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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.02.28 14:34:00 -
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Kevall, I will let you handle the paperwork for getting 3bird added to the EVE monument. Link to thread for dearly departed DUST players.
Fox Gaden: DUST Wall of Fame, 2014
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.04.25 16:28:00 -
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When considering the limitations of the Unreal 3 engine and the PS3, we should consider what is handled by your PlayStation, and what is handled by the Tranquillity server. Things like the market, mail, and Corporate records are stored and processed on Tranquillity. All you need to access these on the PlayStation is an interface, and an interface is not really processor intensive. Not went compared to the amount of processing involved in rendering live combat.
For MMO elements such as in game mail, and Corporate management, there is no reason to restrict DUST to the limited consol interface. There is no reason you canGÇÖt be sitting in front of your consol shooting red dots in the face, and then between games promote a Corp member to Personal Manage using an app on your phone, and then run to your computer to compose a Corp mail using a DUST version of the EVE Gate web site.
I think the Consol has proven itself as a good interface for FPS games, and I would like to see it stay on the Consol. But there is no reason to restrict the interface to the Consol only for stuff the Consol is really not very good at. If EVE players can send in game mail by logging into a web page on the internet, then there is no reason not to give DUST players the same flexibility.
I do think that these abilities should still be available on the Consol, for those few players who donGÇÖt have access to a computer or tablet, but DUST players should not be restricted to that clunky interface.
In game mail, market, and Corporate management should be available on the PlayStation, on a secure Web site accessible from PC, Mac, & Linex, on SmartPhone apps, and on Tablets.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.02 13:55:00 -
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Dam, you called it. I never thought it would happen.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.02 22:52:00 -
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You have to admit, CCP could not have handled that any more poorly. There was nothing in the Key Note to assure DUST players watching that DUST was not dead, and the Blog only mentioned this in the last paragraph. Basically by the time the Twitch audience found out what was really happening they were already too pissed off to care.
That was the worst public relations gaff I have ever seen! They took good new and turned it into a public relations disaster.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.02 22:59:00 -
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I did think about it, but only for a moment. 
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.16 14:52:00 -
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Kevall Longstride wrote:I must say that i think the appointment of CCP Rattati as liaison for Dust is going to be a positive move for the continuation of DUST 514 on the PS3. I just hope that all his hopes for transparency are fulfilled.
I am going to copy that post by Rattati in to a Corp mail. Knowing you Kevall, I am guessing you have already done that for DUST University. I would encourage other CEOGÇÖs to do the same. So many people just donGÇÖt read the forums.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.16 17:24:00 -
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As a little bit of background, Rattati has been with the DUST team for a while, but not as a Dev. He plays DUST 514 just as much as we do, and has for quite a while now been posting as just another player who happened to have a blue tag. If there is anyone at CCP who the community can be confident has their gameGÇÖs best interest at hart, it is Rattati.
A quote from not so long ago:
CCP Rattati wrote:Ok I can clarify a little, and the sig idea is good. I post as a player, not as a representative of dust developers or community, just myself. I am interested in sharing and understanding what others are going through. So, I am not a part of the development team as it is run at CCP and I can't directly make any changes to the game. I report to the CFO as the head of FP&A, a Finance function dealing with planning and analysis, and the dev team reports to the EP, CCP Rouge. That certainly doesn't stop me from walking the five steps over to CCP Wolfman and telling him in no kind words that I don't approve of X and Y :) But yeah, I know the dev team well, and sit next to CCP Frame, CCP Saberwing and CCP Wolfman  , since my recent relocation to Shanghai with my family of wife and three kids.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.06.06 17:45:00 -
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I saved you some work Kevall. 
HotFix Alpha Patch Notes in Corp mail format
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.06.20 14:34:00 -
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Interesting analysis. Allow me to elaborate on that from the perspective of GÇ£that other new player training CorpGÇ¥.
It is well known that most new players who are EVE veterans, or have been following New Eden in the media, tend to join DUST University due to name recognition. Therefore, most of the new players that join Immortal Guides have no prior knowledge of New Eden. They tend to be the ones that start playing DUST to try out this GÇ£Free FPS game.GÇ¥
So, I only saw my active member count drop by 20% after Fan Fest. (I donGÇÖt kick inactive members every month, but I do check the stats.) Most of my members probably only knew about Fan Fest from what they were reading in Corp mails. The active member count now seems to be getting back to where it was, and recruitment numbers are about the same as they were before Fan Fest.
As for veterans, all of the other prominent members of the Learning Coalition disappeared after Fan Fest, but they have all started posting on the forums again so I expect we will start seeing them in game again soon.
My conclusion is that the people who thought they were in GÇ£the knowGÇ¥ were shocked and felt betrayed by how the Legion Announcement was handled. While the people who donGÇÖt read the forums and just play DUST for the experience of what it is now, hardly noticed. The people joining DUST now will have a different set of expectation.
And frankly, since 1.8 DUST 514 has been a better game than it had been since official launch. With each hot fix it just gets better. DUST 514 may never become the MMO we were hoping it would (at least not in this incarnation) but it is getting to be a dam fun lobby FPS!
Edit: Currently 146 out of 418 Immortal Guides members are active (35%). Immortal Guides has been hovering at around 30 to 40% active for the last six months (despite not kicking inactive members, and having a high turnover from graduating members).
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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