This would just cripple new players compared to vets. Speed is always going to be the most powerful attribute.

I actually support removing Nav from the game altogether and making nav 10 the base speed.

I'd like to see speed boost modules that give you a temporary speed boost (on a cool down) that uses accumulator, and is slower/uses more accum when going up slopes but is faster/uses less accumulator when going down slopes. If the engine is capable of calculating this.

Speed should be balanced as a tactical, variable thing.

Seems like your own alliance agrees with me...

Any MMO should provide two kinds of play. Exciting random play that gives you a rush, and relaxing but still enjoyable play where you can just log on after a day's work and chill, de-stress and zone out. Ideally the latter should be the method by which you build up to the former, and you need a decent balance of both.

No MMO I have ever played has got this balance right, Perpetuum included. Farming NPCs solo is irritating because it really needs 2 or 3 accounts to be efficient, and you spend all your time micromanaging, but if you're in a group it's a race to click on the landmarks list to try and get a shot in on something before gets alpha'd by your squad-mates - not enjoyable or relaxing. I could go on forever about how mining and harvesting don't work either. All three of these activities cause a gradual build up of irritation, which isn't really offset by the rewards.

Agreed, /endthread.

Actually I agree with this, the game is very boring. I don't sympathise with the fuss over the ERP nerf, but the grind has always been the problem and a lot of the mechanics don't really do anything to address that.

I'm staying, though, because I think one day Perpetuum will get there.

Heavy mechs are for intrusion fights i.e. large scale standing battles defending or attacking stationary control points.

They're not for roaming. They're not for hunting down squads of faster, smaller bots.

It has always been the case, since release, that any lone mech or heavy mech caught out in the open by a small roaming gang is dead meat.

Your problem is not that the devs have nerfed your fit, but that no-one on the server is currently doing intrusions, which is what your mech is designed for.

As a nuimquol pilot, I totally demand vibrating blades.

I don't think it's fair that thelodica pilots should get them at all. Mechs that shoot rainbows have no self respect whatsoever and vibrating blades would just be wasted on them.

More seriously, I think the game is not set up right for melee. I mean, I really love melee classes in games, and I can't think of anything more fun than to descend on another robot like a whirlwind of death and rip its head off, but frankly it doesn't fit Perpetuum.

We don't have player collision, the movement in the game just doesn't feel right for kiting round each other at a distance of a few metres, and on top of that there is explosion damage.

I'm not against some kind of alliance mechanism in game. Alliances have been in the game since the beginning, so having an in-game mechanic for it probably won't make much difference, aside from making it all easier to track.

I think the voting thing is fine so long as it's not required when setting an alliance up, but you could have the option to turn it on or off. Most of this stuff can be done on TS anyway, and I rather like the emergent nature of it, and the way current alliance structures are not dictated by in game alliance features.

What I would rather see first are things like contracts, escrow, shares, dividends, player stores, in-game advertisments, service offerings and so on before an alliance feature. Things that would encourage player interaction outside of corps or alliances, to counter the effect of the interal corp markets have had on the economy, as well as the economic lure that being part of an alliance has for a small corp.

However, I am against having allies able to take SAPs on behalf of another corp in their alliance. This will PROMOTE corps merging into large entities, and thus promote blob warfare. This is the opposite of everything the devs have shown they want for the game, and will not in any way help small corps. All it will do is encourage small corps to sell themselves as pets to large alliances.

(Off topic - the best thing the devs could do to discourage large alliances from forming would be to split the game world up into smaller islands with one outpost per island. I would like to see this done for new beta islands.)

I think treating this as a punishable exploit or criticising others for doing so is pointless, and a bad way of handling exploits of this nature.

It creates far too much work for the devs to police, and it's not an exploit you have to go out of your way to create and abuse. All you do is kill an observer...which then respawns.

I couldn't be bothered with farming them myself, but I don't see why anyone shouldn't.

Yeah I think so, I remember checking a while back when I first wondered why none were on Hokk. There is at least one on Dom, that I know of, at one of the TPs.

Grophos can also use range extenders and don't need cap injectors. Problem not solved?

I would like to see thelodica dps mechs (not just the ewar) useful in some kind of pvp at least.

Edit: some people replied later re the gropho, so just to clarify - I don't care what happens to the gropho, what I want to see is the seth made useful.

Newbie explanation inc, Nid...

Weak timezones are supposed to be covered by protection tokens. You get 1 protection token when you take over an outpost, and 1/3rd of a protection token for every successful defense of your outpost. If someone signs up for an intrusion on the outpost, you can protect it by using up 1 token. The deadline for this is 8hrs before the intrusion goes live. People need to sign up to an intrusion over 12 hrs before it goes live.

Benefits of outposts. If you own an outpost you get a 50% NIC reduction on the use of facilities inside. Facilities that cost NIC are things like repairing items, reverse engineering items and producing items. If you own an outpost, and someone in another corp uses the facilities, they pay the full price for using the facilities and your corp wallet gets 50% of that revenue. In an outpost that's regularly used it amounts to a few million a week. It's not much.