Been playing a little mechwarrior online (as I finally have a working computer again)... Holy crap their faction warfare is everything I wish dust fw would be.

So upon clicking 'faction warfare' for the first time you're given a selection of the ~10 factions available, after selecting one you can sign up for a 7day, 14day, 28day or permanent contract (it's possible to break all of these, even the permanent one). The 7day gives +0% extra loyalty points, the 14day is IIRC +20% loyalty, the 28 +30%, and the permanent +50%. From there you're given a selection of planets (along with a list of attackers and defenders fighting for / queuing in the same planet). When you choose a planet you can then choose to attack it either solo, or with your squad (4ppl) or any number up to a 12man deployment which puts you into a lobby up until there's a full group. Once a full group of attackers is formed the opposition is given a "X PLANET IS UNDER ATTACK JOIN TO DEFEND IT!" warning and 10 mins to assemble a group.

From there it goes to a 'protect the area' style match, where the defenders can win by timing the match out or killing all their attackers (each players gets a drop deck of 4 mechs ranging from 160t to 240t total... essentially it's like being given a set number of clones per individual player, let's say 16 clones once you're out you cant spawn in anymore). The attackers win by destroying what amounts to the 'MCC' of the area.

If the attackers win, the next battle on the district is a 'counter attack', where the objective is basically an ambush style match - kill more of your opponents than they kill of you.

After a certain amount of time passes (there's certain allowed attack / defense / cease fire phases that cycle every hour or so) if the attackers hold more districts on a planet, they flip it to their control. If the defenders hold more, they retain control of it. If you control a planet, you can attack the planets adjacent to it.

It's such an awesome system and I think with some work, something resembling it could be implemented in dust.

It's also possible to form up for 'defense' matches too, which gives a ping to people going 'come attack this place' and just being signed up to a faction causes you to recieve constant pings about what planets need defenders / attackers. It also tosses you into a 'militia' channel where you can organize things (for example we had ~250 people attacking/defending a single planet earlier). Oh and I forgot to mention - If you go to attack a place and an enemy team doesn't form up to counter you within 10 minutes, you get deployed without any opposition, allowing you to rapidly take territory if there's no opposition.

Your LP/isk (equivalent) gains have a set payout for winning a match, and an additional payout based on your in-match performance.

- I've got no problem acknowledging that I'm wrong or have been wrong regardless of what some would like to think.

90% of this community are slack-jawed idiots

But amongst all your post that put me in negative light I guarantee you there are four times as many post that are in a good favor

I've translated many an IWS post in my days hereGǪ This is why I consistently believe him to be a good CPM
If you can understand IWS, it's easier to see what he is good at what he does.


Separate note.
SMB may be somewhat introverted, but what is brought to the table matters. Quiet folks often have great contributions, sadly people don't always have the opportunity to recognize these contributions. I hope that existing people make SMB contributions known.

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What is needed are people who are creative enough to theory craft and reasonable enough to prevent any possible bias from having too much influence in their input.

Have you taken a journalist Class because you have a sure knack for manipulating perspectives. Just be honest.

See, this is my issue with you. You never intended to vote for the dude and you have absolutely no intentions of changing your views about that - you don't care what he stands for, who he is, or what he's done for the community; the only thing you care about is that he doesn't constantly agree with your - often ****** - viewpoints and buy into your constant use of Ad Hominem.

Point in case, you antagonize the guy about how open-minded he is and then for the next half-dozen posts go on your own little rant about why he's not "community representative material" - which is laughable because you act like your idea of what -is- and -is not- community rep material is somehow the standard; well, allow me to enlighten you on something, buddy, it isn't. You are not that important, you are not the center of the universe, and while your handful of friends in-game might be nodding and agreeing with your one-sided view of things, there are a lot of us out there that could care less about what you think up until you start pulling this "hey everyone look at what I think isn't CPM material" act -that you always do-.

Because, honest to god, even if the dude -DID- work on his temper, hell even if -I- worked on -MY- temper (pro-tip, I'm not going to) you still wouldn't vote for either of us because it just doesn't pander what -YOU- want out of the game, no matter how conceited or egocentric it actually is. The personality isn't a factor, you're just using that as a justification for an argument so you don't come out and just admit that you don't like either of us because we disagree with you. You scrape for any little flaw in the personality to use against them BECAUSE IT'S YOUR SPECIALTY. If you didn't have Ad Hominem on your side, none of your arguments would hold -ANY- weight at all because you just can't argue the points brought up.

And until you actually get around to realizing that, you can't honestly expect anyone to respect you because you don't have show enough respect as to not just blindly contradict someone in some ham-fisted attempt to make them look bad and then hilariously finish with a half-hearted, insincere compliment like "I think you have good ideas" sandwiched in between (who'd have guessed) even more contradictory bullshit.

Just leave dude. Just leave the community and stop trying because those who actually matter will never buy into your tactics.

Think before you post and you won't be called an idiot. Being a 'Representative' doesn't automatically assume you to be nice or hold people's hands and the community is not entitled niceness from a representative. They're there to get a job done, not to play the politician. I'd actually be -MORE- worried about a candidate that does play nice with everyone because they then cannot be objective. I want a candidate that is passionate and stands up for their beliefs with drive, stubborn drive if necessary.

Feel free to vote for 'everyone's friend' if you want. We had that already and it didn't change anything.

Doesn't have anything to do with what he did for the community and the game at large. Watch the video, learn something. Stop having an emotional reaction to a logical situation.

Hahaha, comparing me to Appia - that in itself is hilarious.

No. A candidate can -absolutely- get the community involved in something while still being antagonistic toward them (see Jita riots); you wouldn't even know who I was if I -WASN'T- antagonistic toward you because infamy has a way of settling in with people a hell of a lot more than playing Barney. We're not here to love each other, we're here to play the game (which I'll remind is largely brutal in it's theme as it is) and if forum behavior stop you from voting someone in that actually does deserve it, based on their merit, you deserve an awful experience because your vote was wasted.

Remember that the representatives -ARE THERE TO FIX THE GAME-, not your behavior, their behavior, or whether or not you like them. This game comes first, not your personal feelings. If you can't handle it, don't talk to the person - hide their posts, block them on Dust 514, and run yourself. Play nice with everyone, see how far it gets you.

A person can absolutely be antagonistic and still remain on point with the community's interests and of course, the community's interests are often not -YOUR- interests. Even still, a Representative has to know when the community is being ******** and know how to say no. The community is not always right, much in the same way the customer is not always right. In the end the only thing that matters is what goes on in that meeting room with CCP, and what goes on in that Skype channel. They don't have to be friendly - they have to be objective.

You got this -ALL- wrong. If CCP is here to fix the game and the CPM doesn't call them out on their BS then we'll just have another incident with Uprising 1.0 - 1.8.

...because you can't improve your argument.

Hahaha, you should see Pokey on Skype. Another classic example of forum behavior =/= the actual person.

i would like to see Aeon Amadi get on just because he is so bat sh*t crazy i think it will be at least entertaining to watch what happens...

I might run just to spite you, Adipem. Not like I have anything to lose by running.

Be even more hilarious if I win.