the topic-title already tells you why it wont happen very soon...

Quote myself from other topic

To answer your question Enduser - one of the problems is, that farming the AI robots needs a completely different equipment then fighting in PvP.

for example, NPC dont use active hardeners, they also dont have any extension bonus, neuts/draining doesnt work against AI and the average low speed and combat range of AI makes it easy to farm them.

That gives the attacker nearly always the advantage in PvP.

another major point that you can see on Perpetuum is - the active PvP nerds are nearly all in the same corp or alliance, not fighting against each others but bashing on the non-PvP player and asking the DEVs to implement more options to "force" everyone into PvP.

no risk no reward - if you collect all the best PvP players in one corp, your reward is that you wont have any opponent to your liking.

(sidenote: if your main goal in the game, is to destroy others fun in the game, thats also not beneficial)

edit:

they would still be called "Beta islands" because they are named after the "Beta Terminals".

working as intended. Dont blame the balancing that was in place for ages now, that you have resetted and specced for mechs while they dont have a use.

medium missiles got nerfed a bit to much, but that was necessary, as they did not work as intended (killing everything from more then 500m away with no LoS issues in max 2 salvos... with the low damage ammo)

like i wrote earlier, a skilled gauss cannon fitted Kain can one-shot a waspish, while having the speed and resist advantage. A Artemis has enough range and armor to kill an Arbalest, and the Tyrannos - sorry, never tried against Baphometh, but two showts from a medium neut will harm the bapho much more then the tyrannos (ok, forget that, the EM-Dispersion and a small injector cancel it out)

ah c'mon m2s, if you really as good as you say in PvP, you would break up your alliance on hokko and fight against all those other PvP nerds that gathered on your side.

Its the same as in Beta, where 90% of the "we want PvP, you are all carebears" are in the same corp or alliance. You dont need the speed to roam two other islands, if you can find the fight is just around at the next outpost, where the other corp sits that says "you all suck in pvp"

from what i hear, you would even meet joke more often when they visit your own island.

i have faith, that jita once will be able to write my name, even when he's drunk...

just by the pure announcement that they gonna nerf the EWAR lights speed, you start to cry out.
You dont even know how MUCH it will be nerfed.
one of the favourite quotes from PvPers i remember is "every Kph counts".
so if they are still 1 kph faster then any other bot... (multplied with lwf, proto equip and nav10) thats still a speed advantage.

nope, nothing planned that way.
Beta outposts are still property of the three megacorporations and they are base for 2/3 or the beta island missions.

DEVs already implemented restriction of homebase-setting (you cant set it as homebase if your corp is not owner of the outpost)

and thats why i got a really really clear "NO" from any DEV i asked during BETA on Drones.

Personally, i would like to see an option for a "pet", but no MMO i have played managed to balance a pet-class against direct combat class.

link is broken

also, i would mention critical hit bonus on all yellow combat bots, and the low dispersion on lasers.

perhaps you can bring in things i wrote there:
http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/post/12586/#p12586

the question is more - do the devs WANT you to mass-produce prototypes?

the prototypes are meant to be expensive. In this case, they are limited by maximum of prototypes per station.

btw, that means, you can run up to 40 prototypes per island at the same time!
do you fear the transport?

sounds more like "we have enough materials to go out with prototypes now, but the production is not fast enough"

10 prototyping lines are not enough?

oh, another freelancer

i dont think it will be so easy for a combat agent to drive the new transport mech.
the balancing DEV could just place it in the EWAR-mech category, and that would mean lvl7 industrial robot control minimum to drive it.
(thats 25 days ep, 20 days more then sequer min.)