I agree, it is very confusing for new players as they are being led into assumption firearms are the way to go
It needs to be more faction and with that faction-weapon focused.

+1 to the Extension undo limit removal. 300k ep players do have that option anymore so it can be removed.

This!

Let's make Rookgard Island for Perpetuum!

"you're not in an MMO to make friends, you're there to make enemies "

A little OFF

I thought before an idea, what about "vitrual" training, like before you had neurointegration, you can learn robot driving in "virtual" space what like similar than we see in Terminal windows, Nuimqol has blue lines, and so on.
That virtual place simulate Nia.

That is littel correlal with the story and the real life i like it!

And maybe you can go in virtual place to practice or anything else try.

Actually these ideas crossed our minds too, both the "rookie zone" and the "holographic training grounds". We didn't abandon them yet, but they would need an instance system to avoid any crowding issues, and we didn't get around that just yet.

Maybe the virtual trainer can be something that is client side-only.

This isn't a simple change by any means, but to elaborate:

The client PC already has all the graphical information, so while in training mode, when the user deployes to the terrain, they don't actually enter the persistant Perp world server, just a client-side representation of the world. This is different from instancing, its more like an 'offline' mode, except that the client would still need to be authenitated to the server and the client-mode initiated.

As long as there was no reverse synch, anything that happens in the client-mode wouldn't be updated to the persistant server.

Of course, in addition to the client code changes, you would also have to add offline 'content modules' that can simulate ore and NPC's that would normally be server-side info.

- This doesn't allow for trainers to join in, but that is something that can and maybe should be done on the live server anyway (Various reasons for and against multiuser training, but nothing that would be a serious argument one way or the other).

I recall during the tournament, Dev mentioned that they were actually thinking about making an instanced arena type place. While I'm not a fan, I think a proper arena could be detrimental to world PVP (then again, 50 online players isn't great for wPvP either), but that could provide the solution to training area plus provide more instant gratification for players that don't want to log in for hours (or can't spend hours roaming for a fight).

+1

I hate to say it but this thread is probably going to make a little of the next patch feel like time not wells spent to the devs now.

• New Character Creation without Mega Corp or School

• Virtual Training Ground. Can play each faction of robot and complete the 10 stage tutorial. No costs or expenses to the new player until they're in the real world.

• Player chooses Megacorp (And Specialisation) at the end of the tutorial but are heavily informed that they can easily change direction just by changing what they install and upgrade.

• Easily skipped if it's a returning player

• If not completed before (Skipped by a new player) they can repeat the experience once but only for the assignments not character direction choices.