The reward is obviously three-fold, (1) station facilities (2) station aura (3) closing off the ability for enemies to undock from my homebase and forcing them to go cross island.

Removing the strategic advantage of having a closed station to reinforce from, removes the reason to capture the station in the first place.

And it certainly wouldn't result in more PVP, that is a logical fallacy. Domhalarn has ICSB, one of the open stations. Where are these roamers just waiting for grrr-unlock-all-the-stations to start providing content? We've lived and AFK mined on Dom for half a year now with no interruptions.

There are Missions at the Beta Terminal too... Yet No one does them...

The risk is too high when you and yours fall on top of whoever happens to be there like a wet blanket and smoother all life. This really isn't the dev's fault, or responsibility to fix. The only ones who can fix this problem is the ones perpetrating it. The easiest solution would be to rid the game of people who insist on destroying it. The root problem is there's not enough people playing the game to support your playstyle. The best solution to this would be for your alliance to break up, stc/joke to break up (afaik we've not been allied to stag, we came to help defend them against you). I'm sure if you really tried you could keep things civil between cir and 77, that hasn't been the case with virtually every other corp in the game, but who knows, maybe you can surprise us. You shoot them, they shoot you, we shoot them, they shoot us, there's variety there. You can't expect people to fight the same group over and over, with nearly the same outcome everytime and have that be exciting and fun. There's no amount of trolling, name calling, or *** you can do that'll change that, and infact for a lot of people it makes it worse.

You guys are the problem; yet also the solution.

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Mission content is an incentive to capture a station. Capturing stations requires effort and keeping them requires constant investment and sacrifice. For those that don't want to invest the effort, there are L4 missions available on Alpha 2 islands, and missions available in the 3 open Beta stations.

You haven't answered the real question though - there's 3 open stations already, why do the people who only want the cream without making any effort deserve any more?

The system isn't broken. We aren't hiding between thousands of turrets, our gates are open and you're welcome to roam. We will defend our island with our people.

The game world needs to be bigger. If the issue is with one entity controling all the islands. Add more beta islands beyond the ability for a single entity to control all of them.

The game world is too small. I think it would be better to increase the world size rather then change outpost mechanics. Add more islands and outposts.....

I disagree. It would not take long for them to spin up more beta 2 islands that have two outposts and no assignments.

The you keep scaling the game up. Not scaling it down by removing mechanics that have existed in game for a long time. Add things don't remove things.....

EVE (different setting) but started with a very large universe. And once it got filled with lots of empty space inbetween they added wormhole space.

So if the land gets taken add more until you have a good balance of entities fighting to hold or fighting to take stuff back etc.

I just don't see it adding a boat load of content when the terminals are open and they are not producing boatloads of content right now either.

Is it? I don't see the outposts being content. I see them as tools that people can use. In this case the tools can be restricted and currently are due to the intrusion system and player entity choice.

I would like to add that player choice is a big part of sandboxes.

They can use the NPC terminals that are not locked.

They will find PvP.

I don't need to imagine, I was there when 3 islands and 9 outposts were claimed and owned by 3 alliances.

Didn't experience any brick wall with getting to or living on Beta, only brick wall was Styx's and Siddy's roam groups which were by their understanding of the game mechanics leaps and bounds in front of everyone else on the server.

That was a very... finite advantage however.

...and dreaming you are.

Even if you can access the stations you won't be able to do much of anything on Beta except hide. The brick wall you speak of is mobile and will surround whatever outpost you decide to work from.

Another thread/post count forum crusade by half dozen dudes who dont like current political climate.

Solution to dominating power projection issue lies elsewhere. Devs just need to listen.