What he's talking about takes a little bit of setup to work, but it's only transport missions. If you're concerned about EP on your primary character, then do it on your second account.

What you will need:
Navigation = 10 (or as high as you can get it)
Basic Parallel Assignments = 3 or more
Basic Robotics = 4
Industrial Robot Control = 4
(plus all prerequisite extensions)

1 Sequer assault mech

Then you run at least the four biggest transport missions between each of the three Alpha terminals. A half hour a day should finance everything you want to do on your main.

You can keep adding points in Logistics Specialization and other Relations extensions to improve your income, and it's one of the few viable Logistics builds currently available.

BTW, this is NOT the best way to make money, but it's really easy. It's also mind-numbingly boring.

Anybody notice that the amount of EP we got for early access is increasing? By next week, we'll have gotten 200k EP, free Heavy Mech of our choice, one million NIC, and a secret button that allows us to prevent all damage for 10 seconds at any time.

I'm negotiating for a raise...right now I'm holding out for another 40k EP

Welcome Adamant Stehl. I have a few comments based on your questions/thoughts.

Mining Data (and Private Storage) - you can add containers to your private storage to help clean up and organize it. It costs 5000 NIC each, but that's a drop in the bucket once you get started. I usually take one of those leftover mission Data consoles, right click it, and "Create Container" to place in the Storage.

Mining Graphics - Generally speaking, the world is somewhat dark, and it's sometimes difficult to tell the difference between Triandulus and the rocky spikes on the ground, so I think the mining cylinders are very useful. Besides, if you could simply see what is below the surface, why would you need scanners?

Immersion is something entirely different, because it's primarily based on your own perception of events. If you assume that the cylinders are how the information is displayed, then you retain immersion. If you think "that's odd that they programmed it that way" then you lose immersion.

I think anytime someone in a PvP corp attacks anyone else in the game, the person they attacked should lose control of their bot for 30 minutes. This should be more than enough time to take the bot back to a terminal and steal everything out of their private storage.

And for the carebears it's not like we know which terminal has your private storage, so stop QQing.

Maybe if you control someone enough times, you take over their account?

Oops, sorry...my sarcasm flag was still on. ><

1) You confuse people by posting like you are disciplining an employee sitting in your office instead of forming your posts like a complaint.
  a) actually, it's more QQ than complaint
  b) and yes there's a difference.
  c) we pay to play this game, so we get to make suggestions and requests. That doesn't mean we are their boss.

By the way, this belongs in Features and Requests.

And take a half hour and calm down before posting. It really helps.

I approve of this. It still won't prevent this from happening, because until we reach a character limit on an account, you can still do it. But it's a step in the right direction.

Well, depending on how you look at it, it may not affect your future skill growth at all.

If you play long enough, you'll be able to afford any Extensions you want.
If you quit playing, it won't matter that you took the wrong School or Corp at the start.
And if you're ultimately just too concerned with the min/max approach, use the following process to determine a choice of action.

1. Stop spending EP until you decide if you want to start a new character (on the same account) because you won't get back any EP you spend.
2. Calculate the EP you've spent so far and write this number down.
3. Enter your character into the Perpetuum Planner as it is right now, including all attributes and Extensions.
4. Use the Perpetuum Planner to create a new character, using your ideal attributes, but with no Extensions beyond what you get from attributes.
5. Buy the same skills in both characters until the difference in EP spent on both characters is equal to the EP you wrote down in Step 2.
6. Look at how much time it would take to gain the points you just spent.

That's how much time it will take to negate the higher costs for the current character, plus the EP you already spent. Decide whether it's best to keep your current character or create a new one.

Yes! I win!

Oh yes, I keep forgetting about this, and it's a very annoying little bug. It's like watching the assignments fight for dominance on my screen. It's nearly impossible to read through the descriptions of assignments in order without writing them down first. Definitely buggy.

The last page of this PDF has the information you seek:

http://content.perpetuum-online.com/use … _Guide.pdf

But other than that, the drawbacks to Harvesting (right now?) are that:
A) It's easy to do by practically anyone,
B) It's only (currently) needed to refine 5 of the 14 refined commodities.

So basically, it's easy to get and of limited use.