we need to wait on CCP to start implementing new features.The last build was to implement a lot of features, current for bug fixes, next? well there are already threads asking about that.

I think now CCP has improved on functionality and performance, the next should be content.

More levels, implement the scrambler riffle and other weapons coming into play, better accessibility, faction warfare, queue sync, training grounds etc....

atm it is very linear - get in a match, shoot. Rinse repeat. Even though it's been nearly a year, there's still no reason to winning other than leader boards.... and nobody cares about that stat.

I do however understand that the first year was a roll out of core functionality and these were major updates, we are still a long way from being "Stable". I would like to see new content next patch - what it is I don't mind, but give the matches meaning (to the corp or the player)

It makes sense to get the gun game down first, before piling on the cross-game interaction. By doing both at the same time it'll be very hard to pin down what's wrong with the game at any point, and EVE players won't appreciate having to carry a half-baked concept on the back of their own game.

Instead they're trying to make a game that can stand on its own against the others out there today, and only once that is achieved, add real far-reaching consequences that will immediately set it on another level than the endless deathmatch repetition of the most popular FPS games.

I wasn't sure about Dust six months ago, but after Chromosome's surprising jump in quality I think they might just pull it off.

Hit the SP cap? Then grind it out on another character for the day. Three characters x6 matches is around 2 hours without all the restocking and waiting for squads multiply this by 3 and you have over 6 hours a day of productive leveling. During the week if your still hitting 3 caps and have time to spare GO GET SOME SUN.

What else is there to do?

Nothing.

Hopefully, the Open Beta will enable more features and CCP will gradual include some of their promised features that got Non-Eve players, like myself, to join. Then there will be a different answer available.

Right now. Pretty much, nothing.

I have two characters. It was better with the Weekly SP Cap because after the weekly update there were a lot of battles that I could get my primary up to the cap in a few days. Or close enough, I usually quit when the rewards were too meager. Why bother, wait until next week. Then I would switch to my alt and do it again. The rewards weren't as high because a lot of the higher level players had exited after the SP Cap had hit them like my primary, and it took a little longer to hit the Cap.

Now, I have to grind everyday. On both my characters. Until I get bored and switch to a game that has rewards that are not meager.

Something versus Nothing.

I have been patient. I am becoming less so.

The "Something Else" that I'm looking for is a force composed of infantry, artillery, Armored core, and Air units under a coordinated command attacking a like force with complex strategy and tactics.

Dust is promising a much deeper FPS experience than a simple four man squad running in circles capturing points, and that is what I'm sticking around for. If it remains nothing but meaningless matches limited to squad tactics it won't be any more interesting than any other FPS out there.