Oh wow, that was Massively unexpected

Thanks to everyone spreading the word, helping with feedback or bug reports, or just simply being a part of the Perpetuum universe! We have many plans for the coming year too

DEV Gargaj wrote:

Obi Wan Kenobi wrote:

Has there been any start on coding pos's ?

That's what I meant - we're creating a codebase that already has those concepts in mind so we can eventually incrementally progress there.
(Did anyone think about the lovely ambiguity of the term "P.O.S." btw?)

i would prefer P.B.S.

the B stands for build the rest stands for player and structures ... the O stands for owned... so you could refer to the existing outposts as POS... thats why i prefer the B.

Men, what the hell with all those balance and change reclamations. There are more important things to think for devs than your little feeling about shield bonus not being useful.

I was blue, i rerolled green. I LOVE the gropho, I LOVE the shield bonus. In fact it saved my gropho MK2 and its ridiculous cost more than once. Learn to micromanage and youll find its the best bonus for gropho, and it can give you a serious edge in pve/pvp. 100% LIKE the gropho bonus. Dont change plz.

You CAN use the shield while doing dmgs.  With the proper extensions and enough tuners, you can go under the 5s shield cycle time. Dont change it please. In fact dont change anything from now on about balancing. You DEVS lost too much time with individual requests, i want this, i want that, this is not good, ect...  Just consider when something is REALLY OP or really useless, and i dont see anything in game corresponding to that definition.

Peoples will ALWAYS have something to whine about, because everyone want everything that fits them gameplay style.

In fact, those kind of behaviors shows a will to bend the game to ones personal taste; while the logic would be the players adapt to the rules the DEVS and their vision of the game produce.

Concentrate on POS, terraforming, content. DONT cater to the "im never happy with what i have" crowd because there will always be one. If i was to decide something on this forum i would temporarily (until big content/feature/game mechanism patch) close "feature request" and "balancing".  Its simply not the time for this. 95% of gropho users are absolutely happy (ok i created this stat out my arse but you got the point) with shield bonus. Why change it then?

I use shield and missile, i use them at the same time, and i like it. I like the way you made it. Just wanted to say that.  Because the peoples happy with something rarely or never come to forum to say it. Leaving you with a false "community taste" impression.

I have QQed several times on the forum. It was always after a big gameplay change. I didnt "created" the problem. I came to QQ for something i liked that got changed, and adapted my playstyle. What you do is even worst, due to your personal taste you want to change the game for everyone, forcing me to come here to defend my gropho with its shield bonus that is perfectly right and balanced and useful. Dont like shields? Blue and yellow will welcome you with open arms...

Serpens wrote:

I don't forsee this patch changing much, or enough. It's a good idea in theory, however I think instead of implementing this they should wait and start coding some POS and two super huge large islands that ONLY allow POS to be built as there are no stations. That would be neat. Oh well we'll see what it brings I suppose.

It's a step towards POS. We're building a big enough / robust enough (and in fact, simple enough) system with this one that (hopefully) brings us closer to POS, but we can't do all of it overnight.

I could type a wall of text to point out the epic fail in this op but I will limit myself to a single descriptive word to sum up what Kampf really meant:

DERP

Waswat wrote:

Cassius wrote:

Perhaps along with 2.0 we will get a bigger sandbox, ie 3 or 6 more islands. I have not heard any info on this, just hoping.  Might be enough to keep the game rolling until PoS.

Why? Why would you want more islands? That would actually spread the players thinner and you'll have less action that way. I don't think that's a good idea.

I don't agree. More land mass is needed to in order for players to feel safer in beta. More space will mean more areas where players can potentially ninja mine or farm kernals and most importantly more smaller corps will have a chance on creating there own home in beta, which in turn will bring more players in game.

Longer travel distances is also needed to create different markets, this can even promote the market. If beta corps need to travel too long to mine titan in alpha they might buy from the market instead of mining it themselves.

We need a larger game world.