Topic: pestial robot control and others ep cost question
Ok I have been wondeing this since i started playing
why are the corp robot control extension so expensive for the little benifit they give?
is this because of the future types of robots or what? they seems rather steep 43k ep just for levels 2 thru 8 and it offers no bonus jsut access to bigger bots is another 111k ep to max out the skill that actualy does offer bonus thats 106 days of ep for just 2 skills now given you don't need level 10 of advanced robotics to be usefull.
I just don't see why the control skill needs to be level 9 skill to get into a heavy mech it takes 49361 ep just in control skills or 34 days 6 hours 41 min acording to perpetuum planner now given chars start with 20k ep can take off roughly 14 days of that if put all 20k into thos 3 skills
this game takes alot of its ideas from eve so lets compare the progression thru ships of eve t1 vs progression thru robots
eve noob ship > frigate > cruiser > battleship
Perpetum noob bot > light bot > assult > mech > heavy mech
eve noob to frigate IV 1day 17 hours figate iv to cruiser iv 6d 2h 39m cruiser iv to battleship III 7d 8h 17 min at this point you can fly biggest t1 battleship with 15% bonus if want 20% total time 13d 2h 16m
perpetum noob to light 0d 0h 0m light to assult 4d 9h 11m assult to mech 6d 14h 46m mech to heavy mech 34d 6h 41m minus 20k starting ep equals 13d 4h total 21d 4h 41m
totals eve 13d 2h 16m 20% bonuses
totals per 21d 4h 41m 20% bonuses
from a new player perspective the cost of getting into a heavy mech is way to steep and is a huge downside to this game and could be one of the reasons new players don't tend to stick around.
I do understand that this game takes time but it has to be within reason a player needs to feel like there is actualy some progresion and this is just one of many skills that are just way to costly in the begining of the game this needs serious work progression thru the first 5 ranks of skills should be quicker and later ranks more expensive.
my sugestion is lower the rank of the corp robot control skill to allow access to larger mech sooner to speed up the progression shift the ep cost of lower levels of skills to later ranks to speed up progresion in other skills.
this would serve two purposes allow the gap between vets and new players to narrow and give new players the sense of progression on a shorter timebase and keep them in the game.