I don't see the reason for corp contracts not giving rewards though. You don't make more money than you lose by killing expensive suits, how will you farm them? If they just gave the players rewards, it'd be a lot better.

Hello?

No, you didn't. You didn't present a solution, because there isn't a problem. If you want to fight in large, organized teams, you have corp battles which reward no ISK/SP beyond the contract terms to the winner. If you want to play with friends for ISK/SP, you can hop in a squad and queue for public games.



The question doesn't remain. The question was solved by CCP the moment they added in squads and squad-queuing for fights.

Join public games for SP and ISK and recruits.

Join corp games for the challenges that are suitable for your skill as a player.

People who join public games with squads in high level gear with the intent of getting cheap kills are not worth the effort of spitting on. You do not build community, you do not encourage new players to stay, you do not encourage players to join your corp: you are bad people and serve as bad PR for the game. You are the cancer that kills the community from the inside.

If CCP gets the linkage right, Capsuleers will be pouring money into DUST514 in order to improve their space.

In the meantime, stop worrying so much about the SP needed for the next shiny thing, and focus on using your current shiny things as best you can. There is more player and team skill required in this game than SP with shiny things will compensate for.

What I'd like to see is to have the games locked in relation to SP and have mass corp deploy only function on SP unlocked games. For example;

HiSec battles = 0.0 SP to 2.99M SP, no mass corp deploy but can deploy a corp squad, players have to be under the 2.99M SP cap. Anyone over 3M SP is locked out.

LowSec battles = 0.0 SP to 5.99M SP, mass corp deploy, below 3M SP corp players can deploy at their own peril. Anyone over 6M Sp is locked out.

NulSec battles = 0.0 SP to 6M+ SP, mass corp deploy, below 6M SP corp players can deploy at their own peril and friendly fire turned on.

I think one part of protoman's post got a bit overlooked. What is wrong with this idea?



EDIT: Mercenary playlist for those who don't know is a separate queue where groups cannot enter

This is the best solution I have seen yet tbh

seperating the playerbase for a niche game is the problem.

if this game turns out to be as successful as cod in terms of ppl playing it regularly then **** yea bring on the mercenary playlist because then u have the playerbase to justify seperating the community like cod does but i highly doubt dust will ever have that amount of ppl playing it

Should we reduce fleet size to 4 in Eve as well as long as you're in high sec? This should keep industrial players feeling safe and playing the game. Should CCP have stopped Burn Jita? It would have probably saved them some industrial subscriptions. Maybe even a lot of them.

When imposing low caps on player groups in any capacity, all you're doing is ruining the enjoyment of the player corporations that drive your game forward. In fact, you're crippling them and crippling your capacity to move forward as a social game.

Let's take a look at Planetside 2, a game many of the people reading this post have played and possibly enjoyed. There's no group limit in Planetside 2, but the game has been a huge free to play success. New players haven't suddenly left in droves after being beaten by huge outfits. Limiting the squads and platoons in PS2 to a particular size would be pointless, and in fact doing so would just be a disservice to those people who organize such large numbers of players.

separating like FacWar, null sec, PvE missions all will do when we get to see more of those features?

I see no problem with making groups vs groups and randoms vs randoms.