Seymor Krelborn
L.O.T.I.S.
D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
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Posted - 2014.04.13 01:33:00 -
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my 2 cents....
and forgive the juvenile analogy, but if eve is a duck and dust is a cow, integrating them as they are would make a duckcow.
not only would it look ridiculous, it wouldn't be very functional.
imo, eve would need a serious overhaul, as would dust to truly and meaningfully integrate them.
there is too much isk in eve right now and the average dust merc makes to little.
before any sort of production let alone anything else could be implemented in dust to compete with eve dust needs to be able to offer something truly unique and of necessity to an eve corporation (notice I said corp not pilot)
the answer: planets and the asteroid belts near them. see where I'm going?
dust doesn't need to control or even contribute to a production aspect of the eve universe, dust corps need to control the very minerals that produce everything. obviously there would be a lot of details to work out and eve pilots would be in an uproar and it would take as I stated earlier a serious overhaul... but there is no simple answer, there is no way to connect the two games at a visceral level right now that doesn't disenfranchise the dust players, nor one eve players couldn't easily exploit, or require every dust player to have an eve account simply to maintain economic equality.
it's so obvious to me that there is no simple answer because if there was ccp would have already done it... I think they know the only way to connect the two games is to do something that drastically changes the game eve players are used to and ccp is to cowardly to take the chance of alienating their player base as it stands now to make something much better.
I think having dust players make dust items would be a great idea, but that doesn't concern eve players nor would the revenue from such endeavors compare to eve profits, however it would bring some added depth to dust.
if ccp were smart, since eve pve is so terrible they would start by overhauling that system and integrating it with dust pve and then slowly introduce dust to the pvp side of eve in a manner palatable to the the eve player base, creating lore and mechanics that could eventually give dust mercs true power on the ground and make them vital to eve corps economic bottom line.
this game makes me sad....
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