Don't be silly. I read somewhere that field containers for mining were considered a "soft exploit" i.e. a game mechanic used in a way not originally intended by the devs (source). Does this mean people who use field containers should be banned?

When you deploy from a station you have two conditions - protection and a molecular insability timer.

If you move or activate any modules you will lose your protection, but not your molecular instability.

This will allow players to kill you, even though you cannot dock. Also, your protection runs out a few seconds before your molecular instability, so there is a small window when players with enough fire power can alpha strike you before you dock again.

/signed to all

Edit: also being able to place waypoints anywhere on the map instead of just your current location

Glad to see.

/signed, for the record

I feel you have this the wrong way round.

You're saying "99% of the pvp in this game are roams. Therefore roams should use mechs."

It ought to be "99% of the pvp in this game are roams. More different kinds of pvp should be introduced that favour mechs."

I also think a strong focus of pvp should be player owned structures, which heavies and mechs would be more suited for, namely attacking or defending your home. Right now we are treating outposts and intrusions as a substitute for POSes and territory control respectively.

Light/ewar bot roams are fine for small, fast, daily pvp.

The problem is not the balance of different bot types, but the lack of things to fight over in game. And the reason we're still subbed is because we believe all that is still to come.

Get the hell out of minecraft already.

PERPETUUM > MINECRAFT

This has kind of already been said...but once your plants are found, you've already lost them. The only way to protect plants is to hide them and hope no-one else comes across them. Therefore an armour bonus wouldn't help.

I don't feel qualified to comment on the rarity of T4 items because I'm not directly involved in production, but my grind to pvp ratio is acceptable.

Read his OP - he's asking for solo content, not small group pve. Big difference.

Now if he'd said "this change makes it impossible for a group of alpha island PvEers to go over to beta islands and farm mobs" I might be a bit more sympathetic.

Some of these posts seem to think that an industrial character has too limited a role in PvP.

...??

It's a matter of choices.

You can't choose an industry spec and expect to be optimised for combat. If that were the case, the whole idea of specialisation would be useless. I actually think the balance is right. As other people have already suggested, you can take an industrial character and give it a support role in pvp.

But if you really care that much about having a pvp character...get a second account? For the majority of people the subscription cost is negligible.

Guild Wars did this...after years of balancing they eventually gave up on having the same skills in PvE and PvP and introduced 2 different versions of some of the skills. In a pvp area the skill did one thing, in a PvE area it had a slightly different effect. That way, none of the nerfs that were PvP related affected the PvE and vice versa.

But...why do you need this on separate world instances/servers? That seems completely unecessary if you want a one-world game.

I can think of several mechanics where this could happen. For instance, you could introduce mob-specific resistances and damage types. In order to PvE players need to use skill chains and equipment that maximise the damage type the mob is least resistant against. Those damage types don't affect players. Instead, you introduce a completely different sub-set of damage type for PvP, all of which use different skills. It could be a very different set up, with more kinds of skills that work against human intellence instead of AI.

The main issue with pvp vs pve is in the healing...you want 1 or 2 healers to be able to heal through multiple mob damage for 6 people. But in pvp you don't want 1 healer so powerful that 1 other player has no chance of killing him. I think one way to do this would to make PvE damag/healing largely dot/hot based, and stacking, whereas PvP could be based more around burst damage and burst healing.

You could also write up some lore to accomodate this...for instance mobs could be aliens, or demons, or spirits that are vulnerable to specific biological, radioactive or spiritual types of damage whereas default weapon damage is vs humans/player races used for pvp.

It doesn't have to. I want to write more about this but I gots work to do.

Also, shouldn't this be in off-topic?

mmorpg.com forums have...issues. But a lot of people visit the site and rarely bother with the forums at all. They just check out the news sections and the features. And browse despondently up and down the games list wishing there were more pvp and sandbox filter options.

Neoxx, I don't know if this is possible, but it would be great to get this in their Monday newsletter. Would the promotion be advertised on their front page?

I am happy for my name to be given as a beneficiary, and any grateful recipients may express their gratitude by performing services such as housework, serving drinks and peeling grapes. Must provide own grapes.