3 biomass - used in clone construction this will likely to be balanced against nanites onboard a barge. Run out of biomass no more new clones. Also expect automated mining for this.



Um, does this mean we may get to harvest all the bodies we kill on battlefields??

There will be an industry side, however we're not at that point yet.

The following is however thoery crafting and not offical

First part of the industry for dust 514 will be software - eventually we will have to design the software or copy our nanites follow to build our gear. Doing so by use of research labs and/or using gathered information to combine and create higher level gear. Or buying critical components and software rights to make the blueprint. In the end this will be heaviest portion of the industry we can expect and it should be interesting how dust 514 is going to handle this. Either way chances are when at launch everything is going to be very expensive, once investment costs are recouped the entire thing should scale out between supply, demand, technical difficulty of procreation, skill point investments and finally location, raw materials, skills (yes you will have to train up skills to sell items) and logistics.

Either way the idea of npcs selling us our current gear is going to end one day.

2 nanites - what kind and what sorts this will be probably our version of minerals. These nanites are used to construct all the gear we use on the field. These will be what we fill our warbarges up with so they can build gear on demand. Expect some automated mining for this.

3 biomass - used in clone construction this will likely to be balanced against nanites onboard a barge. Run out of biomass no more new clones. Also expect automated mining for this.

Ah Darky, genius as usual! Add this idea to some great PvE alongside all the PvP goodness we love and I will never have to buy another game again!!

Well the software side has the chance of becoming active game play.

Imagine raiding a pirate lab and grabbing their blueprints or their latest software security protocols and scrapping those bits of code into making more efficient licensees?

Well the software side has the chance of becoming active game play.

Imagine raiding a pirate lab and grabbing their blueprints or their latest software security protocols and scrapping those bits of code into making more efficient licensees?

This directly ties into the ability to "free roam" around the planet, and I hope they strongly consider this for either release, or more likely a future expansion. DUST 514 could be the first FPS game where you literally don't have to fire a single shot if you don't want to, yet you can still fully enjoy the game.

I'd love to see this sort of thing in Dust. To be able to set up a home base directly on the planet would be great as well, where you can walk around and produce goods & services, become a shop keeper for a bit, or train with various weapons and loadouts and configurations. Somewhere that gives the feel for the current planet.

I like the idea of industry, mining and such in Dust.

The only issue I see with it is that maps would need to be persistant else it just wouldn't work tbh. We'd just see a tonne of people filling up an empty server and farming there else, much like the SP exploit currently.

Granted these types of jobs are menial so I guess they'd need something to reward them for their efforts. Or perhaps the items/resources their acquiring is enough reward?.

If these structures/planets could actually be invaded at anytime then it would actually serve as an objective then, both for the attacker to take out supply lines and the defender to defend their investment.