Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok, to preface this for clarity, I am NOT advocating for free DUST 514 accounts on PC, nor am I advocating any change to the existing structure involving the PS3 system with current DUST 514.

What I am suggesting, is the option for paid accounts, whether by PLEX or subscription directly, to have comparable DUST 514 access.

I had read in another forum that the PS3 has a bottleneck on bandwidth of some kind. This is not an obstacle, as PC connections can be slowed down to compensate.

I read in other places that the graphics on the PS3, being specialized for hardware and thereby optimal beyond many PC's abilities, meant that PC's could not display the same graphic quality.

To this I would say, as long as I know what I am looking at, I don't really care if I can see the pimples on someone's arm...
I just want to shoot at it.

OK, enough pre-explanation already:

Give us drop shuttles that we can go down to the surface in.
If we need to establish a specialized PI structure to allow it to land, that's fine, and gives existing ground forces a means to block further incursions by taking it out.
At least, temporarily. EVE pilot's would have handicaps, clearly.

Keep in mind this would be for paid EVE accounts, and the pilot in question would need to reach the planet in question directly.
This means taking an otherwise unarmed shuttle to it, which could be stopped by many methods.

Have I left out details?

Quite possibly...

It could also be interesting if an orbital bombardment could be tactically accurate enough to take out the landing structure, thereby removing the pilot from ground action.

OP, that doesn't even make sense. I don't think you know very much about Dust. For one, Dust accounts are already free. If you want to play Dust on PC, then that means porting it to PC. And if you want to do so without creating a Dust account, that would mean that your Eve account would work in Dust, meaning your Eve character would need a Dust skilltree added. There's a limit to how many people can be in a battle, so you can't allow people from Eve to just fly in and join wherever they feel like. Dust is not like a persistent MMO that is happening on each planet.

Because Eve is a better game and even though I havent payed for Eve in a long time I would rather do that than play Dust.... and I have a PS3. I dont think you know how small the Dusk link is either, its basically a spreadsheet sync, theres no actual engine contact.

Itll come to PC one day and lets face it, all this topic is is a disguised "port dust to pc".

Me too. I'd rather them work on WIS (which I don't like very much) than work on EvE pilots fighting in Dust matches. The free to play and EvE's subscription model just don't seem like they sync up very well.