Just for record keeping sake...

Year average: 2,427
Six month: 2,143
Three month: 2,034
Month: 1,898
Week: 1,879

I will try to refer back to this data in a few weeks (or Warlords 1.2) to see if there is a change.

No excuses young man. studying to get a well paid job for getting women , fast cars and nice things before playing dust.

And what good would it be to port a broken, unbalanced, and frustrating game to a new system?

Not all the games problems are due to hardware constraints.

PC had exploits that ruined the economy.

While weapons and suits are better balanced, there is still quite a ways to go.

Porting this game to another system too soon will only ensure its failure the next iteration, and thus for the long term.

They have to get the fundamentals right before doing anything else.

You can't throw RAM at Planetary Conquest and suddenly its fun again.

You can't throw RAM at imbalanced HP and Speed, and suddenly balance all suits.

If you think that the constraints of the PS3 are the ONLY issues Dust has, and that a port is the magic bullet, you don't fundamentally understand Dust's problems.


The game isn't a borefest because its on the PS3, there are a great many games on the PS3 that are still loads of fun (currently playing the Mass Effect series for example).

PS2 is on the PS4, and looks pretty, but is boring as hell despite all its polish. It is not fundamentally fun. Whether its on the PS4 or PC. It has all the RAM, GPU stats, and SSD space it can get on the PC, but people left the game because it sucked.

Just as pepople will if CCP ported a boring, broken game to the PC or PS4.

I want them to get the foundation of the game well enough that it can be built upon. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it has to be strong enough, and malleable enough, that it the fundamental ideas behind the game can be coded into a new engine, and it won't be a waste of resources.

Its a tight rope walk man. You port too soon, you get a boring, broken, exploitable game on a new system. It creates a bad impression, and people leave before CCP can react. At that point they have made a huge investment of time and money into the game, and won't get enough of a return to justify the cost.

They have one chance to get it right.

And to bring it back to center, I would rather CCP spend their time getting their game right than holding our hands through the process on a day by day basis when they could just be getting it done.

There is a time for input, and there is a time to act. Its what they are doing. They have told us as much. That should be good enough for the time being.

OMG, seriously? Tell me you're just trolling. I want to know. Are you trolling me because my troll meter is broken right now and I can't use it.

Who is to say that the Gallente Lag Facility is not going to have the same problem on the PS4? What if the facility is soooooooooo poorly optimized that you won't see any marked improvement on the PS4 either? Then what? You're going to be right here back on the forums screaming at CCP saying "WHY U NO FIX GAL LAB?" This debate is pointless right now. You know just as well as I do that Dust's problems are rooted deep into its coding and that hardware upgrades are not going to help if the software was bugged from the start.

Let me give you an example.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X was released back in 2006 and was supposed to be better than its predecessors on the PC. But there was a major problem with it. Something that annoyed the Flight Sim community for years to come. The simulator was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo poorly optimized that you needed to spend well over $1000 on a gaming rig just to have 30 FPS on medium graphic setting. To make matters worse, the simulator was mainly designed to require hardware that wasn't even out yet in the market. Many in the community decided to stick with FS2004 or FS98 because they were put off by ridiculous hardware demand it has. In fact, it was often joked that the "Recommended Hardware Requirements" were actually the "Minimum" and even then they were not accurate requirements. And this is on a PC platform. You know, the platform that is far superior to the console? PC MASTER RACE LEVEL here. Eventually, Microsoft gave up on the simulator and sold off the IP to Lockheed Martin which later developed Prepar3D.

Long story short, this is proof that better hardware doesn't always save a sick game.

Wait till summer, those numbers should boost.

I'm sure CCP already knows, but not entirely concerned about it . Their focus for the future is VR and probably mobile. I'm sure they know that Dust won't be around much longer and the playerbase might shrink even further, especially this fall, but not going to take much action. They will probably let Dust dwindle down before they pull the plug .

Will throwing in more ram solve bad matchmaking? Will it solve the problem of having certain hills acting like quicksand while you sprint over it? Will it solve the problem of uplinks being glitched into a structure? Will it solve the problem of vehicles falling through the terrain when a player opens up the overview? Will it solve the problem of certain SKIN modules behaving weird when placed onto certain suits? Speaking of which, will it solve the problem of my SKIN not showing up in the warbarge at all?
these are related to lack of cpu power and system memory

Will it solve the problem of AFKers putting a rubber band on their controllers? Will it solve the problem of players leaving a match in mass as soon as they encounter anyone who can match them? Will it solve the problem where domination is nothing more than a game of who hacks first? Will it solve the problem of players using turbo controllers to abuse the scrambler rifle mechanic? Will it solve the problem of why PC currently sucks? Will it solve the problems that I pointed out some time ago in another thread regarding faction warfare? Will it fix the problem where a Dust player sending an item to an Eve player causes the item to disappear forever and no one receives it?

again problems related to lack of cpu power and system memory that new game modes and new maps will fix on a properly running system source code the same as haveing more game modes fixes the not haveing fun problema and the leaving match problema due to the not haveing fun problem

PS: Does adding more ram also solve the problem where the game bloats with every update and that the only way to fix that is to uninstall it and then reinstall it?