This makes sense and is a good idea and all, but I can't help but feel kind of screwed being a Minmatar Immigrant to the Federation; I want to fight for the "good guys", but I LOVE Amarr stuff. I'm skilled into Amarr logi, Amarr assault, scrambler rifle, laser rifle.
Player-trading better come soon so I can get Amarr specialist items without dirtying my conscience

It would work great if there was a secondary market, but without it this will be a dead game mode within days.

This is where the secondary market will come in, you buy them from other people. Unfortunately that wont be around when we launch this feature.

Vehicles are currently undergoing a very big rebalance. Once that is done there is nothing to say we wont. :)

That is still happening in 1.6, right?

If you have not done so, please read the introduction post here.

Oh this should be a fun thread. How many of you came here before reading any of the other threads? Admit it, be honest, most of you did. Thats OK, just please remember to read the rest of the threads before commenting. :)

What are Loyalty Points
Loyalty points are essentially a currency that corporations within New Eden give to those who do things for them. For example the Federal Marines would give out Federal Marine loyalty points. These loyalty points can then be taken and used to buy unique items that the corporation has to offer. So you could take your Federal Marine loyalty points and spend them in the Federal Marine loyalty store which will have Federation equipment. This equipment (be it actual equipment, dropsuits, weapons, or modules) is custom and often times can only be gotten from that store.

You can get loyalty points for playing factional contracts and the higher your standing to the side you are fighting for the higher your loyalty point reward will be. One of the other unique concepts with the loyalty point store in EVE is that items in the LP store cost both ISK and LP. This is a concept we will be bringing to the DUST LP store as well. Things in the LP store will cost both ISK and LP.

Now that we have a basic understanding of what an LP store is, the next question what is going in available in the store. This is something that will probably expand and grow over time, but for this initial release we have two types of items we will be releasing in the loyalty point store.

Specialist Weapons
Oh boy, these are fun. When we talked about the loyalty store and what we wanted in it we knew we wanted some really cool new weapons. Something that players would strive for and that would be the top teir stuff. So we went to CCP Remnant and asked for some cool stuff. What we got back... well this stuff is awesome. The basic idea is that we would add a new version of prototype weapons, almost everything the same as proto weapons. The only difference is that they have less fitting requirements. (big grin) Here is a list of the new weapons we are adding:

• Federation Duvolle Specialist Assault Rifle
• Federation CreoDron Specialist Shotgun
• Federation Allotek Specialist Plasma Cannon
• Republic Boundless Specialist Combat Rifle
• Republic Freedom Specialist Mass Driver
• Imperial Viziam Specialist Laser Rifle
• Imperial Specialist Scrambler Rifle
• State Kaalakiota Specialist Rail Rifle
• State Wiyrkomi Specialist Swarm Launcher

All available in the loyalty store for both ISK and LP, all offering the same stats as their normal prototype variant with just a bit less fitting requirements.

All Dem Aurum Items
So, you know how you can go to the market and buy Aurum variations of weapons and equipment? For the most part the only difference between these items and their ISK counterparts is that they have lower skill requirements. Pay Aurum, get into stuff with less skill points. Well it turns out this creates a really tricky thing to balance, and we don't want to have any pay-to-win issues. With that in mind why not make all those Aurum variants available in the loyalty store as well? So we did. It turns out it makes our lives a lot easier, gives you guys a whole lot of stuff to get from the loyalty store, and is just awesome all around.

I am not going to go and list every Aurum item that will be in the loyalty store because that's a LONG list. I will however give you a brief breakdown of how those items will be distributed:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6FxxiSa.png[/img]

So from that you will notice a few things:

• Every race gets a copy of the CPU and PG upgrades
• The damage modifiers get split amongst the stores
• Gallente and Amarr get armor
• Caldari and Minmatar get shield
• Gallente and Caldari get vehicles
• Equipment is split evenly
• Weapons go to the race that they should based on design
• Dropsuits are included and go to their race

New Equipment
So I lied. Aurum items and specialist weapons are the two primary types of things we are adding. But what about equipment though and all those logibros. Well we have a selection of equipment that is just... well all around better. More repair, longer lasting scan results, combining short spawn times with more spawns, things like that.

• Imperial Viziam Drop Uplink
• State Ishukone Nanohive
• Federation CreoDron Active Scanner
• State Wiyrkomi Nanite Injector
• Republic Core Repair Tool

Got delayed to 1.7 awhile ago.

I'm really liking the amarr rewards, especially as a logi. You could make good use of a lot of it.

hurrayy we heavy get somoe love in the lp stor......
Oh....
Nevermind.

I can almost smell those Gallente Heavies...
(Much preferred to the stench of a Walmart sized Minmatar - but there's an alt for that.)

So it would be difficult for me to get diffrent race weapons? Like say I wanted to get the plasma cannon, srcambler rifle and rail rifle.

You can only use a heavy weapon damage mod on an amarr suit at the moment. Once we get the other 3 heavy suits they will add the damage mod to the other stores. Until then why would minmatar give out gear only usable on amarr suits?

Vehicles are currently undergoing a very big rebalance. Once that is done there is nothing to say we wont. :)