I like a rare few of the ideas but ripping up whole facets like the loot tables and other such changes, isn't what needs to be done.  We shouldn't be telling them to redo the whole PvE game. 

Additions are what is needed.  Don't touch the economy or change the mobs.  Just add more, and varied, PvE.  It doesn't have to be a complete theme park MMO, but adding some life to it is called for.

Hey Zinny:

It looks like your own ISP, Telstra, timed out in that one. mad

You might try another one to check the later hops.

I want to see more PvE.  Doing the same couple missions over and over.. and over is why I left Eve after trying it three different times.

Give us some dungeon-like bases to assault and more boss type mobs in such places.  It doesn't need to be group-only and certainly shouldn't.

This hub:

te7-7.ccr01.bud01.atlas.cogentco.com

seems to be where trouble starts.  It may not be the only one, but a search also found it listed on DSLreports in their "Router Watch" report as a nasty lately:

http://www.dslreports.com/routerwatch/t … gentco.com

I may suspect the other "b" ones after it, too.  Such as "" .bts01. "" which is the first culprit.  They consistently choke and lose packets every time I've tested.

Here's a second one:

Tracing route to gameserverb.perpetuum-online.com [195.228.152.152]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     9 ms     7 ms     9 ms  76.48.208.1
  3    10 ms    11 ms     9 ms  CPE-65-28-18-30.kc.res.rr.com [65.28.18.30]
  4    27 ms    25 ms    26 ms  CPE-69-76-62-253.kc.res.rr.com [69.76.62.253]
  5    24 ms    25 ms    23 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.100]
  6    31 ms    30 ms    30 ms  ae-0-0.pr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.153]
  7    26 ms    30 ms    30 ms  te0-2-0-7.ccr22.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.11.145]
  8    32 ms    33 ms    31 ms  te0-0-0-1.ccr22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.1.97]
  9   143 ms   143 ms   144 ms  te0-2-0-5.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.43.74]
10   130 ms   131 ms   131 ms  te0-1-0-1.ccr22.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.42.106]
11   136 ms   133 ms   135 ms  te0-2-0-7.mpd22.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.37.109]
12     *        *      144 ms  te1-1.mpd03.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.
242]
13   153 ms   152 ms   153 ms  te0-1-0-4.ccr22.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.48.241]
14   152 ms   153 ms   153 ms  te0-2-0-0.ccr22.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.49.50]
15   164 ms   165 ms   162 ms  te7-2.ccr02.bts01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.37.
222]
16   171 ms   169 ms     *     te7-7.ccr01.bud01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.38.
189]
17   208 ms   297 ms     *     te1-2.ccr01.bud03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.48
.226]
18   167 ms     *        *     149.6.182.42
19   165 ms   167 ms   166 ms  81.183.0.96
20   179 ms   171 ms   171 ms  81.183.0.43
21   161 ms   163 ms   162 ms  81.183.2.225
22   166 ms   163 ms   161 ms  84.2.225.113
23   165 ms   167 ms   171 ms  gameserverb.perpetuum-online.com [195.228.152.15
2]

Trace complete.

My first tracert and I got a winner. 
ISP:  Time Warner Cable, Kansas City, MO

Tracing route to gameserverb.perpetuum-online.com [195.228.152.152]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  76.48.208.1
  3    12 ms    15 ms    10 ms  CPE-65-28-18-30.kc.res.rr.com [65.28.18.30]
  4    26 ms    28 ms    30 ms  CPE-69-76-62-253.kc.res.rr.com [69.76.62.253]
  5    24 ms    25 ms    25 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.100]
  6    37 ms    29 ms    28 ms  ae-0-0.pr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.153]
  7    34 ms    31 ms    33 ms  te0-2-0-7.ccr22.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.11.145]
  8    34 ms    27 ms    31 ms  te0-0-0-1.ccr22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.1.97]
  9   140 ms   144 ms   137 ms  te0-2-0-5.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.43.74]
10   130 ms   133 ms   126 ms  te0-1-0-1.ccr22.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.42.106]
11   140 ms   141 ms   142 ms  te0-2-0-7.mpd22.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.37.109]
12   149 ms   148 ms   149 ms  te1-1.mpd03.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.
242]
13   147 ms   152 ms   150 ms  te0-1-0-4.ccr22.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.48.241]
14   149 ms   151 ms   148 ms  te0-2-0-0.ccr22.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.49.50]
15   176 ms   162 ms   163 ms  te7-2.ccr02.bts01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.37.
222]
16   169 ms   165 ms   165 ms  te7-7.ccr01.bud01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.38.
189]
17   173 ms   182 ms   173 ms  te1-2.ccr01.bud03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.48
.226]
18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
19   171 ms   167 ms   169 ms  81.183.0.96
20   166 ms   162 ms   167 ms  81.183.0.43
21   163 ms   163 ms   171 ms  81.183.2.225
22   165 ms   161 ms   162 ms  84.2.225.113
23   166 ms   165 ms   167 ms  gameserverb.perpetuum-online.com [195.228.152.15
2]

Trace complete.

I figured it to be packet loss or the server being overloaded and receiving delayed responses from it.

Either way, I'm getting it too.  Does server restarts ease the problem for a time or not?