Believe it or not, but we don't. It's just the thing that we want to make a multiplayer game with different roles and careers, where no single character is able to fill every role simultaneously.

The reality is that players really do want to do everything by themselves, and they use multiple accounts to achieve this. I believe one of the reasons for this is our low population, because it's hard to find anyone to go with you, let alone someone with a specific skillset.

Dev Zoom you can take the high road on this I understand why you say that but ultimately Perpetuum is a business.  You don't create something you love to have it  run in the red to turn into something you despise.  And you are also talking to someone who has multiple accounts to be self sufficient...  Geez just check the ban logs.  Multiple accounts  are a good thing.  They generate more money and they provide instant gratification.  This is a long term mmo it is designed to be played with people, whether they are shooting buffing or looting its meant to be a group activity.  Solo players have their place but one bot shouldn't be able to do the best spawns solo.

More. Stuff. To. Do.

Less annoying, more easy to get to grind with shiny but not completely useful rewards.

Going about 'carebearing it up' shouldn't take more planning than doing. Already a lot of fun things to do, just not many of them can be done alone. And if they can be done alone you still need alts. One scanner, one combat etc..

PVP is awesome and fun. With more players you should get more PVP. More players need to be entertained.

Single player MMO's I just don't get it, how does that work well on a multiplayer level?. A game where, specialisation or careers are part of the game, is what I like. The downside is multi boxing, which is just a way to get an edge over single account players.

+1

I've only been saying that for going on 2 years now.

A centeral hub with a link to all or most alphas is excellent idea, with beta and some (not all) gammas a hop from there. Alot of people pushed for a longer trip to encourage local trading at the further outposts. In reality it hurts everyone because travel time is too slow. Eve works because travel can be automated from one place to another. Do you really think all those freighter pilots are actively piloting jump to jump? I'm not saying perp should clone that, but bot speeds have been too slow since forever. The slowest bot on the planet should be 100 kph, with everything else faster from there. It takes too long to move from point A to point B.

Highways, highways and MORE HIGHWAYS. There should be a continious highway from the terminal to the teleport... every teleport. Alpha islands for sure, but maybe not to all the secondary outposts on betas (but to every NPC station on beta). I'm not sure if players can install highways on the gammas, but if they can't they should be able to.

A station teleport of some kind for alphas. Only works on alpha islands, a mobile teleport that sends you to the station. Pretty self-explanatory there, cut travel time for mission runners and haulers in half.

Pick any one of them and the game would retain more alpha island population. The last two probaly more then the first, but even the first idea would be a step in the right direction. When the game had the most population was back in the beginning when lights and light ew bots where what everyone used for the most part. When it started taking 20-30 minutes just to move to another island in mechs and heavies to look for a fight is when people started quitting alot. I can remember leading roams of 20-30 lights/light ewars after calling for formup 15 mins before hand, and then 20 mins later we were fighting somewhere (usually domhalarn). Remember calling for 100+ speeds. Those were the good times. We almost always found someone to fight and it didnt take 30 mins of moving from point A to point B in order to find it. I hardly do crap anymore because I can't be assed to move around for that long just to be able to do it. I can bet alot of people leaving the game on the trial feel the same way.

This forum needs poll making ability. Would love to see how each and every one of you replies here on a poll. I personally think that making bots AT LEAST 50% faster across the board would be way to go. Devs, do it and don't think back!

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I believe in the slower travel time.

The real issue in Smokiis post is Population, still.

I was a huge fan of EVE and love how this game has taken many of its successful elements. But the are two fundamental thing this game has that makes the PvP sooooo much more fun. One is the WASD with LoS. The other is the slow travel time.

Fact is that engagements can last 20-40 minutes or more in Perp where they last 2-4 minutes in EVE (or seconds even). If travel was really fast and easy I think it would have negative impact on PvP (given a larger Pop). I've a ton more to say but iPhone is pain.

Population is the issue more than travel time. We have lots of tools for getting around, and with unlimited Spark TP it's actually too easy.

The Devs should actually take a lesson from RL here. People prefer to walk from point A to point B in the least amount of time & distance. Same goes for in game.
A landscaper once told me you can make nice paths all over the place but if they dont go in the right places & in a general fasion get you there in a good amount of time (depending on your location) , people either wont use them or cut across grass areas.

SO the over all network between the gamma & beta islands & the connections from beta to alpha islands works imo. Except the devs should never have removed the alpha 1 triangle that was a misstake & penalizes NEW PLAYERS & should be fixed! . But if we put aside the bad alpha 1 layout, the TP layout on the alpha 1  islands which is the problem i think needs to be fixed.

I Propose amending the layout to this:
Red = TP connections
Blue = New HWYs

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab30 … hanges.png

Doing this would effect travel times for new players / poor players the most. Rich farts this would only make an across game trip 1 min shorter. no more. But a new player this wuold mean travel times are a bit more acceptable AND the alpha 1 islands are connected. These islands are for new players to learn the game or do low ranked starting missions.

You DEVs want to improve the new player experience ? well this would help.

The network for gammas works well & any problems that people complain about out there come from the .... eh nvm ill insult the devs in another post on another day

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

Perhaps simply restore the original alpha triangle?  Btw Good Post Rex, as usual.

Also as far as the single bot/multiple account .... the only thing the Devs do here to facilitate that is keep the subs cheap, and now with ICE even more so ...

Please name one MMO that allows for a one use-does all character? ... even regular games like BF III, TF, whatever ... they all have classes ... you select a specialization.

No one is forcing anyone to play with more than one account ... but because of the broad depth in this game and the fact there are legitimite areas to specialize in .. by trying to go solo its just not as efficient.

Making this game too damn easy will not help the playerbase. This game is an investment, its not a twitch game ... 

Also maybe slightly off topic but I dont have a problem with new accounts getting an extra ep boost via Amazon or whatever .. Its simply a marketing feature and thats fine ... beta players got a bonus that I didnt when I joined 7 months later ... but why should I, I wasnt beta.  As far as new players not catching up to older ones ... when I joined I had 20k ep and someone like Syndic or Merkle had 300k ... 15 times as much as I had .... now I have 700k and they have a million ... only 1.3 times more ... its close enough ..

discouraging elements for new player, or even vets:

1. T4 lwf must have
2. T4 Sensor Amp must have
3. Extension-less NPCs DpS >>>>> self Repair HPpS
4. 15s locktime
5. few seconds to empty accumulator vs. time it needs to recover from 0% to 50%+
6. leads to recharger as must have equipment or hit&run as only way to fight even the lowest tier of npcs
7. loot vs. cargo hold. + need to delete drops
8. grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind
9. demob, ecm
10. Ammo

Another reason for the emptiness of the world is basicly the fact that everything but fighting or gathering is done docked up in terminal. A major design flaw for a ground based MMO. IMHO the only reason i need to dock up is to switch my robot and its equip.

look at all the things that are NOT on the terrain while it could fill the islands with many points of intrest and to fight for: Refinery, Recycling plant, Factory, Repairshop, Market.
Even in your gamma base you have to build those buildings seperately, but you access them all from within a central building...

i dont need to mention the flaws of the tiered module system, do i?

Brutux, I wonder since when you are ingame that you have no idea how hard it is to start out

My thoughts and experiences on this:

1. T4 LwF - for new players a must have; only later with lots of game experience more you have the choice with plates, before that point, you're only thinking "Why am I so ** Slow"
   (Anni's request here is old as Perps hell - not to remove them but have for the first tiers T1, T2 a percentage and for T3, T4 static numbers; just a change of the current linear tiered system -> for me that idea's double thumps up)

2. Sensor amps - necessary for combat because of two reasons: locking time and locking range; before you get your first standard one you have 15s locktime - too long for any noob; locking range is absolutely necessary to not get killed by the first NPC group. T4 is again the best out of the best - Anni didn't you say you did NOT wanted to mention the flaws of tiered system?

3. If you don't have enough range (ie sensor amps), repair module doesn't help you that much, in the time your module needs to cool down the NPCs dealt already a much greater damage than you can heal with one cycle (Not 100% sure if Anni meant this negative new player experience)

4. See 2) for combat; there's even a negative side for miners/harvested in that one - as new player and as vet that hasn't put points into accelerated targeting;
   first one, normal players target + lock the first tile/plant they find and activate both mining lasers (if thoughtful enough to equip the second one before), the source is often emptied with the second cycle - no new targets were locked in mean time, so player has to do that now <<< waiting 15s just to activate your modules again and in worst case just to find out you had a noise ;
   for vets - we just mine/harvest faster than we can even lock groundtiles/plants...

5. should be obvious: lost time to be able to use sensor amps, weapons and the most important here, the repair module again - for new players this lost time means death

6. see above

7. obvious, each question about cargo extenders in chat makes this even more obvious

8. obvious (to gain money for t4 equip and to be able to buy a new, full fitted bot as spare or replacement after death)

9. demob: damn, accu empty, can't repair myself > ESCAPE! < Oh noes, too slow because of demobs = death; ECM: yeah finally I locked my enemy - Ugh whats that? My locks gone?? (see 2.)

10. obvious (no nic for ammo, your ammo normally doesn't drop from NPCs you can shoot down the easiest, building ammo yourself is more expensive than just buying it, vicious circle= ran out of ammo>no income>no ammo at all unless someone helps you out)

These really are discouraging elements and facts, not just whining from a vet. A short while ago I tested the gaming experience of new players with a trial account - even with my knowledge how to use stuff and skilling the right extensions it was still annoying.

All in all, him listing those doesn't mean that each single one of them has to change nor that he wants every single one changed - just two good and wellbalanced (no band aid fixes!!!) changes may already improve this whole negative experience greatly.

About the change from linear tier system mentionend at the LWF part - this would help the t1 market too