This is an event from a player for players - Game mechanics won't change for this....

aye, the original intent, was allowing the speed nexus or not.  With the rule of trials, it prevented someone for having a character with max speed nexus skills.

2nd.  It lets me differentiate in squad, who is a staff person, and who is a trial account racer.

3rd.  It potentially provides Perpetuum with more trial accounts, new and older vets, who may one day spend ICE or other, to keep those new trial accounts active after the trial is over.

I want more business for Perpetuum.  I want more accounts, I don't care if they already have 1-5.  I want more ICE being bought on their site, and sold or traded in the actual game.

In a nutshell, the purpose of the Race is to get us all together, new players and old, to have some fun together.  Show that there are a lot of people playing.  For the vets, it allows them to have their racer there, withouit leaving the Beta or Gamma islands at their stations.  It's quite easy making a new account, and start them at ICS.   It doesn't take up a character slot, and they are not penalized 2880 EP for deleting it on their main accounts.

So, is that reason enough for you?

The only way you can be shot at on an Alpha island, is if you flag for PvP.  If you're in the race, and you want to, I'm not gonna stop you, that's your choice.  And yes, 20k starter EP means no one will have level 10 speed nexus skills (as was the original intent).  Now though, nexus' are not allowed at all, period.  If you have one, or are caught using one, you are not only removed from squad, but if it looks like you meant to do it, to help out friends or one of you alts, they will also be DQ'd.

Edited to add:  the 26,000 EP, something a trial account who started on the day I announced the event, would be enough for Navigation Nexus 7.  I had orginally intended to allow that, however, after conversations with others, and their concerns, I decided to ban all Speed Nexus's.  So this argument/point, whatever, is all moot.

There's really no checkpoints for the race, other than the islands themselves.  You're allowed to take any path you want across the islands, those are the checkpoints.

so, how did it go?

did someone show up? the event was far to late for me to stay online.

I miss this guy.  William where have you gone?

Oh, this looks like it used the now non-existent golden triangle.  I re-read it because I thought it was the demob-the-sequer game I forgot the rest of.

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