KalOfTheRathi
CowTek
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Posted - 2013.01.16 08:09:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:It's not a game you're supposed to play everyday for the skill points.
You play for isk, territory, assets - it's not all about character progression. It just feels that way because you're not fighting a constant war to keep all of the things you have. Although I agree with you and Ownbama's post the teething problems are very evident. It is a Beta. Yes, I know that.
Aeon, your items don't exist yet. Only the ISK exists and once someone has acquired several million what does it mean? Not much. I can easily make 1M ISK a day. So it doesn't really matter because the only thing that really changes anything currently is SP. And that is being doled out as Ownbama comments regarding keeping more people playing everyday. Regardless of either of your positions CCP is explaining this as an MMO/FPS/RPG in EVE Space. The MMO part is lacking. The RPG is choked. The FPS is limited by the RPG and only the EVE players can see the long view because EVE has been a nine year project.
We need to have people to play with. They need the server infrastructure to be ramped up to handle the load. Having us all swoop in after a Tuesday (Wed US) weekly reset would leave few to play the noobs, except more noobs, on a typical weekend. Which is when the majority of new players will probably join us. So we play this way. A little bit everyday.
I look forward to more. To getting a planet to call our own. And a system. Different planets for different alliances of Dust Corps for example. It just isn't here yet. Or even territory. What is territory in DUST? Land. Continents. Planets. Space. I don't know and you are the first person to mention it to me. How is a DUST514 player going to connect to that possibility when they are not an EVE player? I don't know. I am not, nor have I ever been an EVE player.
I cannot progress my RPG characters, which you say I shouldn't even be focusing on. Only there is Nothing else to focus on. Driving a LAV backwards or running down Blue Snipers just are not things that can maintain my interest for long, if at all. And the average DUST Beta Tester is doing what exactly? Building up their FPG characters so they can get better gear. And working on enabling larger Corps by acquiring more SP.
My situation is worse than an outsiders. I saw what was possible. Now, what I played is no longer available nor will it ever be. To get back to where my two characters were will take ~five months. Adding my pilot back in or the pilot functionality will be another four months with most gain focused on one character. Over lapping them can get them back to where I was before the wipe, I can do better allocation this time anyway, will take four months of playing at least two characters daily for a couple of hours a day. Probably another month added on because the pilot issues weren't all known at the time. There still isn't an initial pilot equip.
And it is still a Beta. With no release date. |