Agreed, but non of the above mentioned games afiak, don't enjoy single shard on a single server with a time based skill system, and we don't all care about pvp, some of those are not even on the sci-fi genre.

The only game competing directly with this one is eve online.

Who knows if that will even help. They need more than just a revamp to intrusions. People aren't leaving because of how it's setup now. People are leaving because they're running out of things to do and fight for. Changing how we cap outposts in to a more active and time consuming method is going to kill this game. It will turn OP holding in to an annoying chore. If they release it however with changes to the incentives to holding one, then it just may be what brings the game to life again. The critical flaw in this game is that there's not enough to do. You either Farm (NPC/Arti), Mine or Roam.

There's very little to do in the way of empire building and real time objectives. Everything feels incredibly static and mundane once you've been around long enough. Once we actually get terraforming and base building with added weight to the effects of smaller scale PvP, then we'll be having fun.

... or I'll just be playing Diablo 3 if that release before this game changes. All in all though, funny enough, the one thing they did right is make it so you can get EP without logging in every other day to skill up. So I'll probably remain subbed even if I dont play for a few months.

This game definitely needs extended territorial control. Imagine how many players will join the game if they will able capture and hold their piece of world. +pos system and ...jackpot

Intrusion 2.0 seems like a good foundation to build upon with a future POS system. They are taking their time to get it right, intrusion 2.0 is the right next step foward, but will not bring much to the table until other features/content are added to the end game.

Anni, i think top corporations will have a certain location where they are living atm. Yeah, devs can do large islands with tele's around them and this will cause boredoom. But if this continents will not have alot of outer teleports, situation will be another: roaming groups will have a choice: to search for some unknown enemy somewhere or to spend a half hour and come to the certain enemy corp home. I think in this case large islands will not add a boredom. They will add more space for new corps who want to lost somewhere and build something. It will works with a landmass what will have significantly more size that all islands have now.

for small corps: they can be everywhere. It will be hard to find them.
for large corps: they will be @ some terminal. Its easy to find them.
for medium corps: half of both statements.

It will get a lot better when we get POS in game.

Biggest problem with POS will be that the microscopic faction of very loud individuals will quite happily try influence the development so 10-15 light bots doing 5 AM roams can destroy something/someone's POS investments.

It's hard to really put a finger on it, in games like DAoC and WAR we called it "Realm Pride", people used to do near-ludicrous 40-hour-long warbands to protect their little NPC "King" from getting killed. Some "Corp-Pride" features possibly? I remember WAR especially REALLY watered down once they made the faction-cities ezmode so King-kills were "dime a dozen".

But seriously, if we're considering POS improvements on a strategy-scale look no further then the old jewels like Age of Empires 1 & 2. Bot Bay POS for producing light bots (aka Barracks in AOE), Mech Bay POS for producing mech&heavy mech (aka Stables in AOE), farms, walls, turrets, lumberyards (ok, we don't collect lumber here but maybe Triandlusyard? Helioyard?) stuff like that.

Perpetuum really needs more stuff for CREATING, and I don't care how anti-lore it is but players creating their own kingdoms/fiefdoms/communist states/capitalist states would certainly attract that niche of people who enjoy the Massively in MMORPG's.

Yeah, we all know what sandbox is - I want to make my sand castle that I'm proud of and I will do all that I can to protect it, to evolve it, to make it bigger, better, put more seme in it!

This game has taken a turn to be more like - we give you a surface, you go and roam and pewpew. There are no tools to build, there's no achievements, almost nothing to be really proud of... Gogogo, get in your ewar/light/hell maybe even *** and peeeeeeeewwwwww....

Knee-jerk reactions have started - buff, nerf, nerf, buff, nerf some more...balancing some say, heh - stop listening to CIR, to m2s, to 62nd, NeX, get your heads straight devs, give people something to lust for. When I 1st came it was heavies, but now months and months have passed - heavies are on no-ones to do list since we all know its too much hastle for most of players to get one only for it to be annihalated by 4-5 lights...so give us something to strive for!

Set some real goals, do something that will amaze players - just a few good ideas, stop the whines with constant +10% weapon range, -15% weapon range, -5% weapon range, +10% weapon range........

Hell - you're still in a world of trouble with the basics of the game - acc resets, extensions...work on good stuff - fine tune later. I think most will agree that online numbers are a nice proof of that.

Get your head out of your *** and go troll elsewhere. This thread's about the state of the game, not your epeen.

It's pretty obvious that the people still in game, playing, are having fun. Else they wouldn't be playing, now would they? How does that expunge the deficit that's been building up of online players? Numbers are getting low again because the game's fine? People who quit and wander off aren't going to be as vocal at all, in fact, I'm sure they'll just pack up their *** and leave. If you're still having fun camping stations and ganking the loaners you find, then all the power to you. But for the rest of the people that have pretty much put this game on the back burner, I think it's time to start paying attention to them.

Or you can make excuses for why people are quitting and watch all your competition walk out. I mean, that's cool too I guess. Whatever floats your boat.

Those messages give a very evident impression about you and your corpses being their members.

Honestly, what a shame

Im having fun. I think whether people stay or leave, I will have fun.

I enjoy the game and I know I am not alone. Sure I have only been playing 2 months and the game needs adjustment, I am happy with the progress the Devs have made.

Whether there are huge mech fleet battles or small roams with a couple assults, I enjoy it for what it is.

I didn't expect many of the people from EVE to stay. The game needs alot of work but I think people are blowing things out of proportion.

The real reason you guys are not happy is the fail politics that have been going on lately. Big alliances = no variety in PvP / roaming. Yeah, beta may be broken. But CIR/Novastrov, you only have yourself to blame for the fact that you do not get the "epic mech fights" that you want by blobbing together and having an alliance that consisted of most of the mech based PvP oriented players in the game.

Allying with all corporations that roam / PvP in mechs besides M2S, you sealed your own fate of boredom.

Syndic/Novastrov: Good job at killing off the only PvP you enjoyed. The rest of us will still be here, having fun, and not blueing every single corporation on the server and then wondering where all the epic PvP went.

Cya around

So, this game does not need anything, all is good, only bad thing is the big bad CIR/NovaBlob wolf?
Strange... So, you and 300 people that are on at most are having fun and it's all good.
We are trying to talk about stuff that can make this game improve, have more people online, have a few more stuff to do then to go roam in ewars/lights. But hate is blinding...