More likely they verified that there is no imbalance therefore this is a non issue and they do not care.

What color the faction is depends on how you define the color of a faction. I personally tend to designate each faction with the color of the stripes that decorate the buildings and the structures on the sides of the mortorroads. Thelodica uses goldish yellow colored stripes as decorations.

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well thats flawed logic isnt it.  vanity items have no 'use' and just for looks.

and if you think that noone would use it, then you've never had to keep an island scouted 24/7

Live on a beta island and your attitude would change very quickly.

I love how CIR, the biggest corp in Perpetuum, is proposing an idea to make their complete dominance of a beta island that much easier...

Quit your *** and drop a few people off the strip miner train for scouting. Should be easy enough.

My account is over 30 days, and what if your high-value recycling skill is over 6.

It's not a whine, nor is it a 'small' amount of EP involved with a complexity 4 extension. The volume of T2 and above items being recycled would in no way justify 20,000 EP for level 7 High-grade refining.

And, like I said, PVP/beta corps won't really have the option of not producing, but your also not producing for the market and have your own supply of epitron in any case.

Edit: But I do approve of the T1 change to this as well as the CT change. As well as the relation change of course.

Um. Is it just me, or is anyone else going to not make any T1 epi based items for the next month? Probably an option for independant producers, but not so much for pvp corps.

The side effect of this will of course be that recycling will also no longer give you any espitium. For indy players that have put EP into this, can we have a refund?

For the first 30 days you can both add and subtract extension levels in your Agent Profile. The limitation to this is that you won't be able to jump back and forth between full-fledged combat and industry specialization every minute, and that taking any extension to level 6 will freeze it perpetually. There will be an option for a one time attribute reset in this first period as well, most probably via running a trimmed version of the character creator again.

This is a great place to post screenies:

http://massively.joystiq.com/category/one-shots/

I can tell you all, the new mission locations look moar spectacular, than anything in Perpetuum so far.

Hauling ore during a mining op can be done continually, so there's ways to mitigate that; not saying it isn't a pain, but it can be avoided.

After seeing 30 + lithus's rolling out of Tellesis however, it does become apparent that there are corps out there needing to move 10 of thousands of U's of material. Now that is something that can't be easily worked around.

I'm going to say that the next generation of bots should have a dedicated hauler, something large, very slow, and difficult to defend. But capable of moving something like 2400U's at a time. There could also be a larger but more tactical hauler following in the 3x capacity line of 720U's with a slower speed than the lithus.

If a bot comes out that is faster with more cargo than a lithus, that will make it obesolete. If it's going to have similar specs then it would need to be much more difficult to drive, so that the lithus would still be viable. Meaning the EP requirement would have to be large enough that the time it takes to drive the 720U bot is so long that it's desirable to use the lithus; something like 3 months of EP, in addition to Indy 10. That sounds like alot, but recall that it's 45 days of EP to get from Indy 9 to 10 simply to pick up a couple slots in the Riveler MK II.

On the other hand, the dedicated hauler can be less EP intensive, as it doesn't have a comparable bot; and would essentially become the base model of cargo bots; Think semi-truck vs cargo van (sequar) or 1/2 ton uHaul (Lithus) that we have now.

Found a way to cut the operative memory use of the 3d engine in half. This will also deploy with tomorrows patch and should help some more with the memory issues.