Come on, I'm a nobody and I've got over 2000 kills for the month.
And I work a full time job.
These guys needed to step it up

Cannot be bothered to do this
More Destiny instead

-Judge Rhadamanthus

Who's ass do I have to kiss to get an Eve - Dust economy merge going?

Nearly 3 years playing DUST and I Have seen IWS in game twice...

The first time he lost three tanks and quit match.(Nothing wrong with this... Find a match that you have fun in, I firmly believe this)

Second time I saw him out of the red-line in the first initial push for 5 mins? Then rest he sat in red-line sniping.

This was a year or two ago? And I played this game religiously then...


The problem is; even Judge... rarely played DUST.... sure? He sat on the forums and spent alot of time on skype? He even spent alot of time building spreadsheets and collecting data for his specific passion in the game.


But Judge rarely played DUST... a few times a week for an hour or two....


Most of the active DUST players don't come on forums, skype, twitter....Because they are too busy playing the actual game..

There are only a few even on these forums that make a post and play the game in the same day.



If CCP really wants to promote a proper CPM representation of the average DUST player.... They would have to infuse the CPM election right into the DUST UI...... So players that play the game can actually vote....

The voter turn out for CPM should make CCP feel like they failed.

Not the community feel like they failed at the CPM vote.

Breakin Stuff for CPM2

Qualifications: none

Agenda: I have a comprehensive plan intended to allow me to feast upon cheetos while playing DUST

Timetable: 12th day of never

References: That guy who did that thing.

I promise you I will make grand promises. I also promise that warbarges will come fully equipped with floors if you elect me.

Maybe they play on alts so as not to get inundated by idiots wanting to cuss at them whenever their names appear.

I've seen more dumbass crap directed towards the cpms in and out of game over crap they have no control over than I get in response to my traditional pre-battle blueberry sacrifice in FW.

Or the random "because I feel like it" executions of blue dots mid firefight.

Or when I destroy tanks or dropships or gleefully JLAV my daffy ass into the back of a gunnlogi.

Or when I murder thale snipers, mass destroy aurum fits, shoot the enemy RE while the blue dot hacks for the five WP.

None of any of my tear inducing tactics even come close to the vomit directed at the CPM over the dumbest crap.

Makes you wonder why they bother listening to the forums at all.

Can confirm, the lag and FPS issues are real. I have had several MS powerpoint matches recently.

Thats because you dont understand where hes coming from. That 50-0 is stretched over many matches, and only goes to the most skilled pilots who also run with good players to kill off enemy AV

People thinking KDR is relevant are the problem, particularly with dropships, which are now plenty easy to scare off or kill. Especially with swarms where they are, since no level of skill lets you avoid them, and they dont exactly take much effort to use.
KDR for a pilot is fairly irrelevant and speaks more of the opponents shortcomings than the pilots skill, since even bad AV can keep you running or off target much of the match. Also, i believe he said that back when ships were still over 500k, so avoiding death was the real indicator of a skilled pilot, not how many kills they got over many matches.

If a pilot goes 20-0 in the face of coordinated or persistent AV, they outplayed you, pure and simple.

Yet when infantry goes 40-0, no one bats an eye. Those pilots are very few and far between, and I bet those were almost exclusively pythons, in matches without rail Incubus in play to keep them busy in the sky, as well as no significant AV presence. While pulling out too much AV will give the advantage to the team who focuses on anti infantry, there are lots of ways to maintain field presence while running AV.

You should have Ratatti pull those numbers for ADS and how often they were destroyed (not how often the pilot dies, as these aren't the same) for both Python and Incubus. And you should also acknowledge that with no real anti shield AV, the shielded ship with a weapon designed to easily kill infantry will perform well.

I STRONGLY doubt the vast majority of pilots were ever breaking even on ISK

1. Awful numbers uprising is

2. Chrome was so much better

So IWS, youll have no issues showing me cold hard data that those pilots arent the best of the best, and everyone who hops into an ADS pulls those numbers consistently.

I eagerly await your data that youve compiled proving that randoms go ham in ADS all the time.

Judge's point was also about how that KDR is not the best stat to use when ISK is considered

Actually, Aeon, if I'm reading the Hotfix Delta spreadsheet correctly, scope zoom was actually buffed slightly everywhere except for the Thale's, which got a significant nerf because, as mentioned, it was OP as heck. And for standard-style sniper rifles, range was brought down, but still well above the distance most people would realistically be sniping from on most maps.

I have not been playing dust for about 40 days now. I've rarely played video games at all aside from pixel dungeon (it's a fun free roguelike on the play store for those interested) and dragon age rarely. I mainly use email and skype to keep up these days and have not abandoned or cut ties with anyone. Kane can confirm I spent about an hour just the other day debating the merits of fixed timers in PC among other things.

This is an inopportune time for me to be judged on not playing but when you get caught with your pants down some explanation is required I feel so here's mine.

I have more hours on this game than any other cpm member.

I actually had (haven't checked in some time) more kills in the game than 4 of my fellow CPM members combined.

I may well have dropped out of the top 250 for all time kills by now. I had to stop playing for 2 reasons lately:

1.) finals, holidays, and then now my final semester.

This is all much more time intensive this year as opposed to last year when I was in the thick of it fighting to establish my newly created corp and helping Outer Heaven in the Winter War as it is now remembered.

2.) One of my puppies (Sirius) became life threateningly sick and it ended up costing me an exorbitant amount of money to save his life.

This has been a very trying time in my life, one I was ill prepared for after having enjoyed christmas, after having returned a lot of gifts i'm still attempting to pay down 4k worth of debt incurred to say nothing of the excruciating damper the whole affair had on the break.

Here's a pic after the surgery. Yeah...very upsetting. So I do apologize and hope you might find it in each of you to forgive my heretofore unexplained absence from playing.

I recognize this may be a tad bit personal and this may not excuse me regardless with any of you.

However, there it is. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak.

I have plans to return to dust as soon as I can. And in the meantime I am focused on attempting to fulfill my duties I have been entrusted (I freely admit I have so much to learn and improve on) and pray the community would not have me hand in my resignation despite my inadequacies of late.