To me, DUST 514 is one of the last gleaming diamonds in the age of terribad Triple AAA games that are so cookie cutter and bland you can't tell one from the next annual money grab.

This game is so unbelievably dynamic and so full of potential that I just can't leave it alone. I've been with this game since the near beginning of Mordu's Trials. In the three years leading up to know I for some reason adopted a non FotM behavior that, to my detriment, caused me to become unbelievably angry at this game. More so than I have an other game I've played, and contrary to how I come off on the forums I'm a pretty patient guy so for a game to make me angry to the point of refusing to play it takes quite a bit of work. Regardless of the age of Apocalypse dropships, lasers, raining orbitals etc. even in those eras of near unplayable gameplay I still wanted to come back, a lot of us did.

I came back, because this game offered something that no other game offers. A feeling of personal progression and possession and lore so intricate and depthless you can just get lost in it and don't even have to play the game to enjoy the world of New Eden.

And it doesn't just stop at the gameplay itself but this community is so great I don't even have to play the game and just chat away with any guys in my various chat channels and have a good time and good laughs. I've made good friends and lasting relationships in this game and along the way helped me cope with some things going on in my personal life. Even on the forums, the communication between our players, nothing comes close to it that I know we get down each others throats from time to time but I really do appreciate most of you guys and the entertainment and feedback we provide.

I'm just rambling about how much I love this game and CCP and I'll explain about the why now.


Point is, I love this game deeply. There's a personal attachment to this game that I have and want to help make it better.
As a long time player of this game I've experienced first hand what does and does not work and will hopefully do my best to steer us clear of the repeated mistakes that we are still suffering from.

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- Importance of Lore is highly important with me and should be evident in the game / parallels with EVE
- Lore must not get in the way of fun and balance
- There is room for translation and compromise

- Active with the community
- Active within the game itself
- Veteran experience with DUST 514 being here for 3 years
- Extremely familiar with this game
- Not biased, as much as people love to get my ingrained Gallente Role Play heavily confused with complete "OP" dominance. A flavor of the month eviornemnt is extremely unhealthy for any game .

- Listens to people
- Talks to people
- I'm not one for holding things back. Unless it's covered in NDA I will let you know what's going on and I will make damn sure that your problems are being acknowledged.
- I've got no problem acknowledging that I'm wrong or have been wrong regardless of what some would like to think.
- I'm Straightforward
- I am a DUST 514 player


Negatives:

- I will say though I don't feel I have many, just a really big one. My biggest, glaring negative is being hot tempered when dealing with certain people my patience drops to near zero when offended and I've been working on that heavily.

- I sometimes get tunnel vision with some ideas of mine but luckily I have my skype channels I talk to to try and see any errors of my ideas before I post them on the forums.

- I'm only a Sergeant and not a Captain.

I wish I could type more but I should really sleep, work tomorrow. I think a Podcast or live text chat Q & A would be most appropriate for this kind of question.

Anywho, night guys. Special appreciation if you actually managed to read through that incoherent rabble of a post.