Its a compromise.

In those other games, you have the ability, thru bigger bags, to increase your carrying capcity on the field. In perp, your cargo size is fixed.

The idea being that you may have infinite resources, but you'll never be able to carry more then your cargo's capcity.

more info please?

- PoS or indestructible NPC station?
- for free or for fee?
- how did you lose it?

station storage was practicaly unlimited. POS storage was limited by m3 but was extensible via ingame means (no need to pay $$$ extra). also cargo capacity is expandable unlike PO.

In eve any particular container could contain 1000 entries; be it 1000 units of tritanium or 1000 stacks of it, the limit was in entries, not sheer quantity unless that container had a specific volume (from giant secures at 3900m3 to warehouses with 100 million m3).

Perpetuum's limitless capacity is just fine the way it is, even with the deployable cans; the limit comes in the cargo capacity of your mech (which is fixed at this time).

The lore actually covers this, in that only items deployed to the terrain take up actual physical space, so storage is only limited by memory capacity. So bots, which have limited space for memory, have limited storage capacity. While the outposts have only power and memory.

Which is kind of strange when you think about it. When you run factory lines, your really using CPU time to convert data to material, process a small amount, then convert it back to data.

If you look at the lithus, there appears to be (3) cargo modules built into the chassis. If that's what 80U modules look like, it would explain why smaller bots can't have larger cargo. Also why there are not add on cargo modules, they're simply too bulky to add to combat chassis.

Of course, this doesn't preclude the ability of our scientists to develope a high-density cargo module replacement, which is the same physical size but with more memory capacity, or for us to discover these bots are simply using the 'cheap' disks and the next generation of bots we haven't seen yet may have better power/memory resources.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/fa … -universe/

Even freemium models aren't immune ...

RIP Lego Universe Oct 2010-Jan 2012

Again though, you have to remember that there are fairly large franchise fees (NetDevil Studios has to pay to use Lego name) and overhead when you consider the recurring costs and number of subscribers required to keep it going.

MMO is a tuff business to be in.

To be fair, the targeted audience of lego universe usually doesn't even have a credit card... But I do agree that the MMO corner is pretty harsh when it comes to competition.