I'm not from MAG.

Hay... fair warning to anyone reading this thread: LOTS or INDIVIDUALS have far more ISK than that in EvE. The Goons will rob you blind if you give them the chance though. They will take everything they can get from you and leave you high and dry. That's just how they roll. Google them before you apply to join them is all I'm saying. If you don't know what the SomethingAweful forums are, you are not able to join the goons at all. You've been warned.

/troll/ SomethingAweful? Is that like 4chan? /endtroll/

Cerebral, I totally agree with you. TBH I don't think CCP can do anything to stop the flow of ISK really. We are going to be given contracts from EVE corps and alliances. They will be the ones giving dust Merc ISK. So how can CCP stop the flow of ISK?

i dont know if this could work and i havnt finished reading everything in this thread, but couldnt ccp just raise in-game isk in dust (isk gained from rewards/prices on weaps and everything) to make dust seem like an isk sink for eve?

I substituted VETERAN for EVE for a better fit. IMO it doesn't matter if you're an EVE player, but it does matter if you're a veteran player. You will have information those coming into the DUST game won't. It's not as big a learning cliff as EVE but for FPS players it's close.

But let's say that EVE players come in with trillions of isk and others come in with millions. Won't matter. As DUST mercs we support ourselves as is through public games, this won't change regardless of EVE involvement. So even scrubs like us can make enough/give enough to corp to keep everyone in the best suits/vehicles.

My point... ISK will matter a little bit, but not more than skill at shooting people. Shooting people makes isk, if you dont have skill at killing and have tons of isk, who cares.

/troll/ SomethingAweful? Is that like 4chan? /endtroll/

i dont know if this could work and i havnt finished reading everything in this thread, but couldnt ccp just raise in-game isk in dust (isk gained from rewards/prices on weaps and everything) to make dust seem like an isk sink for eve?

As far as a return on investment for EVE players, how about sovereignty? If DUST districts become an integral part of holding sov, EVE players will have plenty of reasons to be involved.

Something can be an ISK sink and still provide a nice income for the people involved. Just look at Faction Warfare. For the economy as a whole, Faction Warfare is considered an ISK sink (I don't have the articles to link to for stats, sorry) largely because players trade ISK and Loyalty Points for faction items which have to made out of other items purchased from the market. The pilots in Faction Warfare make a killing selling these valuable items, but because they had to pump resources into the NPC factions to get those goodies, the market as a whole loses those resources for good. AFAIK we don't really know how the goodies in DUST are going to be produced, but if any part of the production chain includes giving ISK to an NPC faction, then it's going to be a sink, even if there are individuals making billions. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I am also a little worried about the wealth balance, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it will be quite so apocalyptic. There will be the occasional obvious imbalance in forces, but that already happens in sov war.

As far as a return on investment for EVE players, how about sovereignty? If DUST districts become an integral part of holding sov, EVE players will have plenty of reasons to be involved.

FW as an ISK sink? Yeah, technically it is but just look at the total ******* hash that CCP made of FW and how it was abused to get people billions and billions of ISK by just flying around a beacon and not even playing the game. Yeah, nice job there.

exactly and the top corps get richer while the avg/bad corps stay poor
imo i think they needs to be some sort of conversion rate/tax for EVE to DUST transfers
but that still doesnt stop the flow as good teams will keep gettin the big payouts which is understandable

guess we'll just have to wait and see

+1 for the topic Wolf, seen a few like this before and always good to get discussions like these goin instead of the usual forum troll threads

FW is an isk sink. Because those billions of isk you're talking about are in assets lying around in peoples hangars that had to be bought with isk one way or another. Those isk are gone. These people get rich in isk on their wallet after they sell that stuff to other people for isk. And those isk come from other players wallets. The only thing that happend is that a few people get isk from many other people that created that isk via other means like ratting or mission running. But FW doesn't create isk.

And that those people got them LP for orbiting buttons with prop fitted frigs (I like how the iPhones autocorrect wanted to make that frogs ;) doesn't even mater. Isk was sunk. Farmers got their money from other players.

@Cerebral Wolf Jr

Dust 514 has gone beyond the point of logic. Your facts and common sense have no effect here.

Don't i know it! I was hoping the level of common sense on the forums may have gone up a little while i was away but it seems that was a bit too much to ask for!

As for their being a min/max setting on contracts it would go against the whole "sandbox" experience but putting that aside, even if it was implemented there would be people out there with enough free time, no girlfriend and no job who'd be willing to do something so tedious just to gain an upper hand, it wouldn't encourage it, just skew the abuse towards a particular type of player.

Also this is Cerebral Wolf.

SomethingAwful is where the guys behind 4Chan came from, if you do your homework you'll see that 4Chan is run my old members of SA who happened to be banned from the community for various reasons, like acting as children and enjoying child ****.

Ir's also worth mentioning that being a member of SA alone will not get you in Goonwaffe or Immobile Infantry, we've strict regulations on even our own members to prevent spais getting in.

I didn't attack him, i voiced an opinion i knew he wouldn't like because i hate "shmoozers" i think you americans call them that, correct me if i'm wrong. It's interesting to come back after a little break and see how certain individuals have managed to convince large portions of the community to support their own selfish agendas when there's little to no reason for it at all just yet. Someone had to say something and there's a good chance a lot of people who've been here while i've been away have failed to notice it as a large change in direction for many people simple because its been done gradually so as not to attract attention.

Anyway, moving on! People love EPEEN Mushroom stamps here, it's what i hate about the console community myself but i think that could just be an age things as you're average console gamer is younger than me now a days. They've attracted more users over the years and i've just got older. Yes i see the similarities you mentioned too, which is part of the reason i like you guys so much, you attract a lot of **** for the same reasons so i can relate because i know a lot of it is just jealous idiots.

I wouldn't say Goons don't let people be individuals, we actually encourage it but anyone who's just an outright idiot or does something that you couldn't get away with in the real world, like sexism, racism etc is instantly called out over it and typically hung drawn and quartered publicly. We do expect a certain level of maturity from our guys internally at least, we couldn't a give **** what do to non goons as many people know.

Project anything you like, i respect people with opinions and who are straight up a hell of a lot more than those manipulative types as i'm pretty sure you've worked out already, i'm always rubbing someone up the wrong way though, though voicing my opinion, being older or just being a part of a culture a lot of people don't get, i stopped letting it bother me years ago.




The CSM has actually released their agenda for the winter summit recently there's to be discussions by the CSM on the EVE/Dust link, i've formally requested that the CSM also bring the topic of conversation over here as it's important that part of the discussion takes place here with us not being limited by the NDA and not everyone here being EVE players either. I hope they listen because this is massively important stuff and shouldn't be left just to a single community to discuss.

As far as your post, the theory right now, as far as we know is that EVE corps will place contracts to pay Dust corps so obviously there's going to be a cross over and a link but it's the larger economic stuff that worries me, manufacturing, item costs etc.

There's nothing stopping Goonwaffe putting up a 100 billion isk contract up on the first day for a planet directly to our corp and paying us even if we loose i'm guessing and that's got to be addressed. There's also the fact that corp contracts don't pay individual corp members, it's deposits the funds into the corp wallet for the CEO/Directors to distribute which i also think is open to abuse for isk transfer reasons so i've actually emailed CmdrWang about it hoping to get some more details because i've got some ideas on it that can stop it being abused and everyone knows how good Goons are at thinking outside the box to abuse game mechanics.

It would make more sense to me for example to just allow the corp to set a flat tax rate that takes away what ever percentage that corp decides from the overall corp contract reward and to distribute the rest of the funds evenly between those who took part in the battle.

For me doing it in it's currently way i'd just get Mittens or someone to set up a contract for a few billion isk, once its in the corp wallet i can transfer it myself right away and that will be abused.

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