What's the point of a thread like this ? Can you ask a carpenter to "fix" a house that's being built ? I understand your question was serious, but your reflexion lacks.

Most people here are frustrated because they are hurried to see this game achieve its initial promise, and play it as it should be played. It's a classic case of loving the form against hating the function.

Don't you think CCP is quite aware of the challenges they have in making this game ? Do you actually believe the devs don't know that there are still numerous bugs and fixes to be applied ?

Or do you think that by reminding CCP to "please fix gameplay" they'll slap their foreheads and go "Oh shoot, thanks, we forgot" ?

Be patient, soldier. Keep reporting those bugs and help shape this game the way you see it GÇö as we all do. When it comes out you'll be glad you were there.

Serious Tryhards would have bothered leaving a post worthy of a dozen likes.

You realize we still have 4 months till open beta? Also that CCP has stated that they have an ongoing log of all of the issues we're bringing up, but that they don't want to work further on balance and gameplay related issues until the software has more of the assets in? And that it'll likely be quite a few months after the start of Open Beta, and possibly even until next summer that the game will actually launch?

Whatever you can say about how the game works now, this isn't what we'll be playing in a few month's time. The focus needs to be on fleshing out the sandbox before you can get back to core mechanics, because 'balancing' those with an incomplete sandbox is how you end up with all the issues Starhawk had at launch, and that's something that none of us want.

Templar, the only thing we're testing right now is the high-sec matchmaking system designed primarily for the kind of people that have been making all the posts about "not giving a **** about metagame". They've already said in the Fanfest presentations that we'll be looking at battlefields in Faction Warfare that can be as large as continents in Planetside 2. They've also made it fairly clear that the player counts for those fights are going to be far larger than what we're looking at right now, and the null-sec conquest system will probably support counts higher than that.

I'm confident in this because you have to remember that CCP are the producers of the only MMO to have no player caps. Back at Fanfest 2011, they showed metrics from a 3200 player fight. Yes, that was 3200 players not only in the same system, but all on the same grid. Do I think we're going to see that in Dust: no. Do I think CCP is going to jump through ******* hoops to get the player counts as large as they possibly can: not a doubt in my mind.

EDIT: Also, see my previous post for an answer to your first question. Dust was originally expected to release this summer, by the way. If there's one thing all of us from EVE have learned about CCP, its to take their release dates with a grain of salt.