In Dust, unlike other shooters, everything you use is a paid for asset. Similarly in EVE, everything you use is a paid for asset. Now somewhere along the way CCP realized that crashing your paid for assets into other player's paid for assets in an attempt to destroy them does not create good gameplay. So honestly, CCP, why must we reinvent the wheel here?

I propose we remove vehicle-to-vehicle collision damage and instead have players simply "bump off" like in EVE when you collide. Doing so would improve many gameplay aspects, which although some players of the trolling nature may enjoy, we all know are bad gameplay.

• When an enemy tank simply drives into a LAV to destroy it.
• When a friendly tank doesn't care about his surroundings and moves directly into a LAV and destroys it.
• When an LAV drives directly into a dropship trying to deploy/land and destroys it.
• When an enemy calls in a cheap dropship with the sole intention of ramming it into another dropship to destroy it.
• When a player places a cluster of remote explosives on the hood of an LAV, crashes into an HAV, and uses the destruction of his own LAV to trigger the detonation of his remote explosives.

All of these are bad gameplay. A couple of them a simply unnecessary hazards for LAV drivers, and a couple of them are super cheap and effective ways of dealing with an enemy vehicle presence that their team refuses to combat with traditional anti-vehicle options (AV weapons, remotes, and other vehicles). Note that on the subject of "jihad jeeping," I'm not saying it should be completely removed, but rather using the collision destruction of your LAV to detonate the explosives should be removed. You could still do such tactics by using proximity explosives or manually detonating your explosives.

I don't like it, just to be clear. I think many of the tactics that are embraced in EVE are horrible and make me not want to be associated with EVE Online, its multitude of nerds playing point and click in Spaaace nor the founders of Gankers R Us aka CCP.

As far as Dust goes it is worse, frankly. Because CCP/Shanghai has added some lame solution for nearly every release since 1.0, definitely since 1.4 onward. The first patches were just to get the game so it was marginally playable.

They finally determined that Murder Taxi by Team members was a bad idea and fixed that. Fine.
But the left the horrible OP LLAV as Murder Taxi by Red team members. Not fine.
The fixed some of the very broken physics related to vehicle vs clone ramming, finally.

Now where are we?
Still playing a broken game, but is has Invisi-Scouts with shotguns now. Whee! And jihad Jeeps because there was no other reason to let REs be attached to anything but the ground. Except for blowing up tanks, but to stick them to the Jihad Jeeps was only done because CCP/Shanghai support Murder Taxis so they must exist. As evident by the fact that there has been some form of it every since 1.0 was dropped.

What "This is Dust" means is you are hosed. Too bad. CCP/Shanghai only has one place to look to leadership and those guys releases video about HTFU while laughing when they cash the checks for those that just got ganked. Again (both checks and ganked).

What would you expect to happen when the people that sign their checks has that mind set?

Read my posts, this is a broken game. MMO that isn't. RPG that routinely rips character skill trees apart while not refunding SP or ISK even though the reason for spending either was just negated. FPS that has weapons that do not fire, target or can consistently hit targets. Wow, who would have thought that was a requirement? Not me that is for certain. But it must have been because Dust is still doing it nearly a year later!

Now we get to game play. Which has been fundamentally broken since Uprising 1.0, it just hasn't gotten better because they don't care ... or they don't realize that any FPS that works can fire their weapon and hit a target. Not to mention that the next day one might hope that the ISK/SP/AUR/LP that was spent wasn't hot fixed at UTC 11:00.


Welcome to Dust, somethings will never change. Those that do ... you will regret.