I have made many posts on where I feel problems are and some possible ways to fix them, other than that I no longer have the mental energy to "wait" any more for the devs been doing that for 3 years nearly. I will play the game as it is while i have sub'd accounts, while i wait for a beta key to the above mentioned game.

Coz nothing in any dev blog atm for perp interests me the only thing left would be a population increase (more pvp)

This game i have said & still do say has the best PVP play style around.

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 ?

I qoute my writes from another topic. I think this is where you should see. If you ask this questions.

Perpetuum has really narrow niche for players, we just got the finest nad hardcore players who can thinking like a machine and figure out what he need to do and what he should and find their incentiveness. (Smartest people here.)
The global playerbase ~80 % of CASUAL, and Perpetuum suit for 10 % of players (or even less).
This is the whole problem we have. Yes I understand the DEV s focused first time to the 10 % but after 2 year is clear we never got much more players with this thinking. I am ok if we dont want but why dont want? The game with desing is itself good. So let play the casuals also.
So if the DEVs dont decide that we wont get any new players in long term (We are always at 100 active players dont matter the mass of terrain dont matter what they implement, alway decreased the palyerbase to ~100 acvite players). They are FOCUS right now to PVE part. I hope they check my idea here and thinking of it. Not soo hard to implement and we wil got LORE and fun at Alfa. Then we will got ALfa players who will go out Gamma in a right time. As far we dont do something like this never get the new players. They can come with STEAM but they will leave after 2 month. I no doubt, I saw many players leave the game. And will be happen again.
I thinking this after I dont understand the gamers who left Perpetuum because I love soo much this game. This suit of my lifestyle ,this suit of my brain. So I dont really understand why dont everybody play Perpetuum.
And even Perpetuum is hard to me because need many many real time to do something special what incentivese to me.
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TLDR: Make Perpetuum CASUAL friendly in 1 aspect of the game at Alfa and let hardcore players fight at Beta and Gamma. 2 in 1 game.

yes we have some core issues with the game. but the main problem i see is the lack of advertisement.
most ppl i talk to about perp just found it by chance, or were told by a friend. it was the ame for me. i was activly searching for a game and browsed the game list of mmorpg.com with some criteria i was looking for.
most ppl dont do that. ppl games just dont know about this game.

we all hope that steam will help then this is a big platform and so we get a bigger audience. who knows how many more player this will bring in the long term...
but for the time beeing we players dont know when steam release will come. when it was annouced i guessed it would be around now (spring2013) but i guess it will be a bit longer. and i heard some rumors that it might be at the end of the year. only devs might have a clue how much longer it will take.

anyway besides steam advertisment is expensive stuff, and i dont think this game produces enough for a big campain. so we have to work with what we have avalible.
personaly i hope the new content patches will not take too long and that we will see more players ingame in a resonable amount of time. i cant do much more the the usual. write a nice guide, tell my friends and keep playing the game. rest is up to the devs.

I want DEVs to face reality. If they have less resources then 2 years ago, then they should not make a blog post with 3 major areas of development and tell us it will be ready in 2-3 months when the reality is it would take 3x more time then planed.

Why not concentrate on 1 area, either Research revamp, New assignments system or Instances, and push that out in 2-3 months, then work on the next one. Having smaller, more focused updates more often would generate more hype overall, more news items on the various MMO sites, ex-players would come back more to check out what changed etc.

Developers are on the right track to get more players in-game, yet I'm not sure if that will be enough. Major problem has been player retention and steep learning curve, according to the latest dev blog they are addressing it, obviously it's taking too long. The development times for major updates can improve with investors (more developers), also mentioned in dev blog.

@ Tamas they are concentrating on one at a time next update will be research, they just put it all on one dev blog, and made a very rough estimation on completion.

These type of games mostly thrives on people making the game entertaining and creating thieir own content themselves, but to get there we need loads of advertising and a good initial new player experience followed by where to go from, once you have a heavy mech with full t4 gear.

The entire MMO genre needs a reboot.

I'm getting used to jumping in a mmo again.  I'm scared.