I agree 100% with this post. Also the reason why I have 2 accounts.

All MMOs that allow you to multi-box (Pretty much every MMO) will be multi-boxed by players.

It's just like a machine, if you can increase your input then you can increase your output. It's often hard work and I find managing two Perpetuum accounts to be boring. To be fair I can now solo a group where others can't due to items and extensions but the point still stands that if people are comfortable paying more and playing more then let them.

No part of Perpetuum forces you to have multiple accounts, honestly multiple accounts are for those people who don't trust someone else to do the work they want them to do. You're meant to have multiple robots on the field and it's FAR better to have 10 robots piloted by 10 skilled players than 5 people playing 2 each.

Anyone that complains they need more than one accounts is a sad lonely person that can't make any friends or trust anyone. They have my pity. By all means feel free to play multiple accounts but don't whine that you're forced to.

T-E-A-M W-O-R-K

No i havn't used it Merkle as do not play games this way, was never even tempted, if i have multiple accounts they will be manually used as intended.

Well ok, i have only one account. The bigass reason is.

Immersion.

Yeah, i could get three accounts multibox, and fly through the game like my *** is on fire....zooom, zoom, boom, boom.   It is not easy playing this way.....i did not have a sequer for months...with my ep going into hardpoints. Peeps would say get your miner and lets get some ore,,,"sorry i don't own one"...and i wont for a year or more. But i have had a blast when i have played.....(i take shore leave cuppla times a year) did not go to beta until i had advanced robotics 10.  and basic robotics 9.   The numbers with these two extensions,,,really do enable multi faction use of bots, with starting out of the box performance. 

Sooooo,,,there is something to get next.  Don't get in a hurry, savior the experience...while the grind is always there, grinding to a end game is really not a goal.  Picking the flowers, and evening walks, with random acts of violence is.   

The game beats me over the head some, seems unfair when facing multi boxed foes,,,but i don't want that changed.  It is not unfair when content of the game enables something.  I chose not to multi box,,,I can also choose not to engage multi boxed players. 

The one thing i clicked only once, because i instantly seen it was a sucker trade is prototyping.   

The do everything scenario happens in these games.  Some reasons have been posted. But the validity of this anomaly is without question.  I now can mine everything i want to.  I can make anything i have the research for.  I can haul medium volumes of commods. run ewars, combat bots from three factions. Was these different trades on my bucket list?  NO. You specked for a mech,, and your leader asks for a tackle bot. Argg. I would have all 10s on my combat mech if it was not used on miners, factory, stuff. But that is where the game takes me.

LOL,,,,i have dreams of a alt on my main toon,,,maybe some day.  If this was a one account sentrick game,,,we would see some love for no account alts....:)

I'm not at all convinced that multi-accounting is a problem. Nor that follow bots are a bad thing. If it is a problem, its mainly due to the ever enduring problem of Population.

The time based system will always incentivize multiple accounts. And for some, multi boxing provides further challenge and excitement.

People seem to forget that MMOs have diverse player mentalities and playstyles. You can't get everyone to act the same. AND, by nerfing support mechanics to hinder multi boxers you also hinder the very people you want to incentivise. How does nerfing support promote single account uses to specialze in that role?

When I get another recruit that wants to follow me around with a near maxed nexus and sensor amps. Your d@mned right would love to leave mine at home cause I want to fraps at full screen and be able to see my video. Until the population increases and I get some more elite Jerks to fill some gaps then we will still need follows. And honestly I would bring my follow bot anyhow due to people losing bots. If you lose a nexus and don't have a back up your fleet might get screwed.

But the topic has been completely de-railed. There is no incentive to play with one account its a sandbox ffs grow up and sub a second account or stop eating lunch and drinking coffee for 2 days you can afford the dirt cheap sub and then you can likely get an ICE in your first month if you know what your doing.

ive never felt like ive been forced to multi box. most times its been with 1 alt. I dont like running 2 accounts for PVP.

PVE how every is another thing entirely

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 ?

Whats the actual purpose of the Approach command in a WASD game? I understand its copypasted from EVE and now can't be removed because of OHNOESTHESUBS! mentality, but does it actually have any logical reason why it applies to other bots on the move?

Personally I don't even consider having a followbot to be "multiboxing" especially with the tools readily available to anyone with a better keyboard/mouse or a bit of intrawebz savvy.

Removing approach solves most of the lazy multiboxing and leaves the possibility open to the players skilled enough to use multiple accounts at the same time.

This is what would happen.

you mean like auto-drop ore into field-container is not a game feature but can be done by any1 who is dare enough to macro it?

or like audio-ping for observer or hostile player showing up on landmarklist that is not a game feature but basic gaming experience for the gifted ones?

for me, perpetuum is the first mmo, aside of oGame, that i ever had the feeling that i have an undeniable advantage using multiple accounts.

even those examples up there of players using only one account just underlining the statement that the game is not designed for multiplayer but multiple accounts (others may call it pay2win, since its exactly that - you get stuff with multiple accounts faster and easier when you pay more money... or in case of ice someone is paying for you)

Zoom, your argument is that because perpetuum is not twitch-based, multiboxing is an advantage.

This shows that even after Gremrods google ad analysis, and a little analysis of the most popular response to "this is eve with robots", you still have not much clue about what are the selling factors of your own game:

- its scifi
- it has big robots
- its a sandbox
- it has more twitch gameplay then EVE (Terrain, LoS)
- the grafic is not the worst
- non-frenchised content

Now - the only aspect AC has developed yet is the sandbox character of the game. The others are gradually fading away.

- scifi doesn't matter anymore, as that market is going to be filled with other alternatives soon.
- the selection of choices for robots is dull 3(+2) factions with ~1 robot per tier.
- sandbox aspect is undeniably good, yet IMHO lacking something
- Terrain & LoS factors are almost negated by non-LoS ewar and dull locking and energy mechanics
- I have seen much worse grafics
- you got the opportunity to create your own scifi-universe, but its unused as others already pointed out in F2P topic.

Personally, i wouldn't need two accounts, if i could collect EP on every agent on one account... just as bottom line.
and that is probably true for most other two-account-player too.