The only problem is that camping Edited will still be around, but at least the people who are constantly dead will be gone.

One of the reasons I like Dust is its built in anti-idiot feature.

I run a logi fitting that costs about 45,000 ISK a suit. So that means I have to be very intelligent about how I play. 4 deaths means I probably am losing money. However, I am decent at the game so it usually isn't a problem. However, people who run expensive fits and die all the time because they are Edited, will go broke quickly.

Being broke --> militia fits ---> quit

The only problem is that camping Edited will still be around, but at least the people who are constantly dead will be gone.

Enjoy your empty game world, you need to have people be it idiots or not to play the game to make it succeed

One of the reasons I like Dust is its built in anti-idiot feature.

I run a logi fitting that costs about 45,000 ISK a suit. So that means I have to be very intelligent about how I play. 4 deaths means I probably am losing money. However, I am decent at the game so it usually isn't a problem. However, people who run expensive fits and die all the time because they are stupid, will go broke quickly.

Being broke --> militia fits ---> quit

The only problem is that camping idiots will still be around, but at least the people who are constantly dead will be gone.

Being broke --> militia fits ---> top kd/r for my team

This may be the case now but when the market gets up and running combined with being able to transfer ISK from Eve, a 75k suit will be a drop in the bucket.

They're going to let people transfer money from their EVE accounts? This game is ruined.

Not for a while, likely 6 months to a year after release.

A delay won't stop the game from being ruined

Guess you'll just have to learn how to play politics, or be used as a pawn in the bigger game

;)

Still you're ignoring the fact that any kind of isk transfer will ruin the game

Still you're ignoring the fact that any kind of isk transfer will ruin the game

I whole-heartedly disagree. A smaller, dedicated player-base is much more interesting to play against.

If you hate playing good people, then I can see where you are coming from. However, I don't see the appeal in beating up on people who are worse than you. I like my wins to be earned, not handed to me on a noob platter.

I whole-heartedly disagree. A smaller, dedicated player-base is much more interesting to play against.

If you hate playing good people, then I can see where you are coming from. However, I don't see the appeal in beating up on people who are worse than you. I like my wins to be earned, not handed to me on a noob platter.

What are you guys talking about? Small player base pfft.
Do you know how many people were awarded 1M SP for participating in the last event? Over 41,000 players.
That's over 41,000 players who logged in during a 1 hour interval on a closed beta with a crap build.

Now think how many there will be on release and in the first year alone.

PS, I have these numbers from a conversation on IRC. They are sound.

Enjoy your empty game world, you need to have people be it idiots or not to play the game to make it succeed

That's why Eve has so many daily players right..?

Everyone in the beta got the 1M SP.

Ontopic: Militia fits are no reason to quit. I played 5 matches this evening with nothing but militia gear and averaged a kdr of 3. That's with 6 million SP, 2 mil. of which I got from events. To be honest I think most of my victories in 1-on-1 situations are actually due to my understanding of/experience with the effects of lag, which makes me sad.

Offtopic: Eve doesn't appear very difficult at all. When I messed about with it the tutorials really held my hand for a whole 2 week period. I guess Eve's reputation from earlier days is just hard to get rid of. Right now Dust is much tougher to understand in comparison.

It doesn't have many subscribers. Over 400,000 as of March this year. That's quite low. But its subscribers are pretty loyal I guess, so what it lacks in broad appeal it makes up for in really being attractive to a certain niche of players.

That's not low at all. You can't compare subscriber numbers for MMOs to WoW because it has far more than any MMO past or present. EVE has been steadily growing for about ten years and for a non-WoW MMO has a decent number of subscribers.