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Vrain Matari ZionTCD Legacy Rising 404	Posted - 2012.11.14 17:28:00 - [1] - Quote CCP will do something to make planets valuable, but for me that is missing the point, and to get it wrong will be genuinely dangerous for CCP. I realize that's a dramatic statement, imo it's not hyperbole. The EVE-DUST union has a big burden riding on its shoulders: fixing nullsec, and here's why. I don't think CCP can afford for DUST to fail. Perhaps they could survive it, I dunno. The kicker is that for DUST to succeed it has to be completely integrated into the highest and deepest levels of New Eden. As a game, we all know already that DUST demands a significantly greater investment of time and effort than other FPSs require. A player willing to make that investment will be unsatisfied if CCP consigns them to be the gimps of New Eden, unable to truly affect the economic and geopolitical landscape. This means Technium, or something equally crucial, must be in principle controllable by DUST corps/alliances or in some way REQUIRE Dust corporations to gain/maintain control of the resource(or the subsequent manufacturing process). If this is not the case, DUST players will not be attracted to the higher game, and we're left with an RPGFPS that offers only glorified pub matches with an economy tagged on. We all know this is fail. With DUST, CCP has to execute a magic trick. They have to fix the stagnation in null in order to make DUST attractive to DUST corps/alliances. ATM, that means fixing tech production. At the same time, with Technium or some other resouce spread out a little more, perhaps with multiple channels of aquisition, something will have to be done about supercap warfare. CCP is going to have to find a way to make smaller engagements desireable in the aquisition of these resources, or we will again see super-alliance domination and a second era of stagnation, except with EVE-stagnation driving DUST-stagnation. It's quite a challenge. What CCP has going for them is thay can integrate slowly and carefully. What CCP has working against them is that New Eden is a complex system(in the technical sense), so trial-and-error will be requred to get it right. And this is trial-and-error in an area that the EVE and DUST endgame players are deeply invested in.
Vrain Matari ZionTCD Legacy Rising 404	Posted - 2012.11.15 13:56:00 - [2] - Quote Ops Fox wrote: Well if anyone bothered to read the article then I think planetary resources could be requireed to upgrade your POS and since CCP mention that maybe controling planets would affect space combat in a more direct way. For example some areas of W-space affect ships differently with benefits and penaltys. the team who controls planets could get a bonus towards thier ships making planets important force multiplyiers ontop of resource production. Got to forgive spelling and grammer mistakes people I doing this on my phone. (p.s. ask avenger 245 why if he ever comes back) I think you are right on the money tieing Planetary Resources to the Nullsec manufacturing chain, Ops Fox. I'd really like to see for Null something like: (Planetary Resouces + Planetary Manufacturing)(Nullsec Resources + POS Manufacturing) = viable tech 1 production. There's so many ways to approch the problem, but for DUST the crucial factor is that Planetary resources and* manufacturing be a fundamental part of the nullsec resource extraction/manufacturing equation.

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