CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.23 20:13:00 -
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 WowGǪ this is a sticky thread. But there IS a little truth in some of the posts here.
I agree with the author that, if you lose incentive to play a match "to win it", it seems odd for players to hang around and start doing goofy activities during the match--instead of just LEAVING the match (and leaving the game, if you've lost incentive to play Dust in any focused way. After all, LOL, it is just a game, and if you're bored with, it makes sense to stop playing it ).
LOOT (the new cool thing), Hacked-Keys (still arguably could be rewarded in a better way), and a host of new "Loadout" suits (passed out to advanced players as easily as to Newberry players), can all be argued as things that will make us LESS motivated to get a win at a time when CCP wants us "going for the victory-screen" in every match.
It will take some time, but I'm sure the devs are working on curing the disease you are describing, KingBabar.
It's not a disease that is infecting ALL of us----I too have had some Dom matches where my team clearly had no interest in anything but farming or going on hikes behind the MCC,GǪ but also had Dom's where we were all hungry to WIN at whatever cast (ROCK ON).
But that first question is still valid. IF you are bored, or not interested in WINNING Domination Matches, why enter one? Why not stay in Skirmish Public Contract?
Public Contract matches are, and I guess should always stay, the arena for folks who aren't necessarily dedicated to "serious" Dust play, are just visiting to have some casual game fun, and don't want any real part of the grinding part.
But within Pub matches, I wish we had a way of getting players to understand:
"AMBUSH" is a match about constantly pressing at the enemy team,GǪ reducing clone count is the ONLY valid reason to enter that kind of match (not to experiment with new vehicle fittings or trying to farm hacking).
"DOMINATION" is about claiming ONE item on the whole map, and defending that item with ALL members involved (there no reason to try out your new vehicle/equipment for the first time or protect your home MCC with a sniper rifle in DOM matches).
SKIRMISH is the only appropriate (and least discourteous to your fellow players) place to test your new gear/fittings/vehicles, practice something you haven't gotten good at yet, or just have trolling silly fun without feeling obligated to your team. Any time you get bored with what the objective is or what you'r "supposed to be" doing in the battle, just leave the game,GǪ or hang around in Pub Skirmish and be as OddBall as you want.
Oddball isn't a crime, and sometimes it's a lot of hilarious fun, and if you do it in Pub Skirmish matches ONLY, you're not interfering as much in the way the majority of other players seem to want to play their game.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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