Yeah Ville, I guess you're right. I should have known better than to post in a public thread, there's quite a few limp wrists that take these internet robots far too seriously. They should offer counselling services when you register for forums, it would probably benefit a lot to learn how to cope with losses.

Lemon, what'd you learn about flaunting? You want your epeen to be nerfed too?

You certainly sound pretty bitter about losing those pixels by what you just said. I gave an unbiased view on the situation as neither being on 62's side, nor yours. Your fit didn't own up to the situation like Hunter is creating a clamour about or how it should have, just because it's a heavy. It's funny though how he had nothing to do with what went on, yet because he's on your 'side' of the fence it's ok. You're right, it's pixels. You lost them because you didn't fit right and went out in something expensive without proper backup. If that makes you mad, then don't do it again. Just don't go snap at people on a public forum because you're embarrased by what happened and were used as an example in a thread. But hey, go have more sex and try brag about it on a video game forum. I'm sure after being demasculated as you were after that fight,  boinking was about the only way to get some of those virility points back. lol

Yeah, jumping in to alpha someone at a gate would be cheap. Maybe have a short term combat timer and long term. Both enabled when you attacked. The short term would be to prevent people from alpha'ing and then jumping and then jumping back in. The long term would prevent people from flagging and running off to alpha.

My wasp had more HP than that gropho, it's no surprise he got canned by a squad of that size. Hell, I probably could have taken him down a sizeable amount in my assault and finished him with my explosion. lol   

I never said it was a bug, it just seemed like odd logic to me. Which is why I explained why I figured they changed it. But I quess we wont know the why unless they say.

This will just make observer kernels even more valuable I'd think. But this is also kind of pivotal on how much research you get out of elite kernels as compared to observers. Either way, I still feel sorry for indy guys who have to pay combat chars to find these.

o.O

I think the problem that most people are looking at is that of content being synonymous with PvE, which it isn't. Content can pertain to really any aspect of the game and it's those facets that PO seems to lack right now. The only difference in character progression in PO from day 1 to somewhere down the road is basically what tier of gear and how heavy a bot you can roll. There's not very many things to achieve beyond that basic principal of what tier you're packing. For a PvP centric game as people put it, the goals to progress in are highly involved in a predefined path that you don't get to choose. Sure you can go cap a beta OP, but for what? So you're closer to noralgis and epi so that you can get those bots quicker? What happens when you've sat on beta for a while, what do you hope to achieve aside a surplus of t4? There's not a lot to really put forth as a tangible goal within PO's parameters. You can see all there is to see fairly quickly and it's that context that burns people out quickly.

Sure you can PvP and I'd like to think that's about the only fun thing to do really. But it's about all we're offered in terms of lasting content. There's no point to the wars in PO aside the ego's. I really don't think anyone here is fighting aside to womp their mouthy adversaries. Not even all the beta land is taken, there's no point to having it, which lends itself to showing that owning beta land is quite unimportant. You can launch ops from alpha just as easily from beta, the only difference is how close you are to more lucrative mining and npc's, which would seem like a moot point to PvPer's, but ironically is not. Right now the flow of the game seems to be a perpetual loop, the PvE aspect fuels the PvP by providing the tech and bots. You go out and blow each other up. Then you turn back to PvE to farm more to go blow each other up again. While it can be fun, where's the actual purpose? When's the last time someone lost territory to a land grab? Where's the politics? Everyone basically sits around and farms while they're not pvp'ing. When they do PvP it's typically a roam that serves no purpose other than to just blow up the enemy. There's no greater loss other than pride, which in turn just makes the ego's flare and more fights happen. Which again is fun for most, but what's the point.

The game really needs some more infrastructure. We need reasons to go to war other than to just go shoot *** because we're tired of PvE content/farming. ( which happens fairly quick with how little depth there is in the current content )

I didn't realize you were referring to just one point as opposed to just the general whining on the forums about it. Also, I wasn't comparing real life to video games, there's quite the disconnect there. I was comparing situations involving people's actions considering that this is a game played by people.

This isn't about game A vs game b, or how people shuffle in to different brackets. Here we’re looking at people who do fit in to the “I like PO” bracket. Obviously no one is being forced to play PO and that's not really a point to expand upon and it would be a poor choice for a dev to ever say like it or lump it. The point to expand upon is how to keep players that like this game, interested, and you can't really pin the solution on saying that the players need to find their own way to keep themselves amused. The expansion and appeal of a sandbox game is by how much you can do in it, which inherently caters to a very diverse selection of players if done right. Sandbox games are called such because of their preset style of being able to loosely do as you please. But that's directly related to what systems you have to work with in the first place.

When you develop a platform, here being a 'sandbox' game, you need to provide tools/systems ( content ) to keep people on your platform. The success of your platform is pivotal on the content you provide for people to interact with and how they can interact with it. There can be many off shoots and player driven events based off these tools, but we can’t look past the point that these tools initially have to come from the developers. From people I know that have quit and the general postings on the forums here, people aren't leaving because PO is fatally flawed, unstable, buggy, horribly developed, stupid in nature; it's because people are getting bored and not seeing much to do in this game with the current content. Look at the topic count in the feature discussion forum, it's the largest sub-forum in these forums for a reason. People are starved for content, so much, that they're literally throwing piles of ideas at the dev's to try and get them to add something interesting in one respect or another. When people are talking more about what should be in a game as opposed to what is in a game, that just may be a hint that there's a shortfall with the onus being on the developers. Which is exactly the reason why we post all this stuff, we want the developers to know what’s up and what we’d like to see more or less of.

Joining a corp shouldnt be a solution to the games shortcomings. If this is a sandbox game it should cater to all walks of players, but it doesn't. Right now, PO is little more than a PvP game. Where's the corps dedicated to PvE? They don't exist because the PvE content right now is lacking. You could join an indy corp, but that basically only fuels PvP. There's little you can do in this game that doesn't somehow relate to the war machine. The tools to really be able to call this game a sandbox are missing right now, terraforming is a big one. So yeah, unless you like PvP, PO is not a good game for you. If you do like PvP well, join a corp and get stuck in, because that's about all there is to do in this game that has lasting replayability.

I don't think this would happen. When they added extra islands not too long ago, they did so to support the growing population of the game, or at least in anticipation of it. The problem isn't the islands and their stature, it's the lack of players in the game to fill them. To repurpose them would only be a temporary solution. Eventually they'd need more again if they did get more active players. But the problem remains that they made them to cater to larger crowds, but haven't perfected the bringing in of the crowds part and keeping them.