Player Features and Ideas Discussion

first off, number 2, they already amde it exclusive for PS3, that doesnt mean it CANT be on the PC, but they arent allowed to port it for like a year or something.
number 3, i remember that in star wars, it was LITERALLY because the developers couldnt be arsed to do anything other then push cash-shop barbie clothes and insta-win ships then to ever actually update the agme. that also, and player made maps were half the time impossible because of sheer ******** levels of enemies, half the time just had either terrible or too much writing.

i mean could you imagine? someone makes an insta-death mission for the SOLE PURPOSE of luring people into it and looting their wrecks.

number 1, amybe, could be cool. 2 would eb nice, but wouldnt be for a while, and i woudl ahte to see how many epopel cut their hours playing eve so they can play dust 514, might negatyively affect soem things for a while. 3 nope never PLEASE NEVER

You can use a mouse and keyboard with a PS3.

More likely is that missions would be created to allow farming of npc bounties, tags or salvage in high-sec.

There's nothing stopping the people who hate missioners from creating literally impossible to beat missions. If these are the only ones out there (which I think they probably will be, or at least the vast majority) then you will at best massively slow mission runners, and at worst completely kill it as a method of getting ISK. There will be people who build missions in which the NPCs are overly competent, there will always be warp scrambler frigates (Not even just disruptors; if there are any NPC frigates that can truly scramble and shut down MWDs it will be these), and far too much DPS for even T3s to tank with any ease. While an interesting idea that could break the monotony of missions as they are now, it would also almost certainly break missions.

No issue on the kb and mouse, since Dust will allow for such to be used by the PS3. So a PC and the console will be identical from that respect (of course, silly people can still use their controller and rage when they get owned).

Also CCP is only limited to a year (might be 2) of exclusivity. After that they can release a PC port. Will they is another question though.

orly? Can you give me a link to an article that says we can use a KB and Mouse, I haven't read any Dust articles that said we can.

I know Counter Strike Global Offensive will allow it, and LBP2 was supposed to.

I actually will have to use a controller though, haven't gotten around to buying a USB keyboard yet, >.<

If I may add, they could base some of the UGC stuff off of LittleBigPlanet's structure. That game is really good at how it distributes it's UGC.

Also, I would instead of actually designating the level of the mission yourself, it's automatically decided by in-game perameters, certain enemies can only be placed a certain number of times, mission reward is automatically calculated in ISK by the game itself (or an item of equal/less value based on current market average + any ISK not counted on the item). and allow us to insert custom voice acting!

I actually think UGC in this game would be a great idea if done right.

More restrictions, players can only create level 1 missions when they start making UGC. Players rating their UGC increase their creator level which in turn allows them to make higher level missions once they reach a certain milestone. If it falls below the milestone again, any missions they've created above that milestone stay intact but they're not allowed to create missions of that level anymore.

In addition, missions with consistantly low rating get deleted.

Maybe also a skill which controls what level of missions people are able to create as well (Level 1 UGC Creation for Level 1 missions, Level 2 for Level 2... so on so on).

I don't think a skill like Connections which artificially increases creator level is a good idea btw.

Also a Spore-like ship creation system for later would be neat, which would also require it's own in-game skill (UGC Ship Creation). These would also automatically be given ratings based on in-game parameters, and also designated a ship type based on size, which could then be added to calculations in the UGC creator. This ship creator would allow people making story-based UGC to create unique enemies to be fighting against.

In addition, some kind of campaign creator and some great interfaces like LittleBigPlanet would be nice.

With all this structure, UGC could be a very beneficial and good feature that allows people to excercise their creativity.

I actually have a lot of great ideas, and I could make a more descriptive thing about this. Maybe I'll make a thread.

Just to mention, I did make that UGC thread I mentioned. Why don't you go check it out? It's a real long and detailed thread though, it's going to take a bit to get it all in.

It's 5 pages long, XD, 7 by Microsoft Word's definition.

Exclusives only last for a certain time.
With regards to Halo 2 being ported, you cannot compare it to dust as the halo pc and Xbox players are on different servers whereas dust is not

I answered the first question in the thread. Creator rating designates how high of a level you can create, 2500 should be relatively easy to attain, only take 25 5 star ratings. Maybe a higher rating increase for higher star levels. The system still needs to be tweaked. It also works with the skill books to, which wouldn't have excessively high training times either.

Just answered that.

Skill books for UGC are inserted into the system the same way all other new EVE Skills are inserted. Why would they be different just because they're UGC books?

In addition, maybe a rule that ratings made by corporation members aren't counted. Like I said, system needs tweaking.