Firstly to Kagehoshi, I love this idea completely. The concept of having highly self-sufficient, self-repairing drones (logi-drones) is great and the swarm idea is also pretty fantastic! I sincerely hope this is the plans they have for rogue drones sooner(tm) rather than later.

Furthermore, the mining/worm drone is about socks-off rockin buddy!

As for the the PvPvE mission concept, it's something we've got posted in here as well. In my mind, I saw it as rather a conflict of real-time interests, whereas you have a PvE mission squad out looking for deep-space anomalies to investigate...once scanned down, they go there and begin clearing it out, but with the risk of it being spotted, hunted, and killed by a band of mercs looking to PvP. Or even to the point where they are hiding in the ruined station, waiting for the explorers

This of course should be differentiated depending on risk/location as "closed" mission are safer (Static and AI only) and "open" anomalies have a 'backdoor' so to speak for any and everyone, EVE or Dust. Of course, these are compensated with far greater chances of loot ^^


To Nightingale, in a lot of ways, I agree with you, however the assumption that this should be purely for a certain "group of people" suggests to me you may have not played a lot of Eve Online. When we become active players out in 0.0, one of the key ways to be able to be competitive with the Eve Players will be to have equal opportunities to make isk. While it may not seem a major fact of life now, it is crucial if we want to act independently. You're other options will be 1. Heavy Taxes from Eve Alliances and their regional support (if not essentially having them become the CEO's of your corps), 2. Dependencies on PvP winnings, effectively monopolizing anyone who has better skill/gear/organization than yourself. PvP winnings also have a relatively higher cost in terms to most players than PvE content ususally does, thus making this method even more challenging. This is not only rather narrow, but unfortunately very boring. There is little room for crafting, building, exploration, or even land really. If we leave things as such, we will soon find a very undynamic game dominated by those with a select set of abilities or items.

That being said, there is certainly merit to the balance between the two. I've actually argued the reverse of your post (0 SP gain, ISK rewards only) but I can see reasons to possibly go the other route. Whichever way it is, I do honestly believe that PvP (In Dust) should be the most rewarding of the preset missions, however the real gem in New Eden is that it is designed in such a way as to allow players to form their own means of making isk. I'd prefer this far more than a structured Isk/SP gains/losses ratio that people can easily calculate and abuse (either way)

I hope CCP Doesnt make PvE insta battle because honestly id only play PvE ALL THE TIME.Hope they only make it like mercenary contract events,it would still make it still fun to play when we can and it wouldnt pull alot of the players away from pvp.

Way, way, way way way more then 1,000 planets.


http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Planet

7000+ I believe it was...?

There won't be any PvE in the Uprising build.

We said at Fanfest last year that we wan't to do it, and we have continued thinking about it internally. Nothing solid yet and no ETA, but as far as Planetary Conquest is concerned we would like to tie it to that in someway. Something like owning a district with a specific SI allows for PvE battles to be started, or makes them more common. Not sure yet, still just thoughts in our heads, but we are thinking about it.

This was in another thread but will post it here to. SInce it applies.




I see not reason not to mix PvP and PvE to varying degrees.

There could be PvE with no PvP allowed.

PvE with some PvP allowed.

And PvE with little or no restrictions on PvP.

I think the same sort of structure exists in EVE, where you can still interact with other players even while fighting against the NPC and AI controlled enemies.

No joy on PvE for Uprising. From the reddit AMA going on now at http://www.reddit.com/r/dust514/comments/1ckz34/dust_514_developer_ama/?limit=500...





EDIT: And while we're on the subject, I think integrating PvE into planetary conquest is very unfortunate. It would be far more useful for casuals and blueberries, to help them learn the game without the pressure of human opponents. I wish I'd had a PvE surivival mode for the first few days, something like Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.

Besides, my impression is that a large part of the difficulty of implementing PvE content is making it sufficiently challenging...it's going to be far more difficult to challenge the top tier gamers than it is the new players, so making them your target audience sets a much higher bar for the initial PvE development effort.