This issue. It has been fixed.

Trial accounts can read the boards, but can not post on them.

If we allow trial accounts to join corps, they have hangar access and the whole item trading and NIC transfer limitation become useless.

There will be nothing available for cash that affects EP or NIC. It would undermine the persistency of our universe. Beyond that, anything is possible once our main issues have been dealt with.

Cobalt: Your idea sounds good, but it would result in making the purchase of an old, unused account pretty much a requirement to start the game. This would spawn a lot of RMT, account frauds, etc.

That too.

Yes, this is a problem. We are working on delivering the available options better, which will include such a recruitment interface and will be integrated with a social tutorial section.

We are getting ready to introduce a 15 day free trial. We can not hand out 5-600k NIC in the tutorial mission because everyone would be farming them. There was also a huge gap in progression if you lost your light bot you received when completing the tutorial mission.

The start was however not easy, as if lost your light bot, you were left with a very hard task to complete with an Arkhe. The new missions we have introduced are designed to get from an Arkhe into a light bot.

So it shall be done.

RMT account trading damages a game on many levels.

Trading accounts is a possible future feature, but it is not in focus at the moment.

If we did this, you 1337 pvpers would *** and pillage through the fledgeling corps chasing absolutely everyone out of the game.

Instead, we will give you more islands (3 alpha, 3 beta is the plan at the moment), more NPCs, discovery - along with new, unique equipment -, and to expand the end game a bit, we might let you manage the docking rights of some of the outposts you conquer.

I can't give you exact deadlines on this, but we are going to release every bit as soon as it is out of the oven. You should see these features trickle through in about two weeks.

This is all subject to change at the moment and we wouldn't talk about it if we did not understand your concerns.

Thank you all for your input, we are all richer for the experience.