Even though my concern about the fragmentation hasn't been answered yet (and I think all-roaming spawns will just be on gamma, as well as resource spawning on impassable terrain), I finally found the time to really get my reply to the blog done: http://h9.abload.de/img/perpetuumyayh7lub.png

Done it again

Hey, don't blame me if you keep finding hidden messages in fragmented deposits after Industry 2.0

Wow, thanks for the positive feedback, I didn't expect getting like no criticism at all or "meh.. who watches these kind of videos anyway?" replies heh... unless, there's a hidden message! *looks around suspiciously* you want me to keep going to find all my hidden mineral stashes for sure. ;)

Nian Industrial Trust

A "laser sight LOS" can be calculated client side with the terrain data with no CPU load to the server. When you then shoot, the server won't calculate anything more or less than it would have calculated before w/o this client side aid, leaving a "clear LOS" indication as a "suggestion" to the client.

If I was in a leadership role and had to worry about this, I'd rather have a more flexible, selective way isntead of accumulative security levels to organize access privileges.

Meaning that anyone with level 4 can access levels 3, 2 and 1 isn't what I would consider the most useful utility of organizing access privileges. Passwords for folders might only treat symptoms but not the cause, it could be an intermediate, short-term substitution though.

Ah, no. Let me try to elaborate on this a little more extensively.

NPC difficulty is determined in tiers (1 through 5) and each tier has unique names for their faction. Nuimqol drone tiers are named 1st star (weakest) through 5th star (strongest), Thelodica tiers are named Rookie, Warrior, Veteran, Elite and Supreme. Pelistal tiers are Servant, Patrician, Arbiter, Hero and Overlord. Industrial tiers are Copper, Iron, Bronze, Silver and Golden.

When researching kernels, it is partially random on what items/robots you obtain knowledge of. You will most probably start obtaining robot knowledge from Nian Trust robots (Argano, Laird, Sequer, Termis, Gargoyle, Riveler and Symbiont) that are primarily found in Syndicate kernels (named only "Drone Kernel"). After that, research any Nuimqol kernels and you might obtain knowledge of their bots in the order Yagel, Cameleon, Arbalest, Kain, Vagabond, Mesmer (I think). In addition to that, you learn their faction related items, Nuimqol kernels train, among other items, magnetic weapons, accumulator rechargers and accumulators for example, but no laser weapons or missile launchers.

Light and assault kernels also only contain knowledge about small modules, while mech and heavy mech kernels will teach you medium sized modules, unless it was changed.

Items are also tiered, with tier 1 always being the standard version of an item (e.g. Standard small armor repairer), while tier 2 through 4 have unique names. After the latest change, 1st star kernels will only train you standard items, 2nd star kernels will contain knowledge about tier 2 items, 4th star has tier 4 knowledge, while 5th star have knowledge about all tiers. See patch notes, Industry: http://www.perpetuum-online.com/Changelog:2010-10-29

After researching you can then finally create a prototype in a Prototype Facility on any terminal. Tier 2 through 4 items have unique "prototype" versions which are often lighter than the regular tier 2 through 4 versions and have lower fitting requirements, sometimes perform even better, too.

Standard items do not have this special prototype version.

To make this post complete, you can then put a standard item (Tier 1 item) into a Reverse Engineering facility along with a Decoder (random drop from NPC higher than "Drone" or "Thelodica/Nuimqol/Pelistal Drone") and use the resulting Calibration Template (CT) in the factory.

To make a CT from a tier 2, 3 or 4 item you need the aforementioned prototype version of the item, a regular tier 2, 3 or 4 item can not be reverse engineered. It's sort of a protection and reward for players who put effort into acquiring kernels for research.

I hope this cleared things up a little bit more. Feel free to point out any errors

Pretty much a standard feature nowadays.

Makes quite a difference for me, but then again, this house is like a bomb shelter. Being on wireless LAN not only causes bad network performance in PPM :S

But I will be on cat 5 again soon =)

There's actually only 11 real people playing EVE-Online with a lot of alts.

I, too, was wondering about wether this was really intended to be this way or not.

Until I noticed this, I was eager to tap the NPC (and of course, continue shooting it), but then I couldn't be bothered anymore and explicitly used this game mechanic in my favour to get the assignment done already. When I was done with the tutorial assignments, I went mining instead ;)