Topic: Trial Account Restrictions (Bumming Me Out)
Hi!
Been playing for 2 days now and I can say in my opinion that the restrictions to the trial accounts are really excessive. Here are a few that have stopped me from enjoying the game:
1. No market access. (from word go the game informs you that trial accounts cannot see player sales.... Why? If a trial account holder does make a purchase from a player the game economy does not suffer, it thrives)
2. Cannot Buy Decoders. (Why? A trial account RE items does not effect the game economy in a negative way.)
3. Cannot purchase Assault Mechs or better. (Why? I trianed my skills to use an assault mech, and the market says the lowest priced is 480000NIC so i could afford it and arm it. So let me buy it.)
4. +0.02avg increased relation per mission. (omg thats 50 missions to get a 1 relation with starting corp, mind you there is only 1 level 0 mission for my corp Matsuda and only 3 that give positive relation for Matsuda. That is really excessive so after 22 missions i am only on +0.17 with starting corp, and my mission are still level 0)
So the above items are stopping me from progressing in the game, yes i can see how you would harvest resources, and refine them, i can research Kernels and make better equipment. I cannot buy or sell any but the basic items, i cant even sell a T1 autocannon.
I cannot RE anything as i cant buy even a level 1 decoder. I cannot manufacture anything since i cannot get blueprints from RE. I can make prototypes!
In what way do these restrictions to Trial Accounts benefit the Perpetuum game community?
Do these restrictions allow a Trial Account holder to experience what the game has to offer?
Anyway if you want to make a Trial Account to see what Perpetuum has to offer then my opinion would be do not make a trial at this time as you would not be experiencing anything of the game besides some lite PVE content and some harvesting(not covered in tuturial btw) and mining.
You can research Kernels that drop from PVE robots and after you recycle a lot of T1 autocannons and other odds and ends you can look forward to making a T1 Standard Medium Machinegun that takes 20hours to assemble. (Oh btw you probable wont be able to use said weapon unless you have spent your EP on Kinematics which would would not do on a trial account anyway as you are forced to initially focus on Optics/Missiles/Magnetostatics.)
So unless they fix the above and remove the restrictions you will just end up frustrated and from what i have read that would be a shame as the game has all the elements required to make it interesting and fun.
And I am sitting here writing this instead of playing when i have 13days of trial to go and i can not do anything more in the game, i have done it all, i might grind on to see what relation i need to get level 1 missions....<sigh>