It's not something that I am in favor of honestly. I do see that it would help simplify things to just make like a mana pool like any other MMO but it does not help with overall diversity. What made Dust so good was the very extensive skill progression you had to take to actually fit your suits to the max. A Proto player could be stomped on because he or she didn't take the time to skill those cores properly. I say keep the same skills that made Dust like eve.

In regards to complexity...

One resource pool is very common in games with any sort of loadout system so people will probably grasp that pretty easily. Two fitting resources is really not that much more complicated but it can be confusing if not explained properly, which is why people struggled with it in Dust.

So my question is, was the system itself flawed? Or was the way it was taught to you flawed? I'm kinda feeling it was the second.

So is it worth dropping a lot of fitting depth for the sake of a easier to digest NPE? I don't think so. I'd rather they keep the two resource system and just properly explain it this time.

On my phone so will try to be quick. You bring up a great point: NPE. More specifically, the efficiency of educating new players---highlighting connections between this or that. I'd go a step farther to point out how awkward the graphic user interface was. Fonts were small. PG and CPU meters were unclear as to wtf they were and how they either affected loadouts or WERE AFFECTED BY loadouts and skill points. I think a combination of lack of education and generally poor interface design is where the weak link rests.

Fix those two elements, and I wonder if the understanding of PG/CPU becomes easier... as would many things, I imagine.

Is the idea of capacitor still floating around?

I know I'm an ******* most of the time but even though I don't know any of you guys here personally, I'm really grateful for you all. Especially pillars like Pokey standing through our darkest hour, I come down hard and unreasonably sometimes but I'm glad you're around. I didn't spend much time there but my time with OSG was the best I've ever had in a group setting in a game before. Awesome group of people.

Damn I miss those days.

So what actually makes the game tied to EVE other than the skin?

Not to say how we handle resources cements us in the universe but the seeminly suggested removal or simplification of the skill tree for basic class progression directly flies in the face of EVE. Lacking vehicles again technically doesnt remove us from the Universe, just seems odd that they can build empire sized ships in New Eden but just cant wrap their heads around standard vehicles. Go big or go home I suppose.

Given this lack of vehicles we can assume smaller maps so will Planetary Conquest even be a thing or will we be fighting over some random station? Since we will be on mostly small and interior maps (it seems) will there be any purpose for a more refined orbital system. Also woth thr removal of vehicles and thus AVcan we expect even turret installations to go away?

People say the team moving back home means the game will more EVE connected but all (what little) evidence seems to point in the other direction.