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Dust 514 Refugees?
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Feu dAstres
Nox Draconum Holding Corp
#1 - 2016-02-22 11:45:07 UTC
About a decade ago, The Matrix Online closed. A lot of the "refugees", myself included, came to Eve Online.

What, if anything, is being done to provide for the Dust 514 refugees?

Do we have to wait until FanFest for the announcements?
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#2 - 2016-02-22 11:52:05 UTC
Is this some sort of joke?

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log
Adeline Rais
Rais Industries and Research Incorporated
#3 - 2016-02-22 11:58:22 UTC
Bumblefck wrote:
Is this some sort of joke?


Shhh. I'd like the OP to elaborate on his sense of entitlement before flaming begins.
Jill Xelitras
Xeltec services
#4 - 2016-02-22 13:00:21 UTC
Feu dAstres wrote:

What, if anything, is being done to provide for the Dust 514 refugees?


I include you in my prayers every night, before I go to bed ... except fridays and saturdays. On those two days I tend to forget how I got to bed in the first place.

I also keep a kettle of tea, carrots and a vacuum cleaner ready at all times. You never know, when a Dust 514 refugee knocks on your door.

  • The vacuum cleaner is to get rid off any excess dust.
  • The carrots are to feed the hungry Dust Bunny.
  • ... and who wouldn't want a cup of hot tea to warm the body and soul ?

Don't anger the forum gods.

ISD Buldath:

> I Saw, I came, I Frowned, I locked, I posted, and I left.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2016-02-22 13:12:07 UTC
im a dust 514 "refugee" from a couple years back.

nothing should be done ,
they will either start voraciously consuming their lesser peers or become prey themselves just like the rest of us did.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#6 - 2016-02-22 13:42:54 UTC
Let the console gits burn

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log
Ibutho Inkosi
Doomheim
#7 - 2016-02-22 14:50:17 UTC
We set up a camp in Jita near the mall so they can be more efficiently fleeced for what they're worth.

This, we hope, will encourage them to stay with us and build a future in gaming.

The idea, the plan is, that they can one day fleece someone for all they possess should be all the impetus required.

Or, not.

As long as the tale of the hunt is told by the hunter, and not the lion, it will favor the hunter.
Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2016-02-22 18:54:58 UTC
Jill Xelitras wrote:
Feu dAstres wrote:

What, if anything, is being done to provide for the Dust 514 refugees?


I include you in my prayers every night, before I go to bed ... except fridays and saturdays. On those two days I tend to forget how I got to bed in the first place.


Atleast you actually wake up in your bed. Lucky bastard.
stg slate
State War Academy
Caldari State
#9 - 2016-02-22 19:01:26 UTC
What's with the pointless ridicule in this thread? CCP has a chance to pick up some dust bunnies into EVE at little cost if they have a migration plan in place.

Giving them a path to hop to EVE can only help overall, and they already have names/corps/SPs/ISK/etc.

Do you guys think there is too many players playing atm so you shoot down any idea that could bring a few people to EVE at no cost to you?
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#10 - 2016-02-22 19:11:57 UTC
stg slate wrote:
What's with the pointless ridicule in this thread? CCP has a chance to pick up some dust bunnies into EVE at little cost if they have a migration plan in place.

Giving them a path to hop to EVE can only help overall, and they already have names/corps/SPs/ISK/etc.

Do you guys think there is too many players playing atm so you shoot down any idea that could bring a few people to EVE at no cost to you?

I was 100% serious with my response ,
The predator/prey dynamic is what hooked me and what keeps me playing.

I would expect some to also see it and thrive,
others to recoil in horror and go play home world or whatever eve dropouts do with themselves these days.

Personally I'll be spending an inordinate amount of time reading the forums , keeping an eye out for them and giving advice where appropriate and mercilessly slagging off the inevitable whining entitled that can't reconcile with the reality of the game.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#11 - 2016-02-22 19:38:06 UTC
stg slate wrote:
What's with the pointless ridicule in this thread? CCP has a chance to pick up some dust bunnies into EVE at little cost if they have a migration plan in place.

Giving them a path to hop to EVE can only help overall, and they already have names/corps/SPs/ISK/etc.

Do you guys think there is too many players playing atm so you shoot down any idea that could bring a few people to EVE at no cost to you?

The Migration plan CCP have mentioned involves a later migration of those names and work they have done (though maybe not on a 1 for 1 basis) to the new shooter. Not to EVE. So there is no migration plan and there never will be a migration plan to EVE.
Kalishka Bisnovat
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2016-02-22 19:49:42 UTC
The children can stay and work in the factories to make munitions due to their small fingers. The adults shall be pulped into gruel to feed the new child workers! Twisted
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#13 - 2016-02-22 20:43:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Akrasjel Lanate
Two months and we will know... maybe Blink

CEO of Lanate Industries

Citizen of Solitude
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#14 - 2016-02-22 22:14:55 UTC
Feu dAstres wrote:
About a decade ago, The Matrix Online closed. A lot of the "refugees", myself included, came to Eve Online.

What, if anything, is being done to provide for the Dust 514 refugees?

Do we have to wait until FanFest for the announcements?


SON its time you get out more. This is not healthy!
Droidster
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2016-02-22 22:52:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Droidster
Not like this, not like this...

Don't worry, CCP is building refugee camps for the 514 players as we speak. They will each get a hot meal, a nylon tent and two cartridges of ammunition. Of course, there may be some discontinuity of aid, so don't be surprised if you see a few of the homeless with signs reading "Will headshot for food".
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#16 - 2016-02-22 23:21:08 UTC
As far as Eve goes, probably nothing. You either start playing Eve just like the rest of us or don't. This isn't like Romance of the Three Kingdoms games where you can get unlocks for having saves from previous titles in the series, unfortunately. Considering the fact that the Eve-Dust connection was never really well nurtured at all even after, what, three years, I'd put money on the claim that that will not change either in the future.

You might get something if you're a Dust player when CCP's other titles they are working on come into fruition. I'm sure CCP will have something for the new shooter I've heard is in the works with respects to former Dust players.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Buoytender Bob
Ronin Exploration Mission and Mining
#17 - 2016-02-22 23:54:37 UTC
Rumor has it that Helmer will transport players to the nearest rail hub so that he will finally deliver on the "Walking in Station" pledge.

To buck the popular trend, I began to Rage Start instead of Rage Quit.

...and every time I get another piece of Carbon, I know exactly what CCP is getting this Christmas.
Shae Tadaruwa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#18 - 2016-02-23 00:01:28 UTC
If they're still on the PS3, then they are poors anyway and won't be able to afford the skill injectors to be competitive in Eve, so stuff them. They should go get real jobs and come back when they don't need to be refugees.

Dracvlad - "...Your intel is free intel, all you do is pay for it..." && "...If you warp on the same path as a cloaked ship, you'll make a bookmark at exactly the same spot as the cloaky camper..."
perseus skye
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2016-02-23 00:07:50 UTC
Shae Tadaruwa wrote:
If they're still on the PS3, then they are poors anyway and won't be able to afford the skill injectors to be competitive in Eve, so stuff them. They should go get real jobs and come back when they don't need to be refugees.


Yeah pay to win should now be encouraged - I agree with this tool

Money is important when you play a game and the more money you have the better person it makes you
Eanok
POS Party
Ember Sands
#20 - 2016-02-23 23:33:38 UTC
CCP should have no problems finding a place for all 7 dust players.
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