Arkhes will never disappear as long as they are the perfect scout and can kill things for free.

so things like inkart squads will be a joke, this goes to all of you who say more pvp and yet roam all day un pus*y a$$ fast bots"luke ichigo,reefpirare ect...list goes on..." so lets wait bit more

Definitely like to see an arkhe speed nerf. There is no reason for 100kph+ arkhes.

Cutting off assignments at +1 of their standing level is one way get people moving forward. However, I would like to see it done slightly differently. Once that +1 rep is reached, the reward starts degrading at each +0.01 rep by 10% until eventually giving nothing, much like how the reputation rewards do. This way the is no way to get "stuck"

The kernal thing is tricky because true noobs don't have an easy time of it. My advise is to make the price of kernals scale much more. Make moving on to stronger mobs a sound choice financially. Right now, I can make far more money farming r1s than r5s, even with selling the occasional t4 loot, which is just crazy.

Its all relative remember. Having beta farming be extremely profitable is the best change that can come, because its pretty quiet out there. If Alpha stay as profitable as it is, you run the risk of Beta forever being a glorified arena, which is the situation currently.

Im pretty sure it should be scarey if 10 players attack 1 no matter what bot they choose to use.....

However, I believe some incentive NOT to use Arkhes in PvP should be implemented. If it is nerfing the Arkhes, or some other means I am all for it.

However, I am going to disagree on another issue you bring up regarding the Kernals. Quite Simply, the reason low lvl Kernals are worth so much in relation to higher is because so many more ppl need them to make the gear that is relevant to what people are using RIGHT NOW. Its just a demand issue. As people get higher in production skills and robot skills, demand for low lvl kernals will diminish and demand for high lvl kernals will increase. As the demand rises, so will the prices.

Incorrect. The reason low lvl kernels are worth so much more in relation to higher is because of the price set by the NPC buy orders. Farming low level kernels will never stop being the fastest way to make NIC because there will always be NPC buy orders for them. Player buy orders are usually lower than the NPC buy order. Even if a player really wants kernels and is willing to pay a premium price, they will not be able to give away their NIC forever. NPC's do not have that problem.

I'm quite confident that there are players right now with hundreds of millions of NIC, simply because they have been farming kernels and making 4-5 million NIC per hour, since launch. This needs to be fixed now, or the economy will be destroyed before we are 6 months along.

Somehow I feel we've been here before...

I was going to respond to each point but I think there is a basic issue here that is harder to cure.

Reducing the effectiveness of the starter bot blocks new players from participating in PVP.

That's not a solution, I know, but any changes to the starter bot needs to continue to allow new players to participate or you may as well just stop accepting new subscriptions.

I'm absolutely against the timed and/or cost idea. It was brought up before and its just too intrusive for the game to make you wait before you can play again and its totally feasible for a player to not have enough NIC to afford another starter bot, making the entire game unplayable.

You could limit how many skill levels can be used by the starter bot, for instance even if you have Nav 10 it will only go faster up to Nav 3. While you could do this, I can see this being an issue later on in the game when players with really advanced skills are able to defeat heavy mechs using castels, and the calls for capping that start. Its a very very slippery slope. This goes for limiting the armamnets too; since again a castel with tier 10 weapons and a driver with 400k EP is going to mop up bots.

I really do understand there is currently an imbalance in cost vs performance for the Arkhe, I get it.

And I really wish that I could think of a solution instead of just saying this or that won't work, but I think only time can fix this.

Really the game is only 1 month old and there is already a seperate noob classification?

For those players that came all the way through beta testing and signed up for EA you've lost sight of what being new to the game means.

I'm not calling for the game to coddle new players, but you also can't ask to impose changes that ruin the starting experience just because you are already past it.

This game is all about PVP and that is what is going to attract people to it, its freak'n bot on bot action after all. Maybe your trying to set an entrance exam, if noobs can't struggle through a crappy start then they fail and you don't want them here anyway. Personally I would like to see more players, even bad players make good targets, and with more players we'll get more content.

Awesome Neoxx! The whole post rocks, Any of this would solve a whole bunch of problems including the two or three that are argued about most.