You've completely misrepresented my post in your reply.

This isn't 'new gear'. This is fundamental base line content that has so far been delayed.

As for the effort behind it, without some kind of credibility or insight from CCP, it's a baseless opinion as to whether implementing that delayed content will take any more or less effort than "many of the basic elements we need to put the MMO back in our MMOFPS." To say the

Saying that "weapons add a slight sheen of "look new things"" is disingenuous. Firstly, it's not just about new weapons. It's about racial content, including vehicles and suits (suits that 1.8 takes care of) that, following the pattern of EVE, should have been in game since near the beginning. Secondly, weapons, as it turns out, are a crucial part of an FPS. Who'da thunk? In the case of heavy weapons, we have a quarter of the bare minimum choice of weapons, figuring two weapons per race per size category.

This is never going to happen. This is an MMO, new things will continuously be added, and so the game will always be in need of balance changes.

The Game is an MMO.

First of all DUST is merely a portal, the same as EVE and Valkyrie, to a universe called New Eden.

When you think about it, there is a massive amount of people playing both games, that all lead to one event, there is a lot that goes into a professional PC Match.
- Dust Politics
- EVE Politics
- Ships being constructed by hundreds of players
- Dust spies/awoxers/thieves
- EVE spies/awoxers/thieves`
- Dust Corp Fighting
- EVE Corps Fighting
- Pirates
- Ringers
- Allies
- Enemies
- Unaffiliated parties who no have to decided which side they will choose.
- Orbital Strikes
There are a lot more moving parts than most people seem to realize.
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About Freedom of Choice.

While New Eden offers Freedom of Choice, it's not without consequences. You don't get to go back and time and right your poor decisions. No body forced you to skill into X and no one is forcing you to waste your current SP knowing more types of dropsuits and vehicles will eventually come, that is a choice you make as a player. Infact you were given 3 characters, one of them you could have used for gathering SP and stockpiling it, by running ****** militia suit. (not the most fun idea, but it was an option, an option a lot of people use in FW to basically get better than proto gear for free)

Most people who start EVE Online have no idea what they are getting into, the politics, the war, the lies, the betrayal, the friendships, etc. I certainly didn't know what I was getting into, I joined to do orbitals that was it, I didn't know I'd be in one of the biggest battles in EVE history and be a part of something that made international headlines, I didn't know that I would escalate civil war between two alliances, I didn't know that I would spy and sew dissent that made people stop playing the game, I never thought I'd exhort weaker players for made up currency, I didn't know that I'd have a bunch of people looking up to me, adding me on facebook, texting me, and hanging out with in real life, I didn't know any of that was in store for me. All I knew was I wanted to do orbitals for DUST

Dust's core game should not focus on different types of suits, weapons, and vehicles, while I agree that they are important. The core of DUST is the player driven community, How many people made planet fight club or were part of the history of it, how many people rose up and conquered planets against all odds, only to have them taken by those they deemed inferior.

DUST is not a game about cool guns and vehicles, those are great and all, but DUST is a game about a community created universe.

Also for a better understanding of what New Eden is really about:
Refer to CCP Hilmar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq1YWbv-r0I

FPS Controls and Mechanics, have little to do with releasing new weapons and vehicles. That's more of a content issue.

As for Controls, a lot of people have made the switch to mouse and keyboard or modded ps3 controllers, there's nothing we can do about that.

As for Mechanics, TTK and Hit Detection could use a bit of improvement, and a few things could use balancing.

People usually don't die in this game due to poor control or mechanics, they usually die due to lack of teamwork and tactics on the battlefield.

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I never claimed content will balance FPS Mechanics.

That being said, why do people still play Dust? It's no where near as good as a lot of other shooters, what keeps people coming back. Personally I believe it's the ability to create and influence things.

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Here's what I do know, EVE saw a large player spike after making international headlines with the largest EVE Battle in history.

That being said, giving DUST the ability to impact the universe on a bigger level will certainly gain it the same level of attention.