You can actually do something else for a couple of days instead of rushing home and spamming the log-in button.

I’ll take a few days off the game, leave room for the newer guys to play and get hooked. DEVs thanks for keeping us updated and having suggested some kind of compensation. It’s the best one can do in these circumstances. Get some rest and make us a server in due shape so we can have a good time with all the new comers.

Seeing as how you’re not doing industry and don’t seem interested in PVE. You have nothing to loose continuing with your current avatar and doing a reset much further down the line when you actually know what is going on.

What I recommend that you do is to continue playing as you were for at least one month, (I recommend two). Learn the game. You benefit from having a good farming race, you’ll be able to get wealth and gear more easily than if you were blue (Nuimquol) for example. When you decide to reset, you give your gear and NIC to an alt or a friend, and recuperate it after resetting.

You are referring to the combat mechs and heavy mechs of the yellow race (Thelodica), which are long ranged slow tanks indeed. Remember that mechs and heavy mechs are not the only robots in game. With the current common tactics speed is king in roamings operations and also in intrusions (fleet battles). This will only hold true until an FC who’s smarter than the current ones will find a good way to pitch the paper thin armored Kain (blue faction, fastest mech in game) in a head on fight with a Seth.

TL DR: You ain't seen nothing yet, don’t waste your reset, wait two month before you use it.

Corporations provide for own members first. Surplus and unneeded gear goes onto the market. Have you ever heard of such a thing as excess of weapons and gear in combat zones?

Yes the market is baren. It’s there for you to colonize. There are countless people out there who need gear and cannot get it anywhere else than from the market.

Opportunity for you maybe?
Welcome to the game.

Greetings and welcome to all the new players.
The sudden influx of player and the appearance of the mega corporation NEX is an interesting twist to the game.

Server issues.
As much as I need my Perpetuum fix day after day, I can understand the lag and temporary population cap applied recently. Imagine if from one day to the next, your income and work load were doubled. You’d be glad, but you’d need some time to gather yourself to face the challenge.

Trial accounts and new players.
By all means flood in, stay, trial, try, experiment but mostly stay. You didn’t “break” our game, you isolated and pointed out a technical software default in the relay thingy machine.

We at 62nd look forward to interacting with you as well as helping you with your questions in the chat channels and forums. Many of us being former EVE players, we’ll gladly translate the various Perpetuum terms into ones you’re more familiar with.

+1
New players need catering.

What discouraged me when I started playing P.O. was the fact that the grinding starts from the moment you end the tutorial.

The second thing is the travel times. Getting around really feels like driving your car to work.

These can be accepted by people familiar to the genre who suspect that there is something better afterwards. Not everyone is willing to go through a long boring grinding phase to get to the good stuff. Most people want to have fun from day one.

Make a linear mission system. Bring the npcs closer to the station. Auto deploy a teleport beacon back to station when mission is completed. Currently the new player is offered a menu of 10 missions to grind. He spends more time walking than fighting or mining. He can’t even go pour himself a drink while all that senseless walking is being done.

No matter how boring they are, I know that grinding and walking are pvp fuel, so I accept them. To the new player grinding and walking are the only things he gets ie the worst part of the game, right from day one.

Some lore and fluff. Because we all need it. Robot description.

The light bot.

Vastly underestimated, the light bot has nothing to envy from the other robots in the arsenal. Readily available and easy to replace, it’s platform of choice for the rookie agent and the veteran pirate.

The light bot has outstanding spotting skills and stealth. In most combat situations it will see the enemy before being seen. This vastly underestimated edge coupled to the fact that it can outrun what it can’t destroy, gives the light bot pilot the luxury of choosing his battles.

When the odds turn against the light bot, thanks to its quad leg configuration and low centre of gravity, it is capable of fleeing through rough terrain, valleys and trenches which are not traversable for the bigger chassis.

In addition to the fact that there is no limit to number of light bots that an entity can field, this attack scout’s competence as a skirmisher make it an opponent to be feared.

Admittedly I derailed a bit off topic here.

I'm supprised that Jelan, the biggest mouth of M2S, has not made comments on this yet.

On a side note we ought to add "Not taking the DEVs for fools" in this thread :

http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … surviving/

Well funded, equipped and trained, there’s seemingly no limit to the amount of man and machine M2S can throw into battle. You’ll have no luck with them. On the other hand I understand that the Norhoop Alliance is having trouble keeping its enemies off its land. Perhaps you should try to contact them. They need battle worn commanders and veteran shock troops armed to the teeth, not greenhorns in T1 gear.