But you represent your corporation here, don't you? You're the best of them so they granted you the permission to post here from theyr name.

Because this games sadly is designed in a way where things need to be balanced depending on the number of people playing. Sadly instead of it creating a cycle like other games do it's made a constant nerf with very few useful buffs.

Like I keep saying Hunter. The game doesn't need to be balanced any more. The balance works but there is nothing to do with your awesome robots. Taking an outpost of means having to be online more and recover more NIC and resources to cover the costs of having to defend it. Look at what Infestation did recently. The server population dropped so they rallied 30+ people online and took a bunch of outposts and no one could stop them.

Okay, please answer one more question. What tech-level of equipment should be used on a standard PvP (t1,t2,t3,t4)?

And yet, I never saw that it was possible to rescue somebody, in this game. If the contact, the victim will not survive.

1. they are SLOW
2. they have HEAVY GUNS
3. they only have weapon and defense bonuses

What do you expect them to do ? TACKLE ???

The only advantage of mech and up is RANGE. HP advantage is negligent and further negated by the surface hit size mechanics. Most of them need accum just to shoot.

EW mechs aside, they are only there to shoot ...

throw some event from time to time ... you know like a PvP tourney ? you are wealthy enough to do this I guess. look what 62nd is doing ...

hell act like EVE Uni and do PvP classes if you want.

There are plenty of options for you to provide contenct for other players. You can take an OP and teach others how Intrusions work. Do PvE torneys (who can get a set number of specific kernels the fastet etc.). Just use your imagination. It might even help your reputation.

Have tried organizing PVP events, Arena events, Guild vs Guild events, X Z Y events; despite having 20-30 people show up it still doesn't provide my guys with the "fun factor" that keeps them in-game playing. There's nothing wrong with my imagination or me not using it, I just play with a very special group of players who want certain things in a game that matter. "For fun" is only "fun" if there is a "meaning and consequence". 

I just don't have the tools in-game to provide any more different events that my guys haven't a) gotten bored of; b) aren't interested in. Hell, we even did an Arena event with full-fits, so T4 mechs going at each other and blowing each other up.

PVPwise it's no-choice, we EU players have to get up/stay up until 6-7-8 AM; and even then if we're going to get some action we have to play the cat-and-mouse game pretending we're not online, because if we're spotted online we can kiss the action bye-bye.

We did it for a few weeks, and then we stopped getting any PVP in the 5-8 AM timeframe. Next step to getting action would be to quit jobs and play from 5 AM to Noon? Um, sorry that's a bit too much.

Just reset everyone in server to neutral:)
You will have fun in EU tz every day!

Exolona, i hope you got the main idea: to have vitality-tank role in this game. Personlly i fine to have another alternative then ERP, but im sure, to fulfill all tactics aspects in this game, players need to have access to effective armor-tanks.

nobody disagrees with that. however not as single bot pwnmachine.

What is a Single bot  pwnmachine? I mean lets ask the questions?

Assume a Full Tank bot for Tanking efficiency Mech Class:

Should it be able to Stable tank a ammount of assaults?

What is this ammount?

What is the magic number to tip and break the tank?

Using pure DPS fits.

Now look at the ease w/ e-war- what numbers, size gang should be req/expected to break it.

Our server has been highly polarized for a while. (M2S’ infinite cache vs the server? )The main difference between now and back then is that less people are here due to boredom in the game. The entities we had before are still here, mostly skeletons of their former size, but still around no less. The lack of tangible objectivity is what is making people bored and not really care, else we'd still have people logging in. There'd be heaps of targets if you theoretically allied with half the server anyway, but that's not really evident as half of barely any people is still barely any people.

If big alliances are such a problem, then why doesn't 62nd and M2S break up and start shooting everyone instead of crucifying others that do it? Why can't you practice what you preach in such a "dire" time for the game? 62nd did it before and looking at their recent activity in comparison to "Novablob", they could easily have "fair" fights if they took the theoretical high road.

The problem is not coming from the players though, it's coming from the lack of players and that stems from a game that's not entertaining them enough to stay. It's only all the more evident because of the polarization of ideals and lack of things for corps to want to stand alone for and take for themself. All this talk of alliances killing the game is really just a cover for the real problem and it's twofold as it's also a reason for the alliances to not break up as there's no point other than speculation that it will magically make the game more fun and everyone will just come rushing back because a handful of corps are playing together.