Aero, I think that may, more than likely be true, yet the possibility still remains. If you have several teams of highly motivated crews participating in the contest for the district it could possibly go for hours, i.e., Hamburger Hill moments that turn into ULTRA-meat grinders.

Keep in mind that, though many players may become disenfranchised in a district due to consistent red-lining, you may get a number of people that will become stubborn and tough it out to the bitter end.

What if, instead of the LP cost to deploy, described above in my previous post, was used to purchase a finite number of clones that would be used to fight or perhaps augment the number of clones spawned to fight the matches?

This would add a finite number of clones to the battle, represent EVE FW 'investment' into the battles and enhance the Eve/Dust link.

Individual matches in dust are quite short when you think of it. If they seem long it's only due to most games being boring out of lack of activity \ enemy dropping the ball.

Overall, i'd love to know what makes you so sure people dont want longer matches as in longer action packed fights. On the contrary, i tend to think there is a tremendous wait for a bigger game mode, with larger player count, and a more attack\defense feel.

You know... That conquest game mode we hear about now and then since the last 2 years.

Bottom line. I wouldnt want to play more FW if i had to be forced to play an ambush game mode, then an OMS , then a skirmish and then a domination. In the end, such a process would probably take 1 hour and a half. And i'm being gentle with all the loadings, lobbies, server starting that would require.

I'd rather see a game mode that lasts 30+ minutes in general. that features a real conquest feeling with different stage (defense relay to multi hack, unlocks access to the main outpost, hack central mainframe, game over.) with several fail safe (defense relay not took after 15 minutes = loss / tickets exhausted = Loss).

With installations dropping etc. Oh but Wait... Aint that skirmish 1.0 with minor changes ? Could it be the answer was here all along ?


Or let's be totally crazy. Why not a game mode that lasts VERY long. Something you could jump in and out when you want knowing the fight will keep on going. People would still benefit from participating without seeing the end (time relative ISK and SP). That would feel like conquest ! You could be sending message during the fight to get people you know because a squad had to leave the fight.

The longer the game also, the better the chance to see Capsuleers jump in and provide orbital strikes as the event will have more visibility in EVE where the moment to moment gameplay is very much slower.