Jita Park Speakers Corner

1. Break the link to EVE and Build a great shooter to rival eve and then look at conecting them up.

2. Play to your strengths - My dust friends are intrested in a shooter not the eve universe. I know this is what you sold the hype on and what got me excited but time to re-think and become a game developing company. I know if you build DUST like you built EVE there isnt a shooter out there that could compete

3. EVE will hold back Dust from becoming a great game. It has so many strengths that my FPS friends love but as they look at the game play and the link to eve they really dont have the same connection as us pod pilots.

4. Knowing the above is a reach for CCP but should happen. If the link remains then they need to have one combat planet per system. One collection point for us eve players. To take a past quote "One planet to rule them all"

Get it on PC, so the people already playing your game will play it as well. Get the numbers up to 20k online at a time, and you might get more from the PS3 taking a look at it.

While the shooting game needs work, some of the skills need a hard look (5% per level reduction to pistol powergrid use when the thing only uses 2 pg?), the strength that Dust has over all other shooters is the existing EVE community. The connections to them need to be brought to the forefront, since it is the key to making Dust stand out from the MASSIVE crowd of shooters.

Limiting PC to Molden Heath, and having districts only able to be owned by corporations with Dust members is bad.
PC structure needs to be broadened:
- First off, open it up to the rest of Lowsec, and make the planetary bonuses apply throughout the system, at least until ALL the planets are able to be fought over.
- Bonuses need more looking into and orbital artillery needs to be implemented ASAP.
- EVE corporations should be allowed to own districts, even without Dust members in their corp.
- These corps should be able to create attack/defense contracts that are able to made available based on several criteria set by the issuing corp (W/L ratio, minimum payment, standings, average SP, etc). This can then be the primary means of transferring EVE ISK to Dust.
- District owners should be allowed to tax all PI facilities inside their control.
- District owners should be allowed to attack all PI facilities inside their control with quick, 1-life mini-matches, counter-strike bomb-arming style, with a cool down if the defender wins, just like PC battles. No reinforcement timer needed, let EVE players set auto-defense contracts open to blues and such to be scooped up automatically if their installations get attacked.

Direct interaction with Dust matches on the ground should be broadened:
- EVE players should be able to see the match progress when connected to a district
- EVE Industrials should be able to reinforce troops on the ground with more clones, even if the process leaves the ship vulnerable for several minutes while "deploying."
- EVE bombardments frequency needs to be based on something they are doing, not something the Dust guys are doing. Also, remove war barge precision strikes from PC and FW matches if there are no ships in orbit.

When do Dust Bunnies get to DDD ships in orbit? You promised us Skyfire Cannons, CCP ;)

When will I be able to manufacture stuff for my pet dust bunny, or send it pocket money?

Disagree. I think if DUST could **** someone else's PI, they'd care.

It's not EVE carebears' pos fuel, it's the bottom-up income livelihood of a lot of EVE players. You can plex accounts off your PI accounts and it's a significant income stream for a nontrivial number of players; the ability to disrupt PI *via* controlling territory would cause a lot of pain for those whose PI is disrupted, providing the sort of low-level shittiness used in sovwar to disrupt morale.

So yeah it'd be important.

People just wont do PI. It is a boring click fest already so waking up to find your PI is destroyed and you have to do the click fest again doesn't encourage exciting gameplay.

The more you try and force eve players to play dust the more it will fail.

Stop assuming some kid downloading a free ps3 game care about who or what they effect in eve.

Try and get it to a broader audience - not just force eve players into an FPS they don't want to waste time playing that they could spend playing eve.


Remove all effects of dust on Faction war. It is just an annoyance for FW players and not really a 'feature'.

If DUST mercs can be used to avoid or even just reduce structure grinding, they'll find a ready market.

That'd be a great short-term solution.

I think long-term, I'd personally like to see a more dynamic sov system, where it's based on % control, and stations, and structures, and districts and everything all contribute towards that, with the largest percentage holder having sov. In that way, districts could be a direct component in sov, while still remaining optional for system control.

But I doubt CCP is ready to rewrite the sov system for DUST yet. Reducing resistance on structures would be a great way to fit it into the existing system.

To make this work though they need some way to pay the Dust Bunnies and that opens a whole can of worms that CCP don't have an answer to yet. Lets hope that they give you a plan while you are there, even if it is under NDA.