Except in new Dust they'll probably have meta/tier locks as EVE does now. Bout friggan time.

Honestly? Nothing. If Dust ports, it simply HAS to be a new game, a direct sequel I suppose, where the lore, ethos and general concepts of Dust have been faithfully kept (but with heavy tweaking; so many mistakes were made during the initial designing of this game), but essentially everyone starts off as equals. At the most, I'd want my name and my corp badge, for old times' sake. Oh, and AUR too, but that's a no brainer. Fundementally though, if we let this community slide all of its assets, ISK and, most crucually, XP across in any form at all then we're killing the port off at birth. We are a community of careless, cynical arseholes and we *will* protostomp all-comers from day one if given the opportunity to, and be damned the NPE. I know it's a lot to ask, but if we want the port to thrive it can't have at its core a ready-made unassailable elite of veterans who have all the money, all the experience and all the game know-how at their disposable from launch day. We've got to learn from our mistakes and give everyone an equal chance to survive and thrive.

Lore could stay the same but I see that as CCP shooting themselves in the foot. At present the lore establishes Dusters as nothing more than a general kind of super soldier.

We're.....

- about eight feet tall in combat clones with depending on your dropsuit up to 25mm of armour plating
- have reduced pain senses to allow us to take significant damage and keep fuctioning
- given featureless bodies and faces to cut down on clone costs
- equipped with weapons so powerful that firing them without a dropsuit would break a baseliners arm or set them ablaze

And yet for all those merits those incredible aspects we're still.....

- so under CONCORD's thumb that we're functionally no more capable and vastly more expensive than a baseliner mercenary company.

If CCP does establish Legion as its own game I'd love to see them iterate upon the lore of the cloned soldiers to see us get outside CONCORDs authority, operating freely throughout the cluster in conflicts whose war prices are either so high operating with baseliners is no longer possible.

Soldiers who need to operate in environments so hostile that our ability to mitigate the loss of experience upon death is worth spending fortunes upon, in localities so difficult to conventionally deploy to that high speed orbital drops or short range teleportation/displacement technology is required, or in places that require the attention of mercenaries part conventional soldier and part astronaut.

I'd also love to see them take the idea of commercialised conflict more seriously when describing our kinds of conflicts. We're modern, professional, and economically motivated soldiers. Supply and Demand, Cost and Profits, Gain and Loss should really be the only concepts that matter to us.

For those of you requesting SP to transfer.

Would a system that started you at 0SP but offered accelerated SP generation that drew from your old SP pool be acceptable?

For example say you have 20M SP right now

At the port you would get x1.5 SP generation. That x0.5 pulls from your stored 20M SP. So Once you earned 40M SP in the port, you would have consumed your stored 20M SP, and would have a total of 60M SP.

After that you would drop down to x1.0 generation like everyone else. Effectively starting everyone off on the same foot, but giving you the option to re-earn your SP so your time investment in DUST is not completely lost.

Personally speaking I think this is pretty acceptable and would be a decent compromise between the two camps.

Props to Vrain and others I've talked to before about this for the idea




I saw that, you know quality feedback like that makes me happy

This is an important point, one of the crucial make-or-break issue for Dust2.

Really the question of whether sp or ISK should transfer is moot, the real question is: 'will CCP be willing and able to design a game that preserves a quality player experience in the face of sp and ISK imbalances?'. If they can achieve such a lofty goal then transferring vet's progress will do no harm, if they can't then Alena has predicted the future of Dust2.

It's a problem common to all persistent mmorpgs, and if CCP is going to solve it they're going to have to step up their game-design game.

I hate to break it to you but thanks to trading (gifting) ISK is now a bought asset that people have spent real cash on. Before that I would have agreed that ISK can go away.

How many boosters have people bought just to sell?

How many skins have people bought just to sell?

How many people bought Jara to get more for their NPC sales?

How many people have bought warbarge components to upgrade their market network? (okay I admit not many on that)

The list goes on but you see my point. Wiping out some peoples ISK is just the same as wiping out their skins or their BPOs.


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Besides if ISK is not going what is to stop people from buying up all the skins that will transfer and selling them at absurd prices in the new version just to get right back where they were.