Indeed everybody has nowadays EP for Vel Nexus, but you cannot fit it without costs.
EG tackler with Nexus has strong limits on other fit, nexus as well costs you energy, there are several bots not beeing able to fit/use masking and nexus together, so oyu have to choose.

With this argument, we could remove weapons from equipment, as every Kain/Artemis/Tyrannos has them equipped and you cannot enter Pvp without having at least one bot with them fitted.

The Navigation extension was something complete different, as it had only few EP spend and no other side effects.

The mechanic for facilities uses diminishing returns, the the worse the facility the more important are good extensions, the better the facility the less important are extensions. Same is for relation etc.

It is important that even maxed recycling on best facility provides less material, than needed to produce on best facility to ensure no one can create mats by produce ->  recycle -> produce

24h afk mining with more than 3 mil EP provides still more than EP Booster (instead of 0). Doing same with new agent should provide something like 4k/h or almost 100k/day I learned.

I do not ask to revert patch totally, but I would have liked a "smoother" approach.
You get too much EP compared to EP Booster. EVerybody using EP-Booster the last 6 month will feel waste of money. This is not good to bring activity back. But the more crititcal point ism that this is not helping in bringing trust back from your veterans

Please do a n emergency hotfix for the EP patch now, not this evening, not monday. You get  by far too much EP, 125.000 EP in less than 12h is the highest number Ive heard, but I see smaller numbers that were still factors higher than it should

I think we have a lot good ideas in this thread how to solve this problem.
My favorite would be Jitas idea of deleting locations after 28 days, but even a reroll every 1st of a month would be acceptable.

I just like to see a solution as the ticket is now older than 6 month.

I think that idea with EP gain can be setup good, or bad into game.

One important reason for me to join this game, was that the EP system allows me as player with a life out of game to compete with player that have no other life than sitting in game on EP level. I don't care about 10-20% difference, but you know why there are so many games, were you could buy maxed level chars.

I don't like the idea, that the new system this might allow new player to control HM MK2 in the first week, as there would be no reward left in the second week playing, not to speak about second month.

But I fight since introduction of "Log-in-EP" for some more need to get the EP, than just 5 second login

It has just to be assured, that it is not frustrating for one side, eg ensure that one h of activity a day gives more EP than just 1% of daily progress, on the other hand side I would not like if someone doing 1 week activity  had after this week more EP than someone buying booster for 2 month after those two month without activity (thats ~130k).

If the update would be daily, there would be no reason to use some effort reaching a spot not easy to reach. Eg. kill some NPCs or if you would need to terraform to get there. As even if you have 2 spots hard to reach on an island your fine digging for the other 8.

But if a spot is unable to reach, there needs a corrective measure within say less than 4 weeks.

I am against daily update. But if the only solution is to reset artifact locations, I would recommend to do this 1-2 times a month unless there are more positions where you can have artifacts being really unreachable (aka non Terraform Zone on Gamma in combination with Terrain beeing blocked for all bots.

That graph shows the number of logged agent over time scale.
So there is no difference in scale between 10 agents beeing logged in 24h or if every second 1 agent logs in, stays 10 seconds and log out but nobody stays longer. In both cases the shown population would be 10 over time while in fact it would need 60x60x24=86,400 different agents loggin in each day for the second.

I requested long ago, tht you should get EP only for doing something active in game for at least once a week.
It is very easy to see, that we have several hundred player not beeing active in game but just getting Ep at least once a week

I have no clue if this is due to the reduced number of machines or an effect due to something else but Lag is getting an ugly problem.
Please do me a favor and insert 10 CTs in a terminal and start production to learn what I'm talking about.
See also
http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … neral-lag/