After reading a number of posts in the trial accounts section that complained about a lack of action that draws you into the game, I had the following idea:

I think the game could benefit from one more island.  Specifically, a PvP island that could be sparked to from nearly anywhere.  There would be no way to get a bot off of the island.  Equipment and bots on the island would be free or at most cost 10% of normal values, and everything that exists in the game would be available to buy.  The idea of course, is that anytime anyone wanted to fight another person, they could get there with minimal effort and fight at very little expense. 

The island could be listed as a training simulator, perhaps, and kills from the island probably wouldn't go onto the kill board.  One of the tutorial missions would include a requirement to do some training on this island so everyone would quickly see the PvP aspect of the game. 

I bet it would quickly become the most active island in the game.

Regards,

SPoT

I'm really trying hard to like this game.  It seems like there's a great deal of potential and new mods always cause some new problems...

But, having gotten through the bugged mining missions with the use of directional detectors, I'm now trying to work through some harvester missions.  The current one:  Harvest Helioptris on Daoden.  After spending about two hours tooling around Daoden looking for Helioptris, I decided it might be better to search for it on the web.  After an hour of non-productivity, I came across a little gem in the update notes suggesting there is no helioptris on Daoden anymore.

Is this correct?

If so, can someone suggest where I might find some Helioptris in my entry-level bot? (not to mention how to get there)

To the devs:
The lack of responses to other's posts suggests you're not reading this thread, and anyone can do the math that says an estimated 500 accounts at US$10/month per account means this is probably a part-time job.  Nonetheless, you really need to get the tutorials worked out.  Reading through the forums, this is costing you subscriptions every week.

Regards,

SPoT