , I die pretty often. It would be fun to be known as the guy who died the most times in the game! I know an awesome fleet commander that did that. He has a blast playing the game in the seven years...

all the new outposts will do is push intrusion strategy more around a timezone until such time as people have an actual stake in the island.

I'll give you one possible plan with them:

You have three home stations and each of them has three intrusion timezones. Your alliance is at its strongest in one particular one so you effectively want six blocks per current island to dictate timezone. what that means is you will need either 18 outposts or a more effective way would be six successful intrusions. You basically just use these islands to find a friendly timezone intrusion that you can take to get a block for a *** timezone on your own island. You don't need or want to then defend it, its just something used.

If any alliance decides to switch to a two outpost island then it becomes all the easier. You limit yourself to 6 possible defense ops and 12 successful offensive intrusions in a month which is p easy to do and keep up. If you only do offensive ops vs stations your alliance already owns then you don't even have the enemy knowing where your gonna hit. You could have groups on four different islands hitting stations and without a very large scout network you wont get spotted.

The new roaming pvp would be searching intrusion times hoping to surprisesex others protection ops.

Ahahahaha!

Oh please increase speed of mechs, I look forward to T4 speed-mechs catching T1 fitted ewars.