Hah I just popped the question, the details not sure.. LOL  Could be a percentage of load mined, so it's win win.  Though the protectors loosing a mech would be much more costly I would think.  It's not guaranteed safety, but at least you know you have backup as a miner.  The Protectors might have to make some back hand deals with the common pirate corps to keep off while they are working the area.. LOL

Not sure if it would work, but was wondering if anyone has ever tried that...

Plus testing the waters a little... All the Open beta and Closed beta in the world wont tell you what launch players really desire.. PotBS ran into that one... I bet they are just making sure they can walk before they go for a long dash through the woods.

As for CGI Clip, heck a good in game graphic clip works, look at Star Trek Online! Explosions!  They could do like a few mini episodes, or perhaps some players will.  If they needed help with a CGI clip, I would just hit up the local school that press's their student body to submit into siggraph.  Get a good quality clip at a low cost.

But give them just a little time, they probably don't want to get into the problem of "It's to big for my britches"

Edited side notes: For people making ingame footage videos.. a word of advice, in your editing software, find in filters, usally under catagory color correction or adjust, find Levels! Use it, Love it, make the Light Levels Pop, most videos I can't even see whats going on because it's just to dark, and I run CRT's for the better color correction capabilities over LCD's and still can't make out whats going on.  Help Promote, Use Levels for your vids!

Thanks I've been enjoying and learning so far, though i think even the vets are learning still.

And I know this is going to be a lil redundant in question.  If it goes Boom in PVP it's gone for good too right?

Is there capture territory or anything in this for corps or is PvP just arena type fights? (You get to loot others?)