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There's very little thought or structure in the way Gamma is concepted. Basically spam turrets in correct order with correct terraforming to make it mathematically impossible for the whole server to get in if they band up together. Then proceed to get your gew face on, comfortable in safety.

Never thought I'd say it but at least the sovgrind in EVE makes sense. It's boring, but it makes sense. Gamma gives more of a feeling like "HAVE FREE TOYZ PLZ PLZ PLZ DONT UNSUB".

Sadly this is how it has always been.   

I will disagree however with the sov grind, well I guess it depends on when you were talking about sov grind.

The system we have now is more like the OLD sov system.  Drop a load of pos'es and basically make your hostels grind themselves out.  As it just takes SO long to do anything. 

HOWEVER, changing things NOW as other have said, would result in MAJOR imbalances later in the game.   Many players have tried to influence the system to meet there needs as they see fit.  EI: When you have the numbers in the game you WANT it to be easier to kill bases, and vice versa.

I will leave this up to the Dev's to change things do I have a voice yes, but it should always be a small one.

Most people just comitted ritual suicide trying to fuel so many towers. Fuel blocks were an awesome invention.

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Plus I don't remember EVE ever letting you physically wall off jumpgates, but then again I dont remember a lot of details from those days.

EVE does have convenience stuff like jump bridge POS's, titan-bridges, etc. Dreads going siege green is always a welcome sight for posbashing. Perp just doesn't have that side of the infrastructure to support a meatgrinder war of attrition vs turrets.

Also, EVE streamlined their system eventually.

The difference in Eve, and it was something I argued for here, is that its the players responsibility to defend, not structures you build (Yes in Eve POSes have guns, but tbh even with players gunning they're not particularly effective against a fleet). Terraforming and base building are good ideas, but the current implementation needs looking at.

EDIT: I guess bubbling gates is a similar (although much less effective) way of delaying access to systems.

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This is why I was surprised they went this way, as being able to lose large amounts of assets fairly quickly promotes risk adverse gameplay.

Made it better, You're welcome

This is the entire point that everyone seems to want to look away from for the time being.  Hell, even the Dev's are thinking this way, backed up by several posts.

This all goes back to this isnt a gamma problem this is a PEOPLE problem.  Solve the People problem and you will solve alot of these little issues that are cropping up all over the game.

Now all I'm waiting on this the next few posts explaining why we have to change gamma as that is the root cause of not having people in the game, which is FAR FAR FAR from the truth at best.

I fail to see how new players come into the game and jump RIGHT to gamma and say "well there's gamma its too easy to defend, too easy to make stuff at, the hell with this game its sucks".

No they roll into alpha get bored after a few weeks, decide they don't want a corp to mess around with and then they just leave. 

The Dev's know this, that would be why they are working on making missions "better", and the research "better".  Thus giving the newer players more of a opportunity to expand what they can do, faster, and you have a mission system to back that up.

The community seems to want to run in circles, thankfully the Dev team seems to of figured this out, and are working in the right direction.

So why has it taken three years and the 'people' problem is still not solved? People have been making this population argument for all that time, meanwhile the pop has remained low and game mechanics don't work properly, but its ok because they would in a theoretical universe where Perp had thousands of people online...

Do we really need a reason to blow up turrets and btw I need helio/imentium there's none in rhaoshan.

Good, go ahead turret spam the hell out of gamma, and good luck getting to the ore fields.

Actually ore fields don't pop on impassable terrain so its theoretically possible to put down one mining base and make all ore fields appear in a small area next to them if ofc you have enough time and exploited nic lol