T2 fit is still the norm for EVE, officer fits are rare.

I don't know where you got that information, but do you really think that now that this is out, we only started now on the attribute/spark patch, and it would be ready this week already? It seems you don't have any insight how development goes, but I can tell you one thing for sure, it's certainly not linear. </rant>

The beacons could use some improvement yes, but I think they are alot of fun and are a great addition to the PvE experience of the game! Ive had a blast with my corp going doing artifact scanning, spawning observers, and popping the beacons.

I think some peoples problem is they are going through "korean levels of grind" on this content and getting bored with it.

I was actually told you just got the go-ahead to start developing Intrusion 2.0.

As far as your particular development cycle goes, the way it was explained to me is that you each work on a specific feature/part of the code, and when an individual programmer is done he's done & twiddling his thumbs until its time to compile it all into a patch and see if it works. Correct me if my informant was wrong.

As for the rest, I'm merely expressing my point of view that your priorities aren't straight.

Since release you've promised a number of things, including Minefields, Artillery, Alliances (cancelled after some lol-feedback, then the biggest part of the 2/3 playerbases in-game petitioned you for it), POS, terraforming, "Stealth" assault bots, etc. None of which was delivered. The biggest 3 "content" addons to the game that you have to showcase is Artifact system, Terra Incognita, and Beacon system.

As a "long stretch" we could consider the Lithus, which is your only new bot addition in 1 year, besides the Mk2 bots which are just rehashed versions of the original bots with different colors and slightly better stats.

Noralgis I'm not even going to mention, as it has only been used to slow down T4 production and research in general because you were unable to compete development-wise against the progress of the community.

The "other" aspects of how certain parts of the community were allowed to REVIEW and ADJUST every upcoming change in the game, because they were "Closed Beta players" and how "secret" Dev accounts with maximized extensions were organized to go on roams with said super-leet-organized group, I won't go into great detail or examples but certain private privileged Skype logs were published, we all read them, and in CIR's case saved them for posterity.

So while you have every right to rant at me, I would appreciate if you did it with something more intelligent then saying we have unrealistic expectations. After a year, there's a lot more focused development that could have and should have happened, instead of tweaking missile range by +5% this month, -5% next month, nerfing certain modules and blatantly stating its so corp X doesn't put 20 of those super-expensive mechs on a SAP, etc.

And to supplement that I am not speaking/ranting with no reason, on Release there was 900+ players. That dropped to 150-250 actives at prime-time until the EVE Exodus when we once again jumped past 800, and since then we've dropped below 250 again. Once is a fluke, twice there's a pattern that the Devs are doing something wrong, and should adjust your course accordingly to give people stuff to do.

Beacons gives people stuff to do for a week or two, Intrusion 2.0 gives people stuff to do for a month or two until they realize Beta = Epriton source and nothing else, POS and Terraforming however gives YEARS of player-created content as big alliances and empires are created and destroyed.

I mean, just look at your "spiritual predecessor", EVE. They got something right, otherwise they wouldn't have so many subs.

/rant

Zoom jacked the beacon thread!
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Ok, in your defense Syndic opend the door up and left the car running with the keys in the ignition and a cooler of beer on the passenger seat.

Updated weekly?

This is awesome.

The trouble here is that there isn't any smoking gun.

Some players say 'this' will help, others say 'that', and no one is necessarily wrong.

The game simply needs MORE content, both PVP and PVE, and its going to take time to get it all deployed.

Forget the drop rate.. make the dam mobs spawn faster. i was solo farming a spawn that took 3+ heavy's pre dynamic spawn change by my self with a 70-80% downtime of waiting for a mob to spawn.

I mean gimme something to shoot

Yes and no. I agree but I can see this being abused. It should get to a point that dynamically spawn timers reduce and get to a point where spawns re-spawn instantly and instantly lock you.

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No Arga, that's a dodge not an answer to the dilemma.

IF its "this" will help / "that" will help, and they are 50-50 between the two ideas, poll it! Communication with DEV's has to be two-way otherwise its just players shouting ideas into deaf ears.

Look at DEV posting history a bit. Very quiet & almost non-existent period after the initial sucking up to all the EVE refugees (which promptly gave them the finger and buggered off to EVE after the first month, but that's besides the point), the forums livened up with activity only after water got up to the ears and we started seeing sub-150 in prime-times.

Then miraculiously 3-4 week old bugs were "fixed", this sounded good, this sounded possible, this could be done, blah blah.

Look, I don't wanna draw this out anymore so here's my point:

1. 900+ people from release went down to 150-250.
2. 800+ people come into the game, skyrocketing the population. These players are EVE players, they actually LIKE games like Perpetuum.
3. Population goes down to 100-150.

So lets draw the conclusion from that and ask the obvious question in the world nobody is asking:

If Perpetuum does not appeal to the players that played the only other game in its niche, whats the problem?

I personally don't care if Dev's prefer to ignore feedback like this that doesn't stroke their ego (I notice Zoom started taking me personally up there before he chilled out), but this is really the question that they need to be asking themselves.

Cause when you lose 80-90% of the niche population of players that your niche game caters to, something is rotten in the state of Hungary (to paraphrase Shakespeare).

And yes, beacon drop rate is too low.

I have a restaurant. It's going pretty good. But then people stopped coming. Had about 80% drop in customers since I opened. Why I wondered... Tried some new spices on, the restaurant 150m away from mine closed and voila - i got a nice 300% more customers. Ahhh...good times!

After 3-4 weeks buisness started to slow down again. I talked to some of the guys that were eating my food. Few of them said the food is great. Few of them said food is ok but it needs more spice - salt, pepper, hell even some chilli! But alot of them said it's getting boring, since I have just 4 meals on my menu. They wanted something more, more daring - they just wanted something new!

What did I do? Left things unchanged? Added some more spice to please a few more ppl? Or maybe constructed 4-5 new meals with my chef?

(warning - all characters in this are fictional! or are they!?!?! )