Looks awesome.

The only problem I can think of is that getting sniped will happen and it will be annoying too with a 50% starting stability adding ~3 days to the capture time. Perhaps lower starting stability a bit and add a few levels of NIC investment? That way if you're confident you can hold it you can throw a bunch of NIC at it to get a decent stability, but if you just sniped it from the middle of a massive fight you had no business being involved in you don't screw the real winners too badly unless you have more money than sense.

Overall though, the concept is excellent, and you can play with the specific numbers anytime.

Alexadar doesn't that just miss the entire point? What you're proposing would incite more blob warfare. This new system is about who's Corp is actively on beta, not who's Corp can have a few hours to prepare and bring the blob.

Doesnt it say that you only have control of Docking rights at the 50% threshold?

Is it ?It does not change:"Why should I even bother being on beta-islands ?"

There are a few incentives, but I think we need to hear more about the auras as well.

I certainly think its a far superior system as to what we have now. Whether it pans out as well as it looks on paper is a different story though.

I think overall i like the changes. But since i don't know much about the current mechanics either i have some questions:

Will the control-level offset the fact that some outposts have better facilities than others by this cost reduction? If not would it not be time to change them all to 3 for additional benefit?

I think the aura idea is great, maybe even let the owners choose what he wants as a benefit and let them change it once a week or so. Something like nexus modules for the whole region. The higher your control the more slots you get.

Perhaps you could even think about add-ons for outposts like a shield-dome for protection or similar stuff.

I hope some of the SAPs get changed with it too.

the Destruction SAP for example needs a huge force to be destroyed.

What I am curious about is if factory costs are part of the services? if so 0 factory costs thats a very big % of the production cost saved right there?

I think Dev Zoom is saying that ownership of an outpost will be more of a dynamic process, rather than static. Dynamic meaning, constantly shifting, whilst static meaning a clear-cut owner. Owning an outpost will no longer be in black and white terms, rather shades of grey

Hmm.  The problem before was that corporations were holding many terminals because they could effectively defend them.  With this change, corporations will definitely have to take a more active role in holding what they have, and that’s a good thing.   I almost want to say that it’s a realistic representation, but this is, after all, a fictional game.

On the matter of sniping, I think the players themselves will work out the repercussions.  If an entity gains a reputation for sniping, then they better have the resources to defend themselves, else they face destruction from the other players.  In the case that a large corporation decides that sniping is an effective tactic for preventing control of areas of an island, who’s to say that others won’t band together to teach them a lesson.  I look at this as just another mechanism for inducing competitive interactions, and that’s a good thing.

On the subject of alliances, I would say that this new system would discourage alliances that are of the type of mutual defense.  If you, and only you, can truly hold the outpost and maintain a relatively high efficiency (control) level, then forming an alliance for the purposes of defense—any defense—does not benefit both parties and thus no alliance will form.

If we take that idea a bit further, it does insinuate that perhaps you could purchase the services of mercenary groups…but then we are back to the “my corp didn’t technically win the SAP, so my control is lowered anyway”.  Could the player base find a way around this issue?  I believe they very much could, but it would be cumbersome, so why not build a mechanism into this from the start.  Perhaps something that ties in the allowed/disallowed docking list with groups who are allowed to take your SAP (which the game would consider as you having taken it).

My issue with the new system is that you can capture a SAP in 10 minutes with a single guy (Unless it's a destruction SAP).

So It's not really a 2 hour window it's a 10 minute window the moment you notice someone else taking it. As long as the "SAP active" notification is good then it'll be fine. Just log an alt in and do whatever the SAP wants you to do unless it's a hard to complete SAP and then just defend it for two hours.

Doesn't seem hugely complex at all and I agree with Syndic that this will get very old very quickly. Two SAPs a day every day is going to get old. Most outpost will probably hold around 70%. It's a nice idea to get to 100% outpost control for free repairs, production and such but that reward seems very over powered. We're talking about outpost being NIC sinks and this is just making anyone that holds an outpost WTFPWN. If you can get an outpost to 100% then you're already creaming your enemy at every turn.

No corporation IS forced to recruit in all time zones just to be beta competitive. Most heavily dominated islands will sit around 90-95% anyhow, because they'll get all the SAPs they're online for, and on the occasions they have no one on, they'll lose maybe 1 in 2. (Less if it's a Specimen, I'd imagine.)

The only thing an alliance feature would do right now is allow oversized entities the ability to dominate larger swaths of landscape, which I get the distinct impression is NOT the intent of this system.