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Just say'n

Maybe we should just go hard-hard core mode, where bots are on terrain all the time. No outposts, no logging.

I agree, there is nothing specifically wrong with approach, but promoting team play with nice bonuses for boosting other players is good too. Just my opinion here, but if you nerf remote abilities because single players are running multiple bots, then you lose the 'good' game play portion of promoting team play.

By this I mean, if I'm an active player on the field and have to give up an arm slot and a locked target count to SA my buddy, it should provide a good bonus.

The trouble is the game can't tell if I'm a real person actively supporting my battle buddy, or a follow-bot providing automatic support.

There are plenty of actual uses for follow, such as not having to stop a roam while 1 person goes AFK.

Perhaps its a situation where the mechanics don't allow 'follow' and 'lock' the same bot.

That's just the problem, there is something preventing both sides from projecting onto the battlefield, outpost ownership.

Why and how that's the issue, is covered in the previous 48 pages, basically it's a broken king of the hill model.

It's usually a value add exchange; you throw a Birthday party with Cake and adult beverages and we bring gifts. Usually cash because we're too lazy to go shopping.

What exactly is the 'problem' that isn't being addressed?

For me, the problem this is solving is force projection. Specifically the ability to use SpT tactically instead of strategically and I think it does fix it by requiring players to weigh the advantages of having SpT to location A over B.

I agree with Martha, I don't expect this change to create PVP. For me it wasn't about generating more pvp opportunities, it was about preparing the mechanics for the much antcipated population upswing.

The game may also be 'more tedious' at this point, but I see that as a population issue, because Perp isn't really a 'fun' game, its a game an 'accomplishment' game. Without a certain amount of population, acheivements are meaningless. (just to be clear, Not fun, doesn't mean it can't be entertaining, simply that it's not a themepark)

Overall, there's plenty of issues that still need to be addressed before the Perp is entertaining again, but just because one change doesn't fix everything doesn't mean that it didn't need to be done; and according to Zoom the Sloting is a fairly easy coding change, low hanging fruit, so it's not like this change is taking an inappropriate amount of dev time that could be used fixing bigger issues.

http://perpetuum-online.blogspot.com/

The only way EP will be sold is when Perp goes on an 'off the rails money grub' just prior to the devs closing down the server.

Conventional wisdom says more would be better, but it's just special.