I still consider, for a game like this to really succeed, there should not be any kind of "ive more money than you, my game is better than yours" system. Even if its not giving a pvp edge.  Think about paintjob for example. Im sure if thinking enough about it, i should find a reason why this would affect gameplay in general.

Please, up the sub fee 1 or 2 euros if needed, peoples will keep paying.  But im sure microtransactions should stay far far away from Nia.  I hope so.

Everyone the same even playing ground.  Thats were great games build their foundations. And about Eve, Plex etc... Ok it works, but does it make the game better for everyone? What about goldfarmers, all those kind of *** that happens when you put money parameter into the equation.  For Perp to succeed, it needs more paying customers, and more concurrent players. No microtransactions, they will lead systematically to RMT, everyone know this. Peoples will find a way to link NIC to EC, then EC products will be sold with RMT.

Hum no its not. Inflation as Arga said is based on market pricing, not quantity of currency in the system.

Exactly its not the high difference of income power between most income(vets)/worst income(newb) that creates inflation. Its the general and proportional increase of buying power (demand), wich is obviously related to the total amount of nic in the system, but also related to the even or uneven distribution of those nic.

I insist there could be gazillions of nic in the system and no inflation happens, its linked but not in the way "+1 nic in system = +x% inflation".

Oh and Purgatory, are we really talking the same thing? You make 50k plasmas PER hour, alone, with no alt support etc? Cause it change the whole maths too. When we consider all those things, the unit is character, not player. If you got an alt support, you can cut that in half.

Last thing, you said you farmed for three days. That dont means anything to me. Please give us a precise amount of time, like how many hours. 3 days of play is EXTREMELY relative, especially in a game like this one.

Because if your 3 days of farm equals 30 hours, you can also say its one or two months of farm for a casual... got my point?

The objective of all of you is trying to standardize player experience. The only result of this will be shallow game, with no players. Sandbox mean opportunity, becoming rich if you know how to etc...  A veteran with same EP than me maybe wont be able to do the 10M/H, so what?

In your idea of "balance" and "working economy", you want to eliminate all the special little things that make a sandbox a sandbox. Find the good spot, accept the danger, reap the reward. In what *** game were said that veteran and long time followers should not get many more income per time played?
Your calling about inflation, everybody with a sense of logic know with such a small playerbase, it wont happens.

Biggest corps = internal markets, no NIC influx in open economy, no inflation.
Small corps/players = no NIC production power to make inflation incontrolable.

All is all about is not inflation ,admit it. All this is about is: Why a guys could make ten times more than a yougling in the same time? Wake up, it always existed.  If my wealth production capacity was the same of a newbie/ half time player, i wouldnt farm at all.  And Lucius wouldnt sell his T4 mods at over the top prices (no personal here, you follow the trend), because nobody would spend 8M for example for a T4 med shield, or 65M for a HM MK2 like i did.

You guys talking about inflation?  Care to show the stats, because ive seen someday ago Heavy mechs MK2 at not so much more than production cost.
Show the maths, show the curves, then we will talk about inflation and how to circumvent it. If it exist at all.

What? Ratting income is 100% independant, but what do you do with all your NICS? Spend them on the market. Or leave them in your wallet, in that case theres no inflation, just NIC volume increase. But some seems to confuse those two parameters.

Inflation 1rst reason is peoples make easy nic too fast. But the 2nd and mandatory reason for inflation, is sellers inflating their prices. Everyone could be billionnaire, and no inflation happens. If nobody would up his prices, we would end up with increased buying power for "money vets" and same buy power for newbies (if its your problem with inflation). If you up the prices in line with NIC in world (and not in economy, cause adding NIC in economy is always a consequence of upping prices (given a fix amount of players/transaction, lets not overcomplicate it) , not the other way around), then yes newbie will have a hard time buying anything.

So...  if you really care about inflation, and fear big farmers will create it, remember the only deciders of inflation is the sellers, producers etc...

All MK2 "assault" mechs does

You begin by looking at what you produced with COMMON SENSE.
You test, you internally balance, apply  then you consider if the majority is ok with it. The problem is, theres no poll that every player have to answer, so youll never know the exact true feeling of the whole perp playerbase.

Consider the problem the other way around:
There will ALWAYS be QQer. Does that mean a real perfect balance can never be achieved? The answer is no.

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...

Yeah yeah, help the devs with your omniscience about this game, give them the good balance that you found with your non biased point of view, ask for changes that would need an entire revamp of module/fitting system, cause its the priority atm, and all development power should be allocated to such non trivial modifications. Make my life better, i thank you in advance.

Sure you made my point. He did nothing for others.

Even with a "not so perfect" video, at least Triglav did it for others to see it.

Oh and before criticize someone stuff, prove you are able to do better.

Lol smokeyii what do you do for others except whining, belittle and despise others work?

Nm seems you got an offer far beyond my reach

Yeah the maximum npc difficulty should equal 100% chance of death if big error against them, even for veterans, even in small/medium groups. It is balanced that way now and offer a real challenge.

Lets wait for heavier chassis ingame to see even more challenging pve. Because i think the game misses something in the area of "biggest threat possible". Maybe change the way pve HL is handled, why not use POS as an opportunity to do this?

Once we have our new islands adapted for structures creation, why not make the faction npc build highly defended structures, at random locations, preceded by roaming activity etc...  What is most fun and realism, a giant robot/monster/whatever with 1 billion HP, that take a 40 players group 1hr to kill, or a giant fortress defended by swarms of low npcs, defensive turret structures, and maybe some observers or a little stronger opponents at the center near the loot.

From a lore/evolution of game perspective, i think implementing npc actions inside the POS system will be essential to develop the "war against natives" aspect of the persistent world. Once we get further inside Nian empire, we will obviously encounter ennemy structures. I think those structures should be almost all destuctible, except some key buildings. After that its easy to regularly adjust aliens response level to be in line with the story.