DUST Search - The Gameplay Paradigm

Aeon Amadi wrote:

Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the TL;DR version.

Right, so. To be brief, I want to get this out on the board real fast. I enjoy the hell out of Dust 514. I love it to death. I've been playing Eve Online since 2005 and I actually enjoy Dust 514 more than I do Eve Online.

However. I've run into sort of a predicament that... I honestly don't know the answer to.

Once I hit my daily SP cap and ensure that I'm on the same level as my peers, the battles become solely for the ISK and assets. Sure, officer gear is fun but it's not something I'm going to spend countless hours grinding away for.

Now, as an Eve player, ISK is no issue. I can fund entire armies. Hell, I can hire two or more corporations to fight solely for my own pleasure - in fact, I already have when I recently pitted two major Dust corporations against one another and tossed them a few million ISK BECAUSE I CAN.

Arrogance aside... I know for a fact that one day all of these Dust mercs are going to be filthy frakking rich. They're going to run into the same predicament that I'm facing. What are we fighting for..?

This is already an issue for me because I can just throw ISK at any problem I face. I hit the daily cap and thats... pretty much it. I can pour ISK down like a waterfall and afford all of the prototype gear I can honestly lose and still come out with a profit and I know one day, all of you are going to have that very same issue.

So... What are we fighting for..? Territory is nice, but it's not implemented yet. Not sure when it's going to be implemented, honestly. In Eve Online there's a billion things to do, if I'm tired of running missions and killing NPCs I'll go corner the market on Oxygen. If I'm tired of that I can go try my luck with pirate/bounty hunting. Tired of that I can set up planetary colonization and any other endless list of things because there's just that much to do in Eve Online.

Aside from instant matchmaking, fights for sovereignty/faction warfare and the PvE element of fighting Rogue Drones - what else is there to do? Maybe I'm overlooking something...

TL;DR Version - Have more ISK than I know what to do with and hit the SP cap. Other than FW/fighting Rogue Drones, what else is there to do?


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DJINN Riot Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 20	Posted - 2013.01.16 11:32:00 - [1] - Quote Aeon Amadi wrote: Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the TL;DR version. Right, so. To be brief, I want to get this out on the board real fast. I enjoy the hell out of Dust 514. I love it to death. I've been playing Eve Online since 2005 and I actually enjoy Dust 514 more than I do Eve Online. However. I've run into sort of a predicament that... I honestly don't know the answer to. Once I hit my daily SP cap and ensure that I'm on the same level as my peers, the battles become solely for the ISK and assets. Sure, officer gear is fun but it's not something I'm going to spend countless hours grinding away for. Now, as an Eve player, ISK is no issue. I can fund entire armies. Hell, I can hire two or more corporations to fight solely for my own pleasure - in fact, I already have when I recently pitted two major Dust corporations against one another and tossed them a few million ISK BECAUSE I CAN. Arrogance aside... I know for a fact that one day all of these Dust mercs are going to be filthy frakking rich. They're going to run into the same predicament that I'm facing. What are we fighting for..? This is already an issue for me because I can just throw ISK at any problem I face. I hit the daily cap and thats... pretty much it. I can pour ISK down like a waterfall and afford all of the prototype gear I can honestly lose and still come out with a profit and I know one day, all of you are going to have that very same issue. So... What are we fighting for..? Territory is nice, but it's not implemented yet. Not sure when it's going to be implemented, honestly. In Eve Online there's a billion things to do, if I'm tired of running missions and killing NPCs I'll go corner the market on Oxygen. If I'm tired of that I can go try my luck with pirate/bounty hunting. Tired of that I can set up planetary colonization and any other endless list of things because there's just that much to do in Eve Online. Aside from instant matchmaking, fights for sovereignty/faction warfare and the PvE element of fighting Rogue Drones - what else is there to do? Maybe I'm overlooking something... TL;DR Version - Have more ISK than I know what to do with and hit the SP cap. Other than FW/fighting Rogue Drones, what else is there to do? The draw for me, is playing with my corp mates. I'll roll through 100 75sp games, just because i enjoy my corp mates, and we have fun, we laugh, we BS, we talk about life etc. That's where the enjoyment comes from for me, it's the only reason I've been able to tolerate this at times buggy game. I'am pretty sure, it is the same reason people still play eve. There is a lot to do, but at the end of the day, its the people who keep you coming back.