Yeah, Neocron wants a word with you.

Also, have you been online in PS2 lately?
The map colors are moving either clockwise or counterclockwise all the time. Its a stompfest and nobody really plays it seriously anymore, because frankly, there is no point.

The Planetary Conquest concept isn't, generally speaking, a bad idea. It would just cause the PS3 to collapse under the resource weight, and probably the server as well. I imagine a lot of R&D would be required to make those hundreds of truly persistent worlds on the Tranquility server run in real-time at FPS fidelity. That feature alone seems like it could take several years.

But even for FW, the PS2 districts flip way too quickly. The map shouldn't shift as much as it does over the course of 24 hours, based simply upon who happens to have more people logged into the server at a particular time. And the "resources for equipment" idea just doesn't fit the profiteering, lawless frontier represented by the New Eden universe, while also requiring you to reduce the customization to relatively meaningless choices.

There's precious little to be learned from PS2, and we all know it. If I were to take one lesson, it would actually be the map construction that makes vehicles meaningful but unable to grief infantry into oblivion. Maybe if DUST's maps were less like Manus Peak and more like some of the facilities in PS2, we could have vehicles that are very hard to kill without them redlining whole teams within the first 60 seconds. I think the most recent (Research Facility?) is a big step in the right direction. Being able to deny vehicles access to some areas unless you hack a panel might also be a good feature.

Even the planetary conquest portion of DUST that could be considered its most MMO-esque element has been abstracted into a series of instanced and scheduled 24v24 battles.

Before the official start of the battle at the reinforcement window, both sides could engage in small scuffles to take over or defend those hostile structures. The pressure would then be on the attacker to commit to vigilantly watch the battlefield around the clock rather than on the defender.

One of the main complaints people have with DUST 514 is that the expense of losing vehicles and prototype dropsuits arguably makes the game pay-to-win. While that may not be entirely accurate, it's true that rich players can afford to waste their ISK spawning tanks and running full prototype loadouts.

DUST 514 could be adapted to employ a similar system, adding strategic value to certain control points or pieces of capturable infrastructure by giving each one the ability to spawn free items of a particular type during the battle. Being in control of a factory building might let you deploy free light tanks; a cloning facility might make prototype suits free of charge. Losing these important strategic points during the battle would then effectively increase the cost of spawning those items, but a rich corp wouldn't have a massive advantage from the outset.

Hmm, lookie here. Another one of these somewhat sloppy articles by a journalist who seems to have very little scope for how Dust's various mechanics and systems interlock.

hmmm I wonder whose fault that is

*ccp*

Anyone want to play PS2 now?

I don't need to read a full article to know that Dust 514 is not where near where it should be, and most likely never is going to be in a Console.

Put this game in the PC CCP, you know that is where it should be. Stop wasting your time and money in Consoles, and put this game where it belongs; side to side with Eve as an Expansion.

so someone doesnt do there research and its not there fault?

its not like its hard to find out the info needed esp for an eve vet used to it.

That's nonsense only 3-4% of a playerbase ever go on the forum, and only 20% ever go to the website or wikis/youtube videos for help.

Yet tons of games as complex or more so than dust and eve online don't have people trying to figure out what the game is they are playing. Don't be stubborn you need to help the 80% of people who play you game IN GAME. You should not have to close out and check the internet to figure out how to control the basics.