DUST Search - FW Overhaul

Benjamin Ciscko wrote:

Currently the only bonuses to FW are Specialist weapons, certain equipment, and the ability to use Weapons/Equipment/Suits etc...

This is nice but could use some expansion.

Remove the ISK from the cost of LP items, the ISK sink is supposed to occur during battle not through the buying of gear.

Add an LP bonus to the top three spots this offers incentives to use better gear which helps to get rid of problems such as people using BPO's and not sinking in ISK because typically better gear=better performance.

Reduce the amount of LP to an insanely low amount or 0 for those under 250 wp this is an insanely easy requirement to hit and discourages AFK farming.

Add more Weapons/Suits/Equipment etc... that are better than their prototype counter parts. This can be easily done with most modules/suits etc... the PG/CPU reductions while useful is stale on most other gear and I really want to discourage the Idea of full proto/complex suits if it costs a metric F*** ton of LP I'm more OK with it though. I will provide a few examples

Shield extenders with a smaller or no reduction to shield depleted recharge delay, armor plates with less of a speed penalty. Suits with one or more of the following: Slight PG/CPU increase, +1% bonus to a suits racial bonus, an a addition secondary bonus Ex. a PE bonus to min logi, not as big as main bonus.

Complete the loyalty store with a full compliment of LP gear for all the gear that exists in game.

Host an FW event that provides an incentive to get into FW.

I'll update this as more ideas fly into my head.

Thoughts anyone?


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zzZaXxx D3ATH CARD 442	Posted - 2014.08.28 15:18:00 - [1] - Quote Benjamin Ciscko wrote: Currently the only bonuses to FW are Specialist weapons, certain equipment, and the ability to use Weapons/Equipment/Suits etc... This is nice but could use some expansion. Remove the ISK from the cost of LP items, the ISK sink is supposed to occur during battle not through the buying of gear. Add an LP bonus to the top three spots this offers incentives to use better gear which helps to get rid of problems such as people using BPO's and not sinking in ISK because typically better gear=better performance. Reduce the amount of LP to an insanely low amount or 0 for those under 250 wp this is an insanely easy requirement to hit and discourages AFK farming. Add more Weapons/Suits/Equipment etc... that are better than their prototype counter parts. This can be easily done with most modules/suits etc... the PG/CPU reductions while useful is stale on most other gear and I really want to discourage the Idea of full proto/complex suits if it costs a metric F*** ton of LP I'm more OK with it though. I will provide a few examples Shield extenders with a smaller or no reduction to shield depleted recharge delay, armor plates with less of a speed penalty. Suits with one or more of the following: Slight PG/CPU increase, +1% bonus to a suits racial bonus, an a addition secondary bonus Ex. a PE bonus to min logi, not as big as main bonus. Complete the loyalty store with a full compliment of LP gear for all the gear that exists in game. Host an FW event that provides an incentive to get into FW. I'll update this as more ideas fly into my head. Thoughts anyone? Great ideas all! I really don't have anything to add because I'd like to see all this and that's the most we could hope for in one iteration. Let's start with just having LP versions of everything that's on the market. I need me some LP Complex Reactive Plates!!! A faction warfare event would be amazing and timely. Yes, and the next step after that needs to be adding more superior items to the store. Speaking for myself, the LP store helps me in two ways. a) I wont have to spend the 1.5 mil SP to get to Armor Plating and Kinetic Catalyzation 5 anytime soon. b) I love using the top tier items like Boundless Rep Tool, Specialist Mass Driver, Imperial Flux link, and State Wyrykomi injector. I want more of both. All the plates so I can really de-stress about putting SP elsewhere, and more high tier items because it's awesome new content! I'm thinking for starters of some new adv/proto dropsuit variants. Two for each adv/proto frame: one has more fittings, the other has tweaked stats. For example, for Min logi one would have a good dose of extra PG and a some more CPU to accommodate their natural inclination towards Kin Cats (think replacing an advanced ferroscale with a complex kincat). The other would have lower profile (to somewhate avoid detection by nearby assaults seeking to kill the repper), larger scan range (to improve the head swiveling intel gathering that remote reppers should be doing), and shorter shield recharge delays. Just some initial thoughts.