I'm sure it's not going to happen tomorrow.

You know, it's like that fiscal year thingy

Hope so, it will have to be to pull my attention away from Tribes

Unfortunately it got much longer than expected (it is a monsterpost really, and it's only about intrusion 2.0 even), but now we only need some proofreading and some neat screenshots. So it'll be the first thing in the morning to finish it and you can have it

Here you go:
http://blog.perpetuum-online.com/posts/ … 0-details/

Hmz..

I think I missed the :awesome: part most of the details are as predicted and/or requested, however i disagree with 2 details:

1) 24 hour cooldown for auras. I don't see why this prenerf, but i figure it's taken as some kind of a pressure valve for possible technical difficulties (updating everyone on a single island with aura change would be server cpu consuming, and spamming it each second would probably crash the server) but I think that a 15 minute cooldown would completely suffice, 60 minute at most. 24hour is plain overkill and serves no purpose whatsoever. With this   you cant even change aura to help yourself in different tasks, so this aura thing is either "turned on" for one general purpose on an island and that's it or it's not. No extra gameplay with it. Seriously? You made a whole new *** gameplay system and we're just gonna turn it on and that's it? Rethink this fast and realize the potential it could have if you made a more sensible cooldown.

2) intrusion time scanning ammo? WTF? what's the *** purpose of RANDOM intrusion events if you can  scan them down? This actually destroys the current gameplay (where u KNOW when the next intrusion is gonna be), because every top corporation is gonna have to have spying alts on all (major) outposts. This means that all you did was complicate the gameplay regarding the intrusion system for most players and NOT made it fun. If you kept the intrusion system random and with NO scanning timers possible, the system woudl be fun, and roaming squads would have much meaning, thus allowing smaller forces to influence bigger ones. With it, it's again top corps vs top corps but with added complications and added spy alts. Very bad idea and at most a poor attempt to get a couple more accounts.

Otherwise superb blog, probably superb coding execution, but that remains to be seen. The auras idea is nice, tbh I don't agree with loot at saps, because auras and outpost mechanisms should be enough incentive for the Intrusions. But ok, you want us to have loot? thank you very much. We didn't need it Am.

As stated numerous times in the past month, this patch will be a step in the right direction, however it is only a small step (yes, sorry, it is) and the whole marathon (of getting the game rolling with >1k subs) is still ahead.

T.

Good question, don't know if the DEVs have thought about that, because it won't be a public market anymore but an alliance market, once the OP is locked.

I don't think locking down access is a good idea anyways, after all this is syndicate built OP on a syndicate unprotected area. It looks like a cheap move to give DEVS more time for POS and possible 'gamma' islands.

Some Levels? As far as I can understand , you have the ability to enter it or not. And what would be the point of a public market in a locked OP, if you can't buy/sell anything unless you are docked there?

Like it is explained in the blog, closing an outpost is not simply black and white, it depends on relations who you let in. This can change every day depending on the owners' will, so there is no point in hiding market orders. Also it would be just like it was for trial accounts, when the market limitations were still in effect - they thought that's all the market they could see.

I think the idea is that your corp will want you to move your stuff to their outpost and help protect it so that you do risk losing access to your stuff.

The best tactic once this goes live is to move into someone else outpost and leave your old one. Do this fast enough and you can cause a corp to lose almost all its assets.

For example corp A, B and C could band together and move in to corp Ds outpost (Because it starts at 5%) then capture the first SAP and corp D loses control of the outpost. At this point corp D has to move out or risk losing all their stuff.

So I hope of the the internet pirates here have something like this planned because I can't wait to hear a 100 strong corp whining they lost their outpost on the first day.