DUST Search - please can we have a few training maps where we can test our weapons :)

cheezy burning burrito wrote:

Dust really needs some sort of training area. I am trying to talk a friend into playing and this dude is horrible at FPS, so he is interested in DSs. He has little ISK since he is new to the game so he buys some militia ones and we go into a battle, he calls it in and the RDV is destroyed before the DS hits the ground. He calls in a second one, it is destroyed before he can read the help stuff to learn the controls. He calls in a third one' he takes off' runs into a building then gets blown up by the same dude who brought down the previous two. After this fiasco he says "F@%# this, I'll play BF4 or MW Ghosts, at least they have Campaign mode so I can have fun while playing". Now I am trying to talk this guy off the ledge so he agrees to give it one more try. We drop into a battle and guess what? The Raspberries have Tankageddon with like 4 tanks. After that match, dude is pissed at me for "f@%#ing" with him because I know he sucks at FPS and he thinks I did it on purpose and he is so Anti-Dust now I may never be able to convince him to play again. This is just one dude he hates Dust and prefers rival games after just 2 battles. Imagine how many new players are quitting because they cannot learn how to play the game.
I saw a video on Youtube that shows how to set up a training type battle IF you own a District. (very good video by the way) My corp is real small and cannot get and hold a district so that option is out. And how are we expected to get into FW and Planetary Conquest if we can not learn how to operate as a cohesive unit.
IMO, as insignificant as it is, Dust could benefit greatly from some sort of training site. It will help in retention of new people, and allow more corps to get involved in the Planetary Conquest beside the 10 or so that currently own everything.


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Mr m4gic Forty-Nine Fedayeen Minmatar Republic 16	Posted - 2013.11.20 04:30:00 - [1] - Quote really need somewhere I can, practice flying and shooting with friends in battles, tht don't use up fits ive bought or destroy the vehicles Ive fit. Minimize it to a maximum of 6 or 4 ppl in a match and give us say 2 or 4 maps to choose from, make cloning vats in these maps indestructible or just use random spawn points, be nice to have a break away from earning sp and isk and muck about with friends for fun and generally test things.
Mr m4gic Forty-Nine Fedayeen Minmatar Republic 16	Posted - 2013.11.20 04:40:00 - [2] - Quote yh tht could work 2 but id prefer to have an empty map just me and a couple of select friends could battle each other and test our stuff.
Mr m4gic Forty-Nine Fedayeen Minmatar Republic 16	Posted - 2013.11.20 04:44:00 - [3] - Quote Broonfondle Majikthies wrote: I believe a suggestion in Vegas was to be able to visit your owned district. Don't know if that is still planned but not much good to the smaller corps yh tht poop as I own nothing need something tht everyone can use as and when they please. they only have to small maps no need for anything massive.
Mr m4gic Forty-Nine Fedayeen Minmatar Republic 18	Posted - 2013.11.20 05:13:00 - [4] - Quote Talos Vagheitan wrote: I think it's a great idea. Maybe a corp could rent training spaces for X- amount of ISK. Assets lost in training would of course be lost permanently as well. lol I like your thinking, but if I lost my stuff id just go on a standard ambush to test renting training grounds not a bad idea if it was cheap.
Mr m4gic Forty-Nine Fedayeen Minmatar Republic 19	Posted - 2013.11.20 17:31:00 - [5] - Quote part of me hopes it is a free for all style training match tht would be pretty awesome, or a match where there are like 16 ppl and u run around in 2 man squads all agains all.
Mr m4gic XSKvLLX 41	Posted - 2014.01.04 14:45:00 - [6] - Quote cheezy burning burrito wrote: Dust really needs some sort of training area. I am trying to talk a friend into playing and this dude is horrible at FPS, so he is interested in DSs. He has little ISK since he is new to the game so he buys some militia ones and we go into a battle, he calls it in and the RDV is destroyed before the DS hits the ground. He calls in a second one, it is destroyed before he can read the help stuff to learn the controls. He calls in a third one' he takes off' runs into a building then gets blown up by the same dude who brought down the previous two. After this fiasco he says "F@%# this, I'll play BF4 or MW Ghosts, at least they have Campaign mode so I can have fun while playing". Now I am trying to talk this guy off the ledge so he agrees to give it one more try. We drop into a battle and guess what? The Raspberries have Tankageddon with like 4 tanks. After that match, dude is pissed at me for "f@%#ing" with him because I know he sucks at FPS and he thinks I did it on purpose and he is so Anti-Dust now I may never be able to convince him to play again. This is just one dude he hates Dust and prefers rival games after just 2 battles. Imagine how many new players are quitting because they cannot learn how to play the game. I saw a video on Youtube that shows how to set up a training type battle IF you own a District. (very good video by the way) My corp is real small and cannot get and hold a district so that option is out. And how are we expected to get into FW and Planetary Conquest if we can not learn how to operate as a cohesive unit. IMO, as insignificant as it is, Dust could benefit greatly from some sort of training site. It will help in retention of new people, and allow more corps to get involved in the Planetary Conquest beside the 10 or so that currently own everything. i have friends tht have walked out on dust, others who refuse to play the game. Training ground sounds good, definately need tht i think we need missions to do and small corps need, away of stealing resources from larger corps, example a corp could have a certain ammount of resources, say 5% left in a storage container tht other corps could attempt to steal, the match would be against rats, the rats would only be as good as the, larger corps wallet and once u have sucessfully stolen the contents of the container, you have to wait a fair while for it to respawn. it would also be good if hacking an objective did soething visual like made a cannon spin round and start shooting the mcc. Have you seen my baseball??
Mr m4gic XSKvLLX 43	Posted - 2014.01.05 12:46:00 - [7] - Quote i dont know, but anything is possible in the gaming world so hopefully it will, even just a weapons testing room would be good, they could put it just outside your merc quaters, it would have a targeting range, and something to check, shield and armour resiliance visually this could be some sort of electric pulse tht damages your shields and armour, with the same force each time, alowwing u to see which shields work best, these electric pulses could be, altered to simulate the different weapon or ammo types, just something cool to add to the game. Infact this could be something on a space station where players could meet. once i had this idea tht a mission could be to steal a ship, from a ship maurfacturing place You would start off, on the ground with your corp mates and accompanied by a pilot from eve, who is going to pilot the vessel if you suceed. Your first task, would be to infiltrate and hack a space elevator, tht runs straight into the manurfacturing plant, once inside you would have to fight your way through the corridoors and warhouses, having to hack doors to move forwards on the mission, the end part would be finding and boarding the ship and escaping with your prize. Have you seen my baseball??