CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.03.24 21:04:00 -
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I love your ideas. All of them, including the thought that PvE will be detrimental to Dust 514 instead of expanding it. I DO disagree... I think PvE WILL serve Dust as well as it serves EVE, as long as (unlike EVE) it doesn't provide doors into training your character to make a profit or business off of "E" part of PvE (the Environment).
In Eve Online, I hear your character can spend a whole year mining and thriving off the "fat" of the New Eden star systems, and avoid direct combat all together. I belive Dust's PvE should always be about your character profitting through conflict/combat/campaigning, and the "E" should always be a combative subject, like cleansing drone infestation, or protection of a district from Sansha incursion, or even odd escort or retreival missions linked to real EVE players opting to work as Sisters of Eve operatives.
But untimately from a BUSINESS PRODUCT standpoint, it's best to use Patch 1.9 as the Vehicle developement and fleshing out Patch. What's been done for the Dropsuits was an immense and necessary acheivment (launching your game in May when it only had 45% of the star-product on the table for players to use--"the dropsuit"--was daring, damn daring. CCP is a gutsy team to take that kind of risk).
It will be the best act of good business to solidify the relationship of Vehicles to their modules. This MAY mean they won't actually get around to introducing a full menu of racial vehilce in Patch 1.9, because HOW a vehicle relates to it's modules is how players decide the value of "Scout" role vehicle bonuses, "Logi" role vehilce bonuses (same as we do with Dropsuits).
Produce of final development of Vehicle-to-modules, and you may bring back scout and logistics versions of vehicles. The same way it took a lot to acheive that with 1.8, acheiving it for vehicles in 1.9 may leave little or no room for releasing cool Minmatar LAVs and Amar HAVs etc.
From a business product perspective, "racial" may have to wait until Uprising 1.10 (???, time for a new patch name? Purgatory 1.0? Ascension 1.0? Dominion 1.1?) . |