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Paradoxical Nature Goonfeet Special Planetary Emergency Response Group 58	Posted - 2014.02.05 23:23:00 - [1] - Quote It might be obvious to say, but an MMO isn't the sum-total of riding out on the MCC and stomping or being stomped in public contracts, faction warfare contracts, or even a Planetary Conquest battles (despite how broken that system is now). An MMO starts with the people playing it. It starts with the communities that are fostered and not considered separate but equal. But, it requires the tools from an open and willing game-design company to do such a thing. I'm a former EvE Online player from the Ancient Days of Black Screens and Drive-By Doomsdays. I am also, currently, the CEO of Goonfeet [FEET], founding executive of Special Planetary Emergency Response Group [SPERG], former COO of Goonfeet, and former Newbie Director of Immobile Infantry. It saddens and frustrates me to say, that DUST 514 is a sandbox without sand. If this is because of a lack of Dev-Time (which says alarming things about CCP Iceland's commitment to this game) or just a lack of knowledge on how to put it together, I can't say. But right now, I can say that EvE Integration is a pie in the sky notion that many on-lookers and observers have already written off as 'never going to happen.' Worse yet, many have already called this game a failure, due to the poor launch of Uprising as well as the stumbles Uprising's subsequent builds have had. Features this game should have had last year, still have yet to come about: 1. A Player Secondary Market. The lack of this has rendered most of PC and even FW as a moot point. Equipment you can't either sell nor use just gets piled up in your personal hanger. Which leads to the secondary point. 2. No Corporation Armories. Even if there wasn't a secondary Market, a Corporation Armory could be a point where people can donate their useless salvage for newbies who might need it. 3. No API. At this point, saying it will come with CREST is an excuse. A stop gap under the legacy API system should have been used with a plan to grandfather it out once CREST became the new hotness. This would allow COMMUNITIES such as mine and the Mothership of the CFC in general to come together despite what happens in either game. 4. Poor Implementation of Corporation Management Tools (Dust Side). If the goal at last year's fanfest was to have DUST corporation/alliances stand on their own feet then the current state of corp tools is inexcusable. Not only do you need an EVE character to properly manage corps and alliances; sometimes they are the only way. Without these features, how are we supposed to build or even foster community? The state of this game, as it stands right now -- two to three months to Fanfest, should not be written in Soon (tm) or even Later (tm). It should be written in absolutes at this point.
Paradoxical Nature Goonfeet Special Planetary Emergency Response Group 63	Posted - 2014.02.06 01:52:00 - [2] - Quote Baal Roo wrote: Samahiel wrote: Baal Roo wrote: So, Samaheil, you and I might be on opposite sides of the fence, but we're still both on the same page. I was flying strat ops alongside test before I was shooting them. Alliances and relationships in EVE are fickle. The genius of CCP is that they gave us a wonderful sandbox to ally, betray, shoot, rep, spy on, and make back room deals with each other. In the end we're all just nerds who like our space explosions and laser beams with a side helping of Machiavellian politics. Grrr, GOONS! Why can't you just let me have my snappy closer? That's just how we roll, you know?
Paradoxical Nature Goonfeet Special Planetary Emergency Response Group 77	Posted - 2014.02.07 04:15:00 - [3] - Quote Samahiel wrote: For me it's enough to know it was read for now. I really just wanted to get some of these ideas out there and bouncing around the community. It's important to keep the discussion rolling however. These are issues that've been brewing for a while and with another Fanfest on the horizon; it's important to keep asking where all the important things are.
Paradoxical Nature Goonfeet Special Planetary Emergency Response Group 90	Posted - 2014.02.10 14:51:00 - [4] - Quote Samahiel wrote: For actual content: http://dustmercs.blogspot.com/2014/02/eve-sitdown-part-1-goons-talk-dusts.html?m=1 Here's an interview Paradox and I did prompted by this thread. Subdreddit, as they also did a sit down surrounding the needs for DUST to give us the tools necessary to create our own narrative, will be up tomorrow as far as I understand it. Hopefully, this will start further discussion about the chasm between what we have now and what we need to thrive.

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