@Rex Amelius: +2 (wow, sometimes its strange how the same ideas are formed in the minds of a game community...)

I'm also for a EP-boost for the starting period (trial excluded) and would have set the same time limit as with downgrade tokens or maximum of 45 days.
If you just simply would get the EP instantly, the downgrade tokens won't ever be enough to correct your mistakes (too much points in advance disturbs learning curves and later on those players won't be able to withstand the normal waiting time to accumulate your EP), and vets who have paid for each day of their gametime will feel cheated if the price is lower than what they already paid.

With the current kickstarter edition we already have some problems, the sparks and the ep-bonus are nice even for vets, but those that have already a years sub (or above it) normally wouldn't want to spend extra-money here for a package where they just don't need the main thing: gametime ... Even worse with that edition only available over Amazon US (bad amazon bad! into the corner with you!)... So back to Rex words:

about the corps:
the starter corp is just the NPC corp you start out with - it is chosen at character creation and designates your starting isle (TM=New Virg, ASI=Daoden, ICS=Attalica). Atm even if you leave it and become a freelancer it won't change anything for you. (*atm because I hope for at least a slight change here in future)
a player-corp has beside the teamwork here other advantages like corpstorages (if you have more than one agent/account) for faster "muling". I mentionend this one because many players ask for better ways of item transfer than using market or fieldcontainer. Have also seen some players open their own corp because of this reason.

about PvP: Beside the irregular tournaments, its the same as in every online game, if you have some friends / have good communication skills, PvP will never be a problem even if you are not in a corp and only have one agent...

about beginner choice at agent creation: it just doesnt matter what you did choose - you need just a few days of EP to completely change your way. Also if you found out that the path you tried is wrong, you are able to downgrade extensions lower than 6 (until your first 30 days of the account are over) and put the points somewhere else (starting extensions are fix).
After 3 weeks ingame are over you will surely know better which path to take and can concentrate on that; specializing on one profession proves to be most effective, but some things can be combined too (like laser and EM - both are turrets so there are some shared extensions <- missile launchers are not turrets).

separate channel for local speech?
hm would rather like to have it shown in all active chatwindows with the two options 1) turn them completely off (like on/offline messages) 2) only show in GC

Edit: okay... being able to turn them off completely may be too much, even contraproductive if the features only used by half of the players or less

... I already asked many times to have some trial limitations back or even some new ones (okay not in the last few months because of low playerbase)...

Just for the reward boni itself I belong to the faction of perp-players that like to have some more reward to all missions in general. For me its just plain boring on the one hand, on the other too much to grind to get a sense of success as opportunity player.

To the goldfarmer question: where's the profit for them in a game thats on its lowest playerrrates?
Aside from that, to counter them coming in: The reward boni could be implemented as temporary marketing strategy combined with a new advertisment wave or special offers (at times like perp anniversary, christmas, spring/semester break) instead being a permanent feature.
BUT this suggestion only counts for rewards - the standing doesn't change anything concerning goldfgarmers but like said before will at least help new players (less costs/time needed at facilities -> new player sees "yeah I achieved something", ...)

thats mostly the idea of that tent-camp-base system too, razuki
Here are some details for the tent; the camp would be for small groups and the big base as it is for big corps and such

copy? wasnt that originally one of ACs goal to have a significant role for each class (ie not only stepping stones)? so back to the root idea

wouldn't this happen with anything thats new? whether its new bots new modules, islands or game features it's always like this, but even with knowing this, new content is always asked for.

that workload explosion is the reason that topics like this one haven't reached a conclusion since beta-phase. Just to remind you, most of the currently discussed changes were requested long times ago already.

It had been strongly requested to leave the alpha I - triangle to help new players get their NIC a bit faster; now I can only hope that the player based transport missions will come soon - with the current arrangement of islands it would reward the loooong travelling to another faction's isle just to get a bot/ore/... maybe even to get to pvp.
But even if its playerbased the problem will be the same: if the rewards (referring at number 2. of annis post) and given time is too low, the risk of travelling to the PvP zones is still too high in the mind of posing safety first. Because it is playerbased there will be other problems too: if no one runs the mission then giving them out would be meaningless; why should you transport stuff to a PvP-zone when you only help those who will shoot you down (still waiting for the thoughts of devs for a solution in this point here).
The question "Why do I really have to ensure my safety?" leads us back to the OP.

In general, like you may have noticed most ideas were already there in one way or other. I advice you to use the related topics to explain it further and for your ideas to be found more easily.

• lwf discussion is a perpetuum mobile *yawn*- if you want to discuss your idea further please use one of the existing topics (recent one) for it and explain it in detail

• aoe attacks/weapons have been asked for a long time now, but somehow I loled at the glue part imagining a puddle of slime being thrown *shudder*; an aoe laser is a completely nogo for me if u think of a simultanious attack on a broader area - laser is highly bundled light, being spread it may only blind you

• what do you mean with the new mantlet? a new outfit for your bot or to be able to switch on field the light frame versus a plated one?

• scout bot: is a light bot (not light ewar) with a detection module not enough or do you want to take their main current purpose?

• salvage bot already asked for recently here and here

• module for liquids? no, we have only three liquids and already separate ammos for them, to introduce a completely new module just for some new optics is an overkill

• base speed for bots is differs already for class; for mkII - they are normally lighter and thus a bit faster, but can equip more, have more hp/cpu/reactor/cargo and have at least one bot bonus more than mkI, do you want to exchange one of the attributes mentionend before for a lighter frame (=faster)?

for the time being a lithus/scarab is enough - bigger bots are still in research but they definitely will come some time.

All in all: the cargohold of all bots has been expanded and loot/minerals adjusted already many many times that hauling is less nerve racking. Hauling is and should be the task of haulers (bots and profession) as it was the original idea, I don't think it was ever intended that your working bots specialized in combat/mining should be able to transport all the stuff you farmed for hours back just like air.
This may sound a bit harsh but thats whats coming from your request: if you (and I mean all players asking for more cargo space at other bots than hauler classes) get more cargo space at bots that never were constructed to carry much stuff - at the end haulers and fieldcontainers would become completely useless.

Edit: One analogy: either you buy a convertible sportscar to be speedy and goodlooking or a transporter to get all your stuff moved...