Yes. I have never *** up my accounts to the extent that a 20% penalty would be worth it. I mean, to be willing lose that EP you would really have to have made a mess of it.

As I said in general last night, anyone taking a second or more EP reset needs a brain transplant. The one free reset for all is okay, gives everyone a chance to play for a while and then make a commitment without being constrained.

Presumably you also loose all standings, research and have to re-buy skill books. Even the first reset is expensive if you have been doing missions or research

I was thinking more long term. Lets say I'm at month 24 and Kalsius has been saving up for 3 months to get Extension level 10 of some advanced skill and has 2 more months to go. I do a reset and have 20 months of EP still, and get that skill 10 now. Or I can wait 5 months to get that same skill, meanwhile Kalsius has had 2 months of a lead on me.

Wait 5 months and be behind 2 months, or have it now and have 2 months of advantage.

The only thing I can see that may stop something like this is if there are other gating issues, like needing high Rep (which would be reset also) for example.

I'm putting it out there, I'd be happy with a full EP reset once per year.

I'm not buying the FOTM BS, that argument is flawed from the word "Month" onwards. The reset would be once per year so congrats, you got into the best bot of a particular month now you can "suck" the rest of the 11 months in the eye's of those that use this argument (I think the entire argument is *** for a variety of reasons although not entirely relevant right now).

Perpetuum is catering to a niche however it still needs to be different from other sandboxes. Keeping EP dynamic and fluid when all other related games keep you tied down for your accounts entirety would be good in my opinion.

What if you are a dedicated miner and they make your career choice irrelevant by nerfing (EDIT: buffing, depending on your point of view) mining yield by 50% so that a combat character in an Argano mines as well as you?

That might be worth a 20% loss to get into something that is worth doing.

Simply, I don't think full resets are good for the game, because its not just EP.

A great example is the now alagorical Eve Scam, where they con other players into giving them ISK then transfer it and delete their characters.

That player subsequently quits, because he has all this ISK but lost all his skills and reputation, and playing for months to build it back up is too daunting.

With the way this is currently implemented, if Player X is a CEO or deputy CEO position wanted to, they could clear out the Corp and 'disappear' for the cost of 20% EP... or free if its the first one.

This has nothing to do with scamming, just the game mechanics making the 'get away' way too enticing.

No, with a couple hundred active players, this is not something that is going to happen on Wed, but if something can happen it will.

If EP resets are truely about clearing up extension mistakes, then the reset should be about removing applied EP, not about resetting an account.

... and for Ral, devs need to add a Ragereset timer, so players don't lose 20% by making rash decisions about mining changes before they actually see the impact

Agreed, and I would be happy with a once-per-year reset as well, although I don't mind the way it is currently.

Having said that, I would never take the 20% loss, so basically all I get is one free respec on my accounts which I do not plan to use because I'm happy with how they are.

It is an "account reset", you have to delete ALL your characters in order to reset.

changing it to be only EP on one character would be major revision, and would certainly be mentioned in the blog as a change.

Deleted charcaters do not retain any character related information, relations, or items.

edit: One reason for it being this way, an assount reset, as I understand it is to cover the 'error' where new players create alts and apply EP to them not realizing that the EP is shared account wide. And to cover the fact they added an EP penalty to deleting alts after many players already created them, and they needed a way to return that EP penalty.

Why not? You stated an alternative system but haven't explained why the one I proposed in the first place wasn't sufficient.

Whilst I don't like the idea of running missions, sure you can make it expensive. As for the EP reclamation it's essentially the same as what I proposed just not to the same degree. I say why not go all the way and enhance Perpetuum's dynamicness with what I proposed. The game will change, people will change, this could be a large selling point for Perpetuum in a competitive MMO marketplace. Invest in your character (12months sub) and you'll be rewarded.

Thats not a bad idea, however it will definitely stir the hornets nest of those with money having an advantage over those who do not.

In terms of why it is bad for the game, I have spent a lot of time in sandbox games and one of the truly special things is the persistence of characters and their traits. Wholesale resets once a year go some way to destroying that persistent aspect. Instead of people investing and making decisions based on a longer term plan (which these types of games profit from) it becomes 12 month spans, heck we might as well run it like those browser based games and just reset the game world every 12 months (overly dramatic I know )

It also leads to the 'new content' mind set. People want the devs to bring in something game changing so they can use their yearly reset, it also means previous content does not get recycled back into the game state, everyone wants this years "Lich King" expansion because the other stuff got boring.

I don't think we should have "magical reset everything". It's just not right and it favor the FoTM trend.

However, I do believe it's mandatory to be able to get back the EP you wrongly invested, or to allow you to test different things, without the need to delete your character.

In that regard, I would like to suggest a system where you can uninstall an extension over time, and recover your EP back.
Something like: If it took you 1500 EP to learn this Extension, then it will take 1500min for you to forget it, and recover your EP.

A "Full respec" would therefore be extremely long, and discourage people from switching colors, or from Indy to fighter/etc, while leaving the possibility for everyone to fix their mistakes in 1 or 2 weeks after they made them.