Dude like 2 characters worth of t16 junkyards will kill pvb squads. Or if you want to go true budget, fucking t12 golden kits shit on players. Lol.

It's true that high endgame character costs way more than 1t+. But then again, there are cheap and powerful setups for all classes. Even if we take a look at sniper - what is considered one of the most expensive classes - it's affordable to build a setup to be useful for your team. Wattage sniper MFing with two Mad Thoraxes will put up respectable amount of dps to be useful at high endgame runs.

I read one sentence. Why do you have to compete with other players to play the game? if you really enjoyed wild space that much, you wouldnt be a twat and you would adapt. so you enjoy the other aspects, which has nothing to do with your power compared to others. so fuck off and play the game

I'd certainly start playing again if it was reset entirely. Should definitely coincide with steam release though.

If you fixed the numerous but base problems, reset the game to rid crippling economic/power disparities, and in concurrency with a steam release I think the game could genuinely be one of the best I know again with an active, fluid and ever increasing player base.

The game isn't currently designed to work without the years of income/built up commods and credits. Have you seen the costs of some of the PPS bps? Or even considered how hard it to would be to get back into t20 UZ ships on a fresh start, much less build Oly/T22 ships. Industrial Commodities. Holy shit industrial commodities. Wouldn't be anywhere near as hard as it used to be at all. AT ALL. Plus Free Market sells Adamantium and other places have rare materials and such you can straight up buy.

I'm not saying a wipe wouldn't help, but we need to fix the core game way before we consider deleting everyone's years and years of work and investment into their characters. Lol, some of those fixes are mitigated or even outright circumvented/ignored by the "years and years of work". Honestly I would say that wiping peoples work sucks, so I can't really comment on how good or bad that would be.

My seasonal universes suggestion is a way to get that new start feel while also giving the devs a "testing ground" of sorts to iron out the core game issues, while also giving all the old players and new players an even start to compete and learn, and abuse their knowledge of how the game works to get rewards in those seasons. I think it would do well on Steam. Racing/Seasons are pretty huge in most MMOs, we would do well to take on a bit more current way of doing content. Full agreement here.

I really like Industrial Commods, I just wish there was ingame tutorials/information about them and they were slightly less profitable lol.