I would support this if all t1 items were put on npc loot tables including nexus’s, shields etc.. .

Honestly everything in the game should be able to be looted from either NPC’s, Missions or Artifact Hunting. This list should include EVERYTHING ..prototypes, Robots, Teleports, Construction blocks, Injector Charges, containers, Structure CT’s … it should all be open for hunters to hunt for.

In that case bots should actually blo...group like players and act like so.

Or build gamma bases, escorted by huge caravans.

NPCs using stuff like RR (ofcourse not on small alpha spawns, or they'd eat all the nubs for dinner) would be super awesome as it would not only add to the games PvE (where it's pretty lacking) but would also give ewar a role in PvE, which would be super awesome :3

The current system has been created knowing that corporations won't take the risk of feeding one character, and lose all the knowledge when he drops out for any reason. Well, guess what, they did Everyone feels forced to do it because everyone else is doing it, and they don't want to fall behind in the tech race. And then we made the mistake of balancing this flawed system to be slower instead of fixing the root issue. So yes, we have some ideas and we intend to change this.

Thanks for your response Zoom, i realise its not an easy thing to balance but its reassuring to hear that the devs are thinking about it.

We will of course share our ideas, once we think they are solid.

It means when we are confident that you won't point out a critical flaw right after we post it on the blog.

I guess that disclaimer is really needed there.

My experience with general developing  is: No group of developer is able to came out with that "evil" ideas, that final user will have. So I don't expect flawless solutions, but I appreciate, that the Devs wait until they removed all (for them) obvoius problems. And  accept that this is no easy task, done in 2 days.

In my humble opinion, basic items shouldn't be out of reach for your average joe who wants to basically craft.

It seems that most industry is reserved for corporations, who obviously dont need any more or new player taking up the art of industry.  This is bad.  It reserves a major aspect of the game for the few who are "in" enough with a corp who will feed them kernals and mats.

I dont see an issue with the best extensions and bots requiring a corp's farming efforts and having those items reserved for serious industry accounts.

Its the basics.  I want to be able to be self sufficient with making basic extensions, ammo for my combat character...hell it would even be nice to be able to pump out some bots so that i can pvp more.

As far as i remember, getting into a corp, your basically told to not spec into industry its already covered be a miner. Thats all fine and good to need a lot of mining character, however theres got to be a system that makes a large number of people interested in industry advantageous to a corp, while at the same time allowing casual people to be able to contribute something to the market.

Something does need to change with the insane amount of kernals needed to unlock stuff.  If anything research should be a time based function not a quantity of kernals munched type of mechanic.

Also i would LOVE to see some type of communal industry functions for corps.  So adding some noob with lv3 industry into the corp will benefit the corp rather than being ignored or rejected due to not being needed.

My idea is somewhat long winded.  I would like to see more corp based structures, not just on gamma.  Perhaps a corp factory where anyone with any type of industry could park and work on work orders of things needed by the corp, while mining characters could mine the materials and have transports dump those mats into a corp storage faclility that would be connected to the factory that was pumping out goods.  Basically a corp structure for every aspect of the games grouped extensions. I realize that would take far too much programming to even be realistic but its nice to dream.