Honestly what's so hard to understand?
every change they(DEVs) made lately (and by lately i mean since feb 15th) was in a precise direction:
Makin the mining related activities more time-consuming.
Doing so the game lost a bunch of dudes, how many now online @ peak? 250-300?
well that's the direction they took, and this time, to avoid even more playerbase losses they added something else to the new patch, a "free for all" full reset, so that players can reroll their mining toons to pvp ones.

Why they make so? they stated it more than once, want more active players (less afk dudes), want more people doing pvp, and want more people spending hours online every day, no space for "semi-casual" players
Is this the right path?ok here i'm givin just my very personal opinion, no it isn't, game is slowly steering from a sandbox to a...well to something else, and that's one of the reasons (always imo) behind the low population of the game

cya

OK here we r for 2nd round

Time:18:00 server time saturday ( 11 am saturday cst usa time )
Where: Join the "racing" channel some minutes ahead, i'll post there the meeting point
When: Saturday 9th April
Entry fee: 200k winning team splits pot amongst members.
Bots: Defense/Offense - Light/Assault/Ewar no guns, any other modules ok! TEE HEE
PUCK = 1 arhke ( so team needs an arhke ) with a standard plate
HOW LONG THIS RUN? - We'll see how many dudes will show up and if they'r having fun
COMMS: we'll use IBS comms for the event

Of course race is open to everyone , if u bring your corp team is fine, if u come alone we'll find a team for you, or u can come and just watch aswell.

cya

was a damn fun easy game
thanks Mara, for taking time to actually organize it
thanks partecipants for showin up
and of course, thanks to the 2 referees aswell

we won(Team1), but that was just the first race, everyone's welcome to next week's one
cya

I see it like this (and yes we've lived on betas and on alphas aswell, as a corp)
in the beginning was "way to easy" to catch an outpost, to make NIC and generally every aspect of the game, people who started playin during the beta, as early access or even just like me (early december) got to the "endgame" (i hate this word) pretty fast.

When a 2nd wave of players came in game they either joined the already established corps or tried to form up their own, thou the endgame was already in the hands of early comers.

Then a 3rd wave of players joined, thou in the while lots of the 2nd wave had already left the game and some of the early ones started quitting aswell
Still the people "holding" the endgame were always the same..as hey r right now more or less.

In the meantime the game added some new content (not very much), modified some mechanics (like the resources/industry patch), but no real change concerning the endgame.
All this changes, imo, made the game  harder for casual players and beginners, and boring for the vets.

I'm not pointing my finger (whinings?) @ anyone specifically, DEVs have their "problems" players aswell,fact is the game is slowly "dying".

What can we do as players besides speaking our minds to the devs? well try and change our way of playin the game, a fine example is the 62nd arena, or again, the idea of not nesting on some half forgotten beta outpost for months.
Will this be enough to "save the game"? no idea honestly but at least, the guys who ,like me love this game might try and play it a bit longer, waiting for the new patches DEVs r working on.
cya

p.s. for new guys, join a corp or create one yrself, don't wait weeks, do it asap, your experience of the game might change drastically.

/me supports this product

great job guys

agree taxes r no problem at all, extensions don't take long to train

like annihilator i say, it's the market itself that's missing, no offer, no demand...and that's 'cause if u have 2-300 players online (@ most) u'll never have enough players to make a "player ran" market work.

The fact that only betas can provide epri and noralgis is a "plus" , yes is possible to go there and "sneak mine" some, but the risk is too high to do it on a regular basis,
so let's say about 100-150 player have regular access to beta resources, and all of them r in the same corps, which have been there (with some noticable exception) 'till day 15-20, they gather the resources and use them for their corp's usage...

last, for a market like this there r way to many modules/object/bots still offered/bought by npcs, and the ones not craftable (like most new mods/charges) don't help either.

basically everytime i produce something i say: y should i put it on the market, wait 5 days to sell it, being forced to go to the very station i setted the order to modify it (actually to cancel and redo), battling with the same 3-4 guys (there r i guess no more than 10 players that use the market to sell stuff, rest r corps), when i can simply sell/donate it to my own corp?less stress more fun for me and my corpmates

cya

p.s. holy whatever didn't want to write that much -.-

yeh that's my problem, never (ever) been lucky

and about the 2nd point, if the game don't die in our hands...i'll be back yarr
eheh

Alex u'r talking of scanning on betas?
'cause even if i don't have maxed out extensions for scanning (just lvl6 and 7) i rarely use only 6 probes to get a spot on alphas, and out of 10-12 (yes i got bored pretty soon) spots i found..the best i got was some lvl5 decoder and some puny amount of imentium
but i've never been lucky @ games so meh eheh

Less blobs, less gameplanned events, less bottleneck TPs with "noisy" activations
more fun pewpew
and yes i don't run..if i was stupid enough to be caught unprepared and spanked..then my "enemy" deserves my trophy
cya

yeh incarna..erm world of darkness ?:D

ehehe alfri, u're such a smartass ain't ya?
given you take this out here(no idea y tbqh) i'll answer to you in here
"you corp leaders" are working on different solutions (not goin to post them here for obvious reasons).
But like some other dudes suggested you, there r plenty of corps around, you don't like IBS? then find a better one, one that suits your needs
that goes for everyone...if you'r not having fun, you'r doing it wrong
cya