DUST Search - Update from IRC 10/10/2012

Mobius Kaethis wrote:

I don't doubt that SP farming will be a constant annoyance in DUST. Its going to be one of those things that the Dev's will have to constantly battle since there is so much benefit and so little in the way of negative repercussions. Large scale boosting, like you have described, is going to be less of an issue since it is 1) hard to organize and 2) this will cause it to be much less common. The exploits that can be mined by a single squad are the ones that we are going to really have to fight against.

Remember, the best way to fight boosting is for us as players to refuse to play with those who do this. Boot them from your corps. Kick them from your squads. Leave games where they are at work. Tell them what they are doing is wrong and destructive to the game. The second to the last suggestion here is especially powerful since if everytime a known booster gets into a match everyone else simply ups and leaves they would not be able to participate in the game. All their long hours of boosting would be wasted and create the "I've got all proto gear but can't play because everyone on both teams leaves the match when they see me in battle. This would, in no uncertain terms, totally invalidate their SP farming. All we have to do to make it happen is spread the word to every other player we see.

So shout it out brothers and sisters. We, the players of DUST, will not tolerate SP farming. If we see you doing it we will do everything in our power to remove you from the game. Failing that we will remove ourselves leaving you in a universe of 1 with no gaming potential.


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Rasatsu Much Crying Old Experts 437	Posted - 2012.10.10 12:34:00 - [1] - Quote Repairing a vehicle should be a diminishing gains thing through the lifetime of that vehicle. Cause once the current thing is fixed, there will be other (more elaborate) exploits. E.g. a large group of cheaters organize, start playing a game mode not very popular (since corp-to-corp / 0.0 will seemingly be no-WP battles) and meet up somewhere on the map. When I say 'organised', I mean EVE-level kind of organised where someone sets up a website where you register and as you get in match you tell the site you're in-game and who the squad 1 leader are, some red players, etc and others who get into the same game look at the list of currently active games and when they find the active game in the list with matching players they add themselves automagically. Instant chat on the website to make arrangements and SP farming we are go.
Rasatsu Much Crying Old Experts 437	Posted - 2012.10.10 13:11:00 - [2] - Quote Mobius Kaethis wrote: I don't doubt that SP farming will be a constant annoyance in DUST. Its going to be one of those things that the Dev's will have to constantly battle since there is so much benefit and so little in the way of negative repercussions. Large scale boosting, like you have described, is going to be less of an issue since it is 1) hard to organize and 2) this will cause it to be much less common. The exploits that can be mined by a single squad are the ones that we are going to really have to fight against. Remember, the best way to fight boosting is for us as players to refuse to play with those who do this. Boot them from your corps. Kick them from your squads. Leave games where they are at work. Tell them what they are doing is wrong and destructive to the game. The second to the last suggestion here is especially powerful since if everytime a known booster gets into a match everyone else simply ups and leaves they would not be able to participate in the game. All their long hours of boosting would be wasted and create the "I've got all proto gear but can't play because everyone on both teams leaves the match when they see me in battle. This would, in no uncertain terms, totally invalidate their SP farming. All we have to do to make it happen is spread the word to every other player we see. So shout it out brothers and sisters. We, the players of DUST, will not tolerate SP farming. If we see you doing it we will do everything in our power to remove you from the game. Failing that we will remove ourselves leaving you in a universe of 1 with no gaming potential. I have no idea what kind of My Little Pony MMO or FPS you're from... In the previous post I just gave a pretty decent explanation of how I would go about organising such an exploit, and these kinds of things happen with pretty respectable frequency in EVE. Hello Kitty talk about how we're going to 'ostracize' those 'cheaters' isn't really going to do anything, as cheaters, RMT botters, etc, will just end up building their own communities.