yay! coming back

with current terraforming people will eventually leave perp... like me

Pretty much this.  Robots are for kids, real 'men' call their robots 'mechs or Real Observation Battle Observation Transmogrify Suits so their kids won't play the same game as them.  Perp needs rebranding(as part of a total reboot).

Yeah, I'm finding little motivation to renew my subs.  I built a neutral beta outpost hoping that it might encourage a few people to get out of their bunkers and poke around a little... now I know that the only real outcome for the neutral oupost idea is a powerblock destroying it.

The only way this game will ever grow again is if it is relaunched.  The corrent olde guarde players just bore, troll or grief everyone new who comes in(mainly bore).

There is no feeling of progression because there is nothing to progress to; the end game content is already nailed down by a select few Lords of Nia(a hilarious though). 

Gamma islands cemented this utterly; I've toured quite a few of the Mordor Forts that exist and was so massivly unimpressed by the ease at which they preserve security I dcided to build an open one of my own in the hope that the non-epeen players would come and play... I got a few longer term players and the rest newbies. 

Wipe and relaunch with an engine update and a tie in to another MMO or cash out and start a new game.

Sidenote: I have tried to bring a mass of robot game fans into perp from games like MWO, MW:LL, Mektek, and a swathe of Asian Robot games... they all read the forums and decided not to bother.  Wipe relaunch... Perp needs an update to its player base.

Also, if there was no erosion on Nia then shouldn't the entire surface be igneous rock and ash?  No erosion means no sediment and ergo no sedimentary or metamorphic rock in the planets crust aside from the small volume derived from volcanic activity. 

So, no erosion... please explain non-volcanic hills?

EDIT: magic and I don't want to nerf my terraforming don't count as reasons

It would make chemical and plasma bombs useless unless you wanted to up their damage radius significantly.  Having very high radius chemical bombs is a good thing in my opinion.  Plants are a commodity that can be a part of corp PvP.

Maybe a good time to remove wall decay and give modular walls more of a reason to exist?

Terraforming needs a nerf.  Something like a sliding 'instability index' and a requirement that all terraforming be perfome within x distance of am Outpost or a Command Relay.   

When I say 'Instability Index' I mean it's all well and good for you to build Mordor Walls but the obvious instability this would cause would make it impossible to build on or around them(so you can make a Romanesque dirt wall fort not a Mordoresque monster).  This would mean that modular walls would be more important and gates(the forcefield gate is a good idea) would be needed.

Also, making a Command Relay or Outpost radius a necissity for terraforming would make said forts a little more localized and prevent the wholesale sealing of an island.  Would also be cool to add a 'rapid degradation' function if the structure from which the land was terraformed is destroyed or removed.

Have Gamma forts, but let's make it a bit more tense.  Some of the player built structures are breath taking in their impregnability.. and it's irritating.

Player built intersteller energy transfer stations: you build one and the Alpha Islands become Beta Islands for you.

Also increase the animosity between the core factions: why do we have happy friendly love in atitudes? There's no World Trade Organization or soft power on Nia... bring on the warzone!

Though it does appear to be a better system that is still through the eyes of a vet player: that system would still require specilization and hence a knowledge of the games mechanics.  It may not actually make a difference to layer progression in the end.