NPC bots roam the area, last night I was 700m away from NPC bots and one of them moved towards one of my characters from 700m. And it kept doing it again and again. Some NPCs have very large aggro radius. Not locking radius, but they can 'see' you from very far distance move towards you, lock on and kill if you don't move.

This game has haulers, miners and fighters. They should cater to all groups of players. Miners and Fighters have all the robots up to the heavy mechs, haulers basically have only ONE bot. I am not sure its very fun to just play ine ONE bot all the time, but many people do it. We need something around mech/heavy mech tier to haul more. 200AU still sounds better than nothing or 80. Bot doesn't need to be bigger than 1 tile. Build it up if can't make it wider. Give us some fat mech that carries some kind of box modules on its back and front. Build it up if you can't build it in width.

No haven't mixed anything. Mb/sec = Megabits per second, thats the speed traffic is measured. If you want real MegaBytes you have to devide than number by 8 and you get approximately how fast your connection is in Megabytes. So my 20Mb/sec connection can pull 20/8=2.5Megabytes per second. My connect with Budapest 11Mb/sec = ~1.4 Megabytes per second.

Unfortunately even with a good connection speed the amount of time game packets reach my client is still too long - 150ms. And this is directly related to the location of the server. While I may not have these big problems like a Purgatory its enough to make me rubberbend from time to time and I also know that this rubberbending is related to how good connection game server sits on. Like I said before 150-200ms should be completely fine for MMOs, the problem is either in game's network code or somewhere in between. I think that when 2 big groups of players meet in Beta lands it affects other players.

I don't have permanent lag, I have some hiccups from time to time. And it annoys the heck out of me. I am trying to automate my bots so that they can follow each other and when I get a hiccup they stop. Not sure I will be playing PO for long if they don't fix this annoying problem. And I kinda doubt they can fix it without having a separate server for US located players hosted somewhere in states. Which they were supposed to do in the first place - have 2 servers, one for US, one for Europe...

GMs and DEVs are talking about making player/corp owned constructable structures. I think it will be a few months before we see anything new. And considering that they were also using word "expansion" at the same time - it may be even longer. Their primary concern, again based on their words is server stability and performance. I think by the time something really happens, if ever, server will be quite empty. I don't want to sound like a troll but considering how many people were in game right after release and how many are now - its a fact that more people are leaving then joining.

A lot of kids went to play Cataclysm, which means that many accounts won't be renewed next time their billing cycle is over. There is nothing really interesting coming out for the next 1-2 months so people may come back but I am not sure Avatar already has something brewing in their pot of new content. I mean it may be brewing alright, but it may continue brewing for a while until something usable actually comes out of that pot. Devs in MMOs usually try to release something to keep high level players in their MMOs. I think by the time majority of players are in Mechs/heavy mechs devs may have SOMETHING out.

But if you want my opinion I think things will be advancing forward with a very slow pace. Thats how it usually happens in games developed by small companies. I don't see Avatar releasing updates every month. Its usually impossible with such a small dev team. But they made a good game just 10 of them so who knows maybe they have some miracle machine working for them.

I have verified today that my speed while local is around 20Mb/sec and around 11Mb/sec with Budapest. Upload is around 2.3Mb/sec. My ping in game still ranges 130-200+, when its 200+ I usually start to rubberbend and 'follow stop'. In MMO ping of 120 shouldn't be a problem at all. I think that this game along with graphics engine also has pretty crippled network code. Moving the server out of Budapest or hosting it somewhere with good link I still consider as a possible way of improving gameplay for people who experience problems.

Probably one of the most organized Corps in PO. Haven't been a member for a very long time but will most likely stick to this group. Quite a few people are on during the middle-late EST times, scheduled PvP/PvE events, development is very organized, people have focus and very broad goals. Leadership values the most what is most fun for members not how many useless outposts we own. Great bunch of people.

If you like PvP - <Death Watch> will be a fun group to hang out with during regular roaming events. Like to PvE the heck out of NPC bots - we hunt for kernels and equipment during PvE events. If you want large scale alliance based PvP - Axe always stands by the alliance corps and participates during the intrusion events. If you have a goal in PO and looking for well organized corporation - look no further. Battleaxe is your best choice.

I wonder how the devs plan to implement the new constructable player owned structures. If they plan to fit the same SAP mechanics on them it won't be any better. Corporation owned structures supposed to give a full access to an owning corporation to - restrict access on entrance, use stations, dock, make it home etc. If those new structures are similar to outposts where everyone can walk in, make it home, crap inside and leave unnoticed - its a waste of time. Avatar was able to copy EVE so well but missed the very important game mechanics that promotes corps to own the outposts. New structures need to have all these missed features, otherwise there is only as much point to own them as corp defines for themselves.

A lot of people talk about wanting a bigger world, more islands. There is 300 people on and you want 15 islands? Devs said that they will add more islands when there is more players to play the game. At this point they are working on player/corp owned constructable structures. But I do think that Avatar Creations lacks either experience or imagination though. It almost feels like a group of kids who used to have fun in EVE decided to createa their own niche game in Mech world. This game doesnt feel like it has a solid base, even though its enjoyable for now...

I guess this is an internal ladies club congratulation thread so I shouldn't post here... Ooops, i think I just did...

Yeah I lost some EP too, Ive had about 4K+ at some point, then disconnects and lags happened and I've had 1.4K or so left...

+1

Maybe thats their whole idea...