After more than 400 hours in game, and 4 months of daily play I'm pretty much done for awhile.

I could write 3 pages on what's wrong with this game and what it needs but I think I can sum up most of it in 3 words:

Ridiculous.  Unmitigated.  Grind.  (It could also be rephrased as: Stop. Aping. Eve. - It's killing your game)

Cut the time it takes to do literally everything in game by 75% and watch the subs come in.  Build some real solo content.  Foster PVP and stop catering to alliances and big corps.

There is nothing going on in game.  There is no reason to log in except to spend another 8 hour shift in some ore field to keep my production for myself going and I don't really even need to do that since I'm sitting on 20+ of every kind of bot/mech I can use.

Research is ***.  Relation grinding is ***.  Travel time is ***.  Resource grinding is ***; etc.

The difference between EA player EP and new players is vast.  No gear accessibility because the grind (either for money or resources to make it yourself) makes it 10x worse (I do have access to an EA EP account and have directly compared it with my main who is 4 months old so I'm speaking from both sides here).

This whole game has less than a 1/6th of the people playing who bought Darkspore at a STEAM sale just this week (myself included) and the reasons go beyond it being a niche of a niche.

Anyway, I got COD:BLOPS/Wings of Prey\Darkspore/AI Wars all for less than the cost of a single year time code.  I plan to log in to spend EP occasionally but that's about it.

This game has an amazing concept and the underlying mechanics are for the most part solid with decent PVP balance.  Please stop *** it up.

All you have to do is look at how many trial accounts sign up and then leave.  Most don't bother giving a reason; the ones that do are nearly always the same.

o7.