+1

The one place it gets fuzzy is skins because they could be purchased for isk with player trading...



What i believe CCP should do but it might not be realistic is have some sort of new loyalty ranks not AURUM ranks and just is come up with some sort of formula to calculate how much work and effort we put into the previous and payout equivalent to that.


Like the concept of Aurum ranks in it's self is pretty good small bonuses 1-15% for playing the game is nice. But it makes it totally stupid when 95% of the contribution to it is money and 5% is playing the game.


Anyways. If i could say start the new dust 514 PC game with 10% bonus to SP and ISK per contract completed i would be content with it.

What would make sense is SP, aur, and all bpos.

Isk and assets should start fresh. That's and the SP for all vets should net be returned till after x time.

Or of they do t pass over our SP, then atleast x SO to begin with for example all vets get 30m sp.

Aside from that, aur boosters, skins, bpos, all that type of stuff should be passed over to new game.

Resetting ISK is fine. Resetting SP? I'm against that. Some people have poured years into their progression.

Unless the balancing is completely screwed up and vets are somehow able to annihilate hundreds of players solo, this is not a concern.

The port has an effectively guaranteed playerbase of EVE vets who by far outnumber any token numbers of DUST vets trickling over.

If veterans being able to outperform newbies is a serious, game-killing concern, then that is a fundamental issue with the game that will not go away ever, regardless of whether or not you erase progress initially. What about a year later, when many people have a decent standard of progression? Will you erase progress again, to avoid scaring off the newbies?

Either the very existence of progression is a huge problem in the game design, or there is no problem with having older players amongst the new.


In the current state of SP there is no more specialization which this game was supposed to be about. We need to get back to that.


This is, honestly, far more anti-newbie in general.

Must you be forced to specialise your entire game career to do something?

The only reason specialisation is 'no more' is because people have spent so long playing. If you were to start anew in DUST today you would discover that it takes months to get your first protosuit up to scratch, and at that point it's just that one and the key gear you took with it.

To preserve this 'specialisation' throughout years and years of progression would mean that players are effectively locked into a tiny handful of playstyles. This is not a good design.

Nobody else in this world will take one for the team and neither will I. If we don't get SP and BPO transfer I'm not playing the new game. Period.

Someone said it on the biomassed podcast (sorry can't remember who) but the problem of not transferring SP on the basis that it gives existing players too much on on advantage is missing the bigger picture

The new game is being built on the PC so that it can take the test of time, well 6 months down the line you are going to have the same problem of OP veteran players

Therefore you need to build in from the start mechanisms to overcome or avoid this problem (meaningful progression yet allowing new players to still fill a role)

Sure.
And erasing the existing playerbase is an excellent way to slash initial numbers.

It's possible, honestly.

To have spent so much time on the promise of a persistent sandbox only to have everything torn away is no small blow.