@Zortag

Valid points but here's How i view it.

A Mobile TP Costs you this.

Cargo
Positioning (3km radar sig)
3Mins to wait
$$

Pro's

Disposable

They may be vastly superior to using a internal teleporter in the open PvP area, This however does not change the fact that a internal TP device can still be benefical and come at different costs.

lets say a Internal Costs you

-Accumulator (drains as charges)
-Growing interference (like your bot turns in to a  scaling interference beacon)
-Radar range for your self/nearby enemies/allies
-some Cooldown
-Charge time

Pro's
Save Cargo
Not a Give away
no $$ (new player accessible)

This opens up easy movement for young players and allows vets to adapt it to there own personal play styles. Not to mention we are leveraging in-game mechanics and adapting them to increase our game-play options.

Not to mention Haulers can just haul....

If a bot is going to get away with a TP beacon it will get away with a Internal Beacon the difference is 1 will force them to stick around the other can be used as even bait or decoy's

Imagine if a fleet laid decoy TP's and moved another 2km's and internal Tp'ed to throw off a pursuing fleet. It just adds more dynamics to the current game-play and i think would spice it up nicely if done correctly.

EDIT: Imagine if a fleet can stealth counter a running fleet's TP's with Internals or Vise versa. If a pursuer were to use his internal to counter a external beacon TP a fleeing pursuer could turn the tables and attack with the penalties of the Internal inflicting on a larger force

Gah i hate doing this... nearly as bad as agreeing with syndic But i have to agree with Merkle.

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

you know, the whole discussion wouldn't be necessary, if they would:

• simply delete all current highways
  , except the one long one on shinjalar,

• open the highway effect layer in photoshop and draw new ones in that make sense:
  connecting point of intrests in as straight as possible lines.
  POI are Terminals/outposts and Inter-island teleport stations

• go back into the game in godmode, delete all highway decoration buildings

• place highway decoration buildings along the new highways

• remove all in-island-teleporter buildings, and place new ones as close as possible to terminals and outposts, and a few spread across the islands in places that are far away from the new highways and outposts.

Goal should be: highways are used to get from terminal to terminal/outpost, or for inter-island transit. using them should be the fastest and most convinient method of travel. Add NPCs of different sizes (sequer, lithus, scarab) that travel along those lines to provide follow-targets.

inner island teleports should bring you fast from a terminal or outpost out into the open areas. walking out there with the slowest heavy mech should not be faster then using the teleporter connection (as it is now in 90% of cases). For example, the Radholm teleporter should be within 300m of the Radholm outpost, not 10km away

You are absolutely correct. However, as the devs have given feedback on this whilst never discussing problems with the TP network, I'm forced to think that this is the only idea that has a chance of being implemented.

Easy mode TP placement? why not just have all TPs in a 1km ring around a terminal then while were at it?

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

Useful Teleports =/= Easy mode. Its not like the current placement forces people to walk to them anyway, as they just use mobile tps.

Open again!

So make onboad teleport, which need to wait to charge and pay 50 000 NIC to charge up, and when in PVP flag you cant use it simply as that.

Possibly worst idea I have ever heard and I am not sure if I am in another dimension right now.

Teleports can be killed, there is a reason for that.

Teleports take up a certain amount of space. There is reason for that.

Teleports tell me someone is going somewhere or someone went somewhere.

Read what Zortorg wrote.

THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS GAME IS THERE WAS NO "WARP OUT" BULLSHIT

Fantastic youtube vid. Is this some 3rd party game consultant?

BUT... Why post this Gem in some necro thread? It deserves it's own thread as it can be applied game wide, not just to TP networks.

Create a new thread Anni or this will be missed.

Also BIG FAT -1 to OP

rex, the topic was necroed AFTER my post.

and well, i got my DEV response to that one already somewhere - and they (or was it the remaining community in general chat that time) denied any use for such statistics worth the effort to implement them.

well, even the  firefall devs have a huge screen in their office with market graphs showing the ingame economy (while failed to implement an economy first)

I made a similar suggestion in the features discusson a while ago: