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So any thoughts or suggestions? :D

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So any thoughts or suggestions? :D

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So any thoughts or suggestions? :D

Quick Example:

Scout suit lvl 5 =

Recon = Higher sensors, loses equip.
or
Black Ops = better cloak durability =/= 2 sidearms only.

Quick Reminder : Keep performance parity relatively the same as the current specialist suits, it is okay to make them much more focused on certain bonuses but we don't need more Z > Y things. Case in point of my example the Recon and Black Ops are inferior snipers to the standard scout.

Now it is your turn!
Go! (feel free to post links from past ideas)

Are you guys actually contemplating this? You should be finishing off the content you already promised us, heavy weapons, pilot suits, contact grenades, and bring back content you took out, corp battles and vehicle variants . Stop it with the pretentious ideas til you finish your last ones.

New content requires new code for most of that.

Now content we removed we can try to get back in. I hope all the sticks are there still.

I don't really see the point of this.

I'd rather move away from dropsuit skills giving bonuses to their suits and give suits unique bonuses from the skills they need. This is how Eve does it: you can have many different ships requiring the same skill but each receives a different skill bonus from that racial skill. Then T2 ships receive a racial bonus and a class bonus on top of that.

This way you can introduce different roles for different sized suits as T2 and player will just have to meet the requirements of class skill. This is also a good way to reintegrate standard dropsuits by giving them a small bonus from the racial skill.

So it will be structured this way (Min med and logistics suits for example):

Start with Min med suits and med frames. Each level gives the med frame some bonus (probably light weapon fitting or something). The Logistics skill requires Dropsuit Core Upgrades 3 and *bla bla bla*, and each racial logi suit requires lvl3 in the respective racial med suit. The Logi skill and dropsuit skill both will give bonuses to the Logi (module efficacy and fitting, respectively, imo).

SP multipliers should be increased to ensure people don't max out too soon, which may seem rough, but remember that each skill you level applies to multiple suits (racial med would apply to Logi and Assaut and Logi applies to all logi suits). Now, if CCP wants to release a new class or variant, they can either tack them on to an already established class (for example: your Recon class and Scout class can have the same requirements, but get different bonuses from the same skills), or create new classes all together.

EDIT: Also as Haerr said, pirate dropsuits that require several racial suit skills. This could be implemented easier with my idea.

Are you guys actually contemplating this? You should be finishing off the content you already promised us, heavy weapons, pilot suits, contact grenades, and bring back content you took out, corp battles and vehicle variants . Stop it with the pretentious ideas til you finish your last ones.

And no I am not contemplating this; I just want to be prepared if someone asks.

If you got threads on reintroducing the SLAV LLAV LDS EHAVs and MHAVs Start a thread up.

Meanwhile I got a pretty good idea on the types of turrets we can bring back in.

Are you guys actually contemplating this? You should be finishing off the content you already promised us, heavy weapons, pilot suits, contact grenades, and bring back content you took out, corp battles and vehicle variants . Stop it with the pretentious ideas til you finish your last ones.

Greetings.

I am here to educate you on the present state of DUST and what the CPM members can and cannot do.

At the moment, DUST does not have much of a development team. It has a small group headed by a data analyst. This small group does not include the numbers of programmers, artists, etc required to create significant new content. Additionally, delivering this would require a client update, which is restrictive on the already minimal resources available to DUST.

What the dev team cannot do:
Return corp battles
Create new heavy weapons
Code unique properties for things like pilot suits

What the dev team can do:
Change numbers in spreadsheets/databases
Make new entries in spreadsheets/databases

Now that you are hopefully sufficiently educated on what is possible, let's talk about your misguided bashing of CPM members.

Firstly, you say "You should be finishing off the content you already promised us". You are referring to IWS, a CPM member, as the 'you'. When, precisely, did IWS 'promise' said content? He didn't. A CCP member did, in loose terms that overly-enthusiastic folks such as yourself insist on calling 'promises'.


A CPM member is not an employee of CCP.
They do not have power to order employees about or set the dev teams on a specific task.

They are players who just happen to also be advisors.
They get to link particularly snazzy threads and collect data from the playerbase about what they want and inform CCP about it. From there, CCP makes the decisions.

What is IWS, a member of this 'CPM', doing here?
Collecting data.

What will he do with it?
Tell CCP about what people want.

Will he tell CCP to do things they can't do?
No.

Take all of the complaints.

Write them nicely with zero bias

CCP Rattati gets that list of those quite often.

Yeah and thats your job, we take our anger out on you so rattati doesnt get the stress.