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And then he will aim for 1-2 years ahead.

I broke your sentences out to clarify my point a little better, and Zoom I'm not trying to come off as trying to bash you or your work, you guys have a fantastic game and some of the features in this game are truly amazing.  And its really appreciated that you are open to dialogue and discussing things with us. And I hope I am not being annoying or offensive by breaking the sentences out.

1.  Because what you propose is only good for those handful of veteran players

Your thinking tunnel vision bud.  In the grand scheme players will have to be farming kernals, building research farming fragments and build stock piles to fight wars and pvp with or more efficient mining/harvesting.  Will this help the brand new player?  Absolutely because it will increase the demands of fragments/kernals and Minerals and on a long term scale the more steps in the production phase you can see sustained growth for the need of fragments and tangible assets.  Minable material!  You can bring in colixum based minerals to have some weight in the market.  Newer corporations can stick a T1 mining terminal down anywhere and mine some colixum, or be sensible and remove the mining tower's NEED to mine colixum and use it like any normal mmo and just have it buff miners in a certain radius over ANY field.

2.  even that for a very limited time only.

I been playing for 3 years with T4 caps, I think we could squeak out another 4 years with T5.  Even when your ready to introduce "heavy weapons" you don't have to sit through the T1 through T5 gambit you can just introduce two tiers or whatever.  Your the developer you have great ideas, I am just taping on the glass outside the box.

3.  It wouldn't take long before that would become the de facto standard equipment, practically making some other tier obsolete

Then make T5 heavy as all be.  Speed is everything in this game!  If T5 reduces your overall KPH by 15 ~ 40 theres a major draw back to using it right there, or Make negative debuffs on it Make the accumulator usage a tidbit higher. 

4.  not to mention the newbie-veteran gap widening effect it brings.

Don't get mad at me and ban me please, but you already made that gap significantly wider when you did the robot rebalance.  Because, you killed Ranged combat.  Everything is in your face brawl ERP tanks.  Which means bring more people or GTFO.  Which made the newbie - Veteran gap huge.  Because their EP levels won't allow them to fit certain fits the veterans can and overall they can't produce DPS anywhere close to veterans.

5.  And then someone comes with the same complaints, we bring in T6, repeat the above, and I hope you can see where that leads

Zoom isn't that the case of any mmo?  Of course over time your player base is going to ask for "New Items (T6)" they are going to ask for more tools to play with.  And besides we all know your going to do some major overhaul of modules later in the games lifespan that forces players to respect to a different class for min/max dps. 

I hope I have not come across as Sarcastic or degrading I just want to see more Sand in the Sandbox.

Thanks.

I disagree completely with having t5 the complete set of tiers we have needs to be re-balanced.

Actually having 3 tiers is more than enough.

t1 cheap gear not much to change
t2 light gear slight improvement on performance stats from t1 (requires Epriton)
t3 heavy gear best stats (requires colixium and epriton)

Something along these lines.

I do agree with having specialised robots with same chasis models soon as possible which won't take much time to do.

e.g having specialized Scarab better for mining boosts or HM combats for farming.

Zoom is right I think t5 will just create power creep, and they have to draw the line somewhere. That does not mean we can not ad more tools to improve game play and not necessarily improved performance.

Just to give and an example special shield module that goes on and off as you shoot so there is less micro management or a set of logistical bots separate from industrials using same chasis. Basically stuff that improves QoL but not performance and gives you more choice.

The biggest problem this game has is horribly slow development.

Followed by pig-headed balance patches that remove entire races or playstyles as viable options in PVP.

May as well toss us a complete respec with the patch too. 

Flame on! 

I take acceptable losses while winning with the only one viable option, you score a few kills then lose everything and whine on the forums.

Dirty botters like you are the last person to talk about using bugs. Especially with a CHAOS tag, or did you forget how you broke Hunter's base? 100% legit right?

"...we didn't make an exception for terrain. So basically the problem is that turrets expect to shoot holes into the terrain which of course doesn't happen. We're working on a fix." (с) Zoom.

In other words, it is a bug and will be fixed. And you know about it and still continue to use it more than 20 days. You are so poor that even the developers do not want to ban you. However, you still not play. Most of the server does not approve of your style of play. I think that if you all ban the server does not lose anything.

- Bots! Zoom, bots! They all bots! Call the doctor! Bots flooded the entire planet!
- But there are no bots ...
- There! I see them! They're everywhere!
- But it's not a bot.
- Bot! An inner voice told me!
...
You are so funny.

omg... chemist activated, again drunk