Many have been arguing about the problem of Dynamic Ore Spawns colliding with Static NPC Spawns. The typical reactionary response is that one should bring friends to fend off the NPCs. Always the argument is about how it is POSSIBLE.

The quote above is an excellent analogy to illustrate how stupid the "Friends Solution" is to this problem. It's simply not worth the time and energy ...not until the day comes when all Ore Spawns are on top of NPC Spawns. Bad Mechanic is still bad.

For those of us with limited (if any) knowledge on API, specifically Perpetuum's API...

Is the data displayed on Perp-Kill and sequer.nl delayed by result of game mechanics or as result of the individuals managing the sites?

If one day Doek swallowed a crazy pill or was infiltrated by nano bots losing all conscious control could he release Kill data in real time? Do the managers of those two sites have actual ability to show that data in real time, even if by design they are delaying it's release?

And if anyone can access data from sequer.nl or Perp-kill what is to stop them from having that data in real time?

For record Doek seems honorable guy. I have no idea who manages Per-Killl. But I don't care how honorable they are its bad bad policy to leave that in player hands. "Good for the Game" is another piss poor standard of fuzziness.

Not sure what I think about Specific Coordinate Intel after the fact (real time is obvious disaster). I can see how its an issue now with a low population and not much data to sift through. But assuming Steam takes off my thought is that without 3rd party software it would be hard to find useful patterns. And then if would mainly be probabilities, not certainties about future action.

Far more disturbing to me is that the API is trusted to select individual(s) on some "honor" system. This may have worked in low population low budget days, but should be reigned in post Steam. Did I miss something on who gets API access?

Any real-time info should be restricted to an hour, at least. 15 minutes is not enough. I'd rather not see even a hint of a kill on the boards until that hour has passed. And game developers should have control over the timeliness of when that API gets released for public viewing, not player(s) on some fuzzy honor system. Bad bad policy.

PLease, please, please, will someone create a User Friendly Fitting Tool

Same video? I guess it's been long time since I saw it.

+1 90 days EP boost on new accounts

For the sake of Marketing and Feelings

not best first impression for those 110. I'd say let them have a drink on the house.

+1

..still not a fan of this particular Point Allocation spark nerf. Even though I think it does not go far enough it really should not be tied to EP in any way. Plus I hope there are still other teleport and highway enhancements on the way, along with contracts systems and remote buy sell. Those problems still exist and need a proper solution.

$$ for SpT and logistics? Well $$ for SpT is a hurdle and the reason SpT needed a nerf was its near unlimited restrictions. But I guess $$ for xx is a slippery slope. You could argue $$ for DPS boost. I'm interested n seeing where it all goes. Pay items opens a huge door

I'm sure someone will find a way. I wonder if a reverse pit would work. If the player is in a small mazed pit will the NPCs tele directly on top of him?

If referring to my post above...

to clarify, not Free of $$ cost. Devs always get their money and player always pay the $$ fee for the reset. The "free" I'm talking about is NO EP PENALTY. Current Dev proposal has no EP penalty.

Sounds reasonable. If you guys are lacking the confidence to handle the server load then yeah, by all means use higher price as a break. When server stabilizes and all the people who would buy at $30 do buy, then lower the price like every other game developer on the planet (and listen to the inequity of it all).

/expert on all things
/officially knows everything
/irrefutable presumption: everyone else is wrong