To add a non-M2S vote:

/signed

I think most people are slightly intimidated by the aggressive nature of the nominees so far.

Maybe a more peaceful and submissive nominee would inspire people to some sweet, sweet manloving fantasies?

Awesomely written, thank you for sharing.

I'd say depending on your actions in-game you're either a syndicate agent ( you're in a starter corp or a peaceful alpha corp and only kill people on the beta isles that attack you first ) or you're on of these hackers from outside ( you're in a NBSI corp on the beta isles and actively hunt and kill other agents for personal gain )

If you switch corps then it can be said that back on earth you were contacted by your new corp and convinced to either leave the perpetuum project ( promises of personal wealth and power etc. ) or rejoin the perpetuum project ( your hacking crimes forgotten in return for information on the crackers. )

On Nia itself it likely won't make much difference. The hacks can be assumed to be so advanced that there's no way to distinguish between a real perpetuum project agent and a hacker agent.

Most of this is behind the scenes and more for RP. And if you RP then I'm sure you can use your imagination to make a likely explanation that makes sense.

As for the divide and rule. From what I understand earth is using the perpetuum project to siphon energy from Nia to make up for shortages at home. If perpetuum agents in one faction's bots attack another faction then it will likely cause war. While in war the Nians will hopefully not pay too much attention when their terminals suddenly seem to reroute a lot of energy to an unknown source. Likely they'll assume that their enemies are draining their power and thus remain oblivious to the presence of perpetuum agents among them and the Syndicate.

I believe not. Would be quite silly really. It would imply that small missiles with their explosion size of below 4 would do 250%+ damage against heavy mechs. Which would make medium short range missiles completely useless as there's no way they can match that.

Might as well give a bump for my new corp.

Medium sized group that seems to be doing a lot of teamwork and has some good organisation in place.

So far feeling right at home.

The one at the bottom...

Telling people about Perp is great. I'd shy away from hyping too much though. It will only lead to the following:

- 12 year old kid reads post hyping Perp. Believes it because it was on the internet.
- 12 year old kid buys Perp and plays for 2 hours. Fails to understand the game.
- 12 year old kid spends what's left of the month bashing Perp on various forums.

I think the safezones are there because currently the teleporters are major chokepoints.

There's only 3 entries into a beta island so it's relatively easy to camp them all.

What could maybe work is to create a moving entry point. Create a function that goes from time -> coordinate. Draw a line all along the edge of the beta islands, a line that doesn't get within 50m of any blocked terrain. The starting point is at 0:00:00 the end is at 2:30:00 or so. Use server-time to determine at which point on the line the current time is and deposit the player at a random spot in 50m of that point.

The line should consist of only a few long straight pieces for easier calculations. It would probably be a *** to create such a function but once made it wouldn't be much more taxing then a damage calculation.

Since there's no set entry-point gatecamps become a whole lot harder. Only on leaving would you still have to go to the teleporter, which of course could still be camped but at this point you could use many tactics to get them off the gate ( lure them away, wait for another force to engage, go to another teleporter etc. )

Goomba!

Checking the market it seems that with the exclusion of level 1 and 2 decoders prices go up by a factor of about 3 when going up a decoder level.

There seems to be nothing that would suggest that a scaling conversion rate would be needed.

I think a simple rate of 5 lvl x decoders = 1 lvl (x+1) decoder would work.

You'd need near 2 million lvl 1 decoders for a single lvl 10 decoder. But I think the mechanism isn't there to allow players to farm lower lvl decoders to take care of their higher lvl decoder needs but instead to give the market a way to deal with an excess of low lvl decoders. Traders buy low lvl decoders at low prices and with the bulk they purchase they massively turn it into higher lvl decoders which they can sell at a profit.

What's so bad about the avatars?

They're overall comical, smooth and clean looking. What more do you want?

I mean this is a strategical robot rpg, you really shouldn't have been expecting to be able to recreate your favourite porn-star so you can fap while you shoot. Or mr. beefcake so you can seduce previously mentioned porn-stars who without a doubt look the same IRL as their avatars do and are doubtlessly cute as well since they're too shy to come on vent.

Better robot and world graphics I can agree on, atleast when the other issues are fixed. But what exactly are you expecting from the avatars?