GÇóIn the short to mid term we will exclusively be focusing on server side changes

I do!

client side updates

I was here first

So Rattata,

Nice to have you aboard this friendly Dust 514 community.
In short what your saying here... community give us good ideas to fight the balancing war.
The more you respond to these posts CCP Rattai the better chance people will have to promote good ideas.
I whipped up a few things I quickly thought about off the top of my head.
I'd hope to assume that if revenue can be created from Dust micro transactions the higher chance of client side updates,
but is mostly blind hope as I feel resources will be prioritized to EVE:Legion.


1.) Buy aurum, CCP is a business I think?
-Hell if you really wanted money sell BPOs (Adv/proto) on extinction timers, if that's even possible. Isk is never going to be a problem to vets but gives the little guy a chance to spam expensive equipment to help even the odds. [Limited to infantry]
-Respec tokens would be a good source of income too if it weren't too easy just to submit QQ support tickets for respec.


2.) Server side updates for pub balancing

- Assault suits will be brought back to snuff (better racial)
- Weapons like PLC, Laser,bolt & Ion pistol, AR will be "balanced" and potentially the new-old FoTM
- Either work with balance on Swarms/forge guns or keep current AV and raise the price of "proto" tanks significantly. Either way needs to be a little more incentive for tankers to not feel like they are uber jesus with <500k ISK tanks. ADS may suffer from swarms/forge buffs, so ISK increase on tanks seems to be the way.
- More gear choice options with the LP store for missing variants.
+- The more reason you give vets to run FW the better and has the highest ISK sink potential. Helps keep less pubs being stomped. Would love for FW to be the go to challenge arena.
- New Officer weapons would be neat, wishful thinking perhaps introducing them with an Event (every 50kills with specific weapons yield officer, 20 kills for harder to use weapons, i.e. Nova Knife/ PLC. And Warpoints for Swarms)
+- Lol, people surely would be excited to see shotgun, scrambler, laser, nova knife, PLC all being spammed. Not much changes from the current shotty and scrambler rifle spam anyway.
-As an interim while balancing unused weapons and since numbers seem to be CCP Dev focus, make events for bonus isk/sp for uncommonly used weapons. A PLC event would be hysterical!!



3.) PC improvements
- Clone packs to be cheaper, or same price with option to stack up to 2 clone packs.
- Further anti-lock feature for districts in PC, if match does not fill past ~6 participants while deploying in warbage, match will be terminated with no refund (Dunno if this is possible with coding). The more people required to district lock = less district locking, while still leaving potential to field battles effectively against corps that are spammed with clone packs across their districts (More logistical challege?). This however doesn't work if clone packs are dropped to a much cheaper price.
-Passive ISK gain needs to remain for new PC corps entering the realm
- Old chromosome corporate ISK contracts for matches needs a come back.

Also, I understand that a real player market would be too large an investment to justify in a dead-end game, but why not a simple trading system? We can give eachother ISK, why not inventory?

I send my buddy 5 proto gallente suits, he gives me back 5 equivalent Amarr suits. You (CCP) don't need to do anything else on your end. We can set our own terms, no guarantees, no returns, caveat emptor, dude!
Don't trade with anyone you don't trust.

his fitted dropsuit is my favorite of the bunch

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned in my last post, our goal moving forward is to be as transparent as possible and work in collaboration with you all. To make that happen, I'd like to introduce you to a member of the team that will be your primary point of contact for DUST 514. You may already know him as heGÇÖs been playing the game since day 1 and has been pretty active on forums.

Here is his personal intro and views on the next steps for DUST.

35,years old, 3 years for B.S. Industrial Engineering, M.S. thesis on Bayesian Statistics took 2 more years for a total of 5.

why do shitlords like CCP rogue get put in charge of things instead of a gamer who knows how to make a game work?

Dear players,

My name is Snorri +ürnason, a.k.a. CCP Rattati.

From today, I will be working closely with CCP Rouge to ensure the continued development and support of DUST 514, and will try to serve as your main point of contact for all matters DUST.

In case youGÇÿre interested, my Dev Spotlight can be found here.

I want to begin by establishing the two main themes that will guide our development and improvement of the DUST 514 experience.

Transparency

GÇóDUST 514 is my favorite shooter on the PS3 and we can and will make it even better.
GÇóPersistance is the key factor, more so in DUST 514 than any other fps. There is plenty of fun to be had by squadding up with friends, skilling into various roles or specializing in a single role, and ultimately killing, winning and reaping the rewards in ISK and SP, even if Project Legion is developed on PC.
GÇóPlease do not biomass your characters, it breaks my heart.
GÇóAs CCP Rouge said at Fanfest, we will do everything we can to take care of our players. If Project Legion is green lit, we intend to migrate your character over if you wish and our goal is to preserve as much of your emotional, financial and time investment as possible.
GÇóI want you to understand that right now you have a choice of maximizing your SP by using boosters, or saving your AUR/boosters, whatever makes the most sense to you as a player.
GÇôkeep playing using boosters and increase your SP
GÇôkeep playing and donGÇÿt spend your AUR on boosters
GÇóOur new processes will ensure that we are fixing and improving the right things in DUST 514 at the right time
GÇóI want to work with the community. I admit that I donGÇÿt know everything and I expect you to understand that we are doing our best. The individuals on the dev team, including me, will not have experienced every single thing you have. On the flipside, we have the design vision and plenty of data. There must be a mutual respect, and criticism is welcomed, if it is based on facts and put forth in a constructive way.

Collaboration and Data

GÇóCCP Rouge and I are strong believers in crowdsourcing. I have said many times in the past that gamers are the ultimate optimization engine, a huge neural network of smart people from all over the world and from virtually all professions. The time it takes the playerbase to find the debatably GÇ£best fitGÇ£ is measured in hours and days, not weeks. Ultimately, we, the dev team will make the final decision but I consider the community at large, through forums and CRM reps, to be the first pillar, the CPM the second and developers the third.
GÇóI also believe in learning from the example of others, most notably our EVE devs, including CCP Rise and CCP Fozzie. You can see them here presenting their EVE balancing philosophy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbS8HRHJ4nY).
GÇóWe will establish a few precedures and processes that will encourage a functioning feedback loop and verification with data.

Next Steps

GÇóA clarification on GÇ£server side changesGÇ£ versus GÇ£client updatesGÇ£. Most of the attributes of items can be changed in our backend system, called CATMA.
GÇóAdding new weapons and dropsuits with existing functionality, changing weapon damage, dropsuit hp and slots, pg and cpu values, and most of the values needed for balancing items and roles can be changed during server downtime.
GÇóThings like terrain, texture, models, animations, functionality, UI and more, cannot be changed server side and need a client update. These changes are unlikely, but theoretically possible.
GÇóIn the short to mid term we will exclusively be focusing on server side changes
GÇóWe will sort all feedback and ideas into the two categories based on technical evaluation, because it is not always obvious which one it is, and let you know
GÇóWe will aim for the first iteration pass as soon as possible. The DUST 514 team already has a sizable list of things we want to improve on.
GÇóWe will also be launching an GÇ£All the Small ThingsGÇ£ thread in General Discussions to crowdsource ideas in the next few days and gather for the next pass, again, with focus on small and quick server side updates we can get out the door as soon as possible.
GÇóAs part of the process, we will sticky specific topics under Features and Ideas and harvest feedback from those threads.

Finally, to those who want to continue our DUST 514 journey together I welcome and invite you to have your say. To the others, I truly wish all the best, and hope to see you again in the future.

Sincerely,
CCP Rattati

[quote=m twiggz]Welcome, pal.

Critical questions;

2.) Will we ever see a player market? Ya know, the thing MANY players have been waiting for for months.

2) No

Lies, I was here since the beginning too :3
Not on this character, but I had a few previous characters before I settled with Cat Merc with the open beta.

Can we expect future events? And if so, what frequency and for how long?

We're trying to work out what events we can feasibly run. Which of the previous events that we've run have you most enjoyed?

I really liked the Rogue Agent Event. (commonly known as the Quafe Agent Event)

I'll never forget you CCP StanAgentSmith!

First of all. Hi and Welcome Ratati! :)

Some questions that came up to me while reading the post.

-When you say "The individuals on the Dev team" Can you tell
more or less how much individuals. Ex. 4, 8, 12?

-About transparency it is impressive see a CCP employee saying
"keep playing and donGÇÿt spend your AUR on booster" its like saying:
keep playing Dust but don't ever think about wasting your money on AUR!
That's rare. +1

-A very very personal opinion.
The end of Dust 514 is inevitable due PS3 limitations and afterwards
can't reach the goals ccp wanted for Dust 514. Saying that, makes me
think ccp wants you to polish your skills as devs and that's
a good thing, to be better on what you love to do, because truth is
who wants to work on a dead project unless $ of course,
but then its not love.

PD. Never ever use the word: soon!