At the begginnig everything looks wonderful, with lots of potential.
Perpetuum was looking like semi-close copy of EVE game technology in a new setting.
And we expected that it will move in same direction like EVE was evolving:
- adding more land mass;
- adding bigger robots;
- adding better missions with instances, like "caves", maybe scannable;
- adding player build structures for mining and land protection.
- More interesting PvE encounters were expected also, and that part to our suprise is somewhat implemented (roaming mechs, Observers and etc).
But instead, developers starts to modify economic part of the game in wrong direction. They made all T4 stuff near impossible to make... They introduced more resource troubles (like solid epriton, and 12 units plants on alpha). They cut Kernel buy orders from NPC to 1/2 and so on. All those actions were taken, while game population was not healthy growing but, decreasing.
Modifying existing stuff in a game, making it worser, or much harder to make is always a bad thing to do. Sometimes it's really needed, like in case of Light EW bots, or insurance fraud. But making whole tier 4 of technology much harder to create was really bad idea. Creating T5, witch require what-ever-you-like could be a good step. Since it's a new thing, you can easily fit in any crasy materials.
T5 also fits logically in T* line. T1 - standard. T2 - easy fit, same stats. T3 - better, but harder to fit. T4 also better then T3 but also harder to fit. T5 about same good as T4 and easy to fit as T2 looks logical.
There are already too few pleople playing. Several months since start passes and market does not looks filled with goods. There are a lot of useful equipment positions, no one is crafting. Almost no competition in many equipment branches and so on.
I'm still playing, but if developers will continue to change the game, like they do it now... I afraid population will drop more, and it will become so few populated MMORPG, that won't worth a monthly fee.
