but the majority of people playing this game will not be EVE players or mmorpg fans, like it or not your FPS player, and many of them will be turned off by the fact that people who have played game longer are automatically better then them.

i think both groups will be playing the game i know many Fps players who still play older Fps games even though newer version are out.

Greetings,

I suspect that you are wrong on who will be playing this game. In the short term, yes it will be the FPS players, but your own statement shows why I think you are wrong. You, like many of the pure FPS folx that have posted here have a long list of FPS that they have played. You guys tend to move on to the next big thing, whereas some of the EVE players here have been playing EVE for 7+ years. As I have stated in multiple threads, we are the ones who have paid for Dust to be created and we will be paying for it when you guys move on to BF37 or CoD96. Now on to the real point you are trying to make.

I suspect a lot of the EVE players will agree with you. I know for a fact that I am not the only one dislikes the current intra-class equipment imbalances. The current prototype gear should be around 105 - 110% of the basic Type I gear, not the current 180 - 300%. We want to see the character skills to mean more than the gear yes, but of the things we have learned in EVE is that when you tier your equipment like EVE does, that player skill can and will trump character skill when properly supported by character skills. By that I mean a 1 day old character, no matter how good should never be able to take a 7 year old, but a 6 month character who has trained the basic skills up should seriously compete with that 7 year old... This is how it works in EVE.

Now Ive played many FPSs in my day such as Battlefield (PC and PS3), COD, MAG, RFOM and Killzone 2 to name just a few and they all have one thing in common starting out you can kill a higher rank/level player based on skill alone if you are better then them. The biggest flaw Ive seen with dust is that it plays like in mmorpg, people with better gear will always beat the new player based on gear alone not to mention skill points. Now I can see where EVE players who are used to mmorpgs would like that type of game play, but the majority of people playing this game will not be EVE players or mmorpg fans, like it or not your FPS player, and many of them will be turned off by the fact that people who have played game longer are automatically better then them.

well it is a MMOFPS

HERP DERP!

way to fail

my friend that was in the beta, says he hates the game, as it rewards those that have much time to play and punishes those that can play only a few hours a week ,
he said he would buy AUR but it's so unbalanced as his fps skills mean nothing , he has played the beta hated it because of this and deleted dust,
also i know someone else in the beta that quit because they also said you dont stand a chance againsed people that have been playing a while.
i dont care what anyone thinks many many people will not like dust because they will play it for a couple of games to see if they like it and will get destroyed ..and delete dust , i guarantee it.

a new player will be disadvantaged due:
people with more dmg from skills
added to that more dmg from guns
added to that more dmg from modules
added to that people with alott more hp from dropsuits.

i can uderstand the many people that have quit dust . first impressions of a game decide if they stay or leave. something ccp should look at , this is a fps on console , not a mmo on pc. unbalance in eve works , unbalance in a fps..not gonna be pretty, not when its your first few games that decide if you stay or leave.

+1 op this is a massive issue i feel ccp need to look at.
imo they should make using advanced or prototype gear in highsec unapealing somehow, maybe with the price of the advanced especially prototype gear.

HAHA you're so funny because you said herp derp