Plus testing the waters a little... All the Open beta and Closed beta in the world wont tell you what launch players really desire.. PotBS ran into that one... I bet they are just making sure they can walk before they go for a long dash through the woods.

As for CGI Clip, heck a good in game graphic clip works, look at Star Trek Online! Explosions!  They could do like a few mini episodes, or perhaps some players will.  If they needed help with a CGI clip, I would just hit up the local school that press's their student body to submit into siggraph.  Get a good quality clip at a low cost.

But give them just a little time, they probably don't want to get into the problem of "It's to big for my britches"

Edited side notes: For people making ingame footage videos.. a word of advice, in your editing software, find in filters, usally under catagory color correction or adjust, find Levels! Use it, Love it, make the Light Levels Pop, most videos I can't even see whats going on because it's just to dark, and I run CRT's for the better color correction capabilities over LCD's and still can't make out whats going on.  Help Promote, Use Levels for your vids!

I'm negotiating for a raise...right now I'm holding out for another 40k EP

I think it was a smart move on Avatars side to not promote the game more.
They sure had faith in their product and knew their server(s) couldnt handle masses of angry noobs pounding on the starter mobs.
this game will promote itself through mouth propaganda.

I honestly dont know where these complaints come from.
Every combat orientated player should have fast target locking anyway and the spawn rate is not that bad.
I never see more than 3 players on one spot and they dont farm in mechs or anything.
The moment a new spawn pops up you should secondary lock it, should always have the max target possible locked, so you can switch to primary fast when you current target is dead or even shoot the secondary target once , so it s locked for you and then switch back.
I also see players shooting drones from 10 m distance with their lasers, taking more time for kills than needed.
Also equip this sensor enhancer things that accelerate your target lock also.
Sure you will miss a few but you can run a bounty hunter mission in no time.

Because the guy who downloaded the game just an hour ago and is just down doing the tutorial missions for the first time is going to have maxed out the appropriate skills for combat to compete with people who have been in the game since launch or even beta.

Also, not everyone doing the missions chose to be combat oriented.

But thanks for the pointers. This actually helps me a lot.

I learned early on that the combat missions are a nic sink. I don't do them anymore. I do geo or delivery missions the money is a lot faster and I am not spending it on ammo. Train Industry to lvl 4 get a sequer then train missions skills to lvl 4 and get 5 delivery missions at the same time. thats roughly 75K+ nic per run in about 5 min. You can make 1,000,000 nic an hour  this way. I do this with two accounts that auto follow one another.

It might sound like a lot but my second account is combat so i burn through the nic pretty fast...I'm always broke.

don't derail the topic.

I'm sure I do alot of things differently...I wouldn't say wrong. I'm sure when I blow you up you think that's "wrong" also.....but I do have fun when I do. So how wrong can I be.