DUST Search - A message for CCP Rogue, signed, Bittervets

Paran Tadec wrote:

What are you doing personally that is going to turn this game around? For nearly a year very few improvements/features have been brought to this game due to mismanagement and promising stuff that the previous EP wasnt up to completing. Spend some time looking over all of the threads from summer 2012 that the hardcore community provided before being shunned by the previous EP.

We want:

Eve integration - a full market, isk transactions, Newberries will complain that they are isk poor due to isk influx, but they just need to learn to make friends. Ground to space weaponry. Industry Give eve players a reason to GAF.

Racial parity re: all basic suits, weapons and vehicles. When? We already have concepts, shouldnt be that much longer for you to roll this out. Get this stuff out, in a balance (or atleast near balanced state)

PVE - a must, I cant and dont want to PC everynight. Sometime i want to get drunk and smash bots. Even better if you can do this on an open world map.

COMMUNICATION - talk to us, tell us what your plans are moving forward (no promises, just what are your goals)

Fix stupid things - dropship pilots have been asking for either more HP or countermeasures for over a year.


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Arkena Wyrnspire Turalyon 514 Turalyon Alliance 3733	Posted - 2013.10.09 18:55:00 - [1] - Quote Paran Tadec wrote: What are you doing personally that is going to turn this game around? For nearly a year very few improvements/features have been brought to this game due to mismanagement and promising stuff that the previous EP wasnt up to completing. Spend some time looking over all of the threads from summer 2012 that the hardcore community provided before being shunned by the previous EP. We want: Eve integration - a full market, isk transactions, Newberries will complain that they are isk poor due to isk influx, but they just need to learn to make friends. Ground to space weaponry. Industry Give eve players a reason to GAF. Racial parity re: all basic suits, weapons and vehicles. When? We already have concepts, shouldnt be that much longer for you to roll this out. Get this stuff out, in a balance (or atleast near balanced state) PVE - a must, I cant and dont want to PC everynight. Sometime i want to get drunk and smash bots. Even better if you can do this on an open world map. COMMUNICATION - talk to us, tell us what your plans are moving forward (no promises, just what are your goals) Fix stupid things - dropship pilots have been asking for either more HP or countermeasures for over a year. For the most part, I agree. As a closed beta player, I really haven't seen the game progress that much. Sure, there've been a few new things, a couple of new weapons, shinier graphics, new suits. But this is still a lobby shooter. Nothing there has changed, and the gameplay remains much the same. The stupid issues persisting is something that seriously should have been ironed out by now. Your specific example isn't completely relevant as it is getting fixed, but it has indeed taken more than a year. Dropship pilots were asking for this stuff when I first came to the forums, something like a year ago. PVE - Agreed, it's a must. Not having options other than lobby pvp kills the variety and exacerbates the frustration with unbalanced weapons and equipment. There are some great things that can be done with the dust concepts as well - isk, for example, is difficult to come by for most other than through straight PvP. Racial parity, again, is a must. Not having half of what's basically the essential base content of the game is frankly dire. On communication: I do agree, but even if it's only goals the community tends to turn it into promises by the umpteenth retelling and if imaginary promises aren't fulfilled there tends to be community backlash. EVE integration is the one thing that could really set Dust apart, and it's just not there at the moment. Practically nobody in EVE cares about Dust, very few people in Dust care about EVE. As a major point of this game it's just so important to get it right. I do, however, highly doubt that a new EP will somehow cause miracles. Things might improve under more effective leadership, but I have no faith that much of the goals for this game will come to fruition.