Hello,

CCP Rattati, CPM, or any upper / middle involvement with CCP I need this clarified.

Does holding districts in DUST 514 still produce benefits for EVE and DUST 514?

This is crucial information that I and many would like to know for sure.

Thank you.

Everybody I talked to during my short EVE stint, said it's not worth the hassle.
Also Dust influenced noobish EVE guys are not used to the very organized way EVE players do their things, which leads to a lot of problems.

What I gathered though, was if the districts would give defense bonuses to POS's or fleets close to them, that would be a much bigger incentive.

In my opinion, districts should generate resources that EVE players can't get otherwise, or just for insane amounts of money. This would make it profitable to hold districts for EVE corps, and really connect the two games.

The devs don't want to make the benefit too great because they are worried that someone will slide into an easy monopoly and control it. Which is possible, but all the tools in the sandbox exist specifically to stop that from happening as well.

In short, someone at CCP lost their marbles and has no faith in player driven conflict.

The reasons for the Jita riots, and the complete and utter fiasco that the World of Darkness project was, gives me not too much trust in any of the CCP head honchos!

The only guy that has shown promise, and connection to the playerbase, seems to be the Ratt. If CCP is giving him enough leeway, AND funds, we might see improvements.

But still, there is this glorified single shard universe (build with duct tape), which in my opinion might be the biggest hurdle for all eve franchises in the long run. In my eyes, the connection betwheen EVE and Dust, though one of the selling points, might as well be one the biggest problems the game will have regarding lag and other improvements.

I don't believe the single shard has any thing to do with the lag, in fact constant hardware upgrades have been done sine Eve was launched over 10 years ago, it is a problem for many Eve players though, the most common complaint being "console kiddies" should not affect my real world valued investment...in a video game. It is a lack of understanding by Eve players that Dust has many adults playing, although you will still get some console kiddies, its not as widespread (I believe, but idk for sure) as what most un-informed Eve players believe. This causes riots, and such in game, the thought that someone they believe they can have no affect upon (even though dropping an OB causes a significant isk loss for a good number of people if done right) has an affect upon their game by being part of it. Hence lack of interest in having mercs part of new eden as anything other than pets or a cute side game.

Everybody I talked to during my short EVE stint, said it's not worth the hassle.
Also Dust influenced noobish EVE guys are not used to the very organized way EVE players do their things, which leads to a lot of problems.

What I gathered though, was if the districts would give defense bonuses to POS's or fleets close to them, that would be a much bigger incentive.

In my opinion, districts should generate resources that EVE players can't get otherwise, or just for insane amounts of money. This would make it profitable to hold districts for EVE corps, and really connect the two games.