So, reset for me will be easy as hell. I will be done basing in 1 day.
3k base slots go!

So these new T20 kits are going to replace Junkyard kits or will there stillbe T20 junkyard kits being laid with augs and ambrosia gear?. You said Junkyard kits are being used this way which i beg to differ. A comparison between Junkyard kits being used in my idea vs your new T20 kits with X gear is like comparing T16 players to T20 players. There is a massive power gap. Mass deploying Junkyard kits in a main galaxy won't do squat vs mass deploying your T20 X Gear kits in a main gal.

Junkyard kits will still be available.

OMG I LOVE THIS

Can I then request a significant reduction in the size and weight of junkyard kits? This effectively renders them useless, which is the major use of scrapnotes.

The idea is nice, but you guys are going to have to put a limit on how many kits the attacking team can place, which I'm sure you will for lag sake. But if it's too high a limit, then you've done nothing to help low/medium level teams. A large team with the resources, pvp/pvb capability to defend those kits while they finish construction, and most importantly, the characters/accounts to set all the kits they want, could very easily set up as many kits or more than the defending team's own system.

Easiest way I can see is defaulting the limit to say, 3 kits. And then increase the limit through team skills by adding a skill that increases the limit by say 1 slot per level that doesn't cost an absurd amount of team skill points but nor is it cheap enough to the point that the limit never existed for the larger/older teams as well. While you're at it, you'll want to take a look at team skills and fix that up a bit as well.

As it stands, not having a limit doesn't prevent a larger team from steam rolling with as many assault bases as they want to set against a smaller team. Even big teams will be in danger of this as this means systems with just a few kits will become even easier to brush past if (And that's not a big if) the attacking team can keep those kits protected until they can begin

And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a limit to how many station kits can be placed in a system? If that's so... will the attacker's kits contribute to the slots in a system? If that's correct, then it also prevents defenders from setting up new kits in a system with maxed slots as well as even preventing attackers from setting up in the first place if the max slots of a system have been reached.

Thank you for the well thought-out feedback. I think you have gone off on a slightly wrong track on this matter, though. The purpose of this change is not to make it harder for endgame players to beat new players if they so choose. That has always been a simple enough task for endgame players and it will remain so as well. The purpose is to make it so that when a new player inevitably does lose to an endgame player, they aren't losing base gear that is valuable or tedious to replace. In other words, the two main points of this change are:

1) to streamline the process of getting a decent base up and running, and
2) to reduce the replacement cost of a base in the event of its destruction

I like it. I'd eventually like to see standardized base aug setups along the XYZ lines.

HPS X Y Z
DPS XYZ
SL XYZ.

etc.

Similar costs as XYZ base gear but makes finished aug setups with comparable power to the current endgame aug setups.

Is this picture representing how many more people will take off in Zebucarts (to play the game), cause of this change?

that represents the lines on the spreadsheet shooting off to space

Rofl

good god Im in love with your edit

Wait. Do we get the good Zebus back?