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Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3826	Posted - 2013.08.30 03:56:00 - [1] - Quote Dysnomia Pandora wrote: Wow more useless crap for the players, fix gameplay and catch some hacker, who the hell cares about this. You making me so sad ccp seriously, who is giving advise about what to bring out next. Cus you def need to fire hes or her ass. Or do you guys just realy dont care? Go pod yourself. Over and over again since you're immortal. First off, the team that made this API system is NOT the same team that fixes exploits or balance weapons and stuff. There are already other teams working on stuff that you want finished. Second, the CREST API will become much more useful once it's fully finished so that you can calculate fittings, gather district data, and other stuff without having to log into the game. Hell, have you seen Twitter lately? Look for @DUSTAlerts. Because of the new API, they are able to provide a live feed of which corp loses/gains which district to/from which corp. Just 19 minutes ago, TeamPlayers corp lost Osvetur V - District 5 to the G I A N T corp and I didn't need to access anything in game to figure that out. That's just for starters which brings me to my next point.. Third, imagine all the third party developers creating tools based on the CREST API such as a DUST Fitting Tool that you can access as an Android or iPhone app without having to log into tthe game. Imagine seeing an up-to-date map on a web browser that tells you which corp or alliance has control over which planets and districts and how each planet is influencing the other. Imagine an app or web browser that imports your character's data so you can put together a skill plan without logging into the game. All for free. Tell me, which other first person shooter offers this kind of service to the players? Perhaps Halo, but Halo's Waypoint doesn't give you the kind of immersion and metagaming experience that CCP's API system gives you.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3827	Posted - 2013.08.30 13:35:00 - [2] - Quote Dysnomia Pandora wrote: My honest reaction, who cares about this aplication? Doesnt improve the game itself, and only like 5 to 10% like this api cus they do pc. Reason why other shooters dont have it, cus it doesnt add to the gameplay at all. Dust is not Eve so dont treat it like its Eve. Let's assume for the sake of this argument that you are correct to assume that this is not Eve. In the sense that Dust is a console first-person shooter and Eve is a PC MMO, you are correct. Eve and Dust are two different games. But what about the culture within both games? Metagaming is the norm in both games. Spying and battling corporations for control of resources (in this case, clones... for now) is highly encouraged and some of the Dust corps that you see today in Dust have support from Eve alliances. And that kind of support is only going to grow. For example, my corp (Dust University) is part of the IVY LEAGUE alliance which is predominantly controlled by Eve corps and is also the sister corp to Eve University which has been around since 2003 for the purpose of training new players and helping them get accustomed to the culture of New Eden. But those are only the immediate features of Dust's Eve-like culture. CCP's 5-year road map includes, but is not limited to: 1. Adding a secondary player-controlled market where players get to dictate their own prices and make money from just buying and selling alone. There are players in Eve who have not stepped out of their stations for months yet they are making hundreds of millions of ISK a week just by market trading at wholesale levels. This will definitely translate into Dust. 2. Industry will be implemented where we will be selling our minerals harvested from the Districts to the Eve players who will then use those minerals to produce the infantry gear, vehicles, and installations we need. Clones will no longer be the primary commodity. 3. Linking Planetary Conquest to Eve-side Sovereignty Warfare. Eve players rely on sovereignty warfare for control of some of the most critical minerals in the Eve Online industry. Many opposing alliance often form Oligopolies (it's like a monopoly only involving multiple power blocs working together) in an attempt to extort prices from the unwitting masses. Once the Dust-Eve link to sovereignty warfare is established and industry is put into place with the secondary market, a whole new level of metagaming will come in and thus every planet in New Eden (not just those in the Molden Heath region), will be targets. 4. Due to the the above, the planets with the most valuable real estate will become hotbeds for battles as Eve and Dust corps fight for control of those planetary resources. Prime real estate usually means that a planet is in a low-sec area with near-direct access to one of the four major trade hubs (Jita, Amarr, Rens, Dodixie) and a near-direct line to the null-sec regions of space controlled by the powerful alliances. Yeah, Dust is going to look like Eve in 5 years. And this is not including the 10-year plan that was brought up by CCP during Fanfest 2013. One day, 10 years from now, Dust avatars and Eve avatars will one day mingle together in the stations planning how to build their own stargates while the Dust mercs plan to build the next Babylon. Like it not, in 10 years, Dust will be Eve and Eve will be Dust. No one will be able to tell the difference beyond the fact that one is in a console and the other is in a PC.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3827	Posted - 2013.08.30 13:36:00 - [3] - Quote Dysnomia Pandora wrote: Soraya Xel wrote: Dysnomia Pandora wrote: Wow more useless crap for the players, fix gameplay and catch some hacker, who the hell cares about this. You making me so sad ccp seriously, who is giving advise about what to bring out next. Cus you def need to fire hes or her ass. Or do you guys just realy dont care? You obviously have NO idea how important this is. This is by far the most important thing CCP has ever done for DUST 514. It's more important than gun balance. It's more important than fixing exploits. It's more important than economy. Then you dont have a cleu how shooters work. Then you don't have a clue that Soraya was being sarcastic.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3831	Posted - 2013.08.30 23:24:00 - [4] - Quote Beren Hurin wrote: So how would we feel about API for FW districts...? That can be possible assuming CCP finishes and releases that part of the API database. It would be nice to see how much of an impact a bunch of lone mercs are having on the FW front. That can help with the immersion by giving players a sense of much of an impact their actions are having in the New Eden galaxy.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3835	Posted - 2013.08.31 02:31:00 - [5] - Quote Maken Tosch wrote: Imagine seeing an up-to-date map on a web browser that tells you which corp or alliance has control over which planets and districts and how each planet is influencing the other. Well, speak of the devil. Someone actually made one already. It doesn't say which districts each corp has, but it says a lot for something that just got started. Source: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1241693#post1241693 BGoat wrote: [Cross-posting from the My Dust forum since nobody seems to look at that] Hi All, I've put together a visualization of the current district ownership shares in Molden Heath. The data backing this visualization is refreshed every hour and will pick up any changes to alliance affiliations and adjust the graph accordingly. You can see it here: http://www.dustcharts.com/moldenheath For the sake of clarity, only corporations with a 1% share of Molden Heath are labeled along the outer edge of the graph. However, you can still see data for the other corporations by mousing over that slice of the pie and reading the tooltip that pops up. Feel free to respond in the thread with any feedback/questions and keep an eye out for a full dashboard experience on Dust Charts in the near future Shocked If you like it, you can always donate ISK to BGoat in game.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 3849	Posted - 2013.08.31 20:57:00 - [6] - Quote Aellar Dae wrote: Hello there. Thanks to mr. shandybin we have a very helpful tool for overviewing districts by selected time period: http://rust415.com/liga/en-districts Please feel free to use. Best regards, RUST415 Alliance Oh, thanks. Wow, didn't know this existed already.

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