Back on topic guys...

I really like the idea you have for the removal of the 5 level node system...but how will you implement passive skills and bonuses?

For example, each variant of the Plasma Rifle will have its own node, but will there be extra nodes elsewhere for upgrading the reload/dispersion/ammo capacity? What about passive skills like electronics/engineering that increase dropsuit cpu/pg? Will they now be separate nodes for each extra bonus, or do you have something else in mind?

I don't think that quite addresses the concern the player posted, unless I'm misreading your comment.

The value of Militia suits (and to a greater extent, BPOs) is twofold; one, they allow me to grind ISK for more expensive suits, which is, and I appreciate this, something you're trying to do away with.

But the second is the fact that no matter how hard I try I'm not going to go ISK negative in my sub-10k suit. That opens up quite a few tactical ploys that aren't effective in more expensive suits, like the infamous Jihad Jeep (I mean, who jeeps in proto?) or other actively suicidal ploys, often involving heavy suits and HMGs or light frames, shotguns and REs.

I'm worried that matchmaking based on suit meta level will take away some of the tactical diversity DUST offers.



As a personal anecdote to illustrate what I mean, I'm currently skilling up Caldari Scout. I should have enough SP for level 3 when I get home, but in the meantime I've been using the STD suit. The suit is 6500ISK, and it makes a profit in every single match, and it's effective; I've kept a KDR of about 2 throughout most of my matches, discarding outliers, which is a small amount less than my normal KDR of 2.5-3.
But the price of the suit allows me to have terrible, terrible games in the pursuit of entertainment; one match I had yesterday I went 18/17. Much of the other team in that match (like, more than half) was in prototype scout suits that much, and I'd estimate about half my kills were ADV/PRO suits. It's a very satisfying feeling when I come to the killboard at the end of the game and know that I destroyed more than five times the amount of ISK I lost, even with respect to my enormous deaths total.

And that is great - we just need you to appreciate that nothing is being kept from you and that we are trying to be transparent as possible. Reasons for not answering could be:

1. CCP Z has simply not gotten around to it yet
2. We simply do not know yet, and will be revealing more when we do.
3. Your originaly question was tl;dr over in another thread somewhere and could be better addressed if posted here
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CCP Blowout is responding to you because your comments were not particularly related to progression - we'll let CCP Z talk about that as it's his area of expertise and focus.

Did I miss the announcement that Legion was green lit?


If it is green lit what's the earliest we would see it? 1-2 years?

While to a certain (okay, significant) extent this is true, when I'm playing solo, as I have been doing for a while now, I play ambush solely.

And in ambush, KDR = everything.

Because in order to ensure it has a future, we need to get certain things right.

What kind of cost are we talking about? ISK would allow the mega rich nullsec alliances to constantly give their best players respecs to keep ontop of the FOTM, which will negatively impact NPE and seriously hinder smaller, poorer alliances. AUR respecs would give dust a very strong P2W label, which, I'm sure you know, will make a lot of people stay away from legion. A percentage of total SP could work if you intend to make it a tool for new players to use to try out different roles and find out what they're comfortable with, but I doubt any hardcore players would want to lose months worth of SP for a respec.

The problem is what do you want respecs to be used for? What target audience do you see using respecs?

And I am strongly working doing the opposite for the reasons stated 20 times in this thread :)

Adding a dust version of ISIS, certificates, explanations...

That's three layers of extra UI you've just added (which takes resources) and adds more stuff to read through before gaining the clarity you crave.

There is an admission by some that the old system needs 're-done but better' but there is a point I think we can all agree, where there is so much to redo, its actually better to just start again. We've had the current system for over a year and numbers haven't grown.

You've already highlighted your answer in bold.

If you have to explain the system, you designed it poorly in the first place.