Perpetuum expands the sandbox with player-built settlements

What's the population of the this game like today? I always thought it had some good ideas and was similar enough to some other sandboxes to give it some real depth.

wish more games would do this!

I wish they would expand to space combat too. I doubt they ever will though.

These devs are not as bad as CCP, they have standards ingame and mechanics in place to deal with the types of folks prevelant in EVE, thats why you do not see the type of behaviour in Perp as you do in EVE.

The housing looks interesting. I would not like it if it were instanced, open world islands with safeguards to a point which still allow for amusing fights on these home turf areas would be interesting to watch if done correctly.

When I was a kid, my Mom says I would spend hours building elaborate structures with wooden blocks, and my little brother would just sit and watch with a malicious gleam in his eye. When he could stand it no longer, he'd race into the room and smash my structures into a pile of rubble.

From this I learned a valuable lesson: never build anything where small destructive children can get to it. This lesson has served me well in selecting MMOs.

I'm really interested in this game but I keep hearing that the population is really low these days.

A sandbox is nothing without a healthy playerbase, and I'm worried that I'll really like the game's mechanics and gameplay only to be disappointed by the lack of other players.

I tried to play this game back when the whole Monocle-gate happened in Eve. The problem for me was that the robots were so god awful ugly that I couldn't move past it.

This game wasn't that bad. I thought the UI was very polished, and I actually liked the EP system more than the Eve skill point system. But when you play it for a while, you start to realize how much deeper, and bigger Eve is than Perpetuum.

I've said it many times, but it bears repeating; the core game-mechanics of Perpetuum are much better than EvE. WASD movement, line-of-sight combat, anti-blob mechanics, skill-accumulation, and now terrain building, all make Perpetuum a much more enjoyable experience at it's core. Even the Dev team and customer support is amazing, possibly the best I've ever seen. The problem, obviously, is the low population, immaturity of content, and the less-appealing aesthetic of insectoid-like robots (spaceships are sexy).

I've tried countless number of times to force myself to get into EvE, trudging through 3 months of play time, because I was convinced by the masses that it was the better game. Apparently, to enjoy it I just needed: the right build, the right corp, the right sector, the right mind-set, etc., etc. But I could never get it to stick. I never have this problem with Perpetuum because it's simply fun from the very start.

I can confirm the population was back near where it was before the EVE riots as of late August.

And I have to disagree a bit with Plastic. Combat in EVE is far more involved. The battles I was in while in PERP usually turned into a "Train A is leaving the station..." calculation from algebra class in regards to whether or not a kill would occur.

To each his own I guess.