game is dead / dying since the devs didn't managed to properly manage the insurance fraud, when u catch a thief who stole 4$ you dont take him 2$ , in a pvp game letting a side getting one year advance upon the others by using an exploit = shooting yourself in the foot

i think that now it's rather a little l8 to fix

as a m2s you should be more discreet.... and could be earlier than 2012

If by goon, you mean a poster on the somethingawful.com forums, and nothing to do with EVE, then yes. Go ahead and try to shine the light off of yourself.

The owner of the game should find an arrangement with CCP and make some bridge between Eve and perpetuum and replace the Iphone boring game that they call Planetary interaction in eve, it would be a full win

I know i"m dreaming but they should take contact with CCP, even eventually to be hired by CCP as theses guy have talents and ideas, this game prove it

Joining a corp helps,
joining a corp that lives on betas helps even more
nerfing (resource speaking) the alphas doesn't help, at least not the new guys and partially also the non-beta corps, unless the goal is to "force" everyone into those beta corps, that's imo of course.
so what you waiting? make a corp and join one of the corps that live on alphas and r goin to (try to) kick beta's as..s

Anything you mentioned is better than Perpetuum with some homo-looking avatars.

Guys, I'm relatively new to the game (jan 2011) and one of the lucky ones finding a nice corps with nice people. Working together as a corp facilitates many if not all possible activities in game atm.

I like this game (sandbox concept, Mechs) and some of the game mechanics (PvP) and would like it to flourish and grow into a matured game.
But I see many fellow gamers struggle, both on Alpha and Beta, players going inactive and corps shutting down. Could it be that hard work has turned into numbskull grinding and not enough cookies /progression as a reward ?

What worries me also is the apparently low influx of new players into the game. Trial codes ftw, but what if those players supposed to distribute those codes to friends are leaving themselves ? Adding more Alpha islands doesn't make any sense to me at this stage tbh.

Signed,

a somewhat worried player hmm

You'd be suprised how many people have running subs but are simply waiting for the EP to mass up/more content to arrive.

it does allot. the existing alpha island gameplay was nerfed down to epic grinding to get anything (from NIC to Equipment), also when you get into a MECH after two or three month of using the same assault bot with the same equipment for the whole time (after all, you get into it after a few days) then you face nothing to do with your MECH-class robot on the existing alpha islands, and you geting *** by the beta-dwellers in short time, probably before you gained the profit from going there.

the famous quote from the griefers - "no risk no fun" may be true, but in this game it means "my risk, your fun" from the non-beta dweller view.

yes, the game was designed with that quote as basis for everything of the last patches. And i really don't think its so good for the game at all.

man yall worry too much . the game is in its infantsy . way more polished then a pile of crap like xysom . spend 40 bucks on that or earthrise and then come back here and say hs i didnt give this much of a chance . i mean really lol . the ground clunks when you walk on it .. content ? what content . i dont know what people see in it . but in the same respect i didnt know why peeps loved minecraft , but its got over a million d/ls . you got your regurgitated WoW clones , which hey if its your thing thats cool . this is not that 
if your worried about numbers here , i bet half the people on eve for example at any given time are afk sittin in station .. tba eve has got nothing to offer cept cute character models . 
tons of content but guess what its the sos .
heck you cant even get in a good sov battle of 500 ships without " soul crushing " lag .
i do agree to the above .. an awesome combo would be this and steve with this taking over PI
other then that  its tiring seeing all these mmos with the same bs promises but nothing unique to offer . and i dont think this is one of those thats why a core group will support it regardless

Both eve and here have real time training, the difference here is that as long as the account is active, ep continues to accrue. This method is good and bad. The good side is that you can just keep subbed and check back occasionally, and have a cache of ep to spend when something new does come out. It is highly motivating to spend $10 a month to have the account 'just in case' the game takes off and becomes fun, the downside is that the subscription rate dosn't accurately reflect the true activity in the game. Sure, having 1000 subs is good for business, but if there's only 100 active players that is bad for the game play itself.

On a positive note, for those doom sayers, the 'stealth' accounts mean the devs will have more time to make the game better before they have toshut down. As long as the cost of running the servers and bandwidth is covered, the game cab stay online indefinetly; although it would be moth balled and no futher development would occur.

the roaming npc patch mixed with the industry patch saw a LOT of folks just walk away from the game. At the beginning rats were everywhere and a lot woke up and died and got super pissed about it. They nerfed the rats a little after that so it was manageable but quite a lot of alpha dwellers and beta visitors did not like that at all, it really crushed their corp models.