Zekrin Free
GamersForChrist
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Posted - 2013.03.21 20:11:00 -
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Out of 1000 posts 300 went to 5 guys in a cyclic debate about how losing ISK to win is an exploit, but we're all broke!
Vaerana Myshtana had a good idea on skills to boost ISK in post #340. Skihids was right that this is a "peacock's tail" from back in post #738. They guy who doesn't want fanboys responding in post #1078 claims it will be 3 days for all land to be taken, not a 3hour land grab rush. Hmmm, I agree. My corp is top 150 for warpoints, so out of the 250 districts we're involved enough to earn a spot and when I talked to them they weren't interested much when I said we defend the same map everyday until we lose it. I talked with another corp (the EVE player in it said "we can benefit much from an alliance with each other"...typical) that is ranked close to us and they only had 2 people online.
People talk with certainty that corps will split up to take more. I sure hope so! The majority of players are in NPC corps! Tens of thousands in each one! They aren't apart of this. It seems there are so many ways to be punished in the name of balance, but I have a sneaking suspicion all this debate is coming from exclusive EVE players who bought a PS3 to get an edge on the Dust side of things.
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Zekrin Free
GamersForChrist
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Posted - 2013.03.21 21:38:00 -
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Here's my wildest hopes for this Planet Conquest build:
1. Mercs in the corps wanting officer gear and high stakes fun with consequence will do PC for the one capital of the planet. Everything will be as Django and co. analyzed and proposed for universal domination.
2. Mercs can also look for jobs in the Planet Conquest Districts. They'll require a 4 man squad that will utilize co-op skills to kill a few drones, or turn off a forcefield, kill a prototype clone, steal a document upload a hack signal etc. The maps will be small (inside preferably) and skirmish 1.0 style in that you progress to the end objective. Your reward will be petty ISK but also 1 resource for a recipe to make items you get in market but not in salvage (modules for example). Depending on what's happening over the planet perhaps there is an additional challenge like no radar, or drones are tougher, or your shield resets every 30s, or the mission timer is shorter. Districts that were successfully tampered with only reduce planets EVE bonuses by a percent. The goal is for PS3 gamers to have some fun, try a tradeskill. A cutscene at the beginning would be nice like your merc is having their conscious scanned since the job has already been done (EVE and DUST don't have to interact in realtime for these missions) and when the mission is over you either get congratulated and offered a gift from your employers or not. The more missions you do the higher your popularity rating with different race employers for better recipe items. Corps will look to take all types of jobs to get the variety needed to build an item bundle. Note: no warpoints here.
3. Faction warfare will offer pure carnage. Four colours are on the map instead of two, thus no more stuck at the redline since there are 3 enemies to shoot at but they also shoot each other. There will be outside map support dropping one of each installation every 2min that are not hackable yet still destroyable. No vehicles allowed here. No warpoints either. Put an ISK counter on the screen that is constantly climbing in value for time in the game and jumps up on kills too (your payout). Periodically make certain parts of the map lethal (environmental hazard or space warfare debris, just a bomb really) where players have 15s to move their fight. Make the matches long, with people constantly hopping in and out, they don't pick a side either and the kill feed is streamed to EVE for their own statistics/bonuses.
Summary of my idea:
PC for districts won't effect universe much, offer a relaxed varfiety to DUST and let PS3 people do a tradeskill. Reward is mainly the recipe item.
PC for capital will offer the competitve bragging rights, corp/alliance domination, officer gear etc.
FW will be for crazy money to return back to to PC fights, and for mindless fun.
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