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Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.04.17 17:25:00 -
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I think the current system works like this:
- When you pay for 100 Assault Rifles you donGÇÖt get 100 Assault Rifles delivered to you. It is simply recorded on your account that you have paid for 100 Assault rifles. Basically it is a deposit, or a virtual token you can trade for that specific item.
- When you spawn into battle in a fit that includes an Assault Rifle, the technicians (robotic assembly line?) in the MCC fit a clone with an Assault Rifle from their inventory before uploading your consciousness and dumping the clone (now you) into a small version of a star gate, which shunts you through an artificial wormhole and spits you out of a CRU or Uplink on the other end.
- The Corporation which owns the MCC then deducts the ISK value of one Assault Rifle from the 100 you have on deposit, leaving you with 99 virtual Assault Rifle tokens.
- A BPO is basically purchasing an unlimited supply. You pay a large sum to a company and they agree to cover the cost of that item every time you need one. Then they invest the large sum of money you gave them and hope they can get a higher return than what it is costing them to cover all of the copies of that item that you use.
- When you salvage an item you turn it in at the MCC, and the company that owns the MCC will credit your account for one of that item.
A DUST MercGÇÖs ownership of battlefield equipment is all virtual. The physical handling of the items is done by the companies that run the War Barges and equip the MCCGÇÖs. All you own is a virtual token that you can trade for a specific item.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.04.17 17:41:00 -
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Talos Vagheitan wrote:Player Market- Rather than players instantly "teleporting" items to each others inventories, they might have to transport items via EVE to another players "home station" wherever that may be. This increases the EVE-Dust link everyone wants, and adds a risk factor: if a freighter with a shipment of Dust items could be destroyed or intercepted.
I donGÇÖt think that items get instantly teleported. I think our Assets are simply a list of digital tokens that can be exchanged for specific items. Those tokens can be instantly teleported around the Galaxy, as they are simply data, and have no physical manifestation.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.04.17 17:50:00 -
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When DUST moves to NULL sec, sovereignty Corporations will have to purchase DUST gear to keep their Warbarges and MCCGÇÖs stocked. They might buy ten thousand Assault Rifles at a time. If their War Barge runs out of Assault Rifles, then suddenly any of their MercGÇÖs with an Assault Rifle on there fit will find their Fit listed as invalid, as there are no Assault Rifles available.
This may lead to Corporations developing standard fits to make their supply chains easier to manage. Conversely, a merc might arrange to get certain items purchased in EVE and transferred to the Warbarge he will be fighting from.
Basically all physical management of DUST items will be done in EVE. Supply chain management will be done on the larger level of supplying an army, rather than on the small scale of supplying an individual Clone. Of course, a DUST merc with EVE connections can make sure that their more eccentric fitting preferences are covered.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.04.17 18:02:00 -
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Talos Vagheitan wrote:Rynoceros wrote:Pirated inventory transfers immediately comes to mind.
It would only be a matter of weeks before every entitled teen left the game. I don't know much about the travel routes in EVE, but I'm sure the Dust routes would all be very high security.
You can't get to the Atai system without going through Low Security space. It is on a High Sec island in a sea of Low Sec. The other 47 DUST systems are all accessible through High Security space.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.04.17 18:17:00 -
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Leonid Tybalt wrote:I don't mean to be harsh... But your idea of relying on Eve pilots to transport our stuff = ****.
Yes we'd like to see more Eve/Dust interaction. But in FUN and INTERESTING ways, not getting bogged down in logistical crap in regards to our belongings.
With my Digital Token system, DUST mercs donGÇÖt have to worry about all the complexities of the supply chain. It keeps it simple for DUST, but allows a complex system in the back end for EVE.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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