Re: Perpetuum - Game community and developers at odds with each other.
The problem is the veteran power blocks are bloated and fat with all the spoils from past episodes, mainly beacons, it creates a very steep hill for newer corporations to try to compete and learn. Sadly, it will always be that way for as long as certain people keep logging into the game.
What these developers need to understand is MMOs work a different way for example WOW, you could have farmed your *** off after months of an expansion being out and day 1 of the new expansion the piece of loot you got was better than the piece you spent weeks/months trying to get in a raid....
WE NEED T5 GEAR. WE NEED MORE ROBOTS. The light ewar need to have epi removed from them. Production costs of robots needs to be turned down, similar to how it used to be.
You need to curve the Vets to give them a reason to login and play
New corporations should be Alpha 2 based -> hitting Beta strategically for pvp and maybe some industry, while Veterans should self sustain a life on Gamma.
Regardless I don't care about Spark teleports, it won't achieve the goal most people think it will.
I agree with you on parts of that post, but we're talking about 3 dudes vs an entire team of 100's of people. What I find to be is that most of the games I'm playing can keep me logging in for a max of around 3 months. Some less than that. Diablo III has managed to pull me back a few times when they release new content, but the crap they release gives me around 2 weeks or so and then im wore out as they're isn't any depth or challenge to it.
New robots, new pve encounters that require a team of more than me and my remote rep alt (and hopefully with shiny new lewtz think faction stuff!)... that's defiantly *** I'd log in for. Considering how long it's taking for everything the devs have ever put out, it's not likely we'll be seeing that this year.
As for the whole "Veterans should self sustain a life on Gamma" it works great for your alliance, but what about everyone else? Your 3 corps are pretty much the only veterans that play. As you've said the rest of the server can't pull together a force to beat you guys, so should gamma only be for cir/phm/77th then? Anyone that tries now will have to kill one of your bases, and as Jita pointed out will take 9 days to do, of which you only have to show up once to defend. So how is any opponent supposed to do that? Shall we take danger strangers advice and "pull together 15 dudes" like we did this morning? You've run most of our members out of the game, and most I talk to have no interest in playing. I certainly don't.
The only way you or anyone else in this game is going to get any new content in the forsee-able future is if you guys reset and start shooting each other. No one else on the server can fight you guys while you're allied. The fight this morning was just another reminder. Remember the whole "this is a sandbox" thing next time you're complaining about content.