They could always delay construction and decon, if that is the only issue.

The reason was 'turtle islands'.. and this will hopefully be a thing of the past. Having all Epri tied up on six islands that a small alliance can easily defend and tie up an essential resource is a step backwards in balancing the game.

I see no good reason not to put it back on gamma.

Epriton isn't tied up, it flows steadily from Domhalarn and Novastrov to the Alpha markets.

Domhalarn is a "turtle island" without turrets.

Although nobody should hold any illusions about it, Devs will cave in to pressure from all the little corps that can't control a Beta. Epriton will go to Gamma, then it'll get removed from Gamma once we put it under our microscope and all the little corps start crying that we're abusing mechanics.

We're practically remote-developing the game.

Of course we don't sell for free. We also put billions worth of equipment on the ground to secure our income of epriton.

On gamma, we'd just drop a standard terminal on top of the field and mine away. I assume thats what you want, risk-free mining with a few reinforcement cycles that guarantee you can mine the field up and haul it out.

The only thing I'm gonna say is "Everything is fine".

Because I have seen the future and I know how hungarians work.

There are a 2 options I just thought for this:

1. Make 3-4 gamma structure free and add epriton on those only. No terminals

2. Make terminals vulnerable to attack with no reinforcement cycles for the first 12 or 24hr of placement.

My fix would be to despawn anything 1km round from a station drop and make stations be destroyed when deconstructed

Well that works if you double terminal build costs and you lose the terminal and blocks on decon. An epi spawn is around 450m nic and base cost currently is around 100.

Bear in mind that using cost to balance never really works. the 1km around a station fix would work better.

Epi on gamma is needed.

Bahaha!

Considering that Dom has a not lockable npc station anyone can dock in, the fact that in the last week we've hit several saps, and bombed 50+ noralgis plants, and killed heavies on the island, I would say that you're wrong about it being "a turtle island without turrets."

Now, when I came back late last year, and jumped onto bergers for the first time, THAT is what I would call a "turtle Island", being that there were mudwalls lined with really scary turrets that locked at 1800m. For someone to get onto bergers and past that wall took serious effort with terraformers.

Any island I can jump into, freely walk off the gate and not get shot by turrets... well, that's just an island ripe for roaming.

The whole reason for taking epri off of gamma was that you could mine it from docking range of a base, on an island that took tons of prep work just to get on it. Fix those two problems and there's really no reason why epri shouldn't be on gamma, unless you're planning on adding another high end ore found only on gamma, or make colixium be required for all mk2 production or something along those lines. As it is, there's really not much point in putting billions of nic worth of base mods on an island you can't rat on or mine epri. Except for maybe one alliance so they can protect their noralgis farms a little better

Bottom line is bring gamma back with new rewarding content.

Like exclusive bots for gamma, add colxium to all mk2 bots. Scanable virtual islands within islands tied together with PVE content and missions for beta that spills over to gamma.

I know development time is precious and very limited, therefore if we have to wait another 6 months so be it. What's the point of adding new areas ingame with no rewards for risks involved and no content.?

Like a prophet ~o~