CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.05.02 16:24:00 -
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Thanks for the thread. Hope this doesn't serve as a Reqium, but for me I guess it is.
My boyfriend likes CoD, MoH, SOCOM fps games, not me. I used to like the ones that simulate WWII events (cool experience), but apart from that, I get bored with fps quite fast. I'm a PCC!
(...PCC stands for, Plump Cute Coward).
On the PSForum (not an Eve fourm), folks were posting about Dust 514, and how it was free to set up and play. And CCP Eterne was the only dev posting on the PS forum (I think he was assigned as CCP's official overseer for posts on the PSforum). Anyone who likes good story writing should check out Eterne's work on the EVE World News feed. He's terrific.
By this time my BF had been playing Dust in Beta for 3 months or so. It was the only game I recall ever hearing him swear at the tv when he plays. Yet he said it was great, and wanted me to add a character to his account. Hmmmm....
I was skeptical, and I watched all the EVE vids and all those explanatory Dust vids that CCP made, before I let Steve talk me into setting up my character.
My Character. MY CHARACTER. Mine! That's how I saw Dust 514. Not a shooter. A Character-creation game.
You're in a combat world, but you slowly need to educate and train and nurture this character you made. And you need a LOT of social interaction with other characters made by other players, in order to build your character into someone other players see as valuable, or worth fearing.
How much will other players value your imaginary character? Enough that they will "hire" your character to fulfill a mercenary contract--and pay you a price you can negotiate.
Wow! This isn't an Call of Duty. It's Monopoly on a galaxy-wide industry level! All in the hands of each solo player, for her to succeed or for her to screw-up. The part that deals with guns and weapons is too complex and granular for those fps-elite gamers to get through---it will kick them in the arses. There are ideas being launched here that completely redefine and outclass the corny shooters Steve plays. And the whole process might take years for even the best players to complete.
....But both Steve and I were brutally and repeatedly slapped around on the battlefield. That made me more determined to stay in the game and explore non-shooting careers. And Steve? Uh, well, he's used to putting a scope on his SOCOM weapon and cleaning the board. ....The Dust matches in 2013 were the kind of matches where you don't clean the board---the board cleans YOU. (and picks its teeth with the proto rifle you brought with you.) He got more frustrated and left me driving Dropships.
Now all the innovation and bold ideas are discontinued (or so it appears with this Nova stuff). If it hasn't got that extensive complex Monopoly feel to it, it's just a glorified CoD. So there's no need for me to join Nova. But the Grimsnes is still here in Dust 514 until the end of the month.
The Grimsnses was my character's career, and was becoming her path to super-wealth. I stay because of the love of a good horse. Me and Cochise...
(Cochise was John Wayne's horse,... not that airy-fairy dope called Trigger that Roy Rogers used to ride, yuck.)
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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