Ok Lets STEAM hit but be ready if the EP GAP will lose ton of people and implement,

3 EP/min to 500 k EP > 129 600 /month (vs ~43 000) so 4 month  (vs 11,6 month)
2 EP/min to 1 m EP    > 86 400 /month (vs ~43 000) so  6 month  (vs 11,6 month)
1 EP/min after                                                             10 total          23 total

Not a big deal...

I am not with EP GAP I would like more player as you all. (And I know Perpetuum is a very good game already. But who came and leave dont, or dont liek that type of game)

Jasdemi wrote:

Inda wrote:

Ok Lets STEAM hit but be ready if the EP GAP will lose ton of people and implement,

3 EP/min to 500 k EP > 129 600 /month (vs ~43 000) so 4 month  (vs 11,6 month)
2 EP/min to 1 m EP    > 86 400 /month (vs ~43 000) so  6 month  (vs 11,6 month)
1 EP/min after                                                             10 total          23 total

Not a big deal...

I am not with EP GAP I would like more player as you all. (And I know Perpetuum is a very good game already. But who came and leave dont, or dont liek that type of game)

+1

Ya that will help my alt alot doit doit xD

Srsly, such ideas only help if there will be a way to limit it for newbies only - with IP matching etc etc. Otherwise, our oldies will just quickly level-up some alts for special roles.

we had this multible times and, but i do it again.

- new players can catch up in a resonable amount of time!

The time it would take to get there is to long atm. And I'm afraid more would leave then stay with the current system.

- this is a game of time based progression. you cant reset it. thats against the core gameplay and will break the thrust in the devs.

We shouldn't reset anything. And the suggestions that has been brought up here wouldn't brake anything. The only thing it would do is give new players alittle more EP then us older players got at the same time. I could care less about this as long as it brings new players to the game. And even old timers as Inda and Jasdemi things beyond their precious EP, and looks for what could benefit the game in the long run. And in my eyes I would apploud the devs for doing something like this. Admitting that they did wrong in this case, and now look for a system that pleases both new and old players, and makes the game take off into a new brighter future. Hopefully.

- eve is running 10 years and ppl still join the game. try to catch up there. the gap in eve is way harder then in perp and its no issue there.

As I said before. EVE don't have to change *** cause they already have a 600k playerbase. That doesn't make the actuall leveling system any good.

- you need some patience in these kind of games anyway. that alone will block out a lot players. even eve is no multi million player community (think they are at a few 100k). ppl that dont have that patience will not stay anyway. they might stay a month longer if you give them more goodies, but once the goodies run out then these kind of ppl will be gone anyway. you you dont solve the problem you only prolong the problem.

Agree that you need patience, but things can be put in to ease that for some people. Why not do it if it would lead to them staying with the game longer?

- the only thing you will lose with a reset wil be most of the few vets that are still here.

Again. Shouldn't be a reset. Even though I personally could live with it, and so prolly some other vets as well. But again, I don't think a full reset is the solution.

- vets are not a "problem". its often the other way around. they help new players a lot, just as you saw at the post in this topic from a new player.

Nope. They aren't a problem. What is a problem is the system that they choose to use to "level" in this game. Most vets and peeps in Perp are some rly cool cats. No doubt about that.

there is no gain with a ep reset or closing gap mechanic. it might look as a solution in short term, but it will change nothing on the long term and only make things worse. not if you dont change the core game with ep/min.

Here I personally think otherwise. As I've said several times in this thread. Why not give something like this a shot? Nothing bad can come from it. We would be back to square one IF more peeps don't show up.

Zort

Don't waste your time, Devs are never going to close EP gap, players get enough EP to start the game and have fun.
The Gap is game knowledge and PVP skill. You can specialize and catch up easily. No 'I want it now crowd' will ever like perpetuum in the long term anyways.

Why not give every player 100B Nic too, that will make them stay.

You don't 'gift' players stuff, because you can't buy players. They either like the game or they don't.

If players don't like your game then you improve it by changing mechanics.

Your idea of changing the EP per minute mechanic is valid way to address what you see as an issue in the game, just know that it's the BASE concept of the game, and you're going to have to work very hard to come up with a replacement idea. Don't expect the Dev's to willingly just redesign the whole game on a suggestion that it needs it, but if you can actually produce a solution/concept that is better and works with the rest of the game mechanics they would probably look at it seriously. However I wouldn't expect them to redesign the game from the ground up before Steam launch.

Temporary EP boosts are gifts, not improved game mechanics.

When my cable company offered me the premium channels for 1 year at special price of $50 I took it, and after the year I told them I was going to cancel if they didn't extend it, which they did because they didn't want to lose me.

When that EP starts dropping from 3 to 2 EP per minute, those players will feel like they are 'losing' something, it's human nature.

1 time incentives may be a way to entice people to a dying game, but the whole concept of GAP is based on Themepark games with level caps and instant PVP fixed sized battle games like DOTA.

Most of the new-players I interacted with that came in-mass to PO were vet resistant and this only drove to their in-game problems to be exaggerated.

Zortarg Calltar wrote:

- new players can catch up in a resonable amount of time!

Stuff

They can't or won't, otherwise there would be actually some people and corps playing this game instead of 10-20 guys multiboxing a bunch of accounts.

3 years of burying head in sand, pretending everyone in the world wants to play PO and Steam will fix everything is NOT a solution.

What's the most common excuse people have against playing EVE? Don't want to be forever behind. And you think they'll come play a budget-version of EVE so 10-20 of us can kick them around like used condoms? Wake up pls.