Wow, wait let me get some popcorn

That looks great, Devs should do something similar in terminal. This site is looking really good now, I use it a lot. Certainly helps when Ville is trolling.

I really don't see any 'buts' in this article. This is all about selling a product to players and keeping them, it certainly applies to sandbox MMOs too, specially Perpetuum.

These are the most relevant:

1. Knowing you audience

Do the Devs really know their audience? What can they do to get to know us better? Playerbase taste changes too, knowing your players is a constant communication not just when game is in beta. Not really a bad job done here, but it should improve.

2. Play the game

Yes, everyone Dev/staff needs to play the game, on many occasions Devs don't really know what's going on until it's too late.

3. Organize the Flow of People and Ideas

Yes, the constant traveling Perp has: 'Constant travel is just another grind, and grinding is tedious, and tedium is the opposite of what games are supposed to be about.'

4. Create incentive to explore.

Where is incentive to explore in Perp. There no special place everything is uniform all islands are the same size and all stations have roughly the same stuff. Factions has little meaning.

9. For Every Ounce of Treatment Provide a Ton of Fun

Can the Devs (I mean Dev Zoom ) answer these: What makes your MMO the one that gamers should want to play? Why should I spend my money on this game and not others?

10. keep it up

Game needs a faster client and a good server in a different location, I've heard countless problems with connection issues since the game went live. We have lost loads of players because of this.

+1 great post.

Puzzling to say the least, with the directional scanner its pretty easy imho.

A wipe with all our EP back

Maybe I join you guys some day, if you like

They cannot sue Perpetuum it's a lost case for sure. Perp is not even a space mmo. How many WOW clones did Blizzard sue?

If they are smart enough covering all times zones I think they can. Log off traps, spies. Look for weaknesses and they will find it.

Anyways this is all speculation, still feel it shouldn't be that hard and it's somewhat overpowered together with the interference mechanic which needs a buff, to favour attackers.

Sydnic: Some of the game issues you mention are valid, but 90% of the problems is just low population. Look at Eve, how many half completed projects they are trying to fix now for 2 years. Still patching it up from utter incompetence from the past, specially the 'Incarna expansion'.

I'm sure 500 players covering all time zones can easily take any gamma, it's just a matter of when they are ready. New players should not be able to take gamma anyways, as Line mentions.

Just need to wait for CCP to f*** up again. I am watching closely what they are planning, like a possible complete change to mining (which has never been tried before). We just need 1% of their population which could jump start the game again. Who knows what can happen these days.

No one expected the Eve exodus, and I bet this game got noticed by CCP as a threatening competitor for a while.. Wondering now who did the DDOS...

Let me get this straight, Before the gamma expansion I could deplete a mineral field. Did it re- spawn somewhere else? No.

Remember the ore regeneration nerf? Good old Norhoop days with AXE, CHAOS, JOKE, RG and company there was barely any Epitron left on that island. Can this happen today with more players? No. Sure it could fragment and end up on NPC spawns, but still no need, now we have gamma for mining.

So with enough miners, before the ore field changes mining could surpass regeneration, still infinite if you wait ofc, but we needed it for wars on a daily basis.