Assembly Hall

Please discuss issues related to this session in this thread. We look forward to your comments and suggestions.

We have absolutely no idea what are CCP's plans for this are. The only thing we know is that it will be tied to planets (whether the current PI system or something else), and that it might affect sovereignty.

So far, there's nothing to discuss.

We don't really have info on this either, this session is supposed to change that.

Put moon-goo in PI, and ppl will fight over them. Otherwise there's no point.

I'm quite looking forward to discussing with my fleet why the enemy would be jamming our sensors … then coming to the realisation that they must have known we were coming — "It's a trap!" :) All this while my Dust bunnies will be engaging in high-speed vehicle chases on the forest moon of F-9F6Q IX prior to disabling the shield generator.

Stick that in your SW:TOR pipe and smoke it!

Dust has a lot of potential. It could be used to infiltrate and sabotage space structures.

I hear the complain now and then that shooting space structures for hours is boring. It could be an interesting alternative to have Dust players be able to reinforce a POS through their shootie gunny thing. Granted, it shouldn't be easy. This could probably apply to POCO's.

Maybe in the future they can commandeer things? That would be nice.

Also, another fun ability of Dust player would be to steal cargo. Say a player if creating high tier goods on a planet, you send a team, they manage to reach the cargo and bring it back to their base. The cargo now belongs to them. Players should be able to defend from that

does the realease of dust514 is still planned for this summer ?
Was thinking that we would have some feature related to dust in this winter expansion, which is apparently not the case

It is fact that PI prices will change dramatically with Crucible. And since the importance of PI is increasing so does Dust's.

I just hope that CCP start giving more information about dust development so that when it reaches eve, it would mix with it instead of colliding.

THIS!!! Oh, sweet mother of Chribba, this is a fantastic idea. Lets not see Dust limited to planetside engagements - Merc detachments to fight over and seize space structures would be awesome. Current structure shoots certainly take long enough that a deathmatch could occur inside in real time and scale just fine with EvE space battles.

This could potentially be used in everything from POS towers, to PI gantries, to Sov blockade Units, to even structures in Faction Warfare plexes. About the only limitation might be ship-to-ship seizures, but even than - what if there were a marine ship capable of attaching like a barnacle to a supercap and injecting mercs inside to storm the bridge? The whole time the Nyx pilot might be engaged in a race against time before the Dust players inside his ship reach the pod chamber and kill the clone. He would, of course, have his own paid bodyguards on board to defend.....

I think at last DUST514 should influence the Sovereignty of a system as much as EVE does.

Now if you plan to take down a System you have to place SBU, take down The Infrastructure Hub, and only then take down the Sovereignty blockade unit. For now, the only thing that keeps this from happening are the ships defending the systems and the POSs that "spawn" them...

But with DUST514 there is the possibility of Planet->Space weapons, and as long as you have the sovereignty of the planet you will also be able to use the planetary defense system to shot invaders that are in a certainly distance from the planets, (probably each race will have a set of planetary weapons with different ranges, strengths, and rate of fire and maybe with modular configuration to make them more versatile...)

i think it will seams like picking up targets from a directional scan around the planet and commanding it to shot them... like when you do a POS defense from inside.

So, if you plan to take a system you will have to deploy soldiers at the planets to take down this structures or the planets defenses, (like destroying the force field generator), so then you will be able to shot them from orbit with special weapons (Each faction would have a Battleship and a capital size orbital weaponry, with orbital range to shot the plannet surface, that are useless at space and have certainly characteristics that allow shot trough the atmosphere : like a rail gun with charges that contain a shield generator inside... A special artillery with reinforced ceramic shells... A beam lazer with low radio lens (E.L.F. lens)... or space-plannet missiles )

Also planetary attack fleets would have to be well organized, because they would need to defend themselves both from planetary counter-attack and conventional ship attacks... like a POS bashing OP... so bring some logistics....