The only truly defensible island now are the ones with just two terminals on them. 

Why?  Access. 

If you want Beta's to be open great.  Move all the terminals to Gamma, move gamma to somewhere else, called something else, and make a a"new" open beta. 

This will create a buffer, rather, no man's land for everyone.  Or a staging.

The True reasons the "losing" side wants truly open beta's is simple.

They are the attackers.  As a attacker you want as much freedom of movement as possible.  Movement IS power, case and point is sparks.  Now with sparks removed, this power is reduced but still not a unreliable source of power.

Sure, let's go with ~everything is fine~ and wait more.

Your major argument to this idea was:  You are denying players access to content.  With field terminals coming into the scenario ALL the content of a terminal that would available to anyone.  ANYONE.  So your argument was routed, now two additional concerns come up:  Lack of people using Beta islands, (which is laughable because I know 4 betas right now that are very active hot grounds) and people being locked out of all their stuff (well there are these convenient little npc owned terminals on 3 islands)  Use them.

All your points have very simple counters to it as why it is wrong, whereas the other points are:

1.  People can do industry on an island without worrying about alts being hide in a terminal keeping tabs on them.
2.  People don't have to play station games with players docking/undocking/docking/undocking to grief players to not leaving terminals.
3.  ~everything is fine~  Seriously, if you want a beta station go live in TMB.  There you go.  Your problems are solved.

Yeah, ~everything is fine~, the game just needs more people to attract more people despite all the influxes failing.

Ville the problem is new corporations don't have good enough content to have fun and stick around. The game gets thrown with 500 players over and over and still ends up with a lot of dead corporations and 20 in GC.

Alpha PVE is boring and headbutting against alliances is boring. But that's all there is.

You can say that ~everything is fine~ and people should live out of field containers for all you care, and it'd be totally legit if people did that and population grew.. Anyway, all I'm saying is the game NEEDS bigger variety of corporations living on Betas, so there's more fun and PVP for all sizes and timezones, and the developers should focus on that.

Removing locks on Beta-1 would literally be a win-win patch.

running-speed and detection range is to high, and island size to small to have more then one active entity per beta island.

and PVE content to different for casual pvp.

I watched two young new corporations grow, learn, build and have fun on beta and the eventually on gamma.  NSE is the perfect example followed closely by CONS and even a third called Ethos.  It's not fun to you because you want instant action were the long term players like to see growth and development.  Those are examples of corporations who we were contacted positively by diplomacy about.  Everything you keep spouting off about is an example of an out of touch player.  Try playing the game some, it's more fun.

ehtos is practically dead, according your leadership
NSE Members also leaving one by one as they are getting bored.
Cons? who are those?

Peperptuum has never been able to sustain a long term viable population. Its either in 2 states: population surge or long periods of hibernation with VERY small populations.

any & all active corps will shrink to shadows of there former selves in game while corps / groups of friends move off to play other games.

Its never going to change.

I've always felt perpetuum was released either to late (the subscription model was on the way out for most new games) Or to early that the crowd funding option couldn't / wasn't used to provide a large injection of funds & DEV man power.

Now if some one did perpetuum with a modern engine ect ect It would be a big hit

i would keep ranting on but my lunch just cooked

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

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