Update:Quote:DUST 514 will be shutting down on May 30th, 2016. Since this new game will be different from DUST 514 (although keeping many of its great parts), we will provide tiered recognition rewards to our loyal DUST customers, details to be announced.
This marks the end of the Dust Challenge Lottery. I would like to work with the devs in creating special named suit/weapon SKINs to award current Dust Challenge Lottery participants in the future on the new PC platform.
Feel welcome to suggest name and color pallet ideas for limited edition SKINs. I would like to propose a grenade SKIN titled Jadek's Ticket Taker.
Thank you to all who have participated on the PS3 in this event. Looking forward to finding new player challenges on the PC release.
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Update:Okay, CCP Rouge and Shanghai dev team, my faith is strong in the gifts of the 'bonus round.' I will hold onto hope for the release of player trading tools so I can follow through on awarding the efforts of fine players who have participated in an amazing collection of player created challenges and events.
Links to all of the Challenges / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
CURRENT ISK POT : 50,000,000.00 Million ISK [Photo 2014.02.13]9001 'Steelmine' Boundless Heavy Machineguns: Estimated Value 425 Million - 47,220ISK per unit*
[Photo]32,000ct Core 'Vapor' Locus Grenades : Estimated Value 448 Million - 14,000ISK per unit*
[Photo 1] +
[Photo 2]1 Active 30-Day Booster : Estimated Value 32 Million4 Pyrus Suit Series of Choice -
[Photo] 4 x (40ct proto, adv, std) = ~28 Million to ~20 Million
Basic Unit Values* Commando 125,000ISK, Proto 75,000ISK, Adv 30,000ISK, Std 20,000ISK
200ct "Al-102" Madrugar : Estimated Value 25 Million ISK; 125,000ISK Per Unit*
[Photo]"ALL" of my Officer Weapons of Choice : No Estimated Value
[Photo]-20 Gastun's HMGs
-42 Gastun's Forge Guns
-16 Cala's Sub Machine Gun
-25 Wolman's Scrambler Pistols
-9 Balac's Assault
-1 Krin's Assault
-6 Thales
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
1st Prize = 90% of ISK Pot + 9001 'Steelmine' Boundless Heavy Machine Guns + 30,000 Core Vapor Locus Grenades + 1 Active 30-Day Booster + 3 Pyrus Suit Series of Choice + 150 "AI-102" Madrugars + All Officer Weapons Listed
Runner Up = 5% ISK Pot + 2,000 Core Vapor Locus Grenades + 1 Pyrus Series Of Choice + 50 "Al-102" Madrugars
Management Fee = 5% ISK Pot (To
ISK Donation Collector)
Closing Thoughts and Considerations:I have been with Dust 514 now for nearly
13 months and I have seen a sizable share of community development both in terms of the game itself and activity on the forums. I had a recollection of an idea put forward by Eternal RMG back in early July of 2013 of his
Dust 514 Community Weekly Challenges. I wanted to reinvigorate this idea with the addition of a unique lottery that draws in the potential of a greater prize pool for challenge applicants and ticket holders.
This comes from a position of wanting to test CCP's system, game mechanics, and cultivate the meta game of Dust 514 as a whole. It is relatively straight forward to give recognition to players who complete various tasks; however, incentivizing these activities with rewards can be challenging if you don't have strong corporate backing or large amounts of your own personal funds to fuel the ongoing venture. This issue of generating funds to pay players for attempting and completing tasks is one that I grappled with and one which Eternal RMG appears to have had when operating his challenge board. The problem with running challenges based on payment per challenge is it limits that number of challenges you can post. For creative thinkers that want to design many different types of challenges, this becomes quite stifling. For this reason I introduced a new payment model of providing assets in the form of lottery tickets.
Earning these tickets through completing community challenges is win win scenario for the Dust 514 brand and player base as a whole. The idea is simply to encourage community content creation with blog...
"It's not my fault that you lost a 1 mill isk suit to a 1k isk forge gun"