you get some on sub. after that its 1ep per min. you want more. go multi account. thats the only way.

I'd suggest you just to concentrate on one role and one bot. Get yourself into a Tyrannos and work your damage and support skills. You will be helpful even with low EP and useful after a month or two.

Check this picture out. It shows you the EP cost of different skills. As you can see, it's quite cheap to get extensions to 5 but leveling beyond that grows very expensive. Don't get too many skills over 5 early on(exception is advanced robot control).

the multi accout will not speed up your one pilot. but as burial said you should specialize. if you have multible accounts then you can specialize in multible fields with one agent on ech account.

if your only intrested in the combat aspect of the game then this might be not that importent. you can take one account for dps and another for ewar, or a other faction bot. well thats not what i did. i have 3 accounts. one for combat. the other two for resource gathering, support and production.

so depends what you want to do in this game.

just dont spread your ep in multible fields. you want to be of use fast, then specialize. this will bring you fast enough to one goal. you spread you ep for 2 things, then it will take double the time. thats where multi accounting comes in handy.

p.s.: you get the skils on teh start that are worth around 10k ep. then you get 20k to put whereever you want. and on sub you get another 20k ep.

that can bring you directly to a mech. or a heavy in a few weeks.
well this game has a long term skill system. if you dont like this the its not your game. similar like in eve, skill points are based on time. your wealth and progress has to be earned with your actions ingame.

Here we go again. But this IS a problem for many new peeps. Hate to say so. And it will come more peeps like him once steam hits.
But I would stick around and play the game. It's still worth it. And as they say. You can get into a heavy mech within a month.

Curious what you can not do currently, that you must have more ep to be able to do?

Edit: I suspect your inability to help your corp after 5 hours of gametime is not the 50k ep that you have, but your lack of understanding of how to use or spend the ep you have.

Crown: There was a long discussion about this here http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topic/6481/the-gap/

lol reading this thread gave me a nice little laugh

Crown .. this is a time based progression game. 40k ep is a very good head start & if you need to know hoe to spend that ep ask those who know!

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 ?

Getting multiple accounts is nice but totally un-needed. With a decent plan, you can even go combat and mining and be effective at both quite fast. Just need to think things through and weigh heavily what you want and need to raise.

+1

Honestly you should 1 free reset and each after cost ICE.  And compounding each time so at reset number 5 it would cost 4 ICE.

Yes, why not? +1

Just EP reset, no character reset though, at least once every 6-12months. Surely I guess most want it just to try different races not to just milk the system for the faction of the year, which you can do anyways with multiple accounts, yet another factor solo accounts is discredited.

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