yea, actually.

check the graph troll boy do you think that suddenly P more than doubled its pop overnight for nothing?

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@Rosi - nearly everyone (probably 95% at this point) in this game is already from EVE so it's no surprise that a pop bump would be from people pissed off at EVE's blatant money grab.

Right, because when you can't attack the message (facts) attack the messenger.  Want drama? Join a corp.  The majority are run by infantile 3rd world dictator wannabes with the thinnest skin of any pasty nerds I've ever seen; and I say that having been in, and helped found, chess/RPG/AND Anime clubs in high school and have been an online PC gamer for 22 years

As for the stats, those came directly from the DEVs promoting it in General Chat and being proud that they made the list and if you actually read anything there it specifically says that the game itself has to submit stats to be included.  They don't guess, but don't let the facts bother you.

Yes the game (outside of infrequent pvp, due to resources/production time sinks being ridiculous) is boring as ***.  I still have hundreds of hours and dollars invested so I'm still watching to see what they do with it.  From the number of threads and posts talking about direction I don't think I'm alone in that. 

Yes they have the Blog.  The Blog is relatively short term and does not discuss the actual goals of what the DEVs are trying to accomplish or the direction they're going but only things they are planning to add (not Why). 

I'm glad that it says that they are adding the EC system, although having it tied only to owning an outpost or artifact scanning is a mistake (since it just adds another facet to 2 Things To Do that already exist instead of adding something totally different). 

I'm glad that they will add some more PVE assignments, but being a sandbox, offering players the tools that have been suggested many MANY times on the forums like player contracts for various things, player owned structures, etc I think would go further than what they're promising since it allows the players to do some of their own content and takes some of the burden off of them since they say themselves that the most time intensive thing to do in game is make PVE missions.

I agree with Faust's post in its entirety and Arga's point about game play.  We know the DEVs are watching the forums and I'm glad for that as well.

@Monster I would love to see your analysis

very nice.  not sure why you blacked out your fit

the other one won't load, for me at least.

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Agreed, I'd very much like to see some battle footage video recordings to go with it, especially from an eye-in-the-sky viewpoint.

2 words: Stealth Assaults.

Your island isn't nearly as locked down as you think it is

.. this goes in feature discussion .. and 45 thumbs down .. cash shops are a VERY slippery slope.  i saw it ruin lotro, i don't want to see that happen again.

1.) I didn't ask to attend

2.) is it your podcast? lol how's that prototype guy reset working out for you?

reading about how the devs dealt with the original insurance fraud out in the open on the forums was a major factor in me signing up to play the game when i was still on the fence.