I like everything except the daily log-in bonus which is pretty lackluster. Only 31k more SP a week if you log on all 7 days? Hopefully down the line we'll maybe get something more inspired as a reward/incentive to log in every day (especially after we've hit the cap).

All we need now is the secondary market and corp hangers

you get 42,000 sp a week after the first week and you keep logging on daily

Ah I must have skimmed the part where it says you keep the bonus after Week 1 until you miss a day.

That doesn't discredit my point though. 31.5k and 42k are both really low. I'm not saying I'd rather not have it, but if you're going to introduce something like this, make it sort of worthwhile.

t's been a while since we've released brand new levels into the game. We are adding a brand new Research Facility Surface Infrastructure (comprised of one large outpost, 2 medium components and 4 small components) and a full 5k terrain with three battlegrounds called Craters. We are also releasing new GÇ£moodsGÇ¥ to add more flavor and realism to the universe of New Eden.

Also might make scanners used more.

So the RF SI... would that be comparable to the Biomass Outpost or Orbital Artillary Outpost? Because it was my understanding that those were considered large sockets. But the wording here is confusing, its as if the SI outpost is composed of more than just a large socket? Or are you referring to a package of sockets that could show up on other maps now?

Or possibly, you are saying that there really are 'socket families'? Like you will only see large socket A.L.1 with medium sockets A.M.1 and A.M.2 or A.M.3 ? I'm confused at your language here... Please give more detail?

This one? http://web.ccpgamescdn.com/dust/news.control/64718/1/outpost6.jpgBig smile

Research Facility is the first in a new way we are doing the sockets. Your last guess is pretty much dead on. Research is a full blown outpost, however, the two mediums and four smalls are a part of its set. And you will typically in the future not see them mixed with another set of sockets. They may be loaded in a game mode area that does not use the large outpost, but the mediums and smalls would still be from the set. It's possible additions to these sets will come in the future. All SI's will follow this formula in the future at this time. 1 Large Socket, 2 Medium Sockets, 4 Small sockets.



That is the one.

Now, in regard to the weekly skill cap and the implications of it:

We acknowledge that the current implementation of the skill cap still isn't quite there yet. It doesn't quite allow people to choose when to play as freely as we would like, and it also adds some unnecessary complexity when it comes to using active boosters. This is why we are working our way towards a rollover SP system: instead having your pool of bonus SP being reset according to a fixed weekly cycle, you will steadily accumulate bonus SP to a pool over time that you can then empty through fighting in battles. As a result, everyone should be able to better choose when to come in and claim the available SP. Moving to such a system would have the added benefit of allowing us to make active boosters to give out a constant value over time by having them influence the rate at which SP accumulates into the pool instead of just multiplying SP received at the end of each battle.

new battlefinder crap and other crap we dont need? Thats great CCP, its like you dont listen to the community. Get off IIRC and maybe play your game on the live servers a bit.

Not to be a weirdo about visual design of the FW button on the instant battle menu-- 3 in one row, 1 in a second row? You should alter the spacing to either fit them all in one row or 2 x 2. The weighting of 2 rows and 3 columns for 4 objects looks very very odd for professional design in my opinion.

Shared squad vision is that if a player on the far north of the map sees a red dot in front of them, so does the friendly blue dot in the squad all the way to the far south, and so does the entire team see the red dots on the mini-map.

Seems to be some sort of buff or actual implementation of the scanners role in the game.

The new battle finder was actually a requirement for delivering our modified matchmaking system. We needed to change how it worked anyway so we took the opportunity to make it more relevant at the same time. The real motivation behind the change is to create more accessible and balanced battles which I think we can all agree is a worthwhile goal.

Not even a single relevant word.


There was nothing about the SP cap rollover system that has been 'SoonTM' for so long and nothing about a respec system, I was thinking on picking Dust again to see what it had to add value to my gaming experience but as usual another bad update.

We know you've all been waiting for more details on the Uprising 1.4 update. Straight from the desk of CCP Praetorian, we have a new dev blog giving an overview of what's coming on September 3rd and beyond!

And before anyone asks: Patch notes tomorrow.

And this seems pretty smart to me cos it should mean less information being sent within the data packets which means less server-side and local processing unless in situations where it's necessary due to the active scanners! And less information means less lag... All of this is good stuff and every single small change like this should improve the gameplay..

Will signing in through the Neocom Vita App count toward the daily SP bonus?

The new battle finder was actually a requirement for delivering our modified matchmaking system. We needed to change how it worked anyway so we took the opportunity to make it more relevant at the same time. The real motivation behind the change is to create more accessible and balanced battles which I think we can all agree is a worthwhile goal.