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Suicide ganking DUST bunnies from orbit.
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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#1 - 2012-08-15 13:37:13 UTC
I was thinking about this ... we know that at launch DUST will only have an impact on high and low-sec planets. Also, and in all honesty, i'm not sure if planetary bombardment will come to the game before null-sec combat. But let's just assume that it does.

Is there any information on how exactly planetary bombardment will work on EVE side?! Will any and all pilots be free to unleash hell on DUST bunnies without any sort of pre-requisites?


When i read Ytterbium post about planetary bombardment destroyers, the idea of suicide ganking planets immediatly came to mind. Obviously we don't know how the mechanics will play out, but if its possible for dest pilots to freely bombard DUST bunnies then this will be hilarious.

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Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-08-15 13:38:39 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
I was thinking about this ... we know that at launch DUST will only have an impact on high and low-sec planets. Also, and in all honesty, i'm not sure if planetary bombardment will come to the game before null-sec combat. But let's just assume that it does.

Is there any information on how exactly planetary bombardment will work on EVE side?! Will any and all pilots be free to unleash hell on DUST bunnies without any sort of pre-requisites?


When i read Ytterbium post about planetary bombardment destroyers, the idea of suicide ganking planets immediatly came to mind. Obviously we don't know how the mechanics will play out, but if its possible for dest pilots to freely bombard DUST bunnies then this will be hilarious.


Griefing console players will be the quickest way to kill Dust. Horrible idea imo.
Cadfael Maelgwyn
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-08-15 13:38:46 UTC
If you thought carebears were bad about raging after being ganked, it's nothing compared to the rage that would spew forth from the mouths of the average console gamer after it happened about two times.
Anslo
Scope Works
#4 - 2012-08-15 13:38:55 UTC
While gankbears and PvP-zealots **** me off....I am oddly aroused by this idea.

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Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#5 - 2012-08-15 13:43:12 UTC
just look at bombardments from fanfest and e3.
The trooper tags a target for bombardment. There is no hint we can indiscriminately bomb them.

If we could, way to inspire people to play more and buy stuff in dust to make CCP money... IF Dust supports its own weight, all the finances taken away from WoD and EvE will be brought back.
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#6 - 2012-08-15 13:44:48 UTC
You obviously never watched that part of fanfest, so let me explain how it works...

Dustbunny "paints" a target/area on the battlefield and a "launch code" is given. EVE player with a ship sits in orbit, with a certain fit for orbital bombardment. He imputs the launch code on a pop-up when the module is activated. Then you get to shoot at said planet, and only at the target that's "painted".

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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#7 - 2012-08-15 13:58:47 UTC
Azami Nevinyrall wrote:
You obviously never watched that part of fanfest, so let me explain how it works...

Dustbunny "paints" a target/area on the battlefield and a "launch code" is given. EVE player with a ship sits in orbit, with a certain fit for orbital bombardment. He imputs the launch code on a pop-up when the module is activated. Then you get to shoot at said planet, and only at the target that's "painted".


Yeah i thought so. I hadn't really watched the video.

Still though, by the looks of it we'll have destroyer pilots sitting in orbit all day long just waiting to press the fire button.


However, from the EVE Forever video it also seems that once the EVE pilot gets the code, he is free to "change the plan" and nuke the entire map instead of doing a precision orbital strike.

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#8 - 2012-08-15 14:02:47 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
If we could, way to inspire people to play more and buy stuff in dust to make CCP money...


This is one way of looking at it. Another way is the possibility of DUST players getting pissed off by this and subscribing to EVE instead to gank back the destroyers sitting in orbit waiting for a chance. Or just to gank dust bunnies too.

CCP needs money to recover its investment in DUST. However that money does not need to come FROM dust (no pun intended). It can come from anywhere, including an increased interest in EVE Online (which is literally one of their goals)

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Mag's
Azn Empire
#9 - 2012-08-15 14:04:47 UTC
Anslo wrote:
While gankbears and PvP-zealots **** me off....
We would never had guessed.

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Hiyora Akachi
Blood Alcohol Content
T O P S H E L F
#10 - 2012-08-15 14:18:59 UTC
If only we could indiscriminately bomb them from orbit. The rage would be GLORIOUS.
Medarr
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-08-15 14:25:22 UTC
No. you cant Suicide Gank them. Oribital strike will be based on Dust player capabilities, guns mounted on the capsuleer ship and his skils. As I understand it there will be a battle barge ( new ship class? ) hovering over the dust battlefield which will provide orbital strike capabilities, its only later that capsuleer ships are going to be introduced that can do it.
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#12 - 2012-08-15 14:36:03 UTC
Anslo wrote:
PvP-zealots **** me off


what? why? it is a perfectly good ship.. and it melts face with pulse lasers really well. i don't understand what you have against this fine HAC.


(more seriously: you're a hypocrite.. you dislike people that grief you, but you want to grief people that cannot possibly fight back., you're a ******* gankbear)

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Medarr
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2012-08-15 14:40:36 UTC
Denidil wrote:
Anslo wrote:
PvP-zealots **** me off


what? why? it is a perfectly good ship.. and it melts face with pulse lasers really well. i don't understand what you have against this fine HAC.


(more seriously: you're a hypocrite.. you dislike people that grief you, but you want to grief people that cannot possibly fight back., you're a ******* gankbear)


having known Anslo quite a while I think you'll find your sadly mistaken about your misinformed assumptions...

Ps, you can pay me later Anslo...
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#14 - 2012-08-15 15:26:03 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Azami Nevinyrall wrote:
You obviously never watched that part of fanfest, so let me explain how it works...

Dustbunny "paints" a target/area on the battlefield and a "launch code" is given. EVE player with a ship sits in orbit, with a certain fit for orbital bombardment. He imputs the launch code on a pop-up when the module is activated. Then you get to shoot at said planet, and only at the target that's "painted".


Yeah i thought so. I hadn't really watched the video.

Still though, by the looks of it we'll have destroyer pilots sitting in orbit all day long just waiting to press the fire button.


However, from the EVE Forever video it also seems that once the EVE pilot gets the code, he is free to "change the plan" and nuke the entire map instead of doing a precision orbital strike.

It may be that in the eve forever video he got another code from the other side, and used it.

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Anslo
Scope Works
#15 - 2012-08-15 15:48:25 UTC
Denidil wrote:

what? why? it is a perfectly good ship.. and it melts face with pulse lasers really well. i don't understand what you have against this fine HAC.

(more seriously: you're a hypocrite.. you dislike people that grief you, but you want to grief people that cannot possibly fight back., you're a ******* gankbear)


umad bra?

Medarr wrote:
Denidil wrote:
Anslo wrote:
PvP-zealots **** me off


what? why? it is a perfectly good ship.. and it melts face with pulse lasers really well. i don't understand what you have against this fine HAC.


(more seriously: you're a hypocrite.. you dislike people that grief you, but you want to grief people that cannot possibly fight back., you're a ******* gankbear)


having known Anslo quite a while I think you'll find your sadly mistaken about your misinformed assumptions...

Ps, you can pay me later Anslo...


Same fee I assume?

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-08-15 15:49:15 UTC
Anslo wrote:
While gankbears and PvP-zealots **** me off....I am oddly aroused by this idea.


didn't you already get your "cover" as an "anti-pvp zealot" blown

i mean you got plenty of mileage out of it but really, it'll just get tired now

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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-08-15 16:20:00 UTC
Arkturus McFadden
Anukar
#18 - 2012-08-15 16:30:02 UTC
Could you imagine suicide ganking Dusties from orbit in a Moros?!


You'd end the match before it even began! Big smile I'd personally love to see that happen.

Null sec should have suicide ganking orbital bombardments.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#19 - 2012-08-15 17:42:02 UTC
Arkturus McFadden wrote:
Could you imagine suicide ganking Dusties from orbit in a Moros?!


You'd end the match before it even began! Big smile I'd personally love to see that happen.

Null sec should have suicide ganking orbital bombardments.

If its null it would not be a suicide gank. Nor in low sec where dusters are doing FW.

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Ashina Sito
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2012-08-15 17:56:29 UTC
your forgetting the DUST 514 videos.

They will have the ability to gank that ship in orbit too............
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