I'm not saying it doesn't suck, it does.

But a lot of FPS players enjoy hanging out with buddies and blasting the enemy in the face. If they can still do that with their friends then I doubt they'll just drop DUST.

In EvE, the measure of your power is your wealth.

In DUST it's your marksmanship.

Losing your corp and identity is a huge hit to morale.

This. In a persistent single shard world, corps _will_ have assets (bases on planets, shared equipment), standings and reputation. After all, risk and loss which matter are the main selling points of Dust. And even in EVE, your reputation is in the end that matters - it gets you friends and enemies. Big alliances live and die by their morale and reputation. And this will propagate to Dust, as the world is shared. No one can remember names of all half a million characters - it's the standings and reputation that takes them to you.

And if you can kill reputation and morale, the group is dead. This is of course very difficult, and often takes hundreds of people and months to do. But it's also something that is done in EVE already, so it's a reality, not just theory. Dust being partially separate helps a bit in limiting that, but it's still theoretically possible.

i personally prefer to call them space gods because
a)most of them don't seem to care at all what happens done here on earth
b)they give the impression of being all powerful while actually being rather impotent without our intervention
c)they rarely have an impact on me and i can go about my business knowing they're somewhere up there

overlord presents them as some kind of scheming mastermind

It also implies some semblance of intelligence, and, if what I've seen of the EvE forums is anything to go by, that's a very rare commodity in the EvE community.

I imagine all the higher ups in the more powerful corps bought it all up or something.

please can some eve player link that over to the eve forums then give me the link, the response will be better than any film

They won't be ganking us. They wil be hiring us to gank the planetary assets of others.

We are dust compared to them. We mean little to nothing.

the mindset to consider. I mean the mindset of an mmo player who sinks months if not years into a character and a group will be radically different in how they perceive certain things, to an fps gamer who is more focused on his next unlock and his k/d ratio.

ftfy. Also Eve players are already here , and we will indeed infiltrate your corps, steal your stuff, and shoot you in the back, and then disband the corp when we are done. Totally fine by CCP.

Having played EVE of and on I'd be willing to bet there are already a few double agents in the bigger corps laughing and joking with you. Maybe he's your regular squad buddy. But all that time he reporting back to his true master keeping an eye on your assets, sharing your plans and waiting until you give him that all important role in your corp then BOOM all your assets are gone muhahahahah cough cough.

EVE players need to remember one thing. WE ARE MERCENARIES. I am in it for my own wallet, not yours, not a corps, not even my buddies down the hall. You can try to screw me over all you want. As long as I have a clone to spawn into I will keep on fighting for whoever will pay me the most.

As to bombarding "Friendlies" on the surface of a planet, you're only going to screw yourself. FPS gamers don't like to be stabbed in the back. They will make it their mission to do it to you, and it won't be at a corp level either. It will be a personal vendetta carried out by those you screwed. Vengeance will be swift, we won't need months of planning and prep to be ready to fight.

Unlike MMOs, FPS gaming is not a long term investment. We are in it for instant satisfaction from killing our enemies. Our enemies don't even have to be someone we don't like either. It could be our best-friend sitting beside us who happened to be on the opposite team, we will hunt them down to laugh at them after we kill them and them to us.

Simply put, bring it on. We are ready when you are.

[quote=Glorius UnKnWn]EVE players need to remember one thing. WE ARE MERCENARIES. I am in it for my own wallet, not yours, not a corps, not even my buddies down the hall. You can try to screw me over all you want. As long as I have a clone to spawn into I will keep on fighting for whoever will pay me the most.

As to bombarding "Friendlies" on the surface of a planet, you're only going to screw yourself. FPS gamers don't like to be stabbed in the back. They will make it their mission to do it to you, and it won't be at a corp level either. It will be a personal vendetta carried out by those you screwed. Vengeance will be swift, we won't need months of planning and prep to be ready to fight.

Unlike MMOs, FPS gaming is not a long term investment. We are in it for instant satisfaction from killing our enemies. Our enemies don't even have to be someone we don't like either. It could be our best-friend sitting beside us who happened to be on the opposite team, we will hunt them down to laugh at them after we kill them and them to us.

Simply put, bring it on. We are ready when you are.

alas your lack of a logibro means you have run out of ammo. now burn before my lazer!!

"ducks behind cover, waits for lazer to over heat"

yea and some eve overload will pick up the fragments of an infiltrated corp and refund them if good dust mercs become an asset to eve players

the war decs in eve work like this all the time some corp gets wiped out but the pvpers dont just quit they reform or some actually are asorbed by the corp who defeated them

"drops nanohive, starts tossing grenades"

done that-limit is three nades a hive
moves 2 feet away, grenade does nothing

moves into teammate's line of fire, remember a good logi never fights alone