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Does that look like eyes and a nose, or flipping the bird?

I demand a 'bump' post, don't fall under Coyote's mesmerizing requirement of content!!

90% speculation and 10% wish.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news … censes.ars

Summary: Guy has Autocad software he bought from archeticture firm that went out of business, wants to resell it on Ebay. Autocad EULA says that the software can't be resold.

"We hold today that a software user is a licensee rather than an owner of a copy where the copyright owner (1) specifies that the user is granted a license; (2) significantly restricts the user’s ability to transfer the software; and (3) imposes notable use restrictions."

Based on the fact that Autocad had the limitation in the EULA, the federal court ruled in favor of the EULA and prevented this guy from selling the software.

EDIT: This is what Warwick was referring to.

We are much more likely to get POS turrets/launchers or tackle unless the minefield generator too is stationary. The ability to drop mines anywhere is either going to be totally useless with weak yield or too easily exploitable.

I wish it wern't so, because I like the idea of mines, but balancing them would be really difficult.

There is a logout button on the icon bar at the top of the screen, anything else just ends the application.

Edit: if your quitting the appliction to leave the game, your bot is going to stay on the field for a long time. The game thinks you are just disconnected and has a long time out to allow you to log back in; as Neoxx said, wouldn't surprise me if it was 30 minutes.

The player base is already too diluted with 3 islands and 3 alliances. These Alliances have maybe 150-200 agents online at any time (due to player base spread over time zones) which consists of 70-90 actual players with 2,3 or more seperate accounts.

Only a few corporations are full PVP, most have a subset of carebear industrialists that either don't pvp or don't have the skills to participate. In general, this means Alliances can field 30-50 combat agents; played by 25-40 players, but even then it takes 30-40 minutes to gather them.

I highly suspect corps like M2S require all members to have at least 1 Combat account based 100% at thier outpost, and may also require this of any alliance corps. This allows them to quickly log in that character and respond to any incursion. This is not a requirement of any other alliance, although members are required to respond to combat call, thier combat agent may be 10-15 mins of travel time away from beta.

EDIT: If the opposition is already on the Island, trying to get a bot in from Alpha to group up is difficult and mostly just suicide.

The only place to get more players for an alliance is from the existing alliances, and I doubt they would come from M2S or thier pets, so it would just mean less combat pilots that can be rallied. This would be bad for M2S btw, because the only pvp you would get is catching 1 or 2 bots that accidentally wandered too far from safety. They wouldn't even be able to defend an Intrusion, so no pvp there either.

Ah, you say, but diluting is just what the game needs; smaller groups would lead to non-blobbing tactical PVP.

Or, more likely leading to a squad of 30 bots roaming around looking for smaller groups to wtfpwn from the only alliance that wasn't diluted, and the defenders resources too thin to protect what they have so they can't risk combat, or if a group of 5 bots kills 10 of thiers because of tech differences they don't come out unless its a 4 to 1 advantage (and they still die and all the members Cquit and/or leave the game).

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A collary to this is with the game so new, the only experienced pilots are those that were in beta, which is only a small subset of pilots in most corps (except 1). These pilots will get more experience as the game progresses, but you really can't expect them to be more than a blob until they have been in a lot of battle. 2 years worth of combat in beta is going to be much harder to over come than even 30K extra EP.

Well, exactly.

Putting mines in the middle of nowhere isn't strategic.

Invading armies typically don't use mine fields if they are using a blitz, because the front is moving too quickly.

Fields would be especilly strategic in the early game, when alliances don't have enough troops to cover all the approaches, but still useful later to slow advancing mechs and limit the effectiveness of light-fast bots.

... yeah, they aren't going to add mines.

Its a nice thought though.

It would be nice to see a revamp of the starter area, and its probably on the to do list; so posts like this are great. Its still really early in the game though, so I would expect the devs to let it play out a little before they make any radical changes.

Additional warnings during charater creation though would be helpful now. We'll see in the patch!

Really, alts are only good for setting at various stations to help snipe market items.

Then the POS should not be targetable at all because its a environment item. Which leaves scheduling Incursion type events to capture or destroy the POS.

Edited: PVE to environment, its environment because it is not occupied/controlled by a player.

I'm surprised the pirates aren't posting for around 120U, more trips means more exposure.

I would like to see 400U, but I don't really expect it to be 5x larger; 1.5 - 2x is more likely.