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Posted - 2014.04.16 08:49:00 -
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Kierkegaard Soren wrote:It always makes me laugh when the notion of a Dust mercs being able to interact -and by that I naturally mean raid, burn and pillage- with the various assets of the EvE capsules community and they immediately scream and wail about the horrific unfairness of such a terrible idea.
These, who LITERALLY invented and perpetuate the mentality of "Welcome to New Eden, now HTFU scrub." Self-interested hypocrites. And I say thst as a pod pilot myself.
Thing is, if Dust is to grow to its fullest potential it needs to stop being an amusing sideshow and cash cow for EvE alliances with nothing better to do, and move right into the territory of becoming a potential threat (and by inference, a potential boon) to the wider Eden community. They need to be scared of us, we need to be wary of them. That social dynamic needs to happen, and it can only be brought to life through well-judged game mechanics.
This is absolutely correct. The main problem with this is that DUST mercs need to exercise a singular power over the Capsuleers, a power that we do not currently posses: numbers. Capsuleers are and should always be stronger individual agents within the motion of the EVE online world. But where DUST can move mountains is by many many more people each doing their own little part to drive economies and battles. They do need to be afraid. Afraid the trend might change to a new FotM weapon that their enemies control the production of. Afraid that cargo routes might shift when mercs swap ground based control over a political conflict that doesn't even extend into their game directly. Afraid that a large part of their economy is based on the combined resources of a game that has four times their player base. Unfortunately that is a long LONG way off, and it's obvious that the balance needs to be sided in the favor of huge numbers of players on DUST and that we're not there yet. Right now dipping your toes into DUST production would provide very marginal gains for industrialists (if kept at current prices) so much so that they're be better off not wasting their time on it. We need numbers and we need it quick if we're ever going to be a tidal force of nature.
Omnia mutantur nihil interit
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