Reduced loot range and tractor would force ratters to either fit tractor or aggro spawn more. I don't see how extending a can's lifetime by a small 5-10 minutes would be game-changing, as all the gloom and doom people forecasted. If you've already camped a can for 15 minutes, what's the big deal with another 5?

It may not seem like much, but would open up a lot of extra area that solo miners can access. Even a small increase in radius covers a lot of extra land. It's the difference between only being able to mine titan ores and having access to... everything else. I don't see why a game should bend over backwards to cater to a small minority, under a very narrow and rare set of circumstances, while limiting the masses of noobs to mining only titan ore.

Nowhere else can so little be given up by so few people for such great benefits to so many.

I remember the bunny hoppers in mechwarrior. It is kinda game breaking.

It sounds crazy, but may actually be working as intended. The can lifetime is hardly the main reason there's no market. This whole thing of ratting not producing anything the ratter himself needs, costs ammo, and industrialists completely dependent on ratter, appears to be intended to work against free market development. Not to mention having trial accounts not being able to see the market is like asking them to not subscribe. No one wants to play a barren wasteland of a mmo.

I remember in the early days of Eve, there's no market, and if you want to fly a ship you have to mine and build it yourself. But that changed pretty fast once user base picked up, as rats have bounty, and industrialists need no kernals, both were self sufficient.

The current system in Perpetuum seems to be intentionally designed to keeping old players in larger corps, where they're more likely to stay subscribed. But the downside of having new players leave because they can't do anything, may not be worth the trade off. Solo players are still players, they pay the same subscription, interact and contribute to the community through the market.

The current anti-solo bias is quite extreme, and discourage formation of new corps as well as soloing. It may do the game some good if it's tuned back a bit, to still provide advantages to large corps, but not make it completely impossible to solo or start new corp.

CCP does it because skill points are pixiles and don't cut into profit, unlike free game time. Greed is good.:P

Navigation is only at 6 atm, going to bump it up as EP becomes available. I wasted too many points to get a Sequer for courier missions.

Eve refugee here.

I was actually looking forward to ship skins when they announced cash shop, but instead got monocles, plus uber boats/mods/ammo with "I win" button painted on them on the way.:rolleyes: