This had better be VERY far from the final project... Because as it sits, it's more than laughable, it's in the "complete disregard" pile.

I am not exaggerating when I say "the only reason I'm playing now is to grind sp for future builds."
I played through the entire MAG beta, I know how beta games play. During the MAG beta the game's core concepts of being an strategic, team based, objective oriented shooter was clearly present. In DUST it isn't :\

Nope.
The MCC Cestus costs 120 Million ISK for the base model.

And YOU may be ISK poor but some folks run militia/starter/basic and do collect ISK so to the question of if there were a way to purchase a Cestus MCC and give it a custom pirate paint job and call it the Black Pearl then why not??

Then with my purchased MCC and my pirate crew we can respond to a Corporate Contract Challenge with the words:

We ready.
Bring it *****.

This is definitely the worst build of the Beta so far, thanks to the huge influx in players and tiny boost in content.

One large problem is that instead of dealing with the load balanceing in May they instead opted to cut player counts by 50% from what was then being used.

They have had June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, Februrary and a good part of March with this issue still unresolved.

2007 MAG had 128 versus 128 player counts versus Dusts 16 and 16 in 2013.
Developer tools have evolved in the years since 2007.

What makes other FPS games not boring after you have played the same map 20 times a day for a week? Nothing comes to mind.

We have to wait for them to implement the rest of the game. For now, just let your passive skill points gain and check back after the next update, because... its free and you can do that without losing money.

Patience is the hardest thing to teach the FPS crowd. They always want instant gratification.