If Rattati is relying solely upon CPM2 for feedback on balance issues -- which seems to be the case -- then there's dang near zero point to everyone else's feedback. Good for the self-servicing CPM and their backchannel buddies.

What kind of inside information do you have on this game that you can talk about? Do you have any information that can explain why I have to play the waiting game for several hours just to try to get into a match?

I get home from work and I can get into a full Acquisition match within a few minutes of searching but once that match is over I feel like the game bans me from playing anymore Acquisition. I highly doubt that all the people in the initial match I was able to get into up and decided to stop playing Acquisition all at once.

This is happening to me pretty much every single day, Monday thru Thursday.

For this to happen to me as frequently as it does (4 consecutive days every week) makes no sense to me. Tonight over a span of two hours of queuing Acquisition I was only able to get into one match and it wasn't even a full match.

Its worse than CCP doing nothing to inhibit scamming. They implemented restrictions on isk transfers, inhibiting people like me, who ran escrow services and exchanges between Dust and Eve, making it harder for decent players who took the trouble to make work-arounds for their failure to code a trustworthy trading system.

I started a break from Dust and Eve at the beginning of the Summer, and just popped onto the forum to check in, to see if CCP had implemented anything that would get me to turn on my ps3 and reactivate my Eve Online account. But I'm not seeing anything to lure me back in, which is too bad because when Dust wasn't being terrible (for the various reasons filling this thread) it was great. The close fights that were won because our coms had discipline and the squads were filled with people who knew their roles, are some of the best games I've ever been in, in or out of Dust514. Some of the goofing around matches with hilarious chatter were excellent as well. But those excellent matches have been too rare to stick it out in a game with fundamental design errors, like

#1 Making the turn rate contingent on the frame rate. That's partly just me though; I can't aim without a mouse, and Dust doesn't *really* support mouse aiming. (or at least it didn't at the beginning of the Summer, I haven't played for months) It supports a crappy, semi-emulation, that I've never really gotten the hang of. So I can play any PC FPS where I can occasionally get a top score from shooting people in the face, or try Dust again, where I was never able to shoot well.

#2 The link to Eve remained a gimmick. I built more of a link to Eve Online through my currency exchange, than CCP ever built. Its possible, but I'd be shocked if the sum value of all equipment destroyed by orbitals exceeded the value of the currency that moved through my exchange. And I wasn't the only player to run an exchange, or even the oldest exchange. CCP really dropped the ball. (Or has this changed in the past five months? I don't know.)

I hope I run into the people I played with here in other games though. The people in Dust were awesome. Although, prior to Dust I played Eve Online mostly, so that's a really really low standard. :D
-Gyn Wallace/Min Lo

P.S. Shout out to Zaria! I think the last time I was logged on I was voting for you and Cross and Pokey. If I do ever turn on my PS3 again, it'll be to hang out with you guys.

P.P.S. Do we have a new corp name again, wth?! :D