2. Ahhh ... so you never wanted that outpost anyway

You've had plenty of incentives to play and you're choosing not to fight.

Welcome to 12 months ago. This game has NEVER had a reason other than greed to play.

you had incentive to roll 70 guys on our outpost yesterday, and this morning you did have not incentive to fight us 1:1 ratio?

Ok, go back to WoW

DEVs seem to worry too much that more experienced, older players shut out newer players with advantages of more EP, NIC, beta island ownership.

Therefore they make cheap, low-EP bots super powerful so they can kill much higher EP more expensive bots.

Therefore they make station ownership without consequence.

Hurray, the newbie has an easier time of it.
Until he/she realizes there is no carrot at the end of the effort to EP up, to earn NIC, to join a Beta corp and compete for stations.
Bye bye any motivation to advance in the game or play more vigorously.

Where is the path of progression in this game?  In other games, an older player is much more powerful than a younger one.  This is the reward players have for their efforts.

When you make the gains to time and effort so low, you lose the entire progress persistency element that draws people to MMOs and it is just a lousy 3rd person shooter.

Agreed, there is a design consistency breach between character progression and bot progression.

Characters progress time based whereas there is no real progressions in bot models. They perfectly fit the design of for each assignment role a different model - and this contradicts the advancement idea of characters and their EP.

Its of course not wrong that EWs can be used effectively by an early player compared to rather new players - DEVs put a lot of effort in that structuring and all the numbers to be reasonable - but the fun factor is missing a lot.

In a mech or heavy you should just be able to crush EWs or lights while walking through them and stomp them.

That would reflect the differences in proper way. ATM mechs or heavies are more like Baby Huey - except that he is much more powerful then mechs/heavies.

Yes, this is a very serious problem not to be overlooked that is at the very root of why Perpetuum is not more popular.
There is no feeling of progression to better bots.

Mech and Heavy Mech pilots end up scratching their heads why they bothered putting in months of subscriptions, mined epriton and spend days/weeks of NIC to use heavy turtles only used in very rare situations.
And that are at the mercy of EWAR lights, bots that weeks old newbies can easily pilot.

Balance in MMOs should grant advantages to units/bots that take more EP to train.
The consistent gaining of EP and of farming NIC has to pay off as some form of significant advantage in bot power.  Not the very small increment that it currently is.
Many players are disappointed with how Mechs are underwhelming compared to Assaults/light bots.
And Heavy Mechs SHOULD justify the ridiculous prices.

People play MMOs to experience a feeling of significant permanent progress, of being stronger than a new player.
Otherwise they must as well play an FPS or some action game with no persistency elements.
DEVs, the mechs and heavy mechs ARE NOT delivering the sense of progress needed to hold people's interest.
You really need to make them much much cooler and more powerful and interesting because the draw of an MMO is the most advanced craft/character.

A blogpost about the coming updates is in the works, a little more patience please.

See?  You just made the argument.
Train months of EP, spend hours/days farming NIC.
For a bot that cannot go around alone.
The bot that gets not taken on roams.
Great.  Just great.
Train more so you can get in a more useless bot.

Heavier ships in EVE are not as disadvantaged as heavier bots in Perpetuum.
Why?  Warping around, use of bookmarks, bubbles, docking games and gate mechanics enable them to overcome the problems of their lower mobility.

In Perpetuum, there is only ONE type of movement, walking.
If you are too slow you are USELESS in the majority of PVP.
No matter how much firepower or defences you are carrying.
1) Too slow to catch anything - speed gap with fastest bots too high
2) Weapons too big to hurt small things - weapon size of med weapons too high

So.. after training months of EP you end up in a MORE USELESS not MORE USEFUL bot in roaming PVP.
Heavy Mechs... that SLOW SLOW speed... don't even start..
No point of doing all the damage and tanking in the world if you can't get to your targets or run from gangs.

So many players.. training EP so they can get into a better bot end up in a worse bot.
DEVs better wake up to how disappointed many players are with this and log in less and less and eventually quit.

what? i dont understand

Despite what you may think... heavy mechs are not worse then light bots.

In an engagement of even numbers having more properly fit heavies on the field significantly increases your chance of winning.

If you're looking for a mech that can fight 5v1 you're playing the wrong game... doing this would put far to much emphasis on bots and it would deter any new players from ever starting the game.... because they'd "have no chance" against the larger bots.

Sounds like you guys are on the verge of a civil war over there on Norhoop... will this be the second alliance that has split because of us? Please accept our apologies.

Kind Regards,
GLiMPSE™

Even better!

Lets quit measuring our e-pingases, shall we? Topic is not about it.