So as far I was told all this NPC crusade started with nerfing beacon pits by having npcs teleporting to you or something like that.

Now the game was set in tiers of difficulty for players before all this

Alpha 1 No risk
Alpha 2 You started to encounter aggressive NPCS and you have to watch where you stand
Betas    Everything goes.  All NPCS are aggressive and players could shoot you.  If you are here it's because you are willing to die
Gamma Roaming npcs + 3 Observers, maybe not as many npcs but if they get a hold of you that's it

Many players including my self are all for risks in alpha 2's but also we combats would like to farm some npcs .... yes farm as much as DEVs might hate the idea we like some mindless pew pew.  About not having pinatas dropping a lot of stuff... well that was gamma and that is getting reset anyways

Now with gammas reset I don't see why the need to mess with NPCs maybe just disable beacons at gammas for now and reverse NPC behavior

Some people were able to farm NPCS from distance and this is another reason why DEVS change the NPCS.   Not everybody can pull this off and for sure not a new player.   Shooting from 1k m takes a lot from your DPS anyways and killing will go slow.   I personally like all tunings and short range kills are faster and ERP Tank its great.

1 week before steam release and like somebody mention that should be your main priority.  Server was acting up yesterday for instance.  I like the game but you should focus on what matters at the moment and not what you don't like from a MMO from your personal view.

, So few red mobs anymore.  Baby Jesus Crys.

I did recommend this:

http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … balancing/

right now theres no reason at all to mine anything but epi on beta.

By that logic NPCs are infinite too. So what?

Why are you only addressing half of his argument. Troll?

I think this game could use a separate area with all red NPCs, roaming everywhere, observers etc but no direct pvp. A place where PvE players could go to challenge themselves and/or grief one another.

But Alpha 2s, as the main markets, transportation centers and main pve industry terminals* are not a good place for that. A few new islands perhaps ?

* - not sure there is a need to have Facility bonuses different on Alpha 1 and 2 when both are all orange now. Then again, no real need to change it either. And I guess it does help focus the main markets.

Not sure if you've noticed but this topic has gone 7 different ways to Sunday. I think Burial was replying to Tunds troll of Azyre, with maybe a valid point.

Back on topic, since its important, orange spawns should not be in game period.

Every time someone mentions infinite minerals while completely disregarding the human factor, I'll be here.

the point is that no matter how you try to limit minerals they will always be infinite (in the space and time of the programming of this game) the only thing that can be limited with minerals is the time blocks in which you can exploit them. Once their is a good recommendation floated by someone that isn't politically motivate then we can look at it other wise the trolls will flourish.   

@ original topic there needs to be a massive overhaul of how NPC's are presented in this game making static / passive spawns is a bad idea and the knee jerking with them over the last month is a joke at best. when the Mission revamp comes the NPC's will also all need to be re oriented and re classified for better risk / reward and mission feasibility. 

Ore used to be finite AND you had to deal with roaming red NPCs. Now they've gotten rid of both of these drawbacks on alphas and given no additional consideration to betas. That was my point.

Changing the NPCs from red to orange was the first step into the right direction. The next step should be giving the NPCs a real purpose.
Add some factorys and outposts to Alpha 1 and 2, and let the NPCs "work" around those points, gather resources and transport goods between them. Change the industrial and transport assignments to revolve around these factorys and outposts.
And add some more, or at least different, combat assignment to the islands too.

And somehting about infinite resources:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gathering
"Once used, the node is temporarily exhausted for that character, but remains available to other characters."
and resources are still traded over the ingame market in GW2.

In the end, the market will regulate itself - supply and demand.

if ever, "orange" NPCs are nothing more then placeholder for a real sanbox NPC faction system, that needs more DEVs and a work intensive redesign of PvE.