Aero Yassavi
Praetoriani Classiarii Templares Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2015.04.05 15:18:00 -
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I sure hope this big focus on PC pays off. On paper it suddenly sounds awesome and the pinnacle of what you can get out of an FPS, something "every player should strive for." But practically the fundamental need to schedule a specific part of your day where you have to show up and play . . . and if you want to give room for something to come up outside the game that means you need to have other players on standby, thus giving up a scheduled part of their day for the possibility that they might be needed.
Not really helping with point of the topic so my apologies, I just doubt, barring any major overhaul to what PC is, there are any tweaks you can make that will get many more people interested. It is just the dream of a small niche. Go prove me wrong though if you want.
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Aero Yassavi
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Posted - 2015.04.05 21:58:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:Here's the problem with PC. The only reason to egt into PC... is to do PC. I gain no benefit of PC outside of doing even more PC. As mentioned earlier it becomes "I do raids in order to get better gear to go do more raids." What can PC give me that pubs do not?
Now we could have owning districts give bonuses in Dust, like extra damage, more health, better regen, cheaper item costs, etc. But then we widen the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. The reason sovereignty and wars work (well, somewhat) in Eve is because there is so much more to do in Eve than PVP. There's mining, ratting, industry, missioning, all kinds of activities that aren't about killing other players. So by owning systems in nullsec, I can provide an area to have miners get resources for my industry moguls, who then build ships and modules for me to go gain even more systems. All of the considerations of war, from the fighting to the logitics and supply lines, are player-controlled. Dust has no such variety. We can kill other players in pubs, kill other players in FW, or kill other players in PC. No other options for gameplay exist. No industry, no mining, no PVE content... Only PVP, PVP, PVP. So any bonus we give to districts either is OP, like a damage bonus for owning a district, separating the rich from the poor even more, or you give a bonus to clone packs or other PC logistics, which returns us to the "I raid to get gear to raid with" circle.
What we need, and honestly should have had from the beginning, is non-PVP gameplay in Dust. Clearing rogue drones, maybe some form of industry, or maybe helping Eve players gain salvage in special sites, as proposed in a thread that came out before Rattati came along. Sadly, these will likely never happen. But until we have something to do other than kill other players, any bonus that districts give will either be OP or not worth the effort. This needs to be quoted. A good solution in my opinion would be like you said, add a PVE element for salvage which leads to industry. You could play PVE publicly in high sec for common materials, but for rarer materials you would need to go to null sec owned by pc corps.
Way too resource intensive though.
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Aero Yassavi
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Posted - 2015.04.07 05:26:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:One question, and this is a crazy one. If we were to setup a system that allows a SKIN to take into account the Corporation Name. Would corporations be interested in having CCP customize, based on request, a corp skin that would be available in the marketplace, but say "This SKIN only appilies if you are in D-Uni", for example? I don't have the tech yet, but this seems fairly awesome, so I would love to get your feedback. A bit of a off-topic, but I already have 30 plus top corp emails joining the cause, so I'm happy. Would love, but having it CCP created upon request seems like it would take a lot of yalls time, or a lot of upset corps that didn't get a skin made.
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