Every patch doubles the population (if you can call sub 100 people a population). The problem is they nerf it too hard which drives away the population and / or its three months between patches. There are other issues around the toxicity of in game politics but primarily from a new player perspective and for those not involved with politics it's the patches.

FINALLY there are new boys coming to Perpetuum, and with the gun rebalance arguably a new weapon system. Amazingly there are 11 new things to build and play with coming. This gives such an opportunity to drip feed content of one mech a month and at month six the gun rebalance. That's a whole year that the devs have to do no more coding other than balancing giving them time to plan the next years drip feed content. A patch a month really old cause the kind of population rise needed (especially because it's new bots).

Do I have any faith they will do this? Of course not.

The devs have shown an amazing lack of thought with this in the past. Gamma was a perfect example of a humongous amount of content that was put in game at once. Three tiers of base stuff. Dozens of new world building tools. Terraforming. Lots of new islands. They could have made that easily last a year. So what happened? A couple of months of rise, and then a dwindle in the gap to the next patch.

My ideal situation would be a mech a month with the heavy mechs and combat / wear mechs spaced to every three months. Release the light bots first to get the tease going. Nobody ever called a girl back if she tossed the salad on the first date. The game needs a bit of a through the trousers hand job.

Fake edit: for god sake make some money out of this. If your doing a mech a month sell a 5 run CT of next months mech in the cash shop for 10 - 20 dollars. its a blatant money grab but your a business that needs money. Who gives a damn.

*edit: Offensive. - DEV Zoom

It won't make a blind bit of difference to the population. You might get some old folks back if you commit to new bots and new weapons on a six month plan of drip release. Once you have a population you might get new people then but that's it really.

The devs can't / won't do it and the game is done.

Showing them how real men pvp. When two vs one isn't enough :-)

Anyone who builds anything on gamma is pants on head ***. The arbitrary no notice (or even notification sometimes) mechanics changes and crazy amount of bugs and 'features' makes gamma unplayable for anything other than a base and handful of turrets.

He has a sexy mouth though which gives me a half chub and is kind of cute. He doesn't engorge me like you or beastmode when he fc's

The thing is they release plenty of content they just do it badly. Gamma stuff was a good example. Instead of releasing some tech 1 gamma gear and then three months later tech 2 gamma gear with auras and masking and then another three months tech 3 gamma gear and boosters and colixium towers and then three months later terraforming they release it all at once.

Three months down the line everyone is hungry again.

The mission content was OK, the black vote great but once again they could have left difficulty and payouts unnerferd and added a black mech a month, then all black assaults month four, all black ewar mechs month five and all black heavies month six and stretch out that content. It really needed extra skills just to give people something to aim for.

It took eve six months to release three t3 interdictors. They were teased, drip fed and practically everyone in the game took the time to train them in order on this journey. Perpetuum should (and could) do the same thing.

A DECENT rebalance alongside new mechs (using existing models) could be teased and added every month for the next six months. Do it with the modules too and you have a years content drip fed every month and its zero development, just dome table changes and theory balancing. The population would absolutely increase.

Revert the goddamn balance patch already, Jesus ***

Rovoc talking sense. This is why I pleaded with you and begged you not to nerf missions and told ypu it would kill the population.

I hope your happy with your 'balance' zoom

Its an OK change. It won't increase the population but its OK.

Why keep making content that won't bring in money? Doesn't this devalue your money making elements and so bring in less cash?

Hopefully this alongside a move to FTP

Or just run a script that deletes artefact DB locations that are 28 days old and creates a new one