Was all of that vacation/roaming/huehue stuff done before or after the wonderful patch which dropped the population to ~200-250 people from a previous 350-400?

Look more closely what you are bragging about. You are bragging about being on our island for 2 hours. You are bragging about killing 2 heavy mechs, 1 riveler and 1 mesmer. With 12-14 people.

Think its you who needs to snap back to reality, you're sounding like the saturday pub team shouting about being Real Madrid.

It seems you read only what you want to, improve your comprehension skills

Or it's the master plan. We all know they want to release "Perpetuum" as "Perpetuum-Eternal" a free to play game with a cash shop and a lot more simplified game play and PVP mechanics.

Last I checked I wasn't a pet.  Comrades, yes. 

kthnxbai

What is all this BS about early access codes? It feels like I've missed something everyone else knows about...

*insert random troll post*

almost 5k views and toons of drama

Still not a pet

that comming from a 62nd pet...

lol Jelan.. I had to google panto lol

right to break up this rant between the 2 superpowers epeening each other.
I'll give the view of the victims in this 'debate'

Mechs are in decline in general pvp... the plain fact is for the price of heavy mech or very decent fitted mech u can more or less max pimp fit an light ewar bot. Coupled with the fact that 'most' of the abusers of the light ewar swarm fitters are high EP players. There are exceptions, in the main this is case.
In its current form the ewar blob will nulify any small group it faces, through ewar and neuting and demobbing. Hence why the perp killboard is full of light ewar blob groups kills nowadays.
Can it be countered ? ....long range bots are an option but sacrifice mobilty for range.. tanks are another but their immobility will prolly mean their downfall. The most obvious counter is more ewar but that just perpetuates the problem. ECCM sadly has been nerfed to buggery so this is prolly the root cause of the problem when combined with NIC cost of pimp fitting an ewar vrs cost of heavy mech etc.

So we come to possible solutions. I will throw these open to game at large.. so flame away.
1. Remove ability of Ewars fitting weapons.
2. Bring in ECCM viabilty either through increasing their effectiveness or giving ppl ECCM skills
3. Toning down multi functionality of light ewar bots in general... Thats assaults job to be of general use... tbh not sure myself about this one..but thought i'd drop it in anyways.
4. ECCM bots.
5. Lighten the weight of plates... they have far too much effect in speed in a speed fighting MMO. Make tanks viable in pvp.

Lastly..as a fairly new player and a member of the Squid alliance... we get roamed almost constantly... most by the light ewar swarms... hungry for their daily kills...we do not complain and we accept this.. but we are made up of a balance of new and older players... the low EP ones are the ones struggling yet we persist cos of the pvp that is both welcomed and hated... we have our successes and defeats in roughly equal messure but its the light ewars swarms that are hard to counter.. especially when the swarms number nearly 25 strong. I am not advocating a general nerf of light ewars but rather a need to redefine their roles and nature in which they operate. Til then the swarms shall prevail and prolly the games pvp population will continue to decline.

Be nice and chill about replies

new where have I seen the ECM complaints again ?

what about a simple solution. active ECM module increases interference of the ewar but 2-3x ??

Whats funny is how much you guys hate assaults for some reason. They are fun bots for roaming.

Alot of people play this game for fun *shocker*