What war barge? EVE did away with most npc crap early on, DUST should too. OBs should be from player ships only, not a made up war barge. Or does it come from an invisible pink unicorn shooting rainbows out its butt? With that said OBs should totally be multicolored and touched up with some sparkles and glitter. Hell, rain down some pixies while your at it. They'll magically heal all troops on the battlefield.

We're still in beta, and most EVE players are dubious as to what possible reason they should give a crap about supporting us, so the standard OB is a placeholder mechanic. Once we start getting regular orbital support, the OBs will be even more nightmarish, because EVE warship guns hit harder than the NPC warbarge guns.

A LOT harder.

Okay, here's a question: Do they exist in new eden space and vulnerable to attack?

Just like the npc ran market in 2003, I believe this system should and will be replaced.

Well then, lets hope public matches are removed. Right now they're a necessary evil to acquire sufficient sp and isk.

depends on the corp, it doesn't take much to fit a catalyst or another type of destroyer class ship with small guns.

i'm already printing hybrid ammunition for mine. and we had 8 in orbit for a corp battle. shame the enemy corp was a single player and we couldn't earn enough WP to get the ability to use it. we even ignored him and try to let him cap points but he just sat on the red line and sniped.

ah sorry got the two confused. warbarges are the planet side ship not the one in space.

Nobody likes those players anyway. Random blues make the game unplayable half the time. I say good riddance.

I figure pub matches will decline once other types factor into gameplay and take over. Kinda like: "you still play pub matches? N00B"

without NPC warbarges, DUST players are completely at the mercy of EVE players, both in terms of fire support and in terms of delivery to a tactical hotspot where we can actually have matches and fight.

This

Is

a

bad

idea.

There's a lot of morons in EVE who are actively wanting DUST to fail because it's not on the PC. Or because they don't want something other than internet spaceships to matter. Or because they're jerks.

There's a lot more who don't see any reason to give a crap about DUST, and thusly will not participate in assisting us in any way.

The few who care are mostly here in beta, and the ones remaining are not enough to insure that there will be good fights to be had for us. DUST will stagnate and die if we have to rely on Podpoppers to do anything.

While I would train warbarges, I think that corps with a warbarge pilot in orbit should get some pretty awesome boosts to their game, and the warbarge pilots be rewarded along with their ground forces for taking the risk of flying a ship that's about as optimized for space combat as a brick covered in sandpaper.