Or you the player could look to see if your shots clear maybe? Just saying... its not hard.

Missiles are fine. LOS is fine. Lasers are fine. 

If you can't handle paying attention to terrain, then just use Missiles. 

LOS is actually working really well. 

I don't know why some people have such trouble with LOS.  Me and my buddies have no problems at all, and we're playing the same game.  If LOS was really so broken, then everyone would be having issues, and not just some people. Since only some people are having problems it makes think the problem lies in what the user is doing.  Bad camera angle or something.

More buy/sell orders are really cheap to get.

Ya, only six islands, but can still take far too long to check em all if you forget where your junk was.  It doesn't dumb down the game at all.  There's not really any meaningful skill in current system, its just a pain in the butt.

I just started using lasers today for a change of pace from the missiles.  spent a couple hours killing stuff, the LOS seemed to be fine. 

I never saw shots fire way above like with missile misses, sometimes I would hit the ground but it usually was just one out of several shots so it looked more like that was the graphic for missing rather then a tiny bump in the ground blocking me. I never had all my shots of the volley eat dirt.

What is the miss suppose to look like with guns?  Are people sure its LOS problems and not just normal misses?

Either way, laser's were fun. I had no problems.  After hearing and reading all the doom and gloom about the LOS I was expecting it to be much worse then what I experinced.  Definetly wasn't gamebreaking for me.

The game is fully playable without ever going to pvp islands. There's one resource there thats not on alpha islands, just buy that one from the pvp'ers and mine the rest yourself or something like that. 

No one is forced to go to pvp islands, your potential for profit is greater if you do, but you can still become stinking rich never leaving alpha's.

This game is AAA quality. But didn't cost me $50 + $15 a month like most mmo's. It was FREE + $9 a month. 

If they want to bring in a little cash with an item shop I have no problem in that.  As long as I don't need to buy the extra items in order to be competitive in game. 

If it becomes, he who spends the most in the item shop wins, i'll have to quit. I'm poor as dirt. 

But if rich kids want to spend some extra cash for a little fluff and silly things that don't really effect gameplay, who I am to get upset about that? Doesn't effect me, negatively anyways.

It would effect me in a positive way. How?  You get tons of extra cash from the rich people with money to burn.  Thats more money for better servers.  More money for Devs time to fix bugs and update the game.  Takes some of the finnacial burden off my poor *** and keeps the costs of future expansions down to a minimum. 

Its a good idea really.  Let those that can afford, pay more.  But keeps it a fair playing field for everyone by not having the items unbalance the game.