Gunner told me to sign it

Consequence and responsibility for actions taken in a sandbox can be misconstrued as harassment by the insipid, no doubt about that.

TOR didn't get its press coverage because news sites operate on good-will, Bioware shoveled out money for the previews, ads, interviews, early sneak-peeks etc, it all churned up the hype machine.

Maybe AC just doesn't have the funds to pay for real advertising.

Personally I feel that Perpetuum's main problem is that its very in-personal, cold, distanced from humanity. People can co-relate to immortal clones, bipedal greenskinned orks, and generally any humanoid. Co-relating to a spark that is essentially a computer virus is... harder.

So far the advertisement for Perp has been pretty much "Perpetuum - Try it now!" on a red background with the logo. Says nothing, and its no wonder the player count is this low.

I would take it into a different direction. Only titan and HDT should be available in abundance on Alpha (meaning big fat red fields). Everything else should be less common (medium yellowish fields) to discourage a playstyle many corps employ (including mine to a degree) of basing on Alpha industry.

It would also give extra incentive to fight to hold your Beta outpost rather then start ninja-hauling everything out once the attacks start coming in. Main problem in Beta is that we got the carrot now in the form of L4 facilities & rich fields & rich NPCs, however the symptom hasn't been cured that rich fields (everything except Epriton) & rich NPC's are still available on Alpha.

At this time any corporation can "log on alpha alts" and stockpile stuff Alpha-side until the attacker gets bored of controlling their outpost, and ninja-capture SAPs in preparation to re-crawl into Beta until the cycle repeats.

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Also a good way to stimulate "faction ores" would be to increase the amount of PL-XX that drops from mining those ores on those islands. Perhaps they could implement a PL-YY(100? 150?) that could only be gathered on the faction islands?

I think we can agree that this system would be a LOT more fun if there was 600-700 players online in Perpetuum instead of 70-180.

I think it's a great patch, but unfortunately because of the microscopic population we are ending up with waiting for 1 hour where otherwise we'd be having fights more frequently. Sure, the SAP's could do a bit of tweaking, but then again every patch needs a bit of balance-tweaking before it hits the sweet spot.

Perpetuum is a lot better, more fluent and more involving because of Intrusion 2.0.

There is one thing wrong with your theory there, nobody needs to withstand us because I personally like a "live and let live" policy. For example, Hokk alliance hasn't attacked Novastrov's outposts since we settled the old scores, so we put aside our differences and agreed to leave each others outposts alone. Ofc we're all PVPers so roaming is always there and welcome, but we're enjoying beta and letting each other enjoy their beta experience.

I think the crucial thing is that another alliance needs to form that is not led by someone dumb enough who hasn't learned what happens when you come after us. I mean, after the last 4-5 alliances collapsed it should be pretty obvious that tagging our outposts means we start getting serious and pouring bots and pilots into a camp until there is nothing left on that alliance's particular Beta island.

So, unless someone has more then 9-10 thousand fitted heavies in stockpile, baaad idea.

I have to disagree with you Arga.

The point is that the defenders are twiddling their thumbs for an hour with no other recourse, since being on stand-by for possible incoming means just that; you can't farm or mine (refit with incoming? empty loot can with incoming?), you can't mine (drive miners back to get into support bots? log them out? empty loot can?) because the SAPs are that fragile that a 4-5 ewar group can take them.

Each SAP is equal to at least 1 upgrade to Facilities, which makes them very valuable to keep. Making a vicious circle of forcing people to play WOT/Skyrim while alt-tabbed from Perpetuum and wait for pokes/shouts if there's incoming, since there is minimal delay between enemy reaching SAP and enemy completing SAP. Especially with the Destruction SAP which is completed if you fart at it the right way.

The difficulty of the SAP's needs to be brought in line where YES, the defender has to commit their players and assets to defend like now, but the attacker should also have to commit a sizeable fleet to have a chance at completing it. Definitely not 4-5 light bots and if it goes it goes, if it doesn't who cares nothing was lost.

We have no problems controlling Novastrov, since that is our home and the one island we're interested in living on. Domhalarn and Norhoop are irrelevant as anything but PVP opportunities to SovNov.

The other groups are like you, not relevant. F-Navy quit the game aka "regrouping on Alpha to pressure the developers", TOG couldn't kill an arkhe if their life depended on it, and M2S is shedding members left right and centre since they got beaten in the tournament.

When 10-15 man "groups" become a factor and not a lol-factor, depends how many TOR nabs from all the alpha-located corporations. This was evident in the tournament where SovNov corps steamrolled all non-SovNov corps involved.

The only relevant group in-game was SQUID, and whats left of that is now busily trying to re-secure Alsbale once they've noticed that we stopped all operations there a week ago after they evacuated. What Intrusion 2.0 will bring is the Evacuation Era, nothing more nothing less.

And yet, Soviet Novastrov still stands.

Its probably the outposts we've been trying to hand out to newbie corps since Terra Incognita.

Twiddling your thumbs for at least 2 hours every 16 hours is... well, suffice to say "imbeciles" comes up as a frequent description point.

I don't see why you list us as versus each other, it's pretty obvious that you guys are playing in the late US / Australian timezone, when most of us are asleep.

It's reasonable to say that there is no other entity besides Soviet Novastrov in the European timezone, for now. We've had much fun fighting SQUID alliance, but now that they're on the door out there is very little if anything for us to do.

We can go as far as saying that IF SovNov chose to say, unsub en-masse tomorrow, the game would lose the amount of active players (nevermind some 600+ subscribed accounts) that it would never recover from again.