Re: POS - why?
Don't see the point in POS with the current landmass setup. Small islands multiple outposts on each, where are the POS going to go exactly and what is there point?
Give perpetuum a full game world please, one giant landmass!
While I agree with your point regarding landmasses, your first statement of not seeing the point in POS (even though only currently) is very short sighted.
From development point of view it's *** easier to create structures that offer more interaction to players + more incentive to fight for than creating entire new landmasses from scratch and making them part of the existing world. Additionally there is NOT enough playerbase in the game to really fill the current islands and the additional hypothetical continental landmass.
Also once you had that landmasses, you'd want to populate them with POSes (and people). Plus you'd want to populate current islands with them.
The development order is unquestionably more reasonable to go for POS first.
o/