There usually is something close when the Devs go this quite on here.

devs are on holidays

Not all of em.

We will be revealing more details at EVE Vegas later this month, followed by in-depth articles, developer blogs, and more.

http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/10/a-message-from-the-executive-producer/

I think that new guy they got to run the show fired all the Chinese devs. Time to bring in real devs.

Eve vegas is this weekend. I think.

Remember that time when people got scared of saying something that might be misconstrued as racism?

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

Remember that time when people got scared of saying something that might be misconstrued as racism?

Remember that time I could give two f*cks at what other people think is racism?

That statement is not racism and it's the truth. Chinese are working on this game. Their office is in Shanghai. They have been doing a sucky job. Better devs need to be brought in. I don't care where they're from.

Any chance it might address the issue I wrote about just other day here?: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1392082#post1392082

Remember that time when that one guy made remarks that could be misconstrued as racism and then tried to explain it away, beginning by saying he didn't care what other people think is racism?

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

What can we do to make you write faster? Honeylamb?

What can we do to make you write faster? Honeylamb?

The question is why were you going through type-ids earlier. It either has to do with the dust/link connection like displaying information about killing mercs in Eve, or it has to do possibly with a new loot table related to payouts in dust.

Spiced Canadian Whiskey and possibly Canadian Bacon. Honeyed Lamb is for CCP Wolfman.

Spicebox is the drink you are looking for. My absolute favourite drink. I will bring my last bottle into the office on Friday so we can enjoy some Logibro.

Spicebox is the drink you are looking for. My absolute favourite drink. I will bring my last bottle into the office on Friday so we can enjoy some Logibro.

Spicebox is the drink you are looking for. My absolute favourite drink. I will bring my last bottle into the office on Friday so we can enjoy some Logibro.

Spiced Canadian Whiskey and possibly Canadian Bacon. Honeyed Lamb is for CCP Wolfman.

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

Busiest team in dust? Lol

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

FoxFour/TTG best devs in Dust.

I guess I'll be ready to beaver away on more FW feedback threads!
I very much look forward to reading this.

Does it include an orbital revamp? I'm inclined to believe so given the length of discussion on this topic.
I assume from the comment you made to Absolute Idiom II that there'll be a district revamp as well?

Standings system? Another thing I'm really hoping for and one that I'm inclined to believe will turn up given some of your comments.

Has your mind been changed regarding LP stores? This is something that I don't really think is likely to turn up, but there's a lot of support for the idea.

I guess I'll stop speculating rampantly now and just wait like everything else.

I've made a lot of comments on this as well and look forward to seeing what FoxFour has in store for us. One thing I'm really hoping for is that the faction with the least districts gets more attack contracts. Right now the Minmatar have only 1% of the total districts, so they should be attacking a lot more than the Amarr, yet somehow from my personal accounts I tend to still be attacking just as frequently as defending on the Amarr side.

Also really hoping that only EVE strikes can be called in, no NPC strikes, and perhaps a system that makes it something the EVE players have to earn instead of Dust players. That would be great in my opinion, because then the team with orbital support is the only team that is going to get it, and if they enemy team wants to drop strikes they're going to have to get their EVE guys to run off the enemy team's fleet.

Hmm, I just got a thought. What if instead of spawning the battles based on plexes and stuff, there were "trains" figuratively speaking going from district to district. Basically what I mean is you tie all the districts together into some massive loop. Raa X District 1 leads to Raa X District 2, leads to Raa X District 3, . . . , leads to Raa X District District 19, leads to Tzvi IV District 1, . . . on and on until you make a giant full loop with all the districts.

Then, you put a bunch of "trains" that follow this loop, starting at different places. The number of "trains" is decided by the amount of players queuing up for FW. It makes a stop at each district on its path, and the battle sets up with the attacker and defender decided by who holds the district currently. Then after the match, it goes to the next one. At the end of each battle, players are given the option to stick on that same "train" and move throughout New Eden.

Just a thought, and maybe not the best but maybe it could spark other ideas. I like this though because then say if you have a really good squad formed up you can sit through a session of FW and claim an entire system in FW as well as know that they next "train" probably won't be arriving there soon. Plus the number of attack and defense contracts would be much more fair than how it is currently.

Yeah, the districts system is in fairly dire need of a revamp - by all rights when the Amarr was getting crushed they should have been doing much better than they were from the matches I was playing in, and similarly the Minmatar are probably going to suffer from the same issue once the FW event is over.

Hell yes to the EVE only strikes - that would make my day, as someone lucky enough to have dedicated EVE support.
It should be noted that at the moment it's not worth an EVE player's time to do an orbital, and that should probably be changed as well. An LP reward, for example, would do wonders I'm sure. That'd need to come with a match finder for the EVE players and a whole host of other things as feature creep rears its ugly head, but when discussing orbitals it's important to think about why someone would bother to do one.

I'd really like it if orbitals became more of a mechanic to encourage fights as well as a match-changer in Dust. I assume that in terms of the match-changer part it'll be changed so they're less of a 'killstreak' reward.

All aboard the speculation train!

I like it, though we're probably going to have to see how this set of changes pans out before thinking about more specific mechanics.

Something I feel is really lacking is the ability (or rather, lack thereof) to attack specific districts in specific systems. If I have a supporting fleet with orbital capability in an assault on a stronghold system, I want to be fighting in that system, not in some backwater fifteen light-years away that some random LP farmer was farming in.

Yup this is big as well. As someone who also gets frequent EVE support, it can be frustrating when your fleet has to ping-pong across New Eden to follow you around. Would be much nicer if you can choose your battle location, but even this "train" idea would keep the battles relatively close together, you know?

One of the days we need to capture the under the bed monster SoxFour sit him down in front of a tribunal of long time FW vets and tickle him until he talks....

No in all seriousness I would love to see if we could catch one of the Devs for a bit one day and have a chat with them about FW future, mechanchics, etc.

Between "FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done." and "Spicebox is the drink you are looking for. My absolute favourite drink. I will bring my last bottle into the office on Friday so we can enjoy some Logibro." that's 200 characters. That's 0.7% more of the FW post you could have written in that time! Why are you on the forums!?!?!

Well now up to 12k characters, 3 images, and about half done. Images are worth a thousand words right?

Well now up to 12k characters, 3 images, and about half done. Images are worth a thousand words right?

Well now up to 12k characters, 3 images, and about half done. Images are worth a thousand words right?

(darnit, I see True Adamance has returned to the forums. My window to catch up in likes has just closed)

Try IRC.
I've had some fantastic discussions with FoxFour there, and I think it was an IRC debate that kicked off the orbital thread in Feedback/Requests.

You have a long ways to go young padawan, people either like me, or pity me more....

He wont face me, after I emoted lurking in an alley.

We even tried to draw him out to the office with the promise of new socks...

however I'll try again.

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.

/me lurks in a forum alley with even more likes.

Well now up to 12k characters, 3 images, and about half done. Images are worth a thousand words right?

Spicebox is the drink you are looking for. My absolute favourite drink. I will bring my last bottle into the office on Friday so we can enjoy some Logibro.

So when are we getting the dev blog? I WANT TO READ :(

There usually is something close when the Devs go this quite on here.

New EP told them all to stop giving us false hope.

Now we wont hear from them for years.

Spiced Canadian Whiskey and possibly Canadian Bacon. Honeyed Lamb is for CCP Wolfman.

ETA sometime tomorrow ???

Spicebox is the drink you are looking for. My absolute favourite drink. I will bring my last bottle into the office on Friday so we can enjoy some Logibro.

Sadly, after it's completed, a dev blog goes through a few passes by marketing, localization, etc. So next week or the week after is more likely.

FW post up to 7k characters, about 1/4 done.