Nice one, Zoom! Now just try to post such blogs once in a week

GL devs.

Please pay attention to this concept artillery. Its development took almost half a year and thousands of man-hours. The robot fires a big gun at the target and all those who are close (50 meters) take damage from the explosion.
http://gyazo.com/1f6c26d6fd41ec82611f0217205f79ae
You may begin to thank. This development is worth a thousand Dolar, but as a true fan I give it away for free

Zoom just a request, how feasible on a balancing side of things would this be?

Normal robots (standard bonuses) then prototyped robots having the current mk2 bonuses then revamp mk2s to require a cortex plus a proto bot and give them more CPU/reactor plus some additional leet bonuses.

Vroom: not really, prototype versions of modules are only lighter and have slightly better fitting. So in line with that, prototype robots would also only have slightly better CPU/reactor (think +1% or so), and maybe slightly higher base mass (so module weight would affect them less). Mk2s already have extra slots and added bonuses, they don't really fit into the prototype concept, they are really upgraded variants.

For example:  the proto'd version of the kain would still have the same slots head and legs as a regular kain but better CPU/reactor (please make this at least 5%) but would have mk2 bonuses.  Then the mk2 would have everything the proto has plus the additional slots and 1 more useful bonus.

You added T2+ and T4+ to this game but immediately no to mk1.5?  It's not like this proposed idea would take weeks to do.

http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … ts-i-want/

Just Saying.

I think token store needs to re-balance the prices too but that's another topic for another time..

Making prototype bots useful is a good resource sink. +5% to fitting skills and few kmph speed boost isn't that much.

first off: good work, keep it up. and nice to get a bit of information here and there...

but in general. i have seen a discussion here about prototyping gamma structures...
well i am total ok with prototyping bots. yea makes them a bit more expensive but it will stay on a ok level. that is totally different with gamma structures. i guess not everybody has produced or worked with them, but i can tell you they are realy expensive. even more if you have to prototype them. prototyping a terminal are imense costs, evem more if you want t3 where you first need a t1 then a t2 and then a t3. so if you want cts for all of them you basicly need to produce 3x t1, 2x t2 and 1x t3 atm. prototyping will be even worse with x10.
and the big point is that ct degenerate realy fast with structures. so if you need to prototype them you dont add some "smaller" costs like at items or bots.
a terminal(and facility) ct is reduced by 10 points per cycle.
with optimal gamma buildings and a usefull decoder you are barely abele to get them over 100p. you do not reach the 121p that would give you a extra cycle on it. so with 101+p you will get 6 buildings out of it and the ct will be brought down to 0p. but of cource you will need to use one of it for the creation of the next ct or you can no longer produce. so basicly its just 5 buildings per ct. that is a resource increasement of 20% on the terminal just to cover ct costs. so its already very expensive in comparison with other items that you can produce.

tldr: gamma structures are already very expensive and reserve engineering is already adding more costs like in all other production fields. so adding forced prototyping here will drive costs close to insanity.
if you intend to do something like that then you might need a heavy redesighn in that field or this stuff will get more expensive by a few factors.

prototyping for the "normal" stuff (T2-T4) is not that expensive. it adds in general around ~10% to the total production costs. in some cases a bit less in some cases a bit more. only big difference are the structures.

@ Zortarg: you are correct sir ... if the change is made so structures t2 @ t3 cannot be reverse it will do several things.

1. reduce turret spam because it will greatly increase the cost to build them and the needed power grid for them.

2. Give more value (pvp) to actually killing them because they are going to be limited by the people who actually have the tech research done and not the people who knew people that gave them the tech.

3. Severely increase the threshold of assets needed for a new corp to break into gamma, this is because there are very limited ways to get the large amount of (tokens > structure Kernels) needed to complete the research for the buildings. (of course this will change with the new research system) but I imagine not by much.

4. I will allow corporations to sell structures other than T1 on the market with out them "selling the family jewels"(this is much of the reason why T4 prototypes are not common on the market.)

I do however think in the future it will be better for the MPC system to be prototype based like all other items in the game.