Sorry but no.
I know it might be realy hard for you PvP players to get ... but they don't left becouse of no PvP. Sorry.

I am one of this guys who joined that time and there are many reasons why most of them left.

Missions:
As new fight char you do missions to earn your first money which you need to buy fenzy pew pew stuff.
But as there are just 3 to 5 level 0/1 missions at each main Alpha these mission spots where crowded hardcore ... which was NO FUN. Even less when some older players with lock times close to 2 seconds taged each and every NPC.
And instead of beeing happy to see so many new players ... some of you flamed and blamed and lought about them when they asked if they can have their mission NPCs -> new player left again becouse of anti sozial behavior.

Market:
When I started trail accounts could only buy amunition from NPC orders and it was not posible to earn enough money from missions to purchases the amunition you need to do the mission as amu cost >>>>>>>>>> mission reward.
Bad designe @DEVs.
So they had to bag for amunition or grind gray drones to get the amunition to do missions. This drove away several more of this new players.

In addition the market was pritty empty which you realized when you subed ... many just subed once when they saw it.

The one who survived this shock realy tryed to handle the situation and started to mine, produce or grind. First one who left had been the producers. First they bought all the kernals to learn how to produce some T2/T3 items. They spend ALL the money the had for Kernals ... you know ... producers normaly do NOT have the fighting extensions to kill the NPC to get kernals ... they need to buy them!
But there was no reward as noone bought their T2/T3 items OR the market price was FAR belove production cost becouse of sold drobs.
Hell, some realy tryed to survive by producing mining charges or amunition but even this market was far to small to survive.
-> they invested alot but got no reward and left

Next the miners left as without producers there had been no buyers for their ore anymore.

Let's check it:
- mission runners left
- producers left
- miners left
- noone started as trader as soon as they saw the empty market

I understand that you and some more only want to PvP ... but games like Perpetuum NEED much more then just PvP. This is not CS or CoD. MMOs just survive when they can astablish high active player counts and for this they MUST HAVE alot of PvE players (PvE includes Mission, trade, mine, produce).
Just check the numbers, PvP player alone by far aren't enough to get a healthy population.

You don't like this fact? Doesn't matter! It is as it is.

PS: I started together with 23 friends coming from this other Sifi game (*g*). Most of them left after some days (the mission runners who did not like to fight for mission NPCs). 10 subed for 1 to 3 month. After that time only 3 where left (2 NPC grinder, 1 miner) ... now I am the only one with two active ACC ... and I don't realy know if I sub again as I'm a hybrid NPC grinder/producer/miner.
And it's realy boring to grind all the Kernals to produce stuff noone buys as the big corps all have their own small market .

At the moment there is no reson for a corp with players from only one country (or better timezone) to claim a outpost.

Normal people may have 3 to 6 hours/day time to play. And 3 hours is allready much if you have a family and a job. So they might be able to defend their outpost 3 hours/day while the attacker get 21 hours to destroy anything without any risk of defens.

Solutions?
- corps with players from only one country/timezone are history and just global corps can survive
- kick your family and job and make Perpetuum your new job
- ability to call timeframes where your outpost is attackeble

I prefare the 3. option .
- timeframe can be set just ONCE A WEEK
- timeframe must be at last 4 (6?) hours/day

Remember: a NORMAL player who isn't a gaming junky can't play more then 3 hours a day which is allready a loooong time peer day. So 6 hours would cover 2 to 3 timezones allready for NORMAL gamers!

PS: solution 1 is the ideal dream but not posible in Perpetuum at the moment
24 time zones / 3 h gametime = you need min 8 players to have 1 person online around the clock.
As you can't defend alone but need a minimum gank size of 5 (right?) at the moment that are 8*5 = 40 members from all over the world. AKTIVE players, NOT alt/twink/dead members!
CIR and NOX might have this AKTIVE member count, maybe MORTE.
Some other might have uncommon gamers, which can play more then 3 hours/day.

But after this 3 corps there isn't much air for more as there simply isn't the playerbase for more (they soke up the majority).

This is no offence against this corps!!

It's a simple calculation based on simultan players peer day graph -> http://content.perpetuum-online.com/fee … h_1200.png .

Haha, it's what I expected *g*.
The server isn't even online again and the first one start to whine like pink girlys .

And it's not the DEVs who don't know, what is important. Most of you don't understand what this game need!

First of all it's: population

Not more content (there is enough), not new icelands (hell, betas are nearly empty, go there before you ask for more), not POS or whatever you want to call it. It's flat population.

And I know many of you don't want to hear it or even can't except it, but games like Perpetuum live from their PvE-player base!
If miners can't sell their stuff, they will leave.
If trading isn't posible as noone sells or buys trader will leave.
If noone buys their stuff, producer will leave.

I know many of you just want to pewpew and kick *** ... but it's unimportant, when most new players don't stay as there is NO MARKET! As long as new player don't stay becouse of no market .. you will NEVER be happy about Beta-Population!
And no golden eggs will change this!

I rather would give the "protip" to quad-check every function so it can not be abused or used for cheating.

Wouldn't be the first time where "pro corps" abuse new stuff to get unfair advantages .

Duping, Moongo, grief, "random other anti sozial ***"

PS: and don't expect to get new players with this patch. Maybe some old will come back to check it out, but this will not bring "NEW" players.

New player will come with spamming advertise like DarkOrbit (realy BAD pice of software) or other "f2p" games do it.

I did ~5 or 6 offizer beacons ... no escalation, no t+ items .

Medium short range Autoguns suffer nearly the same problem.
While the DPS increase from T3<->T4 (+1.1) is in line with the increase from T1<->T3 (+1,1), the alpha is much lower from T4 compared to T3 while the amunition cost is increased becouse of the faster speed.
My sugestion would be to change T4 to 4 sec speed (same as T1/T3) with a mod of 180%. The DPS would stay exact the same.
In addition I would adjust the optimal and falloff slightly to make it more consitent.

		med mun damn	44				
Mshort	speed	mod	dps	alpha	opti	falloff	total
T1/T2	4	160,00%	17,6	70,4	125	200	325
T3	4	170,00%	18,7	74,8	140	210	350
T4	4	180,00%	19,8	79,2	155	220	375

This changes to speed and modifier would make T4 realy much better compared to T3 and so justify the much higher cost.

Medium long range Autoguns don't have the problem of inconsistent DPS as they are fine from speed and modifyers.
How ever they are inconsistent when we inspect the opti and falloff. Some little teaking would make them less confusing .

Mlong	speed	mech	dps	alpha	opti	falloff	total
T1/T2	8	215,00%	11,83	94,6	200	250	450
T3	8	230,00%	12,65	101,2	215	255	470
T4	8	250,00%	13,75	110	230	260	490

I know, that this changes inclued a slight range-buff in some cases. But as all autocannons aren't realy considert as "strong" I hope this isn't a problem .

As side note, what's the reson for the bad hit-size of medium short range guns?
Would be a big deal to lower it from 12 to 10 like medium EM guns and medium longrange autocannons are?

And most of it would be contra produktive to a game like Perpetuum as it would need so many CPU/GPU, that just 1 or 2 people could play it as long as they don't see more then 10 player at once.

Good old DAoC: "turn your cloacks off!!! they are to much lag!!"

Battlefield 3 like graphic work if you just have a limited amount of simultan players at a very limited map.
Not in games where it might be posible to have 100v100 (dream I know).

And much more:
Content >>>>>>>>>> graphic
Check out Minecraft *g*.

PS

Hope this is a joke ...

As long as the comunity is small, it would be posible to work out some sort of "fair play contract" which claims a small part of Beta just for very small scale PvP where gangs up to 3 or 5 can have some fun ONLY using 1 acc peer player and where the "big guys/ganks" agree not to chase solos.

Somethink like "player made SANDBOX area for fun actions".

But I doubt, this will ever happen, as some wannabes allways break this agreements with "but but I wantz my funz too" .

Man, I loved Providenz and Red v. Blue.
Compareble save entrance for new player into 00 and "small scale PvP with some agreements and fair-play".

Um, there are travel spawns and since last patch there had been random travling Observer spawns.
Last one where removed as they couse to much trubble with miners and low EP agents.

So random locations wouldn't be much different from the removed Observers .

And as you are from Chaos ... as a PvP oriented Corp I don't belive your buddys would be happy, if there is absolut no fix route over Betas anymore as everywhere and any time a big fast 5. star/observer spawn could pop up ^^.

So why this changes?

Most of us chose hunting spots becouse of:
- can be done without exploding (to often *g*)
- loot you search (kernals of spezific level/type most times)
- NIC/h

Spawns as they are now a tricky. You might have luck to get many times in a row the "good" spawns which drob the best NIC or the Kernals you want. But they can too but a big frustration where you end with hours of much smaller stuff then you could do and nearly no kernals of the type you want.

AND .. the Elite spawns aren't the hardest spawns ... which isn't realy bad as it garantees you some fanzy loot. But I know several spawn, where the Elite spawns are jokes and other spawns can kick your *** (5* 3.star Kains all with ECM&dampener do hurt!)

Random might be TO random atm .