Just change the cargo capacity of the arkhe to 240U ... (<--Troll in case its not obvious)

I'm not trying to start a reality check on the mechanic. I haven't heard they are looking to change it.

I don't think it is a good idea to have a timer, if you get disconnected and can't get back in for 20 min because of a timer that is going to be frustrating. There's no way to determine if a disconnect was intentional either, so if you just put a timer on the player selected logoff, players will simply unplug the router or force quit the application.

Porting the player to the nearest base sounds like a built in transporter, since there can't be a timer, I just logoff and poof teleported to the nearest hanger or other such landmark.

The disconnect thing covers requiring people to log off/on from hangers only.

You could suggest the game be a total bastard and leave your bot where it is if you get disconnected, but really I'm not sure there is enough storage on this server to handle the threads that would start about people losing bots to this mechanic.

I would say if it had to change, the least offensive/exploitable would be moving you to the nearest hanger; although I doubt that they will change this mechanic.

You're suggesting that dev's are going to change the login/out mechanic?

I hope you guys are just kidding about destroying it before it even gets going, let it get established first before you attack at least.

Not saying that you can't do it at some point, I'm not even suggesting you shouldn't do it as everything should have to defend itself, but let it get started first.

The concept of players creating in game content can only be good for the game and a few successes will bolster that and encourage more of it. There's another post that just started asking when new content was going to be available...

I actually would encourage gate crashers to come out and play to! Just give it time to organize instead of showing up at the first event, later on it will be more fun for you to crash... I promise.

This is a terrible idea... oh wait

You probably already checked this, but is your PC indexing or running some other system maintainence on a scheduled basis?

If you are running W7 use the performance monitor (not task manager) to see where the loading is. If the client processes aren't using the cycles, then its a PC issue, if they are, is the load the same across all 4, if so then its a local issue (it would be highly improbably that a data issue from the server would effect all 4 clients exactly the same).

Perf mon will also give you read/write, while typically R/W doesn't cause CPU useage, its possible that Perp has some process that requires the CPU to wait for a response from the drive.

If you have the app, you can try running each client in its own Virtual machine too.

I can only run 2 clients, so props for the sweet rig, but I havn't noticed this issue.

The technical matter of EP aside, the incentive for players to sign up with EA was to HELP keep new players by 'seeding' people into the game.

Imagine creating an account and logging in the first week and finding 10 people online.

There is no doubt in my mind EA (of which I did not participate go 20K'ers!) encouraged more people to continue playing than discouraged people because of the EP gap.

I think he means exploited for kernels.

Killing a corp mate in an insured bot for their kernal would be one exploit.

Fragments OK, kernels, probably not.

Maybe if you're allowed to delete 1 character at no charge, second at 1440, and double it for each successive delete. That will greatly limit alt recycling, even in a year when 2880 EP doesn't mean much to an advanced player, while still giving new characters the chance to delete 1 alt, with clear warnings that deleting the next one will come with X EP penalty.

Are you insured against cargo deletion....

I already explained that in previous posts and in the above one.

Altering the delete function only benefits the pirates and takes an ability away from the driver; granted its an F'U ability but its there and the pirates are asking for the change.

It certainly doesn't have to fully removed and I welcome a rebuttal focused on that.

Here's the thing, the Dev has already said it is not an exploit, continuing to call it an exploit and saying Dev's just don't get it is not going to win them over to make the change; and threatening to leave the game has never been a good arguement.

I'm not sure how responsive the Dev's are since I was not in the Beta, so for me this is the start of a long relationship, and I think if we can present reasonable arguements (for both sides) that the game will be better in the long run.

Likely this thread has gone on too long already to be useful, but I'll try one more post.

The transport driver loses the load either way, so the specific issue is that the driver can deny the pirate a tangible reward by deleting the load.

If the solution is to remove the ability to delete items from cargo, I'll support that because just giving the driver the ability to rage-deny the pirate doesn't really promote more players to get out there and PVP; which even though I don't, I understand that it is the driving force behind the game.

But, the ability has to be removed, not just modified to prevent a case specific action. Removing the ability to delete cargo items isn't going to break the game, it will however make other aspects of the game more difficult to play, such as farming.

I believe that giving the players more options is always a good thing, taking the delete function away removes an option, and reduces the need for player interaction. If all the combat player wants to do is blow stuff up and get loot there are NPC's for that.

But, as I said if combat pilots are willing to give up the ability to delete items too, than I'll support that.