my personl veiw on how the research system should have been is simple

1. you obtain a kernal the kernal is worth so many possable research points if you succed in useing it. these reserch points you obtain on a successfull reserch goes into a pool just like EP you can then use these points to progress what ever item you wish to progress

example you want to learn to make small auto cannons you put your points into it same as you do extentions untill you max out the reserch to t4 for that praticular item.

would not be hard to implement a system as this would simple need to decide how many points each item and tier would cost etc

for somebody to max out every single item would still require just as many kernals you would just be able to decide what items you got when this would allow corps and solo players to do t4 items of there choseing.

you do have a point i dont think it would kill the market but you do have good point on the research with the diffuculty of research people would take the easy road hmm is a hard problem to solve think the only thing that would solve it is more people doing manufactureing is all i can think of sooner or later the corps will be so over stocked people will start havieng free lines to make stuff to sell.

the biggest problem with market is that the game is so small that everyone has easy access to the main hubs to buy and sell this means your enenmy does if the game was say 20 times bigger were not everyone is buying and selling at the same 3 term selling on the market would be a good thing

but with as small as the current game size is not to mention pop size its just not feesable or a good idea.

the only solution i could see would be for the game itself to sell all mods on the market at 1.5 the price of the current cost to build them with avg skills or even 2x the price of current build cost then the mods would be avaliable just at inflated prices

i would also say put the t3 and t4 npc sold mods only avaliable from beta outposts this would make them avaliable to everyone all the time < at higher prices then player made ones> but also put a risk to obtaining them

this would't be any diffrent then npc sold light bots and ammo still room for profit and would give new players and smaller corps at least some chance at haveing t4 fit bots

fully agree with you there

why not just change way outposts work make them conquerable allow a corp to control the outpost and if you dont have good relations with said corp you dont get access to the outpost cant dock shop repair nothing and if you want accsess you have  take the outpost away from them.

then charge operating cost to maintain the outpost such as mineral need deposited to run repair shop etc as well as power and other things needed and then charge money as well cause outpost doesnt run itself somebody has to pay the labor so

if would do this then corps would be sinking minerals and money into there outposts this removes stuff from game and gives ya a reason to fight cause if you want to dock at an outpost and not have to haul your crap back to alpha better fight for it.

they have all the trials gimped to prevent cheating all tho dont think the dev even know the extent of it

example dev tried to have private convo with me and learned that even a developer cant talk to a trial account unless your in a squad with them.

they are work arounds tho that i found if you want to put nic on a trail account its not hard there is a way  me posting it will prob get it blocked as well.

this has worked for me not saying it works all the time.

log onto your main account buy a field container deploy out of station i didt move at this point but dont think moveing matters as long as your with in range of the term and can enter it. log on trial account and you should be able to access the container with a trial.

now i did testing and out in the field trials cant access a field container but if you are right at the term as in you can click the button to enter then a trial can acces the container.

once you have the container up and your trial can open it simple drop in few thousand reactor plasma grab it with your trial char enter station and sell it.

and you now have money to buy ammo on trial etc not that its good for much else as only npc orders are avaliable but its good way to get started with ammo if want to buy mods i would sugest just buying them on your main account then putting them in the container and tradeing them over. before ya drop the money better make sure it still works been about week since i did it last.

also dont put your trial char in a squad while doing this as it sometimes blocks them from accessing the field container something about when in squad you dont need to enter the password.

is a simple solutions to speed up traveling is already a system that says weather your in combat or not. anyone who has tried to destroy and item while in combat has seen this pop up.

if the game knows if your in combat then it would not be hard to add a mod or another extension that gives a big boost to run speed while not in combat.

this could be an expensive extension or a leg slot mod the gameplay behind it would be your not in combat all avaliable power is redistrubuted to engine allowing for greater speed and manuverablity if is an extension it can be balanced by the cost such as twice the cost of navagation or a mod that goes in leg slots were if you want faster travel you have to give up some defence.

it would not be unbalanceing or reduce risk as it would be avaliable to everyone and the effect would break the moment you are engaged in combat

just an idea as still reading these fourms

your right when eve launched it did suck in some ways in some ways it don't just like perp sucks in some ways and some it don't.

but however eve has had years to perfect it and being this game is based on the same core princpals yes there done diffrent but the core game is the same even the ui is almost ident to eve 1 to 2 years ago.  thos die hards who want to deny that are just fooling themselves If i wanted to take the time i bet i can line up the ui from this game and eve and blur out the words and anyone would have hard time telling the diffrence.

the whole point in the compareson is the eve model works and it works well is it perfect no but its a hell of alot better and alot more friendly then this games.

the whole pve of this game needs overhaul heck they desigen a paper rock scissor system

then the mission system doesnt even go along with it.  half the missions are against the one target your bot isn't desigend to fight there are very few missions to begin with and when you only have two choices one of which is your rock against paper. that system is flawed.

I don't have the ansers but something def needs worked out.

true people don't want to face the fact that this game is eve with robots and thats fine it has alot of diffrences like every encounter has ew and dem eve you don't even come across a webing ship till level 4 missions.

and even then there is a way to escape if you know what your doing perp no way to escape no way to avoid ew no options what so ever except speed and to get speed you must buy insanely expensive prototype mods cause light bots can run faster.

being run down by a mob you just killed 30 seconds ago dem so that the t3 mech your fighting can blow you up is not my idea of balanced pve fun

as for my stuff already gave it to my corp to anyone out there who reads this and wants a good corp I would truely recommend Tog there a great group of guys who will go out of there way to help you anyway they can.

ya doesn't matter what faction you pick for a mineing char there all the same when comes to that as they all use the industral line argano termis riveler etc.

anyway talk to one of the corp directors we provide your first argano fitted free as well as your first termis fitted

i actualy spent couple hours chating with dev manic or how ever his names spelled about the diffrent bots and did some testing with trial accounts and have respected my mineing toon to blue.

I must say I am loveing it so suits my play style so much better I can attack and not have to play hide and seek.

the range is about perfect with my new setup not the best but can reach out to 400m which is farther then my missles hit thanks to some tips on extensions and setups

so must say am pretty happy with my combat toon still needs work but is at least fun again.

now to reset my old combat into a miner lucky the mineing is less ep intensive so loseing the 11k ep will be bearable lol

thought i would put my 2 cents into this subject as it relates to me.

this is a very complex game for new players even old eve vets like me tend to make mistakes the 1 reset is nice but it does leave open one flaw.

that is new players don't realy know what they want to do as they dont' know the game yet.

i had a char even made 3 before realy understood what thos popups meant. i did't understand which was the vital extensions that would help my char progress the best in the direction i wanted to go spending the first 20k went all wrong.

being I did create 3 chars on the account I would have had to wait a week to delete all the chars on the account by this time the expansion launched so did't get to use my free reset in the old system.

anyhow i finaly did the reset after the patch. but now I am in the spot were the path I chose doesnt realy suit my playstyle.

this leaves me with two choices wait another month and train into another color bots as green skills dont realy cross over to yellow etc.

or do another reset which will cost me 11k ep just over 7 days of lost ep. which isn't alot when consider that it would take 667 days to  raise all needed combat electronics and eng skills to level 10 not counting the optimazation ext.

anyway the way I see it to make life easier on new players could do one of three things.

1. give new players 4 free respecs in the first 45 days the account is active this would allow them to try all 3 factions and the 4th one to make the final choice.

2. make a way new players can get on to test server is there is one and try out the diffrent extensions there not sure how this could be done maybe make chars who start on test start with 45 days worth of ep + the 20k ya start with.

3. make a small offline sim of the game that would give new players 100k of ep that can be reset as much as they like put in a simple term free mods in and robots in the market  and 4 spawns outside the term that would give them something to fight to test on.

just some thoughts as I know this type of game is hard to understand for the first time player and even some eve vets and its very time consumeing if you mess up and most people this day and age have the attention span of a fly if you tell them that sorry wait another week and you will be able to fix that mistake. most will just chose to end there sub