Out of Pod Experience

wtf is wrong with Pascal?
You realize (last I heard) EFT is written in Delphi. :P

No spaceships.

It's not advertisement, I just found it by sheer luck and chance and was like, "This is a lot like Eve Online." In fact, I just quoted my exact words that I stated to myself when I visible saw the website video.

In retort to your fallacy that I am posting repeated advertisement for Perpetuum, I'll remind that in the previous thread that I posted the link concerning such I had very clearly said that I was going to make another thread regarding it. Whether you chose to overlook that and to expand upon it as a further extension of your argument in this thread, or to simply try and make an assumption geared toward my motives and intentions is clearly beyond me. However, in that respect, I have but one thing to say:

I am not advertising for a game I have not played, nor honestly give a **** about, and if you disagree than I invite you to defend your honor in Eve Online =)

That's a stupid argument for misbranding, just as EvE does it in every expansion trailer. It uses in game art yes, but we don't gracefully float between rocks as they depict in trailers, nor do our characters even interact with anyone like in the Dust trailer.

There is no way to prove of them stealing proprietary code either. Just that they have made their UI operate similarly to EVEs.

I'm just seeing made up reasons to not liking it, other than real reasons.
I love mechs. but I didn't enjoy perpetuum much as it was very empty and lacked life and variety for a sandbox. Also hated the backstory of just being a human transformer spark inhabiting alien robots in communication via micro wormhole. UUUUggggh.

I tried it for a few months way back when it was in beta. Decent enough rip-off of Eve (despite the developers saying that it wasn't), but it was very unforgiving of my then-poor internet connection. The one thing that they got right and which I wish was true in Eve is that the surroundings affect pvp. For example, the terrain and plant growth (trees, etc) interferes with your shots.

If Eve were to implement that it would make things much more interesting in asteroid belt fights, for example. You would be able to use the rocks as cover. But that would be a big change in the underlying code, so I don't expect CCP to do it anytime soon, if ever.

I remember reading articles about that game's servers failing when that happened. It was SO MANY people. Its like EVE with Twitch controls supposedly and Ive tried playing it but it doesnt have the EVE flavor that EVE does (duh) and I just cant get into it. Last I played there wasnt mining lol



Given that CCP doesnt seem to care when ppl rip their ideas straight from the game (Battle for Serios uses EVE ship models, theres another game that does the same and Ive seen a pic of a Skyrocket with an Abbadon on the side) it starts being their fault when tey dont enforce their own Intellectual property. If they dont fight for their own stuff who will?

I play Perpetuum from time to time, got an active sub right now. The game right now is... eh... lets say in active hibernation? I mean at peak hours there's like 60 people online tops. Not kidding... it's like the whole server is just a single EvE space station. So maybe the massive player base is just napping/waiting?

Another sad thing is lag. Lag's an issue in Perpetuum and still is. I was on last night mining away with my little indy miner bot, got lag warped into a mob. Arggoed it, and tryed to run it only to get rewarped back in, over and over again till I was blown up. And, the server at the time had like 40 people on it. Yeah, I know... too many users can cause lag that's life.

At any rate, it seems like the Perpetuum devs are all banking/gambling on there next update/exp. Read all about it in there blog.

http://blog.perpetuum-online.com/posts/2012-03-31-the-road-to-pbs-islands-building-types-and-control/

Basically, there adding 24 new lands, fully terraformable with player built stations/cities. I guess kinda like 0.0 on crack with plants/dirt. Or, maybe that's what there hoping for... I'd guess if this exp. fails it might spell the end for Perpetuum. So we will have to wait and see. I just can't see any mmo lasting for long on like 60 or 70 active players.

At least that's my take on it, but hey what do I know? I'm just a pod potato.

I tried this game a but but was more interested in Black Prophesy till I learned all they have in the game are fighters, no big ships :p

like I said man, think about it. eve was JUST AS BAD back in 2003, I was there , eve was a terrible game. But what about now? maybe this expansion will score and pull some of us back as a side mmo to eve. And it'll be super fun and interesting what they do now that have to diverge from eve online. I'm excited, I think this sandbox single server format has a lot of potential.

I'd bet on it.