Again, too many questions about this subject and not enough answers.

The reason why the 'new' beta islands dont have assignments was because we were told at the time "we may implement docking rights in the future on these bases"

So outpost-less corps may suddenly be making a grab for power before it becomes too hard only for devs to say "well.. we only meant the new beta islands duh"

It really is a matter of perspective.

and maybe the new system will alow players to swap and change between skills to decide for themselves which type of weapon is their preference.

The amount of people who start out thinnking green is awesome, and later change to yellow is almost as frequent as people who start out as yellow and switch to green.

But each have big advantages and dis-advantages which doesnt really sink in until you regularly pvp.

Its more a case of Eve has had 8 something years of constant balancing and changes to get to the stage were its fitting system is logical and makes sense. 

They are right though.. somethings are not logical and just dont make sense even withing the games own system.   Its almost as if the devs are purposfully trying to be different from Eve, which is breaking the system. Its like they are trying to re-invent the wheel.

Its not so much that anything is in-balanced, its more that there isnt any room for clever thinking and exotic fits... pretty much every bot only has 1 or 2 ways to fit.  Ships in Eve can be fitted in so many different ways that when they come to PO, they are a bit sad to find that basically 't4 everything or gtfo'

its not really that suprising that Pve content in a pvp game is bad.

I mean, it took CCP what, 5/6 years before they even bother to do anything with pve.

The fun is in the content that players provide,  I dont disagree that PvE does need some love.. but suprised??... er no.  Think you've probably got the wrong idea.

yes

I think the devs are shy and dont like attention.

They'de rather answer a question 5 times in seperate theads that make one comment that everyone can read.

Its early days, they will eventually join the darkside.

yea, have no problems with release patch notes just before or right after a patch... thats like how every game does it...

But to not announce that its coming.. and to wait until several hours before announcing a 3 hour DT....   that is just weird.

Its just that, in the past week population is dwindling once again as people lose interest and default to "play another game while EP builds up"... or... "ill come back when there is an update"

The problem with letting people think that nothings going on or even that a big patch is imminent is that once people start playing another game... its kinda hard to rip them away again.

Until the blog just now all we knew was "this summer" .. officially the end of summer is several months away, now, with Eve you still have to log in to switch skills.. but with PO, you dont need to, you just sit and wait, and the longer you wait the less interested you get and the more reward you get when you do come back.

I just cant help but think that if Devs just said something as simple as "big update coming in the next few weeks"  then the drop in activity could have been avoided as people build up excitment and speculation.

yea we know that,  but we dont know what the patch is. 

Even so, why the secrecy?  Normally a sheduled patch is something to make song and dance about as if we were welsh

But thats what I'm saying... I've already changed my pattern.  and soon other mechs will get fed up of dragging behind.

You just cant expect results straight away, it takes time... remember its only been what, 2/3 weeks since NeX started?

OK, it seems that a lot of eve players have lost their wind and returned to Eve, which is understandable,  why come to a game where your the underdog noob when you have 3 years old character on Eve that crushes noobs like insects.

But most eve players will acknowledge that 3 weeks is nothing and any player that doesnt have the stamina to stick around isnt really worth being concered about.

These things just take time, this kind of pvp is hardcore for players crave that real danger and would want their opponent to fight no-holds-barred.   Frankly, if I knew a corp was down-sizing just to help then I'd be properly insulted.

For example,  we arnt gona take sympathy on M2S and give them a break for whats happened and I'm damn sure they would hate it if we did.

You mean well, but it would never happen.

apart from organisation hating each others guts,  to keep an island secure an appropriate force is required which no organisation would compromise.

Though I personally do enjoy small bot combat over mech combat just because mechs are so slow and 'getting' to the pvp takes hours and hours.

Maybe in the future there could be islands whose teleports cant alow Mechs through..   or places where mechs cant traverse.

Either way, it would have to be a game feature, not some 'gentlemens agreement'

  And its a good point.   But thats exactly the same as a school kid saying "mum, why do I have to go to school?"

You dont see the point of it now,  but you will!

Now, you can either make as much money as you possibly can until that incentive comes along,  or you can take the opportunity to roam the pvp places now, while there are no wars on and while pvp is quiet.

Just memorizing the names of teleports, where those teleports take you,  the land and the shape of the land around you... find the choke points, the places where people mine, find the mob spawns to avoid.... just getting some actual experience will give you a head start over anyone who doesnt.

You have an opportunity here and now which you may never get.

yea, it is odd that people complain about the fact they can make too much money in a pvp game, and yet hardly pvp at all.