EVE General Discussion

I saw this in a comment on http://www.develop-online.net/features/1461/Dust-514-The-PS3s-most-important-game and wanted to point out that he has a damned good point. Even if we assume every household has 2 PS3s and only 1/10 of those bought Dust and played it...yeah...

Needless to say I fully support DUST on the PS3.

Not the first I've heard of 'dust' but the first time I've looked into it.

Think CCP are taking an increible risk with this myself. It's hard enough launching a PC based MMO these days nevermind a console based MMO ( can only think of one other of the top of my head and can't remeber it's name ) , Think theres gonna be a lot of retention problems. Console players tend to play by gametype and switch games upon new releases frequently, MMO players though tend to choose a single game and devote a lot of time to it.

ATM CCP are sitting pretty in the market, THE sci-fi MMO , Suddenly they want to jump into the shark infested waters of console FPS, competing against household names such as HALO, Battlefield, MW. And they want to adapt there main assest to accomidate this in a way that EVE will never be the same again.

My mind also boggles at the storyline justification for the sudden prolifiration of planetery combat except perhaps on broders.

The idea that us podders wouldn't just fly down and bomb the enemy assests out of excistance ( should anyone of thought to invent bombs that is ) does kinda through throw a pile of 'broken glass' into the sandbox to use an anology.

Good luck to them

*watches as CCP fly there noob ship into the great unknown of console fps null sec*

I still think there should be Stargate Atlantis style city spaceships that land on the planets as a base of operations for dust 514.


Edit: also the city can hurl stargate style drones at spaceships trying to nuke the planet out of existence.

My god, I don't know about the comments, but that article is terrible.[/quote]

Yeah...the article is filled with a lot of misinformation and speculation. And yes the comments are just as bad. Most people freak out about the 150 titans comment and then skyrocket to 500 titans.

The minsinformation is bad enough, but the attitude of the article is basically 'consoles are terrible because all their games aren't Farmville or similarly hook-based MMOs. DUST may singlehandedly make all the good games people love core consoles for disappear, in favour of a flurry of pay to win console FPS MMOs. Yay.'

brb, punching babies

Even if gameplay and lore could be seamlessly intergrated....

Then follow the Network and Community Nightmares.

Hows more longterm comunication setup, do we share a forum, cos that'll be fun, thousands of teen fpsers invading EVE gate. You think the pirate/miner community are split.. what happens when 2 groups from 2 platforms playing 2 diffrent games get together.

Then theres poor old Tranquility to be considered. Whats the average uptake of a new console fps? because when they all log into 1 server at one time, it will certainly be a unique event in game server history I would imagine. I pity the poor hamsters :)

As I say I don't know the ins and outs of it but to me it sounds less like 'OMG this is the best thing to happen to EVE (and the gaming world ) ever' and more ' OMG thats the end of CCP (hopefully not EVE someone might buy it as a going concern)'.

Further thoughts are that the economy and value of these assests is going to be one of the hardest things to intergrate. Are they going to be our 'poor cousins' (if they had millioins of isk why be a grunt why not a podder) and if so thats gonna go down well in the community isn't it because we will literaly OWN them. If there suddenly as wealthy as us it causes problems as well.

Are the markets going to be linked.. if so any large group of EVEians will be able to suriously effect gameplay balnce within DUST by 'investing' in operations.

Maybe I'm being pessemistic and this will go balastic and be a bigger game than WOW. CCP certainly seem to be gambling alot on a postive outcome, I can only wish them the best.

If the gameplay is any good I can't wait for it to bomb on PS3 as soon as the next CoD comes out, forcing CCP to develop a PC version.

It looks like a successor to Battlefield 2142, which is great. But it's also a shooter, on a console, which is trash.

look at the maturity level on these forums as of late, do you really think that "teem fpsers" are going to be any less childish then the people we already have here? but the forum issue is something i think CCP should fix soon, if only to get some talk on the forum going, and maybe even some pre-planning for those of us that are going to play and dont want to use fan sites


CCP will handle the backend, there si no point in worrying about it from our side because we cant do anything about it. the thing i am not looking forward to is having my signal being sent across the world. my location hold a native ping of 175ms its ok for eve, but its goign to have to take some getting use to for a twitch based FPS

will some dust bunnies be a rich as a podder? some probably will be, will they be a rich as a rich podder? no. its just goig to be another thing to adapt to in eve. some will work for podders, some podders will work for them. if podders are bothered by this then they will just have to deal. if they cant handle the competitions then they are playing the wrong game, adapt or die.


they said it would be linked and running off the same market, what that means is yet to be seen. also i still havent found what kind of micro transactions are going to be offered. i am guessing that it will work kinda like the nex store where some items (the best of the best) can only be manifested into the game but after that can be sold on the open market. other basic items, the tools of war, will be manufactured and sold on the market like anything else.



well we will see, the game is all but done and the chances of CCP pulling out of it is between slim and none so i am hoping for the best as well. this game has the potential of making eve a whole lot better and i for one am all for that. and the best part of it is, if the game doesnt take off then nothing will have really changed.

Jump clones.

I just hope you guys realise your entering a VERY competitive market with the FPS dust.

I honestly hope it goes great for you, I just urge you to get as much help, support and ideas from your eve players as possible.

Im very intrigued to see how you guys are comming along with DUST. Any sneak peaks for your loyal eve minions? Im guessing Fanfest will have such information?