Dusties should have the ability to deploy to districts they own. This would let them either practice against corp mates (perhaps a personal option for friendly fire on/off would make sense here) and figure out what the map is actually like. It doesn't make sense to be able to deploy to just anyone's piece of land, but also doesn't make sense to go to defend your district and say "great, now which way is the enemy"

It's a good question, Gagah-Boy Brasil.

I think it's fair to say that there are many DUST players who would love some form of free roaming, and also Dust players who couldn't give 2 kittens about it, and in fact would hate if it was forced on them.

It's also prolly fair to say that the same divisions of taste exist within CCP's DUST design team.

Because this is CCP we're dealing with, if the player base expresses a stong enough interest over a long enough time frame, we prolly will get some form of open-world free roam game mode.

The game modes we know about already are:

1) Instanced matches in Planetary districts. CCP has stated and tested that the DUST code scales well, and there is little doubt that we will eventually see 100 vs. 100 battles. That is MMO in my books.

2) Instanced PVE sites where we do the zombie-drone suicide mission thingie. Later there will prolly be other PVE modes. CCP is going to be very cautious with this because of their experiences with the EVE playerbase - it's too easy to suck the life out of the PVP part of the game if you make the PVE too attractive. On the other hand, if CCP can pull it off, it's an incredible opportunity for world-building and immersive education in the New Eden backstory, and also a potentially important game mechanic.

3) Planetary Interaction a la EVE, which will be a graphical overlay on a planet's map and will allow mercs to basically set up extractor, transport systems, refineries and launch pads to get product off-planet. This will most likely be done from the Merc Quarters, and is basically just interaction with a couple of control screens.

4) The warbarge and stations in EVE. Eventually we will have free roam of these environments, the warbarge sooner and stations later. The stations will almost certainly be confined to one deck, or more likely part of one deck, the 'customs, commerce, and recreation' area. There will be customizable player-owned rooms in these areas.


If we want free-roam, the question is what form do we want it to take? It seems impractical to ask for an entire planetary surface to be generated, but to be honest I'm not sure if there is really any game-stopping technical problem with that. At any rate, such a request right now would be unreasonabe, i think.

I'd like to see in the medium-term something that would involve free-roam resource or archeological prospecting in a lonely, remote environment, but one where other players(allied, neutral or enemy), could prospect also. This is the free-roam open world part. A prospector or archeologist would employ their skills and special suit modules as well as deployable equipment & drones to locate dig sites. Imagine the logistics of choosing a loadout for your prospecting LAV or dropship, as well as packing sensor, defensive and offensive installations/drones into a limited volume/weight cargohold. Do you devote half your cargo allowance to a remote CRU unit or go in tough as nails with a single clone? Stealth scout suit with basic scanning modules or tricked out Logi-Prospector suit with god-like information gathering powers?

These sites would be instanced, not free-roam, and PVE or PVP, depending on whether another prospector/team located the same dig site and entered the dig while you were in it.

Hilarity and pants-crapping tension ensues.

or something like that.

nowhere in my statment did i say i want them to render every planet i simply stated that free roam would be an amazing feature t o have an curious if it is going to be included.

Matchmaking.

You could play the game for years and never ONCE step foot on the ground outside of combat. Or, it could be the other way around. You could play for years and not fire a single bullet. So long as neither option is FORCED on anyone, everyone can just play how they like.

Who are you to tell me how to play the game?

free roam world after all they have hinted at and confirmed working on industrial aspects like mining and such aswell as exploration style stuff.

This game will constantly be evolving right along with eve

As many have a hard time acepting there wont be sequels predecessors or decendents of this game there will only be dust514 that the plan.

When the ps4 comes out dust will literally have stretched the ps3 capacity completly and wouldnt have goten an updat for a couple years in fear of burning out everyones ps3 then sony ceo will reveal the ps4 throw it on market and call ccp ceo say alright crash the ps3 which then theyll update the game for the first time in years and because f that noone with a ps3 can play dust 514 because it dont have the capacity.

At somepoint well probally be playing on the entire planet with couple 1000 player teams i could literally fly my dropship for miles and miles going around the world. Not 1 battle be going but many battles each for a dffrent planet tary infanstructure and ceos and commanders will be sitting up in warbarges high in space or over a friendly structer just pointing everyone to primary targets. and up in space 1000s of eveplayers fight to keep the otherside from bombarding there soldeirs or destroying warbarges.

I also see battles without timers the corps be at it for days till 1 the entire planet is under 1 sides control and the other has no more assets or till the contract runs out and the contracter needs to pay more or well they lost. Theres also the senario were 1 side has no reason to fight anymore and treaties get drawn

As for the social asspect well have warbarges for dust players and stations for both eve and dust. I also picture a point were eve and dust players travel to the planets cities and towns built by players owned by players and no longer the market system of today i in effect instead were trading with players that spend there time owning shops and businesses on individual planets.

I picture a day where ccp no longer has 2 individual games but have made a cyberworld that evolves with technology and possibley leads most of th asspect of the realworld

Open Beta is this December

This game will constantly be evolving right along with eve

As many have a hard time acepting there wont be sequels predecessors or decendents of this game there will only be dust514 that the plan.

When the ps4 comes out dust will literally have stretched the ps3 capacity completly and wouldnt have goten an updat for a couple years in fear of burning out everyones ps3 then sony ceo will reveal the ps4 throw it on market and call ccp ceo say alright crash the ps3 which then theyll update the game for the first time in years and because f that noone with a ps3 can play dust 514 because it dont have the capacity.

At somepoint well probally be playing on the entire planet with couple 1000 player teams i could literally fly my dropship for miles and miles going around the world. Not 1 battle be going but many battles each for a dffrent planet tary infanstructure and ceos and commanders will be sitting up in warbarges high in space or over a friendly structer just pointing everyone to primary targets. and up in space 1000s of eveplayers fight to keep the otherside from bombarding there soldeirs or destroying warbarges.

I also see battles without timers the corps be at it for days till 1 the entire planet is under 1 sides control and the other has no more assets or till the contract runs out and the contracter needs to pay more or well they lost. Theres also the senario were 1 side has no reason to fight anymore and treaties get drawn

As for the social asspect well have warbarges for dust players and stations for both eve and dust. I also picture a point were eve and dust players travel to the planets cities and towns built by players owned by players and no longer the market system of today i in effect instead were trading with players that spend there time owning shops and businesses on individual planets.

I picture a day where ccp no longer has 2 individual games but have made a cyberworld that evolves with technology and possibley leads most of th asspect of the realworld

If they can realize half of what they envision DUST will be awesome & unlike anything else out there. If they are successful DUST514 can be a cornerstone of Sony's PS3 and PS4 marketing. XBOX live sure as heck doesn't offer anything like this.

Do you have any idea how irritating it is when you constantly bold everything?

Source?

Actually it'd make it more interesting. You know how many people would jump at the chance just to go and explore planets just for the hell of it. Even if it's in a game. Let me ask you this. How many games involve even being able to actually go on a planet? A full sized one. Not some skimpy little SOE version like they had in SWG that was like 25km by 25km and represented the whole surface. But full several thousands of km's of terrain to run through? The only games I've seen that had that capability were the games from 3000AD. Infinity:Quest for Earth was working on that same thing. Except they were doing the whole space and ground thing as one game.

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We're talking about the idea of being able to openly walk around areas you own, like districts you hold in Faction Warfare or planets you own in null-sec.