Thank you for endless hours of awesome conversation, explosions, sand castle building and all the effort that you put into this game. I'd love to run into you on a private server, once they are available and ready to run.

Also thanks to the community. Although you/we haven't always been nice, it was one of the coolest gaming community to play with/against and I'll probably remember the names of a few of you guys for the rest of my life. Be safe o7

Keeping the progress is half the issue.

Due to several different patches, fixes and exploits that were not exploits, old corps have massive stashs of resources and people have hit the 3m EP.

If we were ever to get a bunch of new guys in, old corps would always have a giant advantage, especially if we roll back the massive industrial boosts (which we definitely should, the amount of minerals you can get in a very short time make every piece of equipment pretty much worthless, except for the prototype-fragments)

You could say the same for eve though. Minmatar, Gallente and Amarr weapons are exactly the same, different RoF, Range and damage, as well as visuals. Pretty much exactly the same as in Perp. Goes for other MMOs as well btw, all spells are the same, all ranged attacks are the same, all melee attacks are the same.. Kind of a useless argument.

And the guy tracking their economy apparently is really stupid and doesn't know anything about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/6 … n/diovza9/

Takes the highest (most likely impossible) possible tick as the general average, says that more than 1000 people are the 1% of the 1% in his game (quick comparison: 1% of 1% of 50k (currently the double amount of agents online) would be 5 players... so.. yea).

With comments like that they'd have a first semester in business doing a better job than that guy does by publishing his opinions on reddit..

Thought I'd disagree with Jita as his suggested actions seemed a bit extreme, but the only thing I can really disagree on with him is 100% drop in loot.

I'd like more red spawns, and especially more observers. Observers are about the only big challenge in PvE in this game and they are REALLY hard to find, unless your gamma outpost is right on their route.

Removing gamma (and even closing beta 2 for a while?) will bring back more pvp, as well as all his other suggestions.

In my opinion one of the biggest issues was unlimited epriton respawn with random locations. Fixed locations gave you a hunting ground. Not sure if you need to put a limit on the epriton amount, if you limit it to certain locations it will increase risk already and you will have to defend miners again.

Also yes, please remove the balance patch. While I personally am a BIG fan of diminishing returns and love to see diverse fitting ideas, having to drive a gropho because it dominates in DPS, alpha, range and accumulator efficiency is just.. very irritating!

Take your time, ask for our input and work on it.

Also please let us know about financial needs and think about crowdfunding ideas. I'd be happy to throw in extra €€ if I see communication+results

He means that you use a charge which "activates" an artifact that's way out of range (example 2000m away) which you can't reach for example because a hostile base is on top. This way you wouldn't get the loot, but a new artifact would spawn, if I got that correctly Rolafen?

Not too bad of an idea, actually, as long as it is limited and you can't just pop them until you got your desired artifact sites

Issue is that new PVE players will not be able to afford bots/equipment in the early stages as low level missions do not generate money equivalent to the price of items they would need to do higher level missions.

I have talked to several producer newbies who were amazed by how much money they can charge for simple items like T2. I have talked to several PvE players who were outraged by how expensive T3 and T4 modules were compared to how little money they made with their low level missions.

Inflation is not a problem for vets, but for newbies, which are the most valuable resource to this game as it will inevitably die if you don't keep them ingame. Is that so hard to understand?

Do we vetplayers have to create funds to keep new players ingame now, instead of letting the game handle it in a proper way?

Edit: Before you say "Eve can handle it, too"; think about something else: Eve is so famous among sandbox fans due to massive community content, newbie corps (EVE UNI, Pandemic Horde, Karmafleet, you name it) and tons of videos with cool space videos on youtube, that people just bite through.

Perpetuum on the other hand lacks on the graphic front, there is no equivalent to videos like 'Clarion Call' or 'This is Eve' and has a populationbase that basically can not afford the loss of newbies due such stupidities like inflation.

You should check up on it more often.

If a ganker sees you, a warning sound won't help. Either you avoid him by planning smart and using help of other people (scouts), or you will get ganked anyway, with or without a scout.

If you look at the screen and PLAY the game, instead of going afk, you will be able to react.

A game is meant to be played, if you do not like the profession you are doing ingame, look for a different profession that you enjoy.

Even if I haul a lot more than gank (I don't think I've ever made it onto a transport killmail), I am 100% against this measure.

-1. Gamma is supposed to be wild lands and you are supposed to supply yourself. Also prevents you from shutting yourself in in your fortress.

+1