The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
The Umbra Combine
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Posted - 2014.01.31 09:08:00 -
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Free Beers wrote:The first month of FW I saw many many corps and players (remember I have 5 toons I afk in fw for lp) The luster of Fw has worn off and players are back to pubs or pc to earn isk. In the evening this last week when i queue for any fw battle solo or in a group it takes sometimes up to 15 minutes to find a match and its the same people on both sides. The lack of isk has actually put all the proto pub stompers back into pubs to earn isk. Heck most of the people i squad with last few weeks has mainly been pub play. A month ago we were doing 10 or 20 fw battles a night.
Faction Warfare didn't fail for lack of ISK, it failed because it only offered 'equivalent' gear as AURUM does.
In EVE Faction Warfare offers substantially better gear / modules / weapons than normal Metas (even better than T2 in many cases) as well as unique ships ONLY available in Faction Warfare (and the Open Market).
With only 'equivalent' gear to buy using LP, the market is short lived, and most often frequented by newer players looking to get the next tier of gear at their current skill level. The issue on top of that is that New pLayers aren't pointed at Faction Warfare as an option to do this, and end up queuing endlessly for Public Matches, which, with all the vets in there, end up being a pubstomp, which makes them quit the game before they scratch the surface.
EDIT: Adding to the fact that an economy does exist in DUST 514 at the moment, but it is actually Income Heavy. People are making more money than they care to spend. Why? Lack of things to spend it on. An Economy works both income, and expenditures.
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The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
League of Infamy
1112
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Posted - 2014.04.15 11:44:00 -
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SgtMajSquish MLBJ wrote:" As a CPM member, I'll push heavily for greater disclosure with players on long-term plans, even if they aren't set in stone."
This is the reason that Dust is the way it is now. Talking too much and not delivering.
Too much talking behind closed doors.
There are many things that should be discussed behind closed doors, but the simple fact is that players want to know exactly (or close to) where th game is heading. A generalised roadmap is what we'd be looking at. Not a full disclosure 'step-by-step' and timeline, but a outline that tells us wherte the game is heading, what some of their short term goals are, and some of their long term ones.
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