Copine Callmeknau wrote:

Hang on, what's all this talk of plasma drops being nerfed for new players?
I consider myself a new player, barely 2 months old and I've found my income has DOUBLED since the patch...

Taken from http://www.perpetuum-online.com/Changelog:2011-08-25

Change: Rebalanced NPC plasma drops: the set amount of plasma in loot now follows more closely the time it takes to kill a specific NPC.

Means some fast to kill high tier NPC drob less Plasma then before (EW-lights and EW-Mech NPC are effected most espezialy if they drob/use LWF).

But in the same patch random-spawns are included which are fun and lucrativ .

Annihilator wrote:

nope
if you can get one and drive one - and afford to lose it - nothing speaks against using one.
question is: do you have access to one as trial?

I see them available but I cant afford it.  Im just planning my ep around using an assault with medium weapons.  In the other game I flew battlecruisers primarily (cyclone being my favorite) so Im trying to find something similar

I have no problem doing this on beta... the problem is I have to use a Sequer, not my combat bot for a combat reward.

Try to eat different types of kernals: observer -> not observer -> observer -> not observer and so on. It seems that progress will be faster.

More mass means that the fittings have less impact on the final speed.

Edit: an empty bot misses the point of having greater mass, but that there shows its' better, heavier but with the same top speed means it has the ability to carry 'more' with less impact to speed.

Syndic wrote:

Purgatory wrote:

I don't know what observers you're talking about, the ones i've seen are like this. They either die and don't respawn, or they die and respawn once, or sometimes, they will die and respawn an extra time. I had a superior observer spawn 50m from me, on my head.

I'm talking about bugged observers that you continually kill for 20+ times with instant-respawns after death. Broken mechanic is broken, but to be honest this feels intended to satisfy the ADD crowd that can't be arsed to grind kernels. Bugs of this magnitude are usually fixed instantly, we're on day 6 after it's been reported.

At least some of us will have plenty of observer-kernels to insta-aquire whatever new modules are added in the game.

Dude what are you smoking? Either you're talking bullshit or you (and your corp) is the only one using/knowing of this exploit(?). I've hunted Observers since i started playing ... and it happened only 2 times that another GO spawned the moment i killed one. One more ... not 5, not 20! Hardly a broken mechanic. Have a look at the prices for GO kernels ... higher than ever before. Obviously the market isn't flooded with them.
Do i have to remind you that it was easier to farm them in past? Hint: fixed spawning and artifact scanning mechanisms in terms of observers.

Oh CIR has its research already completed ?? Of course AC should take observers out of game now. CIR = happy = all happy? No.

Afraid of large gangs coming for you in T4 fitted Mechs soon?

I have seen better graphics on 15 year old games.

Copine Callmeknau wrote:

Yeh I don't know what you're doing wrong, I farm t3L and T3A no problems in my arbalest, not even been playing for a month.

Did you earn all your nic by your self and buy your bt and all its fittings or did people along the way help you. The u derlying issue seems to be the solo pve experience. Yes yes we all know its an mmo, but no where in the definition of mmo does it say you need to play as a group.. people who stay solo are experiencing issues, not those players who join the perpetuum version of goonswarm.

From the throttled logins, comes talk of how players should be compensated.  The devs, I believe, have stated adding subscription time to match the time lost.  I'd go for a increment in EP myself, but it makes me wonder what other fun we can have with dev compensation.

So, how about a companion bot called "Hilmar", made by CCP Corp.  It has no purpose other than to occassionally accept NIC from you.  Every once in awhile, it asks for a big jump in NIC and then makes for the nearest cliff and jumps off, wrecking itself while chatting about this is what you really want.