Kernal prices are hilariously imbalanced.  They need to remove low level kernal orders or ALL kernal NPC orders and the players will decide their worth.  They will then dramatically drop in price and be more balanced for the difficulty it is to get each type.

Adding collision means a lot more data travelling through the server.  Not impossible, sure, but they wanted to keep bandwidth usage down to keep sub prices down.

It also has huge potential for griefing in this game if not handled properly.  Have a group of 6 people stand in a circle around the noob spawn point and they cant do anything about it.  Would have to have some sort of "push" mechanism and not true collision so you could go through people but it would be very difficult to stack people on top of eachother.

If zergs cannot be managed by other means, this would be the next logical step.

Things are supposedly in the works to start dealing with this.  Lets just wait and see what we get and how well it can deal with zergs.  EvE grew but never got rid of zerg tactics, but I would be saddened to see this game head in the same direction.

Fair enough.  Adding EP deletion cost was a rash decision to remedy the problem, but by far from the best choice.  There also needs to be more help thrown at you at the start that you can choose to ignore or not.  Yes, theres a wealth of knowledge in the help files and forums, but for a noob its hard to sift through properly.

I've already recommended a 1/2 week grace period for an account where you can respec once (maybe unlimited but that could have issues) during.  After that period you're on your own, regardless if you make new characters.

Currently you cant blow anything up but bots, so running away when you are assured to lose if you engage just favors being cautious.  Everyone has done it, and unless both sides feel they can at least do some damage to their enemy there likely wont be a fight.

Hopefully we wont have to wait too long before player built structures are in the game.  At that point, if you dont pvp you will get you buildings blown the f*ck up, so being a coward on beta wont be an option.  You will probably have defenses to make protecting your home easier, but if you just run and hide you'll probably start losing your sh*t quickly.

We also just need more pvp islands in general.  The 3 we have is not nearly enough room.  They wanted to keep it smaller because of the population, but when a small group of corps can essentially own 1/3 of the pvp land mass, there needs to be more.  If theres more beta room to get "lost" in, the smaller guys are more likely to venture out and try to make a home there.

We dont need to be crammed together to ensure pvp.  If theres a presence out there that is growing and threatening your way of life, you will travel to find them and try to stop them even if theres 2 empty islands between the two of you.

F*ckin magnet....... -ic weapons.  Bane of a Waspish's existence.

When in terminal you can open your bots into and it will tell your the % of resistance as it relates to the current resistance points.  You can figure out how the curve works with all of the numbers you're given with just the base values.  The most resistance you can get is around 80%, but you wont see much more 70% because it gets exponentially harder as you stack more resist points on it.

There used to be a graph displaying the point vs percentage curve, but it has been since lost in the beta archives and I couldnt find it in any search.

If you're not worried about nic/h then I implore you to get a few friends and haul your *** out to beta and fight a higher level bot spawn.  They are much more interesting, although repetitive all the same, and require much more coordination and tactics than anything on alpha.  It is still quite profitable if you can avoid pvp, and is certainly much more entertaining.

Mech spawns are easily much more profitable than any noob spawn, but we just havnt seen a large enough proportion of players in mechs, or supply of mechs in general, for large group mech farming to be needed.  Most are still doing bot/small research as well, so there just isnt the demand for mech kernals so much just yet either.

Player A takes assignment.

Player A's friend takes the corresponding assignment.

Player A either goes out in a cheap ship and gets killed by his friend, or Player A does the mission without any problem from his friend for the reward.  His friend takes the faction loss because they are just doing this for the loot and he has nothing else to do with his faction anyway, and will just grind it back up soon enough.  This takes 0 time out of his friends game and he is richer for it.

Its just way too exploitable, and if you make the rewards really high you'll only encourage more exploiting and not more legitimate use of them.

Bounty hunting I can get with.  It would have to have its limitations like requiring them to be killed in X type bot (assualt or above or something) to count as to not be exploited, but it would be a nice way for corps to spend their money and give an incentive to smaller groups who want to pvp but dont like the inherent loss involved.

You shouldnt have to accept the bounty, it just gets rewarded when the player is killed by another player.  Groups could go out in areas where they know there are many players with bounties to increase their chances of getting the bounty.

You are an agent at a terminal.  The game is the program used to connect to your bot.  The backstory page is your agent reading about history online.

Immersion successful.

Small group pvp up to about 20 per side is the best kind of PvP, and I think most would agree with that.  The most fun I've had in fights is when we had around those numbers.  Its not enough to just obliterate any target called instantly, and not too few that it just turns into a goose chase through the island never doing enough damage to kill something.

I can think of many common situations where you wont fit a repper, wont fit a lwf, wont fit an armor plate, or wont fit a hardener.

Robots get more slots because they are bigger and can accommodate more modules at one time.  There are still a wealth of fittings you can do with a bot, not as many as a mech of course, but the options are definitely there.

The only thing I could see happening is advanced assaults that require dedication into robot control that have more of a certain slot, but dont necessarily have better stats.  You would have to improve your extensions to fully fit them, and they would be more powerful than assaults and would be useful in pvp against even mechs, or at least not super fragile compared to mechs.  This should only come after we get destroyers, though.

Corporation built sensor towers.

So standing on this imaginary pedestal means I can levitate?  AWESOME!

because spreading out our forces is a smart idea.

Arkhes will never disappear as long as they are the perfect scout and can kill things for free.