its simple - the game is a grind4pvp game. It has no real PvE content, no single player content, and its has a linear progression, where EVERYTHING is balanced around T4 maxed extension multiboxing Agents.

DEVs fail at implementing low-level stuff that isnt instantly exploited by vets into multiboxing farming mechanics (eg. "golden triangle", Observer, plasma, etc. )

Gamma islands are the cream-tip on those mechanics, where everything is based around 200 man grinding + defending.

Market is non existant because of constant demand in PvE, and omnipotential self sufficiency PvP.

i think this is not a good way to do it. well this is a thing i wanted to mention at the meeting (but forgot) and wanted to put in my big post (but forgot again) so here it comes... no big deal but:
i think the curve for extention points to efficiency is a little bit too flat. not that there have to be too big changes, but i think with maxed extentions and maxed facilities (taking into consideration that the devs do not plan for extremly better skills and facility boni in the future) should get closer to the 105% in total. players with high skills and the best stuff should have a few more % as bonus... so just a small ateration of this curve will make that happen. no special boni for that needed.

that would defeate the reson for the change.

i saw a significant enough difference between boosted Gamma STANDARD facilities and Alpha2 facilities.

dont forget the CT lab - extending the lifetime of your CTs by a not so small factor.

since the prototyping costs got increased significantly (from factor 10 at zero extension, its now factor 10 at maxed...) that is a HUGE factor in tiered production.

theocrafting:
two 100 point cts are 200 modules. with the ct-lab you get another 50 additional cycles.
do a new proto, get another 100 point CT, work it down and merge the two again and get 50 more cycles.

that thing cannot be built on alpha... the spreadsheet guy surely can calculate the production advantage out of that!

So did anything come out of this conference?

Good thing you can just buy them for cheap on the market , they don't even need to build them!

After listening to the developer conference here are my opinions on topics that were and were not discussed.
1.    I agree 1000 meter from the teleports is a good range to limit building and terraforming at.

2.    I agree that corporations need more than 3 to 4 random spawns on the gamma islands in order for them to be able to sustain themselves on that.

~ A solution for this is to introduce a new type of NEXUS tower that acted as a beacon does and spawns NPC’s but at a slower rate.

3.    Terraforming does need to come down in cost it is not feasible to create many of my personal designs and other designs that many other people have made with terraforming being so expensive.

~ A solution for this would be to allow players to make their own terraforming charges, these charges should be easily produced just as miner charges are. 

4.    Being able to defend PBS’s should allow for different types of defense plans, currently the best defense is to wall of Teleports. My opinion is that if the structures cant be blown up by a single Mech in ~5min then it would be more effective to guard the settlement instead of the island.

~ Example if my settlement was based in the center of an island and I had command relays spidering out over the island to control my mining towers one Mech can make very quick work of the command relay and cut off parts of my settlement. If I want to prevent this type of action I need to either prevent access to my island by walling TP’s or that structure needs more HP in order for me to respond in time. Because there are no internal TP’s on these islands response times can vary widely depending on the terrain of the island.   

~ Simple Solution ADD more HP to all Structures (this will be needed anyways as the player base increases).

Some of the topics that were discussed were interesting and something that I think would really help with people going to and living on gamma other than the NPC issue is allowing the terminals to sell all syndicate seeded items … HECK it could be a building just like the factory.. and it could be destroyed just like the others as well. .
I think it Gamma needs to be the next frontier and not a no~man’s land with 1 resource that sets it apart from the other islands. I don’t think there should be 1 overpowering incentive to attract corporations to gamma, but it does need to be able to sustain corporations that choose to live there.

I agree whit the person who made the comment that they needed to have a beta outpost and a gamma one because gamma didn’t offer everything their corp needed. This should never be the case.