The o button press is a placeholder for when we have hackable ladders.

i still see potential in this game.. but due to spammed complaints on the forums which really isnt entirely feed back or anything really when only 1-4 ppl r making so many threads. it seems cpp has started listening to these various tunnel vision suffering ppl.

game still needs tweaking and needs new content like pve badly. but in current state i think if we can resolve some of the match making issues. and tone down the protostomp matches. game would get better for alot.

ive been wanting to decrease the gaps between the multiple teirs. which nerfs proto stomps and aids the newer players out.

adding in various changes to certain things while at the same time trying not to crate 20 other problems. which has pretty much been the only thing happening in the past several updates. its as if we rnt making progress through all these nerfs and buffs. the math for one thing might be sound reasonable. with few points on why to go against it. but the cons that it could cause if a change did happen can have bad effects in the end result..

ccp should try thinking ahead on how to reach the end result. by thinking of multiple different ways on how to further balance the game in the developers vision. which seems to be something shared by very few at the current moment. i dont have high expectations for 1.8 due to the results by just looking at the math. new players wont be able to kill hardly anything with that mlt ar in the future. save for another mlt player. what i find in current gameplay when using my own core skill specced mlt. it takes a pretty good amount of skill to take down adv and above. in 1.8 only thing that may be able to kill a proto suit is another proto suit. lower tiers are going to get stomped out even worse than how it is now.

I too was really enthused about all the promises when I joined at the tail end of the E3 build. I've been accruing SP at a fast pace with both passive and active boosters, wanting to be "there" when the promises were delivered upon. I've still got four months of active and passive boosters in my assets, but all sense of urgency has evaporated.

I've got 36M SP, and 8 of that is in weapons that were made obsolete over time as other more powerful types were introduced, and I don't feel like grinding to skill into them. I I know it comes from a lack a competence on CCP's part but it feels like a tax or planned obsolescence to force me to grind for new content. If it gets refunded I'll most likely just sit on it rather than buy into the new FoTM for fear it will get nerfed or left behind. Spending SP in an unpredictably shifting landscape is stressful rather than rewarding.

Maybe the new EP can supply some focus and direction, but I haven't seen enough to tell. I figure FanFest will be when we find out. One test will be what they do with vehicles. Right now they occupy the same ecological niche as infantry as they have no unique roles of their own. They are basically used to kill infantry because the single (effective) game mode requires nothing more to win. Vehicles will never be balanced and recognizable as vehicles until they are separated from infantry roles. That will require development new game modes and tasks. If he announces that he understands the basic problems and has a roadmap for solving them I may regain some sense of hope. If he doesn't, if it's more muddled changes with no understanding of the core problems then I'll lose what hope I have left.

I'm willing to wait as long as I feel CPP knows what the core problems are and have a plan. Even if the new EP is perfect it's going to take a year or two to turn this ship around. I just want to know that there is some reason to stick around other than the fine corp mates that I've met in game.

If the OP is trying to say that Aurum weapons are more than just aesthetically better, I have to deeply disagree with him.