All I see spark teleportation cooldown affect is operations on gamma islands. I'm talking about hauling operations between terminals, small tasks such as probe checking, terraforming checking, helping a corp-mate out by showing him all the various routes on your gamma and so on. There's more pain than gain.

People who think it's going to help Beta islands will need to realise that right at the moment people start to see they are getting stuck on beta outposts/terminals because of spark teleportation cooldown will make them not use sparking and find other ways to get to the objective. An Interzone teleport from Alpha2 is even worse for the attackers. The defender can jump to ANY teleport whithin range(translates to most of the teleports on beta).

Sparking is more convenient, Interzone is more powerful.

So lets make it a 1 hour pvp flag and not screw with spark teleport. Problem solved. Thank you and good night.

I hate to say this but cool-down should be something around 24 hrs anything less is an annoyance. Most people play at the same time each day, so if it's 24hrs, players will just accept it and not wait for cool down.

Should there be a global cool down or a per spark cool down?

So this threadnaught, with next to no content, has now turned into calling random timespans?

Let's do 19.6 sec.

Why do you continually bring up EvE? The type of pvp you long for in perp doesnt exist there either. .. And it has a one day cooldown. You are not making your point.

And can someone please tell me how after our mass blob fleet is lured outta Karapayth by a fake attack by a few blobs and we chase them halfway across Hoop ... Oh no, the real attack starts on Hokk ... How the *** are we gonna instant spark over there with our blob? Even without PvP cooldown timers its a MINIMUM of 5-10 minutes to get those in the fleet with sparks at the real location ... And not everyone has them at that location .... Seriously you are building it up to make it seem OP.... Also, Arga,the same applies with my point about mobile teles ... Their charging time, depending where you are in the field is probably faster than "instant unlimited SpT"

C'mon you guys can do better ....

EVE Online Devs understood the implications the mechanic had on the dynamics of the game.

It is used as an example because thought was put in to it before it was dropped in to the game.

Here, they just toss stuff in and clean it up later. 

Example:

Day zero sensor beacons.

Month 1 of walls.

Gamma, various mechanics    00--->

The mechanic suits you, so you defend it.  I knew it was broken a lot time ago, so now I have to discuss it here to get it altered before thousands of Steam players are here wondering why some strange things are in the game.

Unnecessary. Already extended PVP flag(10minutes instead of 5) should already give the fleeing players enough time to reach anywhere on a single island. If you are worrying about someone sparking ahead of you then even the cooldown will not help you.

On some example mentioned by someone attacking something on Heydel and then going to ICS-Beta. Why would you go to ICS-Beta of all the locations full well knowing that there could be people waiting.. ? Seems like a completely thought up situation with barely any resemblance to reality just to prove a trumped-up point.

Trying to talk about specific scenrios is difficult, because the setup and executions are very complicated, and invariably we're going to simplify it so much that all of them are easily dismissable.

Let me try to push this time to something concrete.

What if the timer was slightly longer than the slowest travel time between to beta stations?

For instance, if it takes 17 minutes to pilot a scarab from station 1 to station 2, then a cool-down of 20 minutes means you could pop back and forth in slightly more time than it would take to drive it, but not so fast that you could play 'hot-box' with an intruder?

Again, this is a more tactical discussion, and is much more reliant having used the sparks (which I admittedly haven't), but I agree with Doek that throwing out random numbers isn't useful.

Tbh I typically suggest more to get compromised in the middle.  But tbh I went straight to the compromise because its logically sound.

There's only one spark in game per player, so I meant global , again short cool downs will just annoy players imo, waiting for something to happen is bad game play mechanics.