DUST Search - Why is DUST good?

TEBOW BAGGINS wrote:

Zelda Harkinian wrote:

Nintendo got it right with miiverse: a friendly environment that anyone can and should participate it.

Anyways, if you want to increase the active player base than implementing these two ideas would really help.

1) somewhere in the "tutorial" where you first enter a battle/ do your first fitting/ level up your first skill, mention something about the forums! In big letters!

"BE PART OF THE DUST COMMUNITY! JOIN THE FORUMS! MAKE FRIENDS! RECRUIT ALLIES! FIND YOUR RIVALS! etc.

2) get some good moderators on the forums so that beginners don't get torn apart by asking a newbie question. And close posts asap that quickly become nothing more than two people arguing. That way we get a "nicer" forum community. (^_^ )

this has been one of the most noob friendly communities i've encountered. and i dont say this as a sarcastic troll this time. if you dont believe me check out GTAO forums it's 12 and 13 year olds insulting each other and not in any kind of creative way. as far as dust goes we're hella cool to new players yea we might add a sarcastic bite to some noob complaining or calling nerf but if he just wants to learn the game and can communicate he gets bombarded by insightful replies in a couple of hours


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TYCHUS MAXWELL The Fun Police 203	Posted - 2014.07.16 20:54:00 - [1] - Quote I don't think community is the real X-Factor though it may be for some, just as a counter argument I play this game pretty much solo, because I get tired of bong rips and people using comms for everything but playing the game. I actually just play this game because when you get past all the Epeen swinging and accept that it's a doomed game anyways its a whole lot of fun to just make a bunch of different suits and weapons and just see what you can do. Try hards ruining your fun with their proto stomping? L2forge ya silly billies. A MLT Forge suit costs around 2.4-2.7k depending on if you want to have a few extra things like a MLT heavy damage mod and locus grenade. forge guns don't care about if the other guys 200k suit has 800-1000 ehp. The Potato Lasik Cannon is another fun one although its much easier for the other guy to just side step your shot. Rolling over all the new players getting bored in your Proto fits in pubbies? Well stop playing on casual difficulty you manchild. It's like playing a fps campaign on "I only want to play for the story" mode. And put down the turbo controller because its poor sportsmanship and you have no right to complain about the game if you do everything you can to exploit it. Inb4 getting CCP to do something about it, the game's not getting any serious tweaks beyond these hotfix value shifts so stop hiding behind "Imma playtester u guise" arguments. Most important rule, HAVE FUN! This game is as rewarding as you want it to be, but like all rpg styled online games if you get sucked into the rat race, you're going to wake up 7 years from now and go... "What the hell was I thinking ?" -World of Warcraft addicts. If you follow these steps even the most cynical should have fun assuming you like the game in the first place. If these concepts don't work well... it's time to move on. Or I suppose it works to in a kind of I found my wife online kind of mentality that you only derive pleasure from the game because of the people you play with. I haven't found anyone to be that fun to play with from anyone else online but maybe I'm an ******* except for maybe 2 or 3 players. It's your typical: children, "brosefs", "imma gurl u guise," "Look at me I'm so awesome!" players.
TYCHUS MAXWELL The Fun Police 203	Posted - 2014.07.16 21:08:00 - [2] - Quote Killar-12 wrote: I know what you mean, you've got to find the right group, if you're dealing with numnuts it isn't fun and it's better to play solo. I tried that for months but I just gave up. If I played with good players like AE I just had to listen to them circle jerk for hours on comms and watch them roll newberries in proto stomping gear and circle jerk some more... I never understood how that's remotely fun, do they enjoy ball-in-a-cup as well? Is it for their Seananners styled "Smack my ***** up" montage? If I played with a starter corp I had to basically play the game as though it were solo (Because let's face it they didn't know what the hell they were doing) then watch them all point fingers at each other over who failed and why. Only a few times did I find decent and cool players but they were often not in the same timezone and from what I've seen most of them quit after the Legion announcement. Now I just stick with the have fun concept and care very little for how things are going metagame wise.
TYCHUS MAXWELL The Fun Police 203	Posted - 2014.07.16 21:31:00 - [3] - Quote Killar-12 wrote: TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote: Killar-12 wrote: I know what you mean, you've got to find the right group, if you're dealing with numnuts it isn't fun and it's better to play solo. I tried that for months but I just gave up. If I played with good players like AE I just had to listen to them circle jerk for hours on comms and watch them roll newberries in proto stomping gear and circle jerk some more... I never understood how that's remotely fun, do they enjoy ball-in-a-cup as well? Is it for their Seananners styled "Smack my ***** up" montage? If I played with a starter corp I had to basically play the game as though it were solo (Because let's face it they didn't know what the hell they were doing) then watch them all point fingers at each other over who failed and why. Only a few times did I find decent and cool players but they were often not in the same timezone and from what I've seen most of them quit after the Legion announcement. Now I just stick with the have fun concept and care very little for how things are going metagame wise. Pester some people from any of those corps I put down earlier Lol, no no thank you, already spent months of gameplay in those scams. I like My fun police 0% tax rate just fine thanks. I don't need to pay people to play with me and I don't care about Molden Heath. There is no reason for me to join a corp if I can squad with anyone regardless of corps. The only legit tax in Molden Heath taxing which like I said I don't care about, corps often hide behind the pretense that they will use the money to help the newberry corp members but what a newberry needs more than anything is to learn how to go isk positive. I never took isk from anyone and I never intend to there's no point. You're overspending if you need external funding.
TYCHUS MAXWELL The Fun Police 204	Posted - 2014.07.17 01:12:00 - [4] - Quote TEBOW BAGGINS wrote: Zelda Harkinian wrote: Nintendo got it right with miiverse: a friendly environment that anyone can and should participate it. Anyways, if you want to increase the active player base than implementing these two ideas would really help. 1) somewhere in the "tutorial" where you first enter a battle/ do your first fitting/ level up your first skill, mention something about the forums! In big letters! "BE PART OF THE DUST COMMUNITY! JOIN THE FORUMS! MAKE FRIENDS! RECRUIT ALLIES! FIND YOUR RIVALS! etc. 2) get some good moderators on the forums so that beginners don't get torn apart by asking a newbie question. And close posts asap that quickly become nothing more than two people arguing. That way we get a "nicer" forum community. (^_^ ) this has been one of the most noob friendly communities i've encountered. and i dont say this as a sarcastic troll this time. if you dont believe me check out GTAO forums it's 12 and 13 year olds insulting each other and not in any kind of creative way. as far as dust goes we're hella cool to new players yea we might add a sarcastic bite to some noob complaining or calling nerf but if he just wants to learn the game and can communicate he gets bombarded by insightful replies in a couple of hours Yeah but ironically in grand theft auto the other guys aren't running around with 3 times the ehp that will take you a literal Months/Years/skill cap amount of time to catch up to them. Not saying the community is as toxic as many, it's definitely not but it's also not much for good sportsmanship. We don't have good matchmaking but we could self regulate. IE, don't pull out adv/proto on the newberries but man children have to spam 200k loadouts at the newberries chasing them off from the game. But hey, at least they feel welcome on the forums!!
TYCHUS MAXWELL The Fun Police 214	Posted - 2014.07.19 16:07:00 - [5] - Quote Onesimus Tarsus wrote: Battlefield 1943. You'll thank me. Seriously. Eh, 1943 is just 1942 with updated graphics and Call of dutified mechanics. That's part of the problem in the variety, battlefield became call of duty with vehicles. There were a lot of fps game styles back in 02-04 but with the popularity and market share that Call of duty styled games brings 90% of it was homogenized or chased out of market... like Dust. Well like in the case of a facebook game who can resist the priority of a game, to make money.