Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
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Posted - 2014.02.21 03:45:00 -
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As others have said, the meta of DUST 514 is far below that of EVE, and lacking in many parts. DUST CEOs lack key features that EVE players can do, prime example shares. An EVE player can buy all the shares for a DUST corp and hijack it, and the DUST CEO can only sit there and watch as his corp is no longer his own due to factors he couldn't control at all.
And really, espionage is redicilously easy, because proper background checks are non-existent due to lack of API. And really, there isn't much need for espionage, the only thing you can really steal is ISK in some form or another, which has lost its value quite a bit due to PC. Heck, the biggest impact you can ever make to New Eden as a DUST player is through FW. Nullsec power blocs we can only ever dream of affecting.
Don't forget the fact that not a lot of guys here haven't played EVE, and aren't aware of its embrace of the meta. When someone betrays their trust, steals all the ISK and disbands the corp, they cry that its unfair on the forums. Even some of the big corps have this mentality of death before dishonor, which has led to their doom(ANONYMOUS, anyone?). I don't think that DUST is really ready for the full scale meta EVE holds.
And to note about FW teamkillers, there is a fine line between using game mechanics to give you an advantage through unusual methods, and abusing mechanics to grief players for the lulz(shotgun needle guys definitely fall into this category). Just keeping one person from doing anything for a battle is hardly going to make a difference.
If I really wanted to make an impact in FW through non-conventional means, I wouldn't just go there by myself using a shotgun and a needle. I'd get my friends, form a squad and make strategic strikes throughout the match to let the enemy overrun heavily defended positions, and let them win the match. If I wanted to disrupt my squad, I could "accidentally" drop a remote and oops, I just blew up the whole squad. Sorry! I could aim that OB on a friendly location and kill everyone if I wanted do. If I had many friends, I'd q-sync all of them and tell them to do absolutely nothing, let the enemy win.
Heck, I could get my EVE friends in space to get to those planets and blow up the guys setting up for OBs and replace them with my own. I could infiltrate the enemy ranks and lead the OB support to a trap, while my own forces get ready. My schemes could be countered too, maybe that trap was actually a counter-trap, and while we fight on the ground the OB support instead selects another squad for OB support, and bombards us to death. This all could be just as well be applied to PC.
THAT is the meta I want to see in this game, and most likely the vision CCP has. Month-long schemes to gain an enemy's trust, and betraying them at the critical moment when they are the most vulnerable, not running around aimlessly griefing people with a shotgun and a needle.
But the point still stands that there is hardly no benefit at all to doing all this. Elaborate schemes are too troublesome and too time-consuming, when the only commodity you have are ISK and PC districts. When we get things line open-player market, nullsec integration to PC, ability to select which planets to fight on in FW and generally make DUST impact EVE a lot more, then we can start using the meta to its fullest capacity.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Feb. 10th
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