Himiko Kuronaga
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Posted - 2015.03.31 07:45:00 -
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:hell yes that's cool What would even be the point? the planets would still look exactly the same as the ones we already have when we're down on the ground, and the battles would sill be played the same.
Rattati doesn't play EVE as far as I'm aware. I have assumed this is one of the primary reasons he pushes for Dust to do its own thing -- he can't come up with ideas that relate to EVE, because he doesn't relate to it at all personally. And that's fine. You do what you know.
But in this case its a problem, because Anoikis is a very specific, very special thing in that it is completely isolated from the rest of New Eden. Skirmishes are fought here between raiders, pirates and explorers. But not wars. Nobody knows where exactly Anoikis is located, and even if it exists along the same timeline as New Eden does.
All that is known is the Sleepers dwell here, and they brought the Talcon/certain Jovian with them before they died out/were assimilated into Sleeper stasis.
There would be no reason whatsoever for us to be there, unless it was a capsuleer driven conflict. Serious eve-side work would have to be done to make this feasible, and last I checked they still didn't care about us enough to forge that link any further.
This concept can be a twinkle in the eye, but until the game goes PS4 and CCP decides to give Dust its second wind of development there is nothing even remotely close that will happen.
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Himiko Kuronaga
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Posted - 2015.03.31 12:39:00 -
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If the EVE-Dust link is going to be a real thing, then when CCP is done losing money with this VR nonsense they can start on high level projects like cooperative EVE-Dust conflicts. PI needs to be attackable by mercs. That was its original purpose as a conflict driver, and it was ditched in favor of districts which are even more pointless. Whoever made that decision should be tarred and feathered, because they pretty much killed the entire concept behind Dust with that move.
It also needs to have a greater purpose in EVE. If a local POS depended on a PI colony functioning, that is a massive conflict driver if mercs can disrupt those planetary operations. Wormhole planet fights fit in just as naturally here as any other planet in nullsec. People are, on occasion, attempting to give other corporations the boot. That's one way to do it.
For wormhole specific content, there could be PvE involving fighting sleeper drones on planets. Modular weapons were supposed to be a thing, so it would make sense that mercs would want their hands on that kind of tech as well.
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