hi there,
well first of cource thx to the devs for al their work over the years.
we realy appreciated it and now with making perp "open source" is realy a big step.

my personal opinion is that there is a crucial part for this to succeed.
if you want for perp to go on then you have to look at the reason why it went down. and that is mostly development of content. no hard feelings and we know for that you need manpower. and in a business that means money.
in a open project the manpower can come from the community and we all know that there are a lot games and mods where this realy works.
so my primary point here is that for this to succeed the community will need the means to develop the game in every way they see fit.
just changing a few numbers and running a private server will not get a big community together and keep going with it. this will only work if they can change everything they want to.
- changeing formula for ballancing,
- adding islands
- adding own content. like models, gfx and textures

and a lot of that will also require changes in the client.

we all appreciate your work and what you are trying to achieve here.
i hope that the community will be able to keep this game up. and for that the game needs to be able to develop futher. just like so many mods in so many games out there do and have for years.

thx
and best regards
Zort

if you are not sure:
start with high prices. you can always reduce them.
but if you start with low prices then it can be abused... and that will relult in more problems.

first: there are no endless reserves in this game. some ppl or corps might have hundrets or maybe thousands of bots and modules in their stash, but how did they get that? they had to spend many hours of time to get that. while other ppl that dont have these kinds of assets did not spend the time. they just complain that other ppl have it.

there is no reason to strip ppl of their assents just because they used more effort then other ppl to get what they have.

besides there already is a big inflation of NIC. so ppl that had billions of nic now have way less from their money. so a few ppl already have been hit hard and now have way less from the work they once did.

the only inflation that may arrive at some point may be that there will be new bots and new equipment in the game so ppl will use the old assets less. but honestly i think that would be bad game design if you make the "old stuff" obsolete.

complains like that usually come from ppl that dont want to spend the time to build assents. and just as stated above might just be jealous because they dont have it too...
in terms of market it would not change anything either. ppl that build assets just do it and always have done it. so if they cant afford their storrage then they might keep it a bit smaller, but they will still mine and build their own thing. the market is dead for other reasons and that is (as for so long) a population issue.

go build your own assets and dont *** about ppl that have spend a lot time to get what they have.

no worries. you havent missed much. dont look that much different then plasma bombs do...

yea they are super cost efficient... but you dont want to transport them... because in terms of the energy amount you can pack into a scarab with injector cells... well do your own math... but i can promise you... not worth it.

it was way better before the speed change when you accually could avoid npcs. and you dont had five patrols on your *** within a minute.
and if im right they had 10min or 30min or a hour respawn timer as well...

right now you see a npc patrol comming. and if you are not fast it will catch you anyway...

and i realy like the lithus base... just the ting that it would need a new torso to look good. the existing heavy mech bodies will look crap...

i realy hate it... but i have to agree with ville here.

only thing i dont like is the random stats on items.
how will you hande hundrets and thousands of items ppl have in their storage already. all getting randomized stats mean you cant stack them anymore. and you have to check all the items you produce or have how good they realy are.

also this just increases the costs of high quality equip because ppl will mass produce and scrap the rest.
sounds more or less like a increase in item costs in general. that can be done more easy...

sry but thats more a nuisance then a usefull feature.
i would prefere specialized equip as t5. better in one area.. worse in the other.

for syndicate bots i would prefer syndicate models instead of the patchwork thing. but i guess thats no point at the moment with the lack of 3d artists.

no problem then

pls clear out the existing liquid fields and spawn new ones ...