What’s wrong with Perpetuum:
•    No feeling of ownership of anything in game for alpha or beta corps.

•    Players are not free to explore the game, the game space is small and does not require more than a single day to explore. This is my only real complaint of this game and it has been a sore spot for me from day one. Any living space needs to support its inhabitants. For a sand box game this one it TINY. Heck for a MMORPG this game is TINY. Ill keep saying it until it happens this game needs a massive explosion of playable space in order for it to survive long term. You can add all the content you want but until you have more space then you know what to do with you will never have a true sandbox game. One thing I learned from others games such as eve is that there can never be enough places for people to explore or play in.

•    There is a lack of professions in the game, the three main professions are Mining, PVP and Building things to sell on the market. We need viable alternatives for these three professions. Faction / mission grinding rewards need to be present(sparks are not enough to make the grind worth it) faction ammo is a good start this needs to be expanded to T+ items and faction bots.

•    We need the GM’s back !!! I know there was a lot of behind the rumors of which GM’s were actually in which corps but a company presence on the server makes a big difference whether you think so or not. I wouldn’t say we always need a DEV on the live server but a Gm would nice to see on regularly basis.

•    Content can and has been created by players to keep the game interesting, I think people will keep doing so. I also think that the current focus on PBS is a step in the right direction. Do something and do it well if the PBS system come out good then I will be very pleased and this game will have my support for yet another year. Yes I am being completely honest I am betting heavily on this next big change to be good otherwise I don’t see playing with just me and some pixels being enough to justify all of my subs. I think I am like many other people that want to interact with other but if there are not “others” to interact with then what’s the point?

•    @ grem: I think you went well out of your way to do what you did for the game it needs more people like you to help support it by getting the word out. BRAVO !!

•    Yes im in the same holding pattern that many people are and until there is something that excites people again then this will be the status quo.

@ Arga:
You raised some issues that are very important for the reality of living on these gamma islands. But I think and hope the DEV’s have thought about these as well.

One simple solution to much of this is to make the structures have the “right” amount of HP
For example:
Turret 75~100K HP
Reactor 2.5 ~ 5 Million HP
Main Terminal 10 ~ 20 Million HP
These types of HP amounts are just ballpark but they will make it so that groups of people coming in small 5 to 10 man roams will not be a threat. They may kill a few walls and turrets but they won’t be able to touch the main reactor to Terminal unless they bring some serious firepower. I’m thinking 20 + heavy mechs shooting for hours to break the main structures not just a few minutes. 

The amount of time it takes to destroy these things needs to be very well balanced. Attackers should actually need to “campaign “ in all senses of the word to take out a PBS terminal not just throw together a few weekend warrior runs.

-1 to no passwords on cans,  I can think of all kinds of ways to exploit this.

+1 to allowing cans to be killed ... should have at least 15K HP or some where around the level of a destruction sap.

So far in this game I have not seen any one Corp have only one faction of Mechs. This being said if the Devs put one or two types of recourses on the gammas  that can only be found on those gamma islands these recourses will be needed by all corps. 

Red Gamma | mineral Rx and mineral Ry
Green Gamma | mineral Gx and mineral Gy
Blue Gamma | Mineral Bx and mineral By

This allocation of recourses will make it so corps will need to go to different gammas for their Mech fleet construction. Or they will need to trade for it on the open market. It will benefit corps to trade the recourses they have access to, to other corps that hold recourses they do not have access to. I am going to be optimistic and say that some will fight their way to getting access to those recourses and others will be diplomatic and set up trade agreements. I do not think any group will have the capacity (players and playtime .. all TZ’s ) to lock down 6+ gamma islands. Maybe in the future this will not be the case, at that time there should be more islands deployed to increase the area of the game (fish dont grow in small tanks!!). 

The reason for deploying lots of gamma islands is because it will make it very difficult and or impossible for one player corp or alliance to control all of the gamma islands of one faction and cut off the supply chain for that recourse that is located on that island. With 6 to 9 new gammas of each faction it will be to say the least a “challenge” for any one group to control.

A really good way to balance the islands and the new resources that will be introduced is to make each Island type have 2 or 3 minerals that are tied to it by faction. And these new minerals are only found on the new gamma islands of their specific faction ( Green, Blue, Red, ) indy can be mixed to all.

What I mean by all of this is new PBS outpost and deployable structures should be made by players, the players will need to mine these new resources and these resources will go in to making faction buildings. This makes sense because all the different factions have different building skins.

The next step would be to add this to new T5 and above modules … could even add in new fragments only found on these islands.

Next step add this to new MK3 and or new model Mech construction.. you want that MK3 seth you need to go mine the mins on a red gamma island or trade with a player corp who lives on one, also they may want the stuff you have because they cant get it.

These things will make commerce between all factions and corps / alliances work well as well as bring in a lot of PVP.

I only want to game to be successful. My opinion is that this game will not be successful if you can do everything in "safe locations" there has to be a point at which if you want to achieve higher ("end game") content you must accept substantially higher levels of risk just like the risk of mining Epitron. this means you need "true" beta / gamma Islands and content that only exists in those areas. PBS and TF should be in this area. otherwise its just a kiddy fun park with no real risk.

Alpha should be designed as a starting place for players to gather and build their experience in order to survive in beta. It should not be the alternative to beta, like some games that have pvp and non pvp servers with the exact same content on each server.

Lemon, ask the devs for a new TP from Hersh to the already made arena Gamma Island. your problem will be solved. since your a "sportscaster" it should be no problem.

Still no updates Dev's ????

you do not need any new mechanics that dont already exist to accomplish what you are asking.. all you need is a presence on your island. I have seen people that logged out come back to being walled in because they were seen by a scout when they were logging out. ... if you dont have a "presence" or scouts then stop whining about having people logged off in your island... how were they able to log off there anyways.. most likely because you dont have a strong enough presence at the time they came.

ZOMG: if logging out of the game is an exploit you are seriously confused about game mechanics.

Hey why not add a dock timer so once you hit the button to dock up you must wait 30 seconds (after instability) for the porter to warm up and let you in ... this would stop thoes *** docking games everyone likes to play.

come up with ideas to encourage pvp not discourage it.

Look at the market records and reverse all the market transactions related to the 3 wall items ... you have the power to do this as we can look at our own market transaction history. Also i can assure you us residents of Kent and Dom will take you up on your offer remove all our walls and give us our NIC back. you don't believe me ? ask any 62nd or WAR member.