1)  Spell checking is tough with many browsers and with a lot of smart phones - let alone cross-language constraints on this issue.  If you understand what they are communicating, cut some slack.  Grammar has rules but in international settings, the potential of second language in-use should be given some slack on how they operate and don't assume others are communicating in their native tongue.

It's not like the "r u rdy 4 pwnz time 2nite" - that shows someone who understands the words but isn't even willing to TRY and make it comprehensible to anyone that doesn't speak, read and write the language fully.  "Lazy elitist prick" comes to mind when I see this type of "texting".

2) agreed.

3) "Live chat" systems have issues too.  That's what they are using with the private conversations right now.  As loads increase, availability will decrease and you have a lot of folks that will do nothing but hound the GM's with trivial questions that could be looked up in seconds using the on-line help system.

We see this hourly in the help channel as questions are asked continuously that checking the help by a click of a button would find the answers - with far more accuracy and clarity than is given by other players in discussions.

4) agreed.  This would be better served with a guide that outlines "how to" than by upping NPC prices.

The commie comments don't fit.

It's tribal/clan society where players team up and operate based upon specific goals of the group.  That isn't communism, that's getting someone else to help cover your *** and exchange things of value - among friendlies.

As for the market, it does need fixing being as it hurts getting new players into the game.

This "vet" attitude of "join a corp immediately" doesn't float.  You will want to join one but the RIGHT one, not any corp that will have you.  Different groups have different personalities and what they find or don't find acceptable.  Try swearing a bit in some corporations and you'll get booted - others? Every other word.

One of the worst things in EVE are those that sit in NPC corporations.  Alts there can work but players staying there - few of them stick around.  Worse still is joining a BAD FIT corporation - those players don't last even as long as the ones that stay in the NPC corporations. 

Being as this game is quite PvP centric - the idea of "corp hopping"... spies, thieves, etc.  Not a good deal so shopping carefully for a right fit will be important because a bad fit will make the game look lame as the community then appears "too rude, too sissy like, too lame, too PvP focused, too PvE focused ..."

This market situation is the problem of many "young" games and games in the process of collapsing. 

People draw inside their cliques and any type of interaction beyond that group is reduced.  To turn it around will require the older corporations to stop thinking insular and start thinking growth wise by trading more.  The ability to shop and see things on a market is valuable to new players.  NOT seeing that can and will drive many away.  "Dead game" style.

1) Contracts - Private style: good idea.

2) Shared LOS - "possibly".  Require target painting and some kind of NEXUS skill.  At that point, it could show up but it should require specialized skill training and fitting(s) to pull it off.  Not a "generic" ability to pass on such high-valued intel.  This really is high-value and it should have a cost associated with it.

3) Pining maps: Not so hot.  Handy for larger gangs, not so handy for others and if this were here, what need for shared LOS?  Ping the radar.

4)  Moving deposits: I like it.  SWG had that.  EVE didn't.  Dynamic = good.  Static = bad - more changing always helps keep things interesting.  The beta stuff means little to me at this point but I don't think "knowing the spawn points" is a good thing.  That makes for lazy empire control and game play in general.  Hell, make areas into regions where *ALL* spawns (NPC as well) move around.

5) Waypoint management - a good idea.  naming, renaming, setting, etc...  The right-click on map part, I'm not overly thrilled about - it gets to easy to "get a map" and then plug in the points someone gives you (spawn locations, etc...) -- I don't think this needs to be made overly easy vs going out there yourself.

6) If there exists a way to trade scans, then expanding it to other methods works.

7)  No clue on that mech.

8)  Setting standings is a good idea.  Allow corporations to establish friends and enemies that are clearly viewable across as many aspects of the game as possible.

9)  sure.  A fix to a bug like banning someone from a channel - it's probably on their list already.

10) ...  I use missiles so I see what you're talking about and yes, they can get to 100% hit rate.  Toning them down a bit would be rough but giving special mods, or the like, that just mess with missiles?  That I'm not in favor of.  Too much emphasis on 1 weapon system in such a fashion.  If they are that OP in PvP then they should have something adjusted but not some special module just to counter this 1 weapon.

11)  Area shield "fort" - Too many ways this could prove ugly.  short ranged mechs inside a shield waiting...  Battles should be in the open across the country.  Not hunkered down in a shield like this but rolling battles.

12)  Artillery... Tough one.  If it can shoot while moving, you have issues - why bring long ranged mechs when these things REALLY have the range?  If it can't shoot while moving, it's a defensive gun that can nail you before you can get close.  If it has to setup to start shooting, how do you get it to a battle that is defended by them?  yada... yada... yada.  Perhaps the devs can come up with something.

13)  On accumulator:  A bit more granular would be good.  Perhaps between 35% and 50% it operates more efficiently than above 50% as well as below that.  As you get closer to the lowest, it works a bit better...

1) The only items showing more sell orders are T1 items.  Most of the T2 & T3 stuff is gone.  T4's last due to high costs so few are able to afford many of these yet high-demand items are also disappearing.

2)  New players are the cause of this.

3) Many of the new players are from EVE and are joining other new players from EVE but some are finding their ways into existing corporations as well.
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1> There are TONS of spawns.  The problem is that you have to navigate back to them and everyone wants to hunt as close to the main-bases as they can.  As such, the more distant ones still aren't being hunted much.

A major problem here is the terrain.  Walking around mountains and around valleys...  Not too bad if you can plan on it yet many mountains and valley paths, where you need to go into them, lead to dead ends so you run around and around trying to find a path that works.

--- Some barricades need removal to provide more pathways - fewer dead-ends.

2>  Put highways between the outposts and terminals on the islands.  The long run versions would allow folks to step out anywhere along the path making faster transport between locations.  This would also make possible getting to more distant spawn points more readily - spreading out the hunters.

Not "instant gratification" with teleports at every single location but enable faster, direct movement where the players can exit the roadway at any point.

3> Sorry but I've yet to play any MMO where the NPC's had to follow the rules the players do.  Some things we just have to put up with.

In case you didn't realize it - 'fair market' would be based upon raw material extraction rates and the prices of those raw materials plus a bit.

Without knowing how much material someone extracts, there's no way to tell comparing the market and checking the market first is the best way to find out info.

Example:  20k per minute extraction rate would be 1.2 million units per hour - so on and so forth.

Another way to look at it - check out the market on reactor plasma - there are sell orders up for more than the infinite buy orders.  New folks often have no clue what the hell they are doing and there were few orders for raw materials up when I checked.

No it's not a waste of time asking after such information and the comments here show it wasn't.

As for that "30% profit" gig - that's based upon someone who used a 50% baseline CT, with the bare minimum skills to make 1 run with 1 cycle.  ANY skills beyond "can make 1" would lower the costs.

PS: What vets "could" do and what they tend to do are usually way the hell out of line with each other.  Most don't think enough about low end, being more concerned "elsewhere".  There's nothing uncommon about this in any game with crafting - from M59 days up through current game releases.

First; You're talking farming a location, not doing missions.  "Everyone knows" doing missions, outside of transport missions, is not worth it.

Even so - 10 people trying the same spawn location will kill it and you had several hundred new players show up within a few days. With a little luck, this will become a far more normal condition as the game grows.

Now picture 10 miners trying to do missions...  Forget it.

50 transport runners?  Zero competition for the resources, zero risk  on your mech, etc...  You could literally have 5000 transport runners all making exactly the same income but NOT any other type of mission runners.

Even with "farming" combat mission sites, you use ammo so have costs associated with these that you don't have with others.

PS: "1 mill an hour" - around half the income of an equivalent transport runner - with no costs and no risks doing them.

I'm also new but I am not new to sandboxes - like many around here, I'm from EVE but I'm also spent my time in EVE helping train new players - for over a year and a half, seeing roughly 300 or so new faces every month.  One thing I can tell you about new players is how they focus or don't focus on their careers based upon their introduction to the game.

Who chooses to stay or go, generally do so within the first couple of weeks and having the top source of income being running circles between bases is not exciting nor all that interesting to new players.  (Nor is shooting rocks with lasers for many in EVE - few join that game looking to be miners yet that profession is a healthy portion of the population.)

In EVE I tend to recommend them getting into mission running - combat missions - at the start.  This gets  them thinking and focusing on doing and taking damage.  Not on climbing into an industrial to make enough to operate and spending their time trying to "build up capital" in a non-combat fashion.

For industrialist focused players, the current layout is awesome.  For those that wish to find more combat oriented play later - PvE or PvP - income based upon combat is a superior incentive to keep pushing in those directions instead of focusing on other "peripheral" areas of a game that won't necessarily lead them to where many would like to see them going.

Similar to EVE; this game is earn in PvE, spend in PvP.  Focusing them AWAY from combat early on won't attract nor keep those who will be spending on replacements and no replacements = market glut which is bad for industrialist types as well.

As such, an adjustment that favors increased income for combat early on will have them working nav, fittings, weapons, defenses, so on and so forth - not industrial mechs and figuring out how quickly they can get between teleports, terminals and outposts without getting shot at.

"Balanced" more - not necessarily favoring but hearing "been playing 3 days and making 1.5-2 mill/hr"... That's a hell of a lot more than someone struggling to do T2/T3L's is going to make and "teaming up" - that reduces the income they might make trying combat so let's run circles between safe-bases...

Not good.

tl;dr: If you want to see more PvP players then get them income using weapons and being shot at from the start.  Not "wasting days" running circles between safe bases, in stripped down mechs, while training non-combat oriented skills as the best income option - balance it out better.

I don't have much info on it but...

If you hunt some of the Drones out in the fields, you will find Drone Kernels that drop.  Take them into the Terminal, right-click and "research".  That will teach you how to make some things.  It's percentage based - 100% means you can make that item.  Less than 100% means you still need to learn how to make it, so you need more Kernels.

It seems to automatically advance for a type as you learn.  So you learn basic ammo, then slightly more advanced versions/variations as you keep working that type of Kernel.

There's also some info on how to scan for "artifacts" that you may wish to look up.  And, of course, mining and refining to get the materials.

If/when you decide to subscribe, you can gain access to the market fully and find things to buy and work with as well.