Earth and Beyond had quality, too. The game wasn't 6 months old before people simply would not buy anything but max-quality gear, thus rendering the stat useless apart from making people work on their crafting for ages before they could actually sell anything.

If that's avoided, though, I could actually be in favour of this. Market interface would need to be overhauled to be practical, or everything would need to be done through a (currently nonexistent) contract system.

If the auras "scale with your ability to demonstrate stability" then they can be attacked in one sense. Start hitting the SAPs and the bonus will drop. At least that's my guess at the blog's meaning.

I agree. I'd like (eventually) to see outposts disappear and for everything that an outpost provides to be turned into its own building or building enhancement. Player outposts would then just be a collection of structures that can be disabled and destroyed, repaired and rebuilt.

First, "needs to be on the lookout" are your words. Second, the point of my words was that there are many different ways to find out, not that you need all of them.

It would be really handy if these announced new dev blogs, which frequently contain release date estimates: http://blog.perpetuum-online.com/posts/ … ig-revamp/

You seem to care a lot about patch notes and release dates. Perhaps you should subscribe to the newsletter.

I feel I've stayed on topic fairly well, questioning the need for "Patch note released SOONER please". (SWIDT?)

Seems really odd for T0 to be totally worthless. Make those the common drop and rename them "Basic" ("Flawed" is a total branding fail). Then indies are only competing directly with rare drops and artifacts. T1 rises in price a bit; T0 fills the new cheapo gap. Maybe have NPC buy/sells for T0, at least until the market fills out.

Edit: if the devs really want worthless stuff in-game (understandable for depth reasons), maybe add a handful of "wrecked equipment" items that are only useful when recycled.

Good ideas are good ideas. This one's an obvious and elegant solution to a major shortcoming of the current trade system. And the existing interface could be used pretty much as is.

The "tax" should be a market-affected fee paid to players for transporting the goods. Then the cost of transport will naturally be affected by everything that goes into transport: route safety, destination, volume, cargo value, distance, etc. It will also create new economic and gameplay options.

Actually, you could do player couriers now. But it's difficult (not impossible) to discourage the courier from just running off with the stuff or your money, and can be hard to arrange a trade meeting to finalize. (PO really needs an asynchronous private trade system)

Totally agreed. Seems a lot of people on the forums really want to be able to jump around to whatever roles they feel like that day. I don't see any reason to deny them this, so long as it doesn't needlessly involve any silly extension reassignments or regularly-scheduled-remap nonsense. At the most complex, just make extensions something impermanent that you buy and plug in (higher level, higher cost or something).

Don't really need free resets, either, assuming you keep the same extensions in the game. Just figure out the difference between what the player has already spent vs. what it would cost for the same skill set under the new system, and give them a surplus or deficit according to the result. Assuming people are currently extending according to their spark, we'll all be in roughly the same boat.

If this happens---I mean that you honestly believe without hyperbole that an entire faction or tier of bots has become next to worthless---then, my friend, it's time to lose faith in the devs and ragequit.

Bottlenecks and forced routes usually become stronger defence positions for those who live in the area. This may be good in the short term (more fights), but things will have to open up again later if small gang viability is to be maintained.

Cutting Alpha1 off from Betas is probably a good way to go, though.

If true, what this points to is that for many people it's still more lucrative to be on Alpha. You have people who are fine with the idea of losing bots regularly, but have decided they aren't seeing any advantage to supporting themselves on Beta alone.

Yes there is. You benefit without opposition, while others face harsh opposition. I'm not saying you should be forced to fight, but you should have some kind of significant difficulty, something that slows you down as much as having to fight for your territory would.

You see risk as something to avoid at all costs, and thus a reason to stay out of Beta. People on Beta tend to just want to optimize their results. So if mixing Alpha and Beta activity leaves them richer and more powerful than a pure-Beta life, that's exactly what they'll do. It's annoying that, though Beta is theoretically self-sufficient, it isn't practically self-sufficient.

If Alpha remains readily accessible at all times, then Beta will always be at the fringes rather than becoming the dominant environment. Rather than 2-3 Alphas with a ring of Betas, it should be a single Alpha with 2 layers of Beta totalling 8-12 islands (thinking very long-term here). Ideal Alpha:Beta ratio for me is about 1:10.

How would other players be able to affect you while inside this dungeon? If two other players are each in a different instance of the same location, would there be a menu to choose which you go into? How is it good for people to be able to completely disconnect from each other and the game world when the goal of PO is explicitly the opposite of that?

While on Beta, I'll keep a few missions open so I have little rabbit holes to jump into if I'm being hunted. Metaphysical dislocation tank is best tank.

An island chat that never showed numbers, and never showed a member list might work. All you'd ever know from someone posting is that they were there at a particular time, but never who they were with, when they arrived, or whether/when they left.

With "vicinity" chat, you could maybe set your own broadcast range (like a volume knob). Your message goes to everyone in that range. Reasonable limits on range, ofc. And keep it outdoors-only to limit godawful terminal game smack.