Is it me, or Steam client haven't updated yet(3.6.6) and not connecting?

All of the new players assume that General Chat is online counter.

So even if the actual online is only 10 people more, it's still much better.

Congrats

And my birthday is 18.11

In every MMO "Online Players" means including alts.
So yes, there is no single reason to count people instead of windows.

I can support this with $20 or so.

It's looks like a kickstarter for the game.
Beause the first reason for low population is that Perpetuum is a top secret project.

On one of the fanfests(somewhere 2010-2013):
Some dev:
"some of our players still waiting for an update on walking on stations"
Hilmar
"Well, throw them some bone to chew for another year"

Fat son of a ***...

Just read the "skills for money" article.

I've thought this game was just screwed with all the good ideas in the toilet. But looks like they're creative enough to make it even worse i wasn't able to imagine.

~5 years ago i had a vision, when i was in the future and accessed the Eve website, and there was a message that this project was discontinued. Most likely it was 2018, but also with lesser chance it's 2022. I didn't want to believe. But it's begins to look like true.

We need higher goals in game. Bigger bots for vets. Like capitals in Eve.
So players like me, who haven't been here very long will see it on videos, screenshots, or in squad. And dreaming about it in a future.
And when you'll have it, it'll mean something, and the game will mean something because of it.
These things don't need to be just better than smaller bots. They're just need to be more cool, more meaningful than yet another mech. Maybe it'll be for some heavy territorial and squad activities.

Right now it's not a big deal to train and buy a heavy mech. And there's nothing to train for above it. All you see after a couple of years of training is the same mech but with better stats. Maybe also mechs from another faction.

And after that, we also need some content to use these machines in.

So yeah, we always need more stuff to play with... Mid and high level stuff.

There's two group of people, first is the people who doing something and go forward and second is a crybabies who don't want to do anything but bring anyone who's a bit higher than they down on their own level, so they won't feel disomfortable about how miserable they are.
Happens all the time in any game's suggestions forum and in real life.
For a normal human who is a total newbie it wont be a good news that devs nerfing the vets. Because they see the picture: "if i'll stay in this game long enough and spend money, i'll be devaluated somehow, so it's sucks from the begining to the end".

Almost new player here. Very glad that game haven't forced me to do PvE crap everyday for half a year every day to achieve an average server level, and haven't continued to do so even after to just stay at the good level. Saved me a lot of time and energy.
Maybe EP system is not ideal, but so do all the other leveling systems. I definitely prefer just wait and try to find something interesting to do while i'm suck than spend days doing necessary and often boring stuff while suck.

It's good to have vets, not just noobs, it makes game more interesting when you see someone who achieved something you may one day. And since you can pilot only one bot at the time, the vet's EP just gives them more choices.

And if they'll stop playing they stop accumulating EP after 3 days, remember? Logging in just for EP is already a lot: it's requires to have it installed remembering it almost constantly for months(years?), it's natural to play sometimes in that case. And if he have a booster and "quits" - well, he's a subscriber, he's paying money, so bother someone else

Eve had some brilliant features and ideas. Time based progression was one of the geatest. It's dying because of the last several years of failure, bad decisions and disappointment (overconfidence?). Because when people wanted something more that spaceships (walking on planets, stations, vehicles etc), and people knew that the developers were able to deliver it, but they won't with boring excuses. And now we have space games which almost from the start have things that eve devs and many players called a waste of manhours. And this exact same players going for this useless features, leaving these eve losers behind. It hav nothing to do with the character leveling. In fact, if not for the skills, eve might've been closed right now. Because it makes an amazing thing: many players get bored and stop playing, but still paying for the sub to train skills, and sometimes they're return from e these STOs, Elites, etc, because noone asked "are you playing or not?" just check your 2-year skill queue and do and play whatever the heck you want.

O_O

Well, i've choosed this game because i can forget about it for a year or so and then return with no regrets. And this is the only online game i play. There's enough MMOs for the game addicts already.

This might help the game in general, but can't we help the game somehow without making it undesirable for "normal" people?

Or it might not help at all. Because there's may be people who don't mind playing rarely, but not intersing enough so they play other games or doing things. And then you telling them "Play or leave". Well, they'll finally make their choice very easily.