In a non-persistent universe RMT mostly hurts a company financially and puts a huge burden on the community management team to handle all the illegal transfers, account frauds, and user complaints. In our case, we have to protect the in game economy as well. If we lighten the restrictions, we have to allocate resources to constantly monitor and handle violators. We simply can't afford this cat and mouse game at the moment.

For now, unless we are convinced that we went further with the limitations, than serving their purpose, we will keep them in place. This is to allow us to focus all our resources and efforts on making the game better. The GMs are always available to answer questions and so is this great community, don't hesitate to turn to them either in game or in these forums.

IIRC there was a discussion about trial length some days ago and I agree to Campana. The trial is by far too long for the so called "content" a trial player has to explore to. The actual content that may be discovered by a trial player should be known after 2-3 days with about 6-12 hours of total playtime. So reducing the trial length to 7 days should be enough, even if you are not that fast...

Can you make it based on hours logged into the game instead? So it expires after 18 or 24 hrs of playing time or whatever.

It's a case of managing expectations...people are continually expressing disappointment with the trial both here and in the help channel because they expect there to be two weeks of trial content. There isn't, so they feel cheated.

Ah good point. The trial would also have to run out after two weeks, then.

you could even get assault bots as trail agents:

get an argano -
someone drops packaged assault into fieldcontainer
you take it out -
be happy.

What yopu spend is time.  I'm in the same boat.  Two days and I feel like I've done all I can.  Yes I've played MMO games before but not so many like this.

It is the interplayer relations that make a game like this eye catching and as a Trial player I'm not really feeling the in game relations; mainly due to the fact that I'm a trial player and can't do much... and the snake eats its tail.

Being in a big shooty mech would be nice but it's not the be all and end all.  I want to know what actually goes on 'behind the scenes' and that is off limits as well.  Hard to keep someones attention when they're a dogs body.

The game does 'seem' to be awesome.  But time is a valuable thing to everyone; 30 days of this game is alot of time, irregardless of the money.

Forced to... no.  Will want to use what I paid for... yes.  I've been sucked into games before and spend money on them... only to discover that the in game player interactions were a little vapid and mostly ended up as 'name calling'.

I'm not saying that is the case here(in fact if these are corporations I'd expect a little vapid 'name calling').  Now, my point here is that it would be nice to experience player interactions on a trial account insofar as player based corps are concerned.

How about allowing trial players to trade with other trial players only ?

Together with NPC-sold lvl 1 decoders it would let trial industrialists to actually build stuff and have someone to sell it to.

And for trial combat types - introduce new factional bot, somewhat better than the first one. And make this bot buildable by trial players (not sure on specifics here). Thus the combat types will have a clear, achievable upgrade to strive for beyond the 10 training missions.

I did not want to make a new post, instead replying to this one.

I started a few days ago and did the tutorials. I am fully battle oriented. At the last tutorial you get a new Mech. Fitted it with missile launchers, till I came to the conclusion I did not have that many missiles.

Did one mission and was out of missiles. Trying to buy missiles, but it was not possible or at a high price, where a mission would not cover the cost, instead would make me lose NIC.

Also tried to look if I could make my own ammo, reading the forums about restriction makes me to believe this is impossible.

Maybe I am missing something, but in my experience, after the tutorial, you are done with the trial.

- You can do missions, but mission reward + loot does not cover the ammo cost
- Can mine but can not use the ore for manufacturing
- Can not buy anything from the market or even see how the market is
- Trying industrialist character is a no go

I can understand the restrictions, mainly because of exploiting the trial. But these restrictions punish the new players (and potential sub) a lot.

Few questions though and hope someone can answer this.

I have read about Artficing (or something similar). Just wondering what it is and how it works. In other words, I can fight NPC's for so long and mining is boring for me. So looking for something similar to EvE's exploring.

Also how is PvP. I have read solo PvP is almost impossible, which is okies. Is PvP in Perpetuum almost instant or do you have to look for a fight for 4 hours to find a single Mech.

Would be nice to get an honest answer.