A good intro takes 25 players the guiding hand of a Development Team and some Free gearz!

and ville has probably the most active player at hand to do it.

The game lacks humanity in it's design, it can't make new players feel invested in their characters. The tutorial is *** at best and needs a complete redesign. The flow of the game needs a complete redesign, new players have absolutely no chances of forming new corporations and competing with vets anymore. I won't bother to mention broken game mechanics.

Solving this is a long and hard road that must be undertaken regardless.

I try to explain my idea.

I will tell you a story beacuse it is more understandable that way.

1. Step:
The DEVs stand up a teleport and a reactor to Attalica. There will be defenders by NPC-s. The players task is they need to turn off the reactor. When they win the battle against Thelodicas they can turn off the teleport. Maybe need 10-20 cycle so dont stop the reactor the 1st time when the players can do this.
Until the reactor is work the Thelodica reincforement will come to defend. When the reactor is turned off they cant come anymore.

2. Step:
The players cant use the teleport until they dont charge up the reactor. So they can charge by energy storage cells or anything they got NIC from Syndicate to do this. (And acchievment when they reach 1000.)
When the reactor is work the players can teleport to the other Island. Whick will be totally new.

And the game will go on again and agin.

2 picture I made for more understanding and some more info.
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I have more details if anybody interest I will tell.
Such this:
is the beginning for bulding up a Energy Transferer to Earth. So the corporations has incentiveness to build this Transferer.

I am hardly believe this idea. This can help Perpetuum PVE part of. And the players will love this I bet.

this would be fun +1

How is your survival threatened if you can just dock & spark somewhere else until the annoying useless NPC's are gone?

Inda +1

I am still support this idea.

DEVs any problem to do this any idea, any thoguhts sometimes can happen? I would hear your woice here.

Bump.

you have to see the positives about it.
While making that tutorial, the DEVs implemented mechanics that can be re-used later for the PvE revamp*.
They also learned how to make themepark, hand-holding mission chains, which they will also use for the upcomming Mission revamp.
I suppose, new players are also better introduced into the background story of the game and now know better what the ultimate goal in perp is.

(sorry, this post probably contains lots of irony)

*: Inda, its a "v" that you spell like a "w";)

If the offload the tutorial to the client side, you could make some cool cinematic effects during a more interactive style of tutorial causing a stronger interest from the start. When done show a cinematic of the players character taking the controls on the Earth side, then zips into atmo through the micro wormhole and ends with them landing in an arkhe outside of the station they chose from the tutorial exit.

Another interesting thing that could make combat more interesting is a camera manipulation that makes ones death more entertaining. Can matrix style the last shot and slow motion the explosion (all done on the client side allowing for the server a second to catch up to the client on re spawning in station).

World events are something that would be freaking awesome as well, but there needs to be an incentive to do them as opposed to someone just sparking out to avoid the annoying rats. Say X island becomes a warzone with the NPC's as discussed in earlier posts (This fits lore as the NPC's started resisting the virus!) but since it will be an issue for all 3 factions, the reward has to be universal. Enter stage right, A NEW USE FOR THE UNIVERSAL TOKENS THAT ALREADY EXIST! Give universal tokens as the reward, the tokens description fits the use as well so no editing needed to the item itself. Also add some rare gear to the token market, say for normal token markets T2+ gear, nothing terribly special, but open a universal token market that only the universal tokens work at, and say put T4+ gear in there? This will cause more interesting things to happen, and something the PvE people would get into and possibly get them more interested in coordinated combat. (Can you see a gateway drug to PvP here?)

Another interesting idea, make the clicky things in missions more interactive as well. Make some mini game puzzles that pop up in order to "hack" or "access" the spots, this can even carry over to Beta SAPs. Can you imagine, you go to an active hack, use the module, and have to do a puzzle with in time in order to succeed? This causes more then one person to have to be there as the hacker needs protected due to his UI having a puzzle up.

@DEV ZOOM DIRECTLY : College Students, they have been a great resource for us and interns are awesome, make use of them as well. Find some Visual Communications Majors who need to build a portfolio, they often will work for free to a) Get a good reference for future work, and b) have something in their portfolio that is easily found (Hint hint this is where your game being on STEAM can be a good convincing tool for free work!). These students FOCUS on media creation, modeling, design, and all those wonderful things YOU NEED HELP ON TO KEEP INTEREST!

[Oh schnap the Ambe busted out the bold. Gettin' srs]