Sounds nice but Colixium should have more meaning then.

not this old horse again

No-one forces you to fight over outpost ownership. Sure, they help a lot, but you could pull off mining operations on the islands without any outpost access at all or just mine on beta1-s and use beta terminals. If you can't do that, then I'm sure Epriton could be bought from the market, at a premium price. With my suggestion, Epriton is the only mineral that needs to start to come from beta. The race specific minerals can still be mined from both alpha and gamma, it will just not be that efficient.

Overally most of the points you see negatively are in my eyes positive. Right now beta islands need a lot more attention for PVP to pick up.

Beta Islands are boring, the real warfare for a Real sandbox needs to be on Gamma.  And lets face it burial with spark teleportation the point you made with "Those free terminals" is invalid.

.......  Thats the ENTIRE reason forums were designed for games, to discuss ideas to the community....  Really dude you can't be this .... maybe you can.

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First of all, ask those who produced on beta when there were all ores available what impact it had to remove titan from beta before asking again to remove an important ore from an island type. It is nasty enough, that you need to haul ores to gamma, that are not available there but are only for small part of products needed.

Second having Epi on beta only would first lead to massive walling in again due to several reasons. At least if in same moment the stocks from all big corps would be emptied of Epi (in fact as long as the large corps have  enough Epi in stock for the next month, this would slowly develop over 3-5 weeks).

want to balance the gamma and create more pvp?  Put a 7 day respawn ore fields timer in place on gamma, to prevent 100 corps from living on the same island.  Make nora not placeable within a 2K radius of gamma stations.

They're called SAPs. They typically "spawn" every 8-16 hours and it takes you ~10 minutes of sustained "DPS" to "kill" them.

If it takes ~ 10 minutes or less  to get cortex's every 8-16 hours how does that promote pvp on a beta ? It does not.

Making New NPC's that drop the cortex's roam the island will make it so players have to hunt them down and kill them, like people use to hunt observers.

* Tracking NPC's all over the island will take longer than the 10 minute active sap, and could haven "all the time" not just at some supposed random / predetermined time.

* this mechanic will have players in combat bots hunting NPC's.  These guys will tracked by other players in combat bots.  NOT players in combat bots hunting down a group of miners on a epri field how is that good pvp.

Take into account walls and the safe log /gate scout and where is the pvp.

There's no accessible PVP areas since Beta's can be made perfectly safe in two ways; either with trial alts (as we did), or with proximity probes (as M2S did).

Both ways result in the only "risk" involved being logged out accounts on Beta 2's, or people with sparks & assets in NPC terminals on Beta 1's. Detectors & terminal scouts take care of that.

Nothing promotes PVP on Beta because the game has infinite resources available on every island, and there's more islands then players in-game therefore there is no reason or incentive to fight anyone over anything aside from epeen reasons, like when you shoot at my terminal and then I repair it and rename it Try Harder Again.

Same with outposts, theres more outposts in-game then players. I reckon you could divide up the people actually playing across all 6 Beta islands hunting these NPC's and you still wouldn't have a reason to PVP because there aren't enough people to create the conflict.

Anyway welcome to 2011, most of us vets have been saying the same things back then.

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What happens to gamma if you remove Epi?

This would start to help but it would just cause more gammas to be locked down .. that is all

There seems to be a shortage of stuff being blown up causing massive stocks on minerals in everyone's hands.

Solution: add 30+ NPC roaming spawns to every gamma so its hard to mine ... as it is right now i can mine entire fields or several fields in a day with out seeing a single NPC.

Gamma is the NEW untamed Frontier where is all the wildlife. they would certainly slow down the ease of mining on gamma. (just like fields spawning on static npc spawns on beta)

Forget trying to force pvp if people dont want it it wont happen. . . even by restricting epri to beta

Ok, so the current mineral respawn system works like this: we have a minimum and a maximum amount threshold for every type of mineral per island. The system tries to keep the mineral amounts available between those two values. If the amount drops below the minimum threshold, a new field is spawned at a random location on the island.

Here is the idea: what if these thresholds would consider the mineral amounts globally on all islands, or at least on all gammas. This would have the effect that islands with lot of intensive mining would sooner or later get depleted, and the availability of new mineral fields would shift towards the islands that are untouched or have low traffic.

Unless the players strike a perfect balance of mining intensity across all islands (which seems unlikely), this could mean everlasting waves of shifting back and forth between islands to seek out the richer fields. At least in theory