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Gemini Cuspid
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Posted - 2015.04.08 20:19:00 -
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It needs a new server and, more specifically, a test server. With everything that has gone on with CCP, having a server where a specific playerbase for a limited amount of time can test the wacky and zainy ideas that the CCP Devs are thinking without worrying about it affecting the whole of Dust would be both fun and beneficial for all involved!
Like what would happen if we tweaked AA's? Or if we decreased the number of shots before the ScR needed to stop or hit it with a lower base dmg? How about buffed up LAVS? Increased packed grenades quantities moving to 3? Really all examples. When you think about it, it makes sense; a lot of mmorpg's have a test server and even if things don't go out perfectly it's not like the player base at whole will be subject to a science experiment. And frankly being able to do crazy stuff, knowing it wouldn't apply to your Dust stats or info, would let players find ingenious ways to take items, wpns and modules and manipulate them in ways even the devs may not have thought of.
Withe the correct feedbck and limitations on how often a player and who can use the test server to play, it'd at least some of the nastiness that we'd experience when playing and experiencing and finding out whether a tweek was really worthwhile.
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LUGMOS
Corrosive Synergy
Rise Of Legion.
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Posted - 2015.04.08 20:21:00 -
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There is a test server.
Just not public for the plebs
My 'Quafe' Assault A-1 is made of a Sulfur-Tungsten-Silver-Gallium Alloy
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DUST Fiend
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Posted - 2015.04.08 20:30:00 -
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It needs funds reallocated so that way they can hire on a somewhat full dev team to be even remotely competitive with the rest of the industry. This would also presumably lead to more consumer confidence, since they would know their money would be going to good use with a full team behind it.
Right now DUST is a pet project of CCP that's barely even being kept afloat. I'm not trying to say the devs don't do great work, I'm just saying that it's pretty insulting how few of them there are.
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Marcus Stormfire
G.R.A.V.E
The Ditanian Alliance
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Posted - 2015.04.08 20:32:00 -
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More Cowbell?
-Marcus
-I don't always kill Mercs with a sidearm, But when I do I use militia.
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VAHZZ
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Posted - 2015.04.08 20:36:00 -
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Test Server is known as CCP Prime. Only accessible to the devs. Aka it is in Jovian space.
BRUH.
Closed Beta Vet
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One Eyed King
Nos Nothi
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Posted - 2015.04.08 20:37:00 -
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Dinosaurs.
Former CEO of the Land of the BIind.
Any double entendre is unintended I assure you.
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Soldner VonKuechle
SAM-MIK
General Tso's Alliance
1932
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Posted - 2015.04.08 21:50:00 -
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Man-bear-pigs.
Eating salt-peter makes the back of your head itch.
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VAHZZ
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Posted - 2015.04.08 21:53:00 -
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Beavecoons.
BRUH
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Reign Omega
T.H.I.R.D R.O.C.K
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Posted - 2015.04.08 22:03:00 -
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Lions, tigers and bears......
Oh my
Mark a$$ tricks, and bags of dicks....
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Kevall Longstride
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2015.04.08 22:13:00 -
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Test Server is unfortunately out of CCP's hands as access to it would have be through Sony's PSN, so that ain't happening anytime soon. Brutal truth but there you go.
As to size of the team... CCP Rattati has taken his limited resources and fixed many of the mistakes that the previously much larger team made. We're far from the promised land of course but size of the team is meaningless if they're working smarter and quicker than the larger group.
The game is on an even keel and in a much better place than it was a year ago, its profitability is up, the team is firing on all cylinders, player retention is increasing and content is forthcoming.
I'm not saying I'm satisfied completely, there is still much to do but for the first time since my term started, the positives are outweighing the negatives.
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DUST Fiend
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Posted - 2015.04.08 22:14:00 -
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Kevall Longstride wrote:As to size of the team... CCP Rattati has taken his limited resources and fixed many of the mistakes that the previously much larger team made. We're far from the promised land of course but size of the team is meaningless if they're working smarter and quicker than the larger group.
The failures of the past team doesn't exactly excuse CCP for running a skeleton crew on this game with no further explanation than "DUST is profitable"
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LOOKMOM NOHANDS
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Posted - 2015.04.08 22:19:00 -
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I am pretty sure that Sony will not allow them to publish 2 copies of Dust which would be required for us to test things.
The only PS3s that can install a game without going through the PS Store are the hacked PS3s like people use to play hacked versions of GTA V which Sony would probably frown on CCP supporting that kind of activity directly by publishing a separate version that can be installed on those systems.
This is pretty much the primary reason that I support Legion. Sony's guidelines seem to be very unfriendly to people other than the true triple A studios. I am only speaking as an outsider tho and have not directly reviewed what Sony allows.
I wonder if CCP could convince Sony to allow them to do a "test" version that is only distributed via promo code similar to how the betas work.
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sir RAVEN WING
Corrosive Synergy
Rise Of Legion.
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Posted - 2015.04.08 22:23:00 -
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Ants.
Ants are always better.
Just to see the 20,000 little things as they lag the world away.
Ah... may someone kill is with a magnifying glass fire?
"Vengeance. Vengeance is the name of the monster that consumed me so long ago." - Sir Raven Wing
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Kevall Longstride
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2015.04.08 22:53:00 -
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Its a smaller team to be sure but its hardly skeleton.
As to Dust being profitable, again I have to be brutally honest here, thats the only explanation that matters in terms of it garnering further resources for growth. More profits means more money being put back into the game enabling the team to put content into the game rather than just fix the mistakes of the past. Echo and the next point build is nearly all optimisation, fixes and 'stuff', none of which wouldn't have happened unless the game was profitable.
The current strategy is working, cost effective and producing tangible results. Like I said before I'd like it to be faster as well but that costs money. So measured and sustainable is the way to go till the game gets to the point where a larger team is cost effective.
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DUST Fiend
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Posted - 2015.04.08 23:02:00 -
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Kevall Longstride wrote:Its a smaller team to be sure but its hardly skeleton.
As to Dust being profitable, again I have to be brutally honest here, thats the only explanation that matters in terms of it garnering further resources for growth. More profits means more money being put back into the game enabling the team to put content into the game rather than just fix the mistakes of the past. Echo and the next point build is nearly all optimisation, fixes and 'stuff', none of which wouldn't have happened unless the game was profitable.
The current strategy is working, cost effective and producing tangible results. Like I said before I'd like it to be faster as well but that costs money. So measured and sustainable is the way to go till the game gets to the point where a larger team is cost effective.
Hey by all means, let them carry on that way.
It's just sad to see this game being left in the dust when it was originally set to be so much more. It will never move out of it's little niche at this rate, and will never impact EVE at this rate, and will just all around never be what it was once dreamed to be.
So, we turn our eyes towards larger teams with stronger ambitions and place our money with them in the hopes that maybe they can keep the dream of a persistent universe alive, since CCP has clearly set down that ambition for the foreseeable future.
It is what it is, it's just a sad sight to see is all.
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DDx77
The Exemplars
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Posted - 2015.04.08 23:29:00 -
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An anger management hotline
May the Dark shine your way
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Regnier Feros
Pielords
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Posted - 2015.04.08 23:38:00 -
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HUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we can finally leaver our MQ
"You're like a she-male.. hates gym, doesn't know how to be alpha.. you'll stay in the friendzone for life" -Senpai
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Joel II X
Bacon with a bottle of Quafe
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Posted - 2015.04.09 00:35:00 -
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Capture the Flag. |
Onesimus Tarsus
is-a-Corporation
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Posted - 2015.04.09 00:49:00 -
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Love. Liberty. Disco.
Dying to everything since open beta!
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VAHZZ
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Posted - 2015.04.09 00:50:00 -
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DDx77 wrote:An anger management hotline
We had one at one point, but the hotline had to be closed, something about workers getting sent into an insane asylum from massive breakdown. There was blood everywhere I heard.
BRUH
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Jonny D Buelle
Mors Effera
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Posted - 2015.04.09 02:29:00 -
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VAHZZ wrote:DDx77 wrote:An anger management hotline We had one at one point, but the hotline had to be closed, something about workers getting sent into an insane asylum from massive breakdown. There was blood everywhere I heard.
I remember that day... The blood coloured the walls red... Their screams sounded from down the hall... It was horrible... I can still remember the look in her eyes... The moment she realized she was going to die... And in those final moments she told me why... Why he went insane and started to kill everyone...
It was because his tank got taken down by a jihad jeep.
I find your lack of heaviness... disturbing...
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Operative 1174 Uuali
Y.A.M.A.H
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Posted - 2015.04.09 02:46:00 -
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If it had gone to PC as originally planned then it would be on the test server. CCP has one and EVE doesn't go out the door with a new patch before going through the test server.
Sony won't let CCP do their thing. Console kiddies want this game on console soGǪ
Death is a serious businessGǪ So is running a shoddy, half-baked game company.
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