This is awesome news! Keep us updateand give us an idea within a few weeks of gamma release. With a rough timeline of expansions it always creates content in game and plenty of meta gaming. All in all this looks like excellent balancing and content

I know this is off topic but I wish you hadn't gotten rid of NPC explosion damage allowing loot drop, I heard wonderful things about beacon pits.

Beta island activity is back with the server moves. Even if gamme is ready and fixedd don't impliment it until the rest of the population thinks its a good idea. Maybe wait until you can put a 25% off on steam too. Just focus on the islands at hand please

That's why you hire devs and artists to be a team specifically for these tasks. Don't do it all yourself because then it ends up being half assed without even meaning to be. This game might be your baby but if you don't hire and delegate this game will continue to struggle.

The bad seems to be in chronological order but in all fairness its true for xyz reasons. Best thing I think could happen in the future is they use the cash to continue hiring and bringing people into the developement and marketing areas. With the move to Amsterdam can you put another 10-15% off for new players? Not sure how steam does their discounts but if there is any way for you to do it frequently I would to bring in growth every 4 week's. Bring out a tutorial phase asap with a small amount of free ep and the rest upon purchase. I have a ton of friends who want to try before they buy and I'm tempted to gift it to them. Problem with me gifting is I feel like when I'm gifted a game I don't quite enjoy it as much even if its a great game. When I invest my own time and money into it I'm much more attatched

+1 islands don't have to be unique like rec said. That or just make one unique island in the middle of all the alpha islands that is what you were talking about. 3 spots to add a terminal and mpcs and no terraforming

I like it because it really is progression that move the market away from the central main terminals on alpha 2 and opens it for smaller groups as well as just making sense that to do higher level production and missions would require you to go to specific outposts. Not to mention as a new player the first thing they do is move to tellesis hersh or shin

Genius, please bring it back after you flip alpha 1 and 2

Industrial system is fine, what is bad is the economy. No where to sell your stuff except to Jewoorders that vets put up because new players are desperate to get any nic they can. I don't know how to fix it but tbh I love the complexity of the industrial system and I think it kicks the *** out of eve online's industrial system. The only problem is the player base and the supply/demand being disproportionate. About the only way to make it a little easier for new players without giving up those unique characteristics that make this a better is maybe to allow the reverse engineering of normal bots for and mods for low level ct's and reverse engineer prototypes for much better CTs.

Or you could just make a contract system where players could buy and sell CTs other than on that this sorry excuse for a forum.

You revived your game and got a large influx of cash. Reinvest that *** or you are going to be back to ramen faster than you think. If you aren't staying up all day and night to get us some sort of playable environment you can count on the steam community moving on to another title in their library quickly...

Best PvP since 2011 is trying to go on but the lag is ruining it...

I like the idea of just being able to sell the perpetuum credits on the market. People can use it for their ep boost sub or respecting skill and will fuel the economy in a similar was as ice without tying in anything from steam. Yes you can still dump loads of money into the game to buy nic but the difference between this and eve is that the industrial aspects can't be botted to my knowledge or the player vs perpetuum aspect either. Would keep bots from crashing your in game economy but still add your revinue without a 'cash out' option

Instead make it a dread glider that anchors for 8 hours to 16 hours. The longer it anchors after 8 hours the more damage and aoe it can do. Would be an expensive bot and people would come from all over to try and destroy it. Definitely love the idea of being able to build temporary defenses to siege a base that gives a forward command area or a fall back point as time goes on.

Maybe a platform must be built before the glider can anchor and only to spots where these platforms are? The attaclers would then be limited to one spot or multiple (would require them to defend their siege engines more) areas to  where the defender cpuldnt stack defenses on that side before the siege glider is prepared.