Amethyst

If you give me a US or UK account number and routing number/sortcode (or IBAN) I will use it in preference to PayPal. PM if necessary. Or a Person2Person transfer to a reliable Dev's account. (I now they are ALL reliable lol).

+4 Rez. When do we have to for a line for Scooter and other bosses too? I'd like to think the big guilds (after farming the raids for weeks) would step aside if lesser mortals put together a group. Or if there was something going down - invited a lesser mortal to join them? It happens sometimes. ???

I suppose one good thing is that builders can add them to their recipe list... I believe this helps with build quality?

pst ingame tomorrow (wed) and I'll tell you where the Roc4 and Harpy3/4 drops. Harpy should be easy to find?

High level players can just as easily mop up all the jobs as low level players. Its not the killing process, its the job collection process. I've seen a page of jobs disappear within a second or two. The botter has a macro that auto-clicks to take 6 jobs, and then discards the jobs they dont want to take. Smart - yes, fair gameplay - no. Same kind of people mop up gas in the same way - often carrying a couple of toons leveling up explore. Poproids are a good deterent. Lets have some explosive gas clouds with a unit of hydrogen in them with a random chance of BOOM. I don't buy the 'attended bots are OK' thing - botting is botting.

My main comment is that we should ensure that loot DOES drop, noting that the next content patch will include 50 or so of the missing items. Also looking forward to the opening of Ardus and Der Todesengel one day. I'd also like a little bit more love for hulks so that more special items do occasionally drop even very rarely. I remember Endriago having some sexy stuff - now AWOL. Part of my enjoyment is finding these items, and although I scour the existing resources and have a pretty good spreadsheet you cannot beat going round every location and sampling every mob you meet. Every day I fit max scan and go round a couple of systems scavenging. For me - that is the game.

Co-operate?

This is a whole can of worms. The end result is the few people with the biggest groups, best skills, best ships and best kit simply ganks everyone else. I'd rather effort was spent getting the core game fully functional without PvP. If you want PvP go play Eve!

Can anyone confirm whether Afterburn actually reduces hits taken (as its supposed to). With the messy way the skills do/don't work together I just leave NullFactor on and use Hull Patch. It would be nice if some defensive skill actually worked!?

I like Will's suggestions. Love Hull Patch, NullFactor, Instawarp Please do not remove Hull Patch as this is one of the best features of the TS. You can lick your wounds after a poproid or MOB. You cannot truly tank big mobs but you can certainly retreat and try again. I'd like to see TS specific equipment. If Hacking stays I'd like to see it tweaked so you can do more - individually choose scanblind, stop weapons, bust shields, sap energy, etc. Make it a full skill point skill. Make some devices or buffs that make hacking more of a certainty. Make the hack cycle longer? Its useless trying to hack for just 5secs of weapon downtime. I'd like to see a TS only debuffer for plas/chem or even perhaps an impact with a new missile type or two? ML-X17 Arachnid L7-9 - Impact only, +MLrange, +hack +mining range Device Piledriver's Great Wallop -Impact and -sig If you replace Hacking then perhaps a stealth mode - perhaps not full cloak but maybe better sig reduction. However most of us know how to get down to zero sig anyway, but it would reduce the need to fit devices/mods. I'd like to see a Telescopium-like device for scan boost. Perhaps not quite as good as the Telescopium. I'd like to see a device that extends the mining distance past 2.5k.

I see this whole project as a huge privilege - to be able to play E&B again - and props to all the developers for the thousands of hours that have gone into this. We all know how heart-wrenching it is to lose our chars, but we all have the experience and knowledge to level up pretty quickly. In fact I think a new start will be good for the game with people working together to do their stuff. Having been in ST2 and ST3 I'm just amazed ST4 is still going and I can enjoy pushing into the high-end stuff a little more. For me the endgame not about being able to spank L60 stuff for a little longer, its about wandering around the maelstroms, Ardus and Der Todesengel again, seeing Vrix again, get the disabled missions working again, new missions and kit, and perhaps see yet-to-be discovered systems, and even new raids (loved the Halloween raid - pretty please can we have the figurine drop again - even if rarely). We have seen great progress, and I'm sure there is more to come. If a wipe helps, a wipe helps.

Sweet!

Bounces up and down with excitement! WTG My hero!

I made a TT just to supply ammo and ended up loving it so much I then maxed the TT anyway.

So the real issue is that some people have more prints than others and there are not enough players? I'd suggest we open Ardus and Der Todsangel, look at loot tables, and invent or reopen some missions like Zach. And then do some advertising and promotion (personally and by the team) to get more players.

hmm - i can see people are online by I cannot get past the Megan screen. "Connecting to Server" - "Connection to the Global Server failed"

Gets my vote. I'd love to see ave build quality for L7/8/9 items. Number of prints per char. We might be able to see some useful metrics from that.

easy = boring?

Yay - happy dance 8)

It gets my vote.

<waves> I'm in Epic at the minute. I see Tef fleetingly.

Part of the fun is finding these weapons, getting the prints, and finding the ammo. Easy life = boring game?

JD L30 mission. You need spare parts from a Jag vendor. SAM gets repaired. Wondering if spare parts are a trigger for something? The only think I can think of that is like a robot, apart from the Controller, is the Petrified Golem which drops the Lucky token. I have no idea what this is for.

...but try doing the math for L60 mobs which explorers and traders struggle to touch, and then add in a bit of trade and credits from the loot. We can see the warriors farming the 58s and 60s in BBW and Antares. A bit more fun than flying like a blue-arsed fly between Pluto an Earth?