In addition to what Crepitus says, you can't compare volleys because that doesn't take into account cycle times.

I would actually prefer not to have a balancing system where one faction is preferred over another for roams. We do take green and yellow mechs on roams if that's what people can use, but most of the time people don't want to, and the ones who do always complain about being slower than everyone else. Or get laughed at for eating kain dust and missing out on the trophies.

Missile bots may shine in intrusions, but it seems a bit hard on them since we get to participate in those less often...and where does that leave poor old laser mechs?

But given that kains are close range, I don't know how you would change them to make the artemis and tyrannos an equally popular option as a roam mech. Maybe reducing the speed just a teensy bit to make the gap between them closer?

This is why I don't like systems with that use speed to balance things - it's simply too crucial in open world pvp.

(As an aside, seeing as I hear Dev Alf wants to make base detection and masking attributes different for each faction, I bet he wants to give kains higher masking and lower detection values. Which would make them even more popular for roams...)

Without getting into the rest of the argument, a POS status panel for noralgis plants is a nice idea.

Just finished listening, really enjoyed that episode guys, nice work. Actually listening to it changed my opinions about a couple of things

Agreed, and I would be happy with a once-per-year reset as well, although I don't mind the way it is currently.

Having said that, I would never take the 20% loss, so basically all I get is one free respec on my accounts which I do not plan to use because I'm happy with how they are.

So just to sum up to any devs reading this:

Please distribute mid-level minerals to create supply/demand across different parts of the world. Note: this must be done between beta islands so that it can be under player control not Syndicate.

The current titan ore change won't make any difference to the current or future levels of self sufficiency demonstrated by corps.

Perhaps we should now discuss what minerals could be differently distributed and where. Should this be implemented with new minerals or should the current ones be changed and if so, how?

I said this on the blog already, but all it will do is encourage beta corps to operate on alpha.

M2S has bought a lot of ores on alpha previously. I bet Domhalarn are doing that now. The Norhoop Alliance operate on both alpha and beta so how this would make any difference apart from shifting more miners to alpha, I don't know.

In order to stimulate mineral trade and prevent corps being self sufficient they need to put different ores on different beta islands, or at least change the distribution a bit more severely to stimulate trade, or more reasons to hold territory.

But if you have two remote sensor boosters or three ECMs, how do you know which one is being used on which target? Ideally it has to show that information too.

I think the easiest way to do this would be to have it showing on the target list as a module number.

So if I have Arga targeted and I'm using an ECM on you a little icon should appear next to your name saying "H2" because I'm using the second head slot on you. If I'm also remote sensor boosting a squad mate the icon next to his name on the target list should be "M1" for miscellaneous slot 1 (or maybe "C1" for chassis 1).

If that's possible to code into the UI.

You could add this to the landmarks list as well but I don't see the point because it just duplicates what's in the targeting window.

In that case, I think the length of the trial is inconsistent with the progression the player can make. Most trial players seem to be completing the content available in a couple of days, and then feeling short changed.

At the moment the trial is only there to give players a very basic idea of how the game feels (the UI, how the basic mechanics work, what buttons to press to do what) but does not include access to any real content. So you don't need two weeks for it.

The Ministry of Corporate Security is watching you. I'd report you but I can't keep the informant's cookie reward to myself because apparently we're communists.