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Full reset? **** no. **** off with that silliness. I want to keep my progression.

Now, if/when we ever get a port, an ISK reset would be nice to have. This would flush the massive ISK wallets created by PC.

Helllllllllllll no. I like having multiple roles. The only way I'd do a reset is if Dust moved to a new platform.

Yeah.. why not leave this version as bad as possible.. just to put it off until Dust 2.0

You know during the first SP events.. players were able to cap out in 1 PC battle.. and a lot of vet district holders would not be strangers to hugging a depot and farming WP, so they made SP out of it also, and if we are going to fix the mistakes of old Devs..

= Remove ALL the mistakes of old Devs.

Too much collateral damage in that case. What about the players who have only been playing for a matter of weeks, still skilling into cores and their first dropsuit/weapon? They would be told, "Okay, all of that progress you made? It's gone. Start over."

Our already poor NPE would be terrifically insulting. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say what you are proposing would cause thousands of players who are 6 months or less old to quit Dust entirely. The small population of new players we have would be cut in half or more.

So, yeah, this is a terrible idea.

I actually hunt and squad with newbies from time to time, very few will quit over leveling the playing field.

Idk if it would fix anything to be honest.
1) it'll probably make a lot of people quit.
2) the same try hard types will still stack boosters and with the currently weekly skill cap they'd be running proto in no time at all while casual players get left in the dust... Again.

The amount of potential SP you can earn in a week is at its highest ever. When we were noobs it took forever to grind out a proto suit, now it's a different story. Point being is newbs have every opportunity to get competitive levels of sp and as vets, earned sp means less and less. Now is the game fun enough for them to stick around that long, probably not. I think a better idea than resetting and seeing what happens is to fix current issues that drives people away. Such as...

NPE in terms of tutorials and education
Matchmaking
Bugs
Roof camping / map design

Perhaps if we increase player retention we will have a better influx of new proto wearing scrubs to compete with.

lol, I'm off in about 20mins.. will check timers when I get home.

Good to know your opinion on my latest rambling idea, now go grab a slice of that pie my momma is baking for KGB

ALSO I'M TYPING IN CAPS FOR A REASON
Seriously though I don't want to lose the items I worked hard for

This is a good topic, we should stick with it until we produces some answers.

There's a core game design problem we need to solve. I like to call it the buckets of ISK problem, bISK for short.

The game design problem is bISK. Forget PC 1.0 - we all agree it was foolish, destructive, irresponsible and slovenly for CCP to allow things to go on as they did for so long. Whatever. There's been stupidity in the past, there'll be other stupidities in the future, that doesn't change our collective game-design problem, bISK.

I'm gonna say something now, you gotta promise not to laugh out loud until i'm done: one day this game will be fully integrated with EVE. If not this game, some other shooter set in New Eden. Point is, once economic integration happens, the peeps who have bISK now will be pretty much the same peeps who have bISK then, because the big EVE alliances will take good care of their elite ground forces - very good care.

So, given that the top-end PvP corps will always be dripping with bISK, how do we design DUST Pubs & FW such that the bISK doesn't destroy the gameplay for the rest of the playerbase, especially the noobs?

I would say the other design criteria are:

1. Don't break up the playerbase, a single shard is New Eden's greatest strength.
2. Discourage passive behavior, AFKing, etc.
3. Encourage engaging the enemy and contributing to the team regardless of the odds.

If we can solve the bISK problem(and a few others), a full reset would be unnecessary and serve the needs of the game far into the future. But burn it down or not, the bISK problem has not been solved yet, by the devs or the playerbase.

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If you'd like to give up your time, money and assets go ahead. Me, I've put an immense amount of time and money into suits, Aur, and boosters.