**SNIP** I paid for my first month after my trial period. If I still feel like someone in an Assault bot can kill me too easily while I'm in my mech because he has 3 months more EP, why stick around?
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Your thread isn't the first, it isn't the last, and the concerns haven't been addressed at all. I have 3 accounts with 3 month subs right now that I'm barely playing for basically the same reason; and 2 of those are mining/indy to support the 1 combat guy. I posted something more angry and longer than your post without the EP buying around the 2 week mark.
Almost everyone you see against you in this thread are people who are from Early Access which means they got 20k EP on top of the 20k starting EP and now have 4 months more EP on top of that.
It's true that the only chance you have is in a big group or a very fast small roaming one (90% of pvp is this, if you don't have Nav 10 it's basically required and you will need t3 LWF at a minimum as well). The problem with this is these groups are scarce, even in the larger Beta based corps (at least they are in my experience, I already burned my respec to go blue and get Nav 10 because that's the fastest and nothing else seems to matter as much in any aspect of the game speed appears to be king.)
I've been playing just under a month and we're still in exactly the same boat. It's true that the EP spread won't matter as much in a year or whatever, but right now it's horrendous and definitely keeping the population down.
I don't really think that buying EP is a good idea, but maybe a skill that increased the rate at which you gain it or something like that would help, yes they would have access too but at least you'd be able to specialize in something faster.
A paid respec/rename mechanism would be nice, maybe I don't want that 2nd miner any more for whatever reason and I'd like him to be for prototyping or market playing; that should be an option to change paths but still have a penalty for doing so instead of being stuck with an account that's not played and will stop getting sub money.