Topic: Loot is everything....
In perpetuum your NIC income is 99% loot, that explodes together with your bot upon death.
For me, thats the main reason why there is no casual PvP happening - at least for me thats the reason why i wouldnt go npc hunting or mission running on beta or gamma.
For me its also the reason why there is no low-tech market. npcs dropping to much loot, especially standard.
IMHO, a better system would be:
NPC kills should grant you a kill bounty
- static ones almost nothing,
- roaming ones enough to replace a standard mech with standard equip
- standing with the local conglomerate should be linked to the bountyno standard loot except cargo
- Ammo would be standard cargo of npcs
- low chance of named equip dropped in cargo would be finescavanging extension and equip
- kernels and fragments recovered from bot wreaks, not loot container
- logically, wreaks would last as longer then now
- extension alone enables recovery of kernels.
+ the higher the extension, the higher the chance to extract the kernel
+ scavangin module enables extraction of fragments and rarely damaged equip
+ the higher the extension, the more fragments extractedseed market with syncrap equip of all kinds
fix the issues with on-terrain research, and re-enable it
This would make it MUCH more intresting to run around and kill npcs on the move, even on beta. Low-tech production would valuable for new player due to the lack of loot. Recycling would be valuable in combination with scavanging.
You get more PvP targets, less boring PvE, and more player created items on market.
Whining - It's amazing how fast your trivial concerns will disappear