however the battle systems best 4 PvP

I'm posting this here, instead of in Feedback, because I just want to get a feel for how the community would like to see Dust progress.

So the question is simple:

Would you like to see Dust become a more Open World/Sandbox experience, like the original Crysis, or the Farcry series?

Or would you like to have Dust keep its current Battle Arena setup, and see more in the way of Game Modes?

Personally, I would like to see a more Open World/Sandbox type of play, where PVE and PVP can happen at any moment, with the two being interchangable.

What would you like to see?

they can actually do both. open world is certainly the priority but contract types can be easily separated with game modes. allowing players to customize their experience and still stay true to dust lore. this would give the game serious variety and a never ending supply of both NPC and player corp contracts. a world where each contract type is a game mode would do well.

we addressed it here: http://tinyurl.com/ahwmme6

Dust 514 is getting its own battle arena mode where more classical game modes would be found.

The best part is you can set up a betting system on it and its probably going to have specially tuned maps instead of the random generated ones.

Open world and Exploration to come later though.

It's not going to be open world. Look at the game we are currently playing, is that remotely open world? You dont release a beta to a game that is nothing like the final product.

The "open world' meta game will involve contracts and PERHAPS moving war barges and the like in EVE space to prepare for attacks. But the actual DUST gameplay will be 100% like we are seeing now with two teams figthing an arena style match.

There wont be a mode where I walk around a planet exploring and randomly run into other DUST players.

If you want that experience, i guess, go play planetside?

But trust me, most FPS players will get bored of that experience cause it seems pointless. DUST has a chance to shine because of how its implementing individual matches (with wins and losses so the player feels their experience had a point, and a goal) with a bigger meta game to drive the importance of those results.

The lack of an open world design is what allows that to work. Open world FPS is a really cool theory, but from WWII Online, to Planetside, to Planetside 2, it just isnt all that much fun once you get passed the novelty.

the probly is that there are just 2 modes. increase that to 10 and add new ones regularly and you have a winner. would love to do bounty hunter and hired assassin as well.

tha was MAGs problem. they thought 3 good modes could hold players for a year but people got bored.

Hope this is not too divergent from the OP, but arena matches between groups of players (not necessarily corporations) with agreed upon terms (reward, match type, map, etc.) and that allows betting from others. Discuss. I am interested in hearing what you guys think.

Hope I don't need to say this, but I am: This is just something I would love to see, not something we are doing. I just want to get your guys opinion and feedback on it.

Hope this is not too divergent from the OP, but arena matches between groups of players (not necessarily corporations) with agreed upon terms (reward, match type, map, etc.) and that allows betting from others. Discuss. I am interested in hearing what you guys think.

Hope I don't need to say this, but I am: This is just something I would love to see, not something we are doing. I just want to get your guys opinion and feedback on it.

I'm posting this here, instead of in Feedback, because I just want to get a feel for how the community would like to see Dust progress.

So the question is simple:

Would you like to see Dust become a more Open World/Sandbox experience, like the original Crysis, or the Farcry series?

Or would you like to have Dust keep its current Battle Arena setup, and see more in the way of Game Modes?

Personally, I would like to see a more Open World/Sandbox type of play, where PVE and PVP can happen at any moment, with the two being interchangable.

What would you like to see?

Hope this is not too divergent from the OP, but arena matches between groups of players (not necessarily corporations) with agreed upon terms (reward, match type, map, etc.) and that allows betting from others. Discuss. I am interested in hearing what you guys think.

Hope I don't need to say this, but I am: This is just something I would love to see, not something we are doing. I just want to get your guys opinion and feedback on it.

I would like to see this as a sideshow.

However overall I would like to see Dust514 move more towards serious conflict over resources in New Eden and openworld fights.

Corp grudge matches and laddering type things are "nice to have" but I wouldn't want them distracting from what makes Dust514 unique.

the problem is that there are just 2 modes. increase that to 10 and add new ones regularly and you have a winner. tha was MAGs problem. they thought 3 good modes could hold players for a year but people got bored. would love to do bounty hunter and hired assassin as well.

Hope this is not too divergent from the OP, but arena matches between groups of players (not necessarily corporations) with agreed upon terms (reward, match type, map, etc.) and that allows betting from others. Discuss. I am interested in hearing what you guys think.

Hope I don't need to say this, but I am: This is just something I would love to see, not something we are doing. I just want to get your guys opinion and feedback on it.

For the OP: I see us having both eventually depended on the context of the action. I think we should always have set numbers though and let the clone count be influenced by the resources your corp has.

Even though there are only 24 or 64 or 256 on each side the clone count could vary widely. Someone could filed 8 people in a 24 v 24 match but have 1000 clones at their disposal.