Can you confirm if there will be paid expansions in the future?

Can you confirm if there will be paid expansions in the future?

Devs : are you going to send a newsletter to all old players to annouce them that they can play for free ?

then we will be back to see the community to play the favor of th emonth bots. corps will play very specialized fleets only and the others have to do the same to counter it. we have seen that in the past and i fear this will go way worse with this.

Burial wrote:

I think the EP boosts are well made.

From what I gather, only one can be active at a time, it's not possible to go overboard and get a million EP overnight; it wouldn't be too bad in my book either as long as ICE is gone and they actually have to work and farm for their bots and equipment.

Burial: NIC will be almost worthless without ICE, they need to put it back in one form or another it has been working so well, change the name or whatever, but there needs to be a grind option for the EP boost.

Alexander wrote:

3) Some people won't be able to drop £30 in one go for Perpetuum when it releases. They may be playing from using ICE or single month to month transactions. Anyone with less than 3 months subscription time remaining is going to need to purchase the game (3 months sub) and you should at least make this a little easier for existing players. If they have been subbed for 2 years without a break and now you're going to ask them for 3 months money up front, some people won't be able to pay it. Most will not have an issue but try and be as caring as you can. Don't get yourself a bad name for "locking people out". £30 ain't a lot of money and I certainly will be looking forward to making that purchase on Steam.

This is exactly why we're giving more than 2 weeks of a heads up so that players still missing one or two months can make their accounts eligible and not need to pay the full client price. As for the Steam related purchases, we'll be discussing them at a later time, but there won't be a separate Steam only shard for Perpetuum so if a player doesn't want to purchase the game on Steam they won't have to.

Alexander wrote:

2) Any improvement to the engine? Not in terms of appearance but performance. Perpetuum is still very much a GPU killer and while the client might be rendering a lot more things than some games perhaps adding more LOD or occlusion might not burn out a few GPU's on go live day.

Sadly the main issue with the engine is that it's not GPU but CPU limited, which is something that's only worsened by introducing extra CPU side systems. I'm trying to work on it as much as possible but without a major architectural overhaul we've pretty much reached the limits of its capabilities. We have plans to fix this but they are long term and won't be implemented for the Steam launch.

I meant FULL client file download and patching being handled by Steam

Alexander wrote:

I meant FULL client file download and patching being handled by Steam

Yes, it will happen like this. Although Steam has some random delay on updating the files, so there can be moments when you launch the client from Steam and it will update some fresh missing data from our resource.

Question about name changes: When someone changes his name, does the old one become free for registering?