I'm having fun as a noob in this game.  I thought the tutorials were simple to understand, and when I had questions, the help within game explained in good detail.  I also appreciated all the guides and helps posted by the community in the forums.  Although I've seen some forum griping about the graphics, I like them fine.  But then, I'm a hugh scifi fan so I like the look of the planet...  Starting 2 accounts at the same time was a little tedious because I had to do all the tutorials over twice.  LOL 

The only real problem I've had is sometimes significant lag and other wierdness when trying to run 2 clients on one machine in windowed mode.  Part of that is probably due to my location and the infrastructure available to me(central Montana, US which is sort of in the mountain backwaters of the US).   

The other problem that wasn't so hard to solve, was trying to shoot npc's for noob tutorials with my nooblet bot in the same area where other people with better bots would out compete my target lock times.   Don't really understand why they were in the same area the noob tutorials sent me to, but I just had to outwait them a bit and get a little more effecient with shortcut keys. 

PO is in its infancy and I will enjoy seeing what it will become as time moves on.

I know exactly how targeting works, but that doesn't mean it couldn't work better. For example, if I only have 1 target locked could it PLEASE be set as primary for me?

But players don't Always want the first and only target to be primary. In PVP it's common to prelock players, Primary shows as Red and Secondary shows as Yellow to that player.

The way the game knows is by selecting either "r" or "f' when you target. There's no way the game will guess correctly when double clicking if you want it to primary or secondary.

This has been brought up many many times already. It should be possible to configure the action you want, I'll agree with that.

And I know what your saying, you have 2 targets locked in PVE and kill 1, and want the other to just go Primary on automatically so you can keep firing. So the game has to somehow know that your fighting NPC's, which I'm not sure there is any specific distinction between an NPC bot and a player bot, then to also keep track of how many targets you have locked.

At the base level, your asking the game to be an AI targeting assistant. That is really a mechanic that gets added after combat gets too complicated for most players to track, which is certainly not the case in Perp... yet.

In pvp, knowing who your enemy has as primary is important information. Delaying primary until you fire gives you that much more time before they get repaired.

Also, some locks are friendly so you NEVER want a system to auto primary because it could mean firing on a friendly target when you only wanted to secondary target it. Remember, you only need prinary target to fire weapons, everything else can be done with secondary+focused.

To switch quickly between targets, tab or click on your next target, then just hit R when your primary dies.  It wont keep your weapons going, but it certainly isn't hard to do.

We've been down this arguement path a few times, and it's almost always a PVE player (I'm a PVE player too) that wants to change the targeting system, because for farming NPC's it doesn't really matter that much what gets targeted/primaried.

As much as I would like something to make PVE easier, a game that starts making a distinction between PVE and PVP play is no longer a single persistant world. And it isn't always the PVP side that gets improvements and enhancements, but suggestions have to take into account the impact it will have on both sides.

In this case, the convience of auto-primary doesn't out-weigh the tactical advantages in PVP.

The initial impression I have got about perpetuum is actually very nice. Sure there are annoyances, stuff that you are not used to and so on, but overall it has got me to buy time codes.

Coming from EvE some of the things that comes to mind is:

Skilling system.

While the amount of points you get can be annoyingly slow I think this system beats EvEs queuing system with a stick. I remember how it was before the queue was introduced... it was really really bad. You had to put in a "long" skill every night not to lose SP. Nice one!

Combat system

Like any enthusiastic noob I started running around my target like a crazy man while shooting... until I found out moving around affects nothing. When you first target something your turret turns slowly to the target, but after that it moves instantly even if you run right through your opponent. It would be very nice if some kind of tracking would be implemented. This way the huge mechs would still be able to do MASSIVE damage to anything it hits, but facing a small nimble bot would result in a lot of misses, thus thwarting the "bigger is better" aspect a  bit.

I do find it kind of strange that it appears as if the bigger the bot the faster it runs (not sure about this, but it have looked like it during my time of playing)... I would kind of like the opposite. The smaller the bot the faster it would go.

Targeting

This one have taken a bit of getting used to. In the begining there was horrible list of curse words coming out of my mouth when I targeted one target and started firing and then when I began targeting the second one my guns would switch to that (double clicked) and stop firing on the first target. Thanks to whoever told me that primary target was R and just locking was F. Not its less of a pain...

Benefit of this mode of targeting is that you can switch target at a seconds notice and you dont have to worry about where your guns are currently pointing. It is simply diffrent way of doing stuff, but I would still like it better if the distinction between target and primary target were erased. I would like it so that you could simply select the one you wish to do something with, activate guns and then select another and do the same. The guns fixed to the first target would then keep firing on that and the other target gets the other volley.

Missioning

This leavs a bit to be wished. Same type of robot all over, but only one spot to do the killing... not only that, every time I have taken the noob mission the SAME spot have been the target area. If the kill missions would get random targets (depending on type of mission of course) in random locations then this would be so much better.

Mining

Just beginning here, but so far I find the part where you are looking for materials actually fun indeed... the mining part is, as usual, boring as hell, but I have no clue as to how to make that more immersing and fun. I have not tried the harvesting part though.

Invention/production

Not really tried this part yet, but what differs is the fact that you need to reverse engineer or prototype stuff before manufacturing. I have not done so yet so I can't say anything about it yet. From what I have seen it looks good thought.

Anyway. I have started two diffrent accs and bought a time code but have not redeemed it yet, but I will

Sweet Pie

No, it's based on the dispersion rate of the weapons (medium EM guns have 10 if I am not mistaken). If the size of the targeted bot is 4 the chance to hit it is 4/10.