Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Friendship is not enough, nor encrypted strongboxes, nor a warbarge that just boosts a solo player. Tie the game to EVE or sell it to Dice.

I wanted, from the day CCP said it was possible, to be able to produce the suits and equipment for my Mercs on the battlefield in Eve like I do my ships and modules. I wanted from the day I started playing to be able to sell my salvage for a fair price. The NPC market is worse than backwater market wh*res who take stuff at 10% value in EVE.

I wanted integration not segregation, which we had from the start. I would pay a subscription fee to play as both me and my significant other do (2 accounts each) to play Eve. Hell I have multiple toons training on more than one account now in Eve (roughly $70 cost for myself for one month for my toons).

Walking in stations interacting with Dust/Eve players would be a good start. Having a plaza to sit and mingle or play cards or scam people in would be a good move forward.

Secondly allow mercs to make and accept contracts, isk and items from both Eve and Dust. A battle is not a contract no matter how you word it.

Allow mercs to relocate via troop transport through Eve to a new location and make Warbarges a Corporate Ship flown by a player.

This is what was described to us as the FUTURE of dust when we were asked to try it out in Closed Beta. This is what we expected to come within the next few years. What we have now is more like COD without decent hit detection and equipment costs that are sometimes quite extreme for the 1.5s it takes for the merc to detonate the RE on top of the uplink we spawned at.

Please consider that you gave us assurances that things would move in these directions as you stated previously and that you should do what was planned. I realize you have a good deal of work ahead of you to get it to this point, as it seems you have only lightly touched on any of these items but I believe I have been patient, and many others have as well, supporting your continued efforts to make the game better.

I am writing this because I don't see any movement towards any Eve ties, nor any indication that anything is happening other than the attempt to increase revenues through the free-to-play model. Ever since I started playing Eve I keep hearing "walking in stations" and that you are working on it but all I see is a Captain's Quarters or a Mercenaries Quarters so I have been waiting close to 7 years for walking in stations.

In the construction business if you said we're working on building a plaza for people to put shops up at and walk around and mingle, socializing and having events and then said but for now can you please all just stay in your hotel rooms while we fix all the doors, and then left people in there for this length of time, you would have people jumping out of windows before the end of the first year.

I understand things take time to work out and would much rather have the game optimized before walking in stations and realize its a video game, not the construction business, but I am wondering if you just all up and forgot about this stuff.

As much as I welcome feedback relating to any of the ideas presented here, I hope that someone from CCP will look at this and provide me with some feedback on my concerns.

Thank you for your time and understanding.

With CCP having announced Project Legion, I don't see anything good in DUST's future.

Each game needs to be a fully intact game, you need to be able to control what happens to you entirely inside the game.
This means Dust mercs need the ability to build their own suits if suits are manufactured.
EVE players can 'also' have the ability to manufacture suits and sell them on the open/corp market as well, but EVE players can not have the exclusive ability to build them without breaking Dust.

The same is true of things like raids on PI, EVE players need the ability to control & respond to these from the EVE side. They can also chose to open it up to the Dust side if they want, but it has to be an option, not the only response.

And so forth.

I would much rather two separate fully functional games rather than one game and one tacked on project

What would happen if the Sansha Nation started confiscation of planetary resources from capsuleers or roaming rogue drones started doing the same or Angels, Guristas or even raiding bands of Dust/Legion Players? This would amount to real interaction that matters both to our economies as well as to each other.

How about doing a Sov push through Null where 1/2 the TCUs were positioned on the planets.

Want the compounds from Drones, maybe the way to reintroduce them to Eve is in the form of salvage from drones found on the planetary surfaces.

Need a new market that is pristine and easy to reach, captive even one might say, sell to mercs.

There are plenty of interaction ideas out there guys come on, put em up, add to them. Support interaction rather than segregation.

Edit::: Holy cow, mercs on moons...shhhh don't tell the sov empires they might move mountians of mercs to combat them.

Why should you not be making friends? Why should I be locked out of a C6 because I can't fly a dread, carrier or T3? Why why why, can't a player making money off the planets put the isk they are making off them put it into defending them? Huh?

Why should you not be making friends? Why should I be locked out of a C6 because I can't fly a dread, carrier or T3? Why why why, can't a player making money off the planets put the isk they are making off them put it into defending them? Huh?

Edit: maybe you missed the description of Dust/Legion "MMORPGFPS" ask a player in Dust what they do: they fight and die alongside other mercs defending ground for no reason other than they want to kill someone, now give them a reason to fight for something so they can achieve greatness and you along side them. Its not just one merc, it is an army of them.

I have played dust. It was exactly the same as every other multiplayer FPS game I have ever played. There is no draw to that game for me as an EVE player.

if I cannot defend my EVE stuff in EVE, what is the point of having it?

Your wormhole example is irrelevant here. A C6 wormhole is at the very least part of the same game. What you do in your C6 does not affect me in Null directly. Having some FPS kiddie total my PI setup, however, DOES affect me directly, and there would be nothing whatsoever I could do about it within the confines of the MMO I am paying a subscription fee for.

Why, exactly, should an FPS player be able to **** me over without any opportunity for me to defend myself?

Myself is the key word here. Yes, I could rely on my rather large alliance's dust/legion/whatever wing to do it for me, but it's my ****, I should be looking after it myself. PI is a personal asset, not an alliance level one.


Why, exactly, should a child playing a free shoot mans game be able to screw over a long time subscriber in a slow burn MMO with absolutely zero chance for the latter to do anything about it?

if I cannot defend my EVE stuff in EVE, what is the point of having it?