Well the way you control it is to....well simply not control it.  This fear of attacking someone with simply more Bots on the field is a bad thing.  You can win easily if you can, and know what single bots to target, what ones to jam, suppress, or destroy. 

A smaller force can and will always win, as they can react faster, move together more fluid.  The force with the follow bots can be out maneuvered, out paced, over extended.

We use follow bots to intimidate other forces, as well as, they WORK well for doing what they were intended for, following and RSA'ing.

This is not a problem, the problem were facing is that people are not willing to attack, they SEE a force and make a choice without thinking farther then what they see. 

Use the resources that you have, the tele's you have on your island, the land mass that your on, the speed of what your bots is verse the other force.

This requires strategy, but more so a high level of tactics.

Please when you say instance, please have a mechanic that allows us to attack players as well, alpha (more so grief on alpha) and beta.

I know this is jumping the gun and all.  Other then that I like what I hear, a step in the right direction.

Honestly...other things should take a higher priority first....this is way down the list.

CAREBEAR SPOTTED :DDD

Can we back up just a bit....I do not really want "Raid Instances".  I want missions that are "safe" but CAN be found and grief'ed.

A Alliance feature still isn't a high priority.  However, another Upgrade of the squad system would be a good direction.  More options, ect ect.

Random Mission Generator isn't a bad idea.  I see this idea having a good potential. 

What I would suggest is to not make missions around a squad, but to make missions extreamly hard so players have the option of grouping if they want, or to solo them if possible (and trust me just because its hard on day one for one person, in a month it will be a breeze for that one person).

What I'm trying to say here is, on day one missions are hard, in 30 more days they are extreamly easy.

Make them hard!!!!  And then, step back and make them even harder!!!

(Scaled with the Lvl of missions of course.)

Um....I really shouldn't even have to respond to this, but I will.

No effort Income is bad,  Saps require effort, get the times, and to get the loot.

No effort No Deal.

Aye, back to an Eve system I guess tongue
I know tried and tested never fails big_smile

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THIS DO NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL HERE!

This was basically my point, yes we like new ideas but what Eve (the basics now) does is perfect in a mission sense.

However Eve uses a instance based approach.  (Warping into a point in space, yes you can probe down the site and grief them, this is a GOOD thing.)

If the DEV's can come up with a way to incorporate this mission strat. into Perp they will have a successful mission system.  Having a "safe" place to mission to call your mission is a good thing, and as well having a way to kill and grief the missioners is a good thing as well.  As the trade off is it requires effort on the griefer.

Well whats left to do?

We have done it all.

Funny thing is....I didn't even bother to log in during the "event".

I'm sorry, I just cant support this idea of not having a DEV ran tourney.  We all wait for one year to have the chance to win one thing and one thing only.  The Vanguard Bots, we don't want some *** loot, or ICE, we want the Vanguards, Period.  (Most of all the players in the game now have more bots, more nic, more everything that we cant even use it all, WHY would we want MORE stuff from a useless pot?)

I see this as just a cop-out of basically "running out of resources".  I know that the DEV's are working extreamly hard to continue this game, to continue there labor of love as it maybe.  Personally, I would hope that they as a team would have a good time to reflect on what this game has really became.  In simple terms, its Stopped.  The wheels are not moving, bots are not dieing, the bases are not flowing up and down.

If all of these things are not a sign of something needs to be changed, I don't know what would be.

Something needs to change, either a outside investor needs to come in and buy the game, or The DEV's need to seek outside help and get others involved.

We have had two years to get things rolling, the first year I agree were good, we saw relatively good player base, good battles ect.  However, in the second things SLOWED, we have to keep the energy flowing, keep the game moving forward and this, is not happening now at all.

Eve had the same thing, but when they hit that point they got outside help and expanded when everything said to shut shop down.

STEAM is NOT the answer, its merely a MEANS to get from point A to B, NOT the driver.  The Driving force must be (in all truth) MONEY. WE need investors to take a interest in this game and to get things rolling again, to get the money back into the DEV's hands so they can do the work to improve the game, and to get others improving the game as well.

Now this, of course is all from the outside looking in, I have ZERO working knowledge of what goes on behind the closed doors.  This is just a posting of how most of the community feels, we all support you, were STILL here playing, subbing, but this support is starting to slip.  Even the hardest players are starting to feel like its time to move on.

Obi is styx, BAMMMMMM HIMMMMMMM!

Aside from just blatant trolling, if you would look at the perceived price of the market and compare that with the actual price and then compare those numbers with the other fragments within the same grouping.  You should come to the same rational conclusion.