26 Reply by Hunter

(149 replies, posted in News and information)

If i understood everything right: DeVs made a great butthurt for the veterans. Good one wink

About the patch: it's a brilliant idea. It's enough a EP *** for newbies. They have to be equal and able to resist.

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27 Reply by Hunter

(54 replies, posted in Bugs)

I agree with OP. My opinion is: Mining tower shall boost mining proccess, nothing more.

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28 Reply by Hunter

(20 replies, posted in General discussion)

Crepitus wrote:

The Bad:
* Spark teleport has been removed. I understand the issues and the highways help but I still can't help feel the loss of convenience especially for my industrial accounts. I would have preferred that everyone just receive the same amount and remove the skill say 2 or 3.

Yes, you can't teleport a whole alliance to kill somebody under terminal. And this obviously bad for you. But you shall not.

Crepitus wrote:

* Solo NPC farming has been nerfed to the point of uselessness thanks to the change in NPC aggro (which I knew was coming before I left last time but I'm still sad to see implemented) against support.

I think you need to investigate it better.

Crepitus wrote:

* Premium sub fee should be half what it is ($8/mo per account if you buy credits in $60 increments is high), I don't remember what it was before but I do remember getting year codes when the game was sub only that were like $5/mo.

Problems with money? Play free. It's possible in perpetuum. Moreover you can buy it for NIC.

Crepitus wrote:

* Nerf to all bot bonuses. This is pretty big (50% to 30% is a massive nerf) and it looks like it was somewhat compensated for by adding new extensions but not entirely. I'm not happy about this but at least it effects everyone equally.

Less damage, less impenetrable shields, out of imbalanced zeniths... well maybe it bring more fun in the game and make another bots more usable?

Crepitus wrote:

The Ugly:
* The map layout is the worst thing I've ever seen in Perpetuum. Creating 2 choke points per color for Beta/Gamma, effectively walling off 1/3rd of the game each is just stupid. This, coupled with the nerf to interzones, highways to every entry, and the current probe mechanics it easily creates a situation worse than the spark teleports. The only reason this hasn't made PvP completely untenable is the lack of players.

Spark, spark, spark. This is not teleport network layot or spark problem. That all your habbits. I think.

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29 Topic by Hunter

(3 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

I paused to check everything before to say something. And now i'm sure: I like perpetuum as it is.

1) At least there are less chance for blobbing, undesirable PvP and losts. Guys, really. Last few months i read topics about problems around demobs-vs-plates and current speed charachteristics... I see the only one thing: it's hard to destroy enemy robots. Yes. You don't need a victory, you looking for kills. This is fatal habit for kills in the game spoils everything. You don't care about intrusions. Kills, kills, kills...

2) Assignment system. Of course there are lot of work, but good foundation set. Less walks, more action, more ways for getting rewards. Good job DeVs!

3) Shouting around pay to win? F#ck you guys. I remember the time with plated seths and 9-10 repair bots on follow and everything was fine. When DeV's gave opportunity for noobs to get some EP (in starter packs) you started a holywar against P2W. Basically f#ck you here...

4) Goal for a solo play. Finnaly it appeared. Black robots looks tasty and available. This is a really officer bots and it have to be.

I could continue to list the dignity of the game, but I will not. I will say this:

Dear DeV's! Continue your work and don't give a chance to shift balance to interests some players. Your money - new players. Make interesting game for them. Old players will play anyway.

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30 Reply by Hunter

(94 replies, posted in General discussion)

This is not a crash, but rebalance. 6th lvl assignments gives ~10-20 mil nic. That's it. Ppl have lot of money, so will be new balance on market. This is a good one i think.

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31 Reply by Hunter

(149 replies, posted in Balancing)

Ok, i see 6 pages in the topic and no any kind of pool the problems. That means there are no big problems with robot balance OR developers have no time to read, analyze and aggregate.

What for need a pool? - For now i need read all posts to make sure the problem not sounded yet.

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32 Reply by Hunter

(73 replies, posted in News and information)

Can anyone explain what difference between buying 1 and buying 20 upgrade kits?

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33 Reply by Hunter

(26 replies, posted in Balancing)

I think this is the lastone topic that should be read by DeVs. The project need a money. If someone don't want help the game - he can leave. Stop whining guys.

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34 Reply by Hunter

(15 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Khader Khan wrote:

...bla-bla-bla...

Tl:dr Demobs should remove highway bonus thoughts? L-demobs might have a purpose again.

Yes, highway bonus have to be removed under demob. Energy tanks been replaced by ECMs, now it's time to play with demob.

BTW we can create some kind of roadmap around equipment and rearrange it every... hmm.. 3 months? If this changes bring back 1-2 vet players game will increase it's popularity on ~10-15%.

TLDR: +1

Astrologers proclaim the week of demob. Everyone should use demobs cause of it cancels highway effect on enemies.

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35 Reply by Hunter

(7 replies, posted in Bugs)

DEV Zoom wrote:

It's also possible that they are at the edge of their home range and can't attack you from there. It was either this or they follow you to the end of the world. But this will go away anyway when we remove fixed spawns.

It will be enough to expand their radius to 1km (instead of 500m). Really.

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36 Reply by Hunter

(7 replies, posted in Bugs)

DEV Zoom wrote:

Depends what dwdm_ka is doing there, cause apparently he gets all the aggro if I see it right.

Nope man. This is a just looter and hauler. he does not agro anything. There are two parts in video. Hunter's window and Dwdm_ka's window.

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37 Reply by Hunter

(7 replies, posted in Bugs)

So, Zoom, is this really intended?..

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38 Topic by Hunter

(7 replies, posted in Bugs)

If you shoot NPC on 600+ meters distance from center it's spawn, they all move into center and wait until you kill them all. Fix it plz.

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39 Reply by Hunter

(78 replies, posted in Balancing)

Zoom, do you wanna attract the players on beta? - Make possible to refine epi on the beta terminals/outposts only. Thats it. Ah yes. Don't forget to order lot of popcorn.

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40 Topic by Hunter

(1 replies, posted in General discussion)

DEV Zoom wrote:
Jita wrote:

Why would a winter sale - even if it was something crazy like 95% - bring anyone to the game when the people who have it for free don't even play?

I'm aware that it's not the only reason, but the people who have it for free don't play because the other people who have it for free don't play smile That's basically the most frustrating thing for us devs. (I'm not here to lament, just putting in my 2c.)

Yes. Many people bought game. They able to play it for "free" (with no additional investments), but they not plays.
Why? Ok, need to explain one more time:
The players tried all aspects of the game. We killed each others really LOT of times in all possible and impossible variants (that been fixed/nerfed/boosted).
We learned all database, made all kinds of robots.

Eddie Murphy told about it many time ago. So basically we heard that noise (uuuuUGGHHHH!) from the game. No mystery anymore - no interests. This is our b*tch. We know about her too much...

Sigmund Freud would explain it better, but he's dead.

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41 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Ok, the topic discussed enough and i suspect only trolling in the next posts. Close the topic plz.

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42 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Jita wrote:

If ep didn't exist in the game would more people start playing? Of course not. Would it help retain new players who joined? Of course not. That's why this idea is stupid. Would people join and play Eve online if it was buy to play and they had nobody playing? Yes, I think they would. That's what you need to fix.

When your population is so small it doesn't exist as in perpetuum you have to focus on making a great one player game. If they enjoy it on their own then they will enjoy it as a group. That is where perpetuum has failed.

I think the idea is not clear for you. We have the old players, who really able to spoil the game for new players. Many of them not acive now. But after good newbies inflow they will back. And i suggest to make some barriers for that players - not against active players.

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43 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Naismith wrote:

TL;DR

Newbies get it 50% faster and cheaper then vets did.

But thats not enough. EP gap is too big.

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44 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Naismith wrote:

The rules of the sandbox must be equal and clear for everyone...

- This.
So firstone thing that DeVs must do first - make equal rules and conditions for everyone. If old player have 2-3 millions EP, it should be able for newbies too.

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45 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

The problem is that when new players activity increases, old players like a rawen swarm assault and chase them everywhere. Just because of they can. They have a lot of robots, a lot of guns and a lot of EP to be able beat noobs.

I still can't understand the DeVs, when they filmed that video on alsbale. When couple M2S just murdered toons of newbies under Brightstone. That should be a signal for them, but nothing has been done. Lot of ppl leaved just because of such injustice but DeV's still going follow the dead-end EvE-online EP politics.

I remind you. Eve dies. It had good popularity because of it released in the time of lack the good games. There are no inflow the new players. At the same time old players leaves it one by one.

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46 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Concept is: If you not plays the game - you do not need EP. If you have old account - you should not have an advantage on new players, who start play when you decided play again. This is not fair for ppl who just found the game.

In the all normal/popular games every year raises level of players and equipment. So old ones who started play after long break must overtake the others.

This "feature" not for you. Moreover this is against me too. But new players should be first on care of developers.

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47 Reply by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

basicaly yes.

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48 Topic by Hunter

(30 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

I ask to limit EP amount that possible accumulate on account to 200k.
Exceptions:
1) Extensions downgrade
2) EP reset/unlock
3) EP booster should still give 1440 everyday (not 2880) after accumulate 200k
4) maybe few other exceptions.

More reasons to login and play the game.

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49 Reply by Hunter

(12 replies, posted in Open discussion)

Any ETA info about release?

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50 Reply by Hunter

(70 replies, posted in General discussion)

Turn perpetuum to RTS?.. Worst idea ever. Should be playable by one account.
Multiaccounting is a bad something.

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