Question. Are you going to be removing ALL items from our inventories? if so, (How) will you compensate us for lost Live Event prizes/officer gear?

The ideal situation, IMO, would be to allow us to sell items back to an NPC market at cost for a week, some time down the road. Alternately, opening player trading would be a good start as well.

We have learned a great deal throughout last year, both from the perspective of what works and what does not with regards to the progression system itself and more importantly how you are using the items to advance through the game.

Awesome, can't wait

... and a full list of in-game items for the Uprising update.

List of items? What about their stats?

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Question. Are you going to be removing ALL items from our inventories? if so, (How) will you compensate us for lost Live Event prizes/officer gear?

This is very important question. I think noone would like to loose all those "special" items, that can not be bought back in marketplace after reset.

Will the salvage items and vanity dropsuits remain untouched? I'd appreciate not loosing these.

I hope the future currency clarification will tell what will happen to:

- Officer gear
- event/tournament/PS Home/any rewards
- Former vanity suits
- Merc Pack / Assault Pack items

I trust you will not be removing militia BPO's as they have no skill requirements

Otherwise I'm just going to view this as a way to try and get more Arum out of players since you increased all the BPO prices since I purchased them........

One question that resonated with me from a friend is what will be the ISK value of officer grade weapons? If I am using the wrong term, I am talking about the weapons that come from rare salvage drops.

You realize that it says at market value at the time of the reset right? That means that if you paid less than they're worth now, then you'll get more Aurum than what you originally paid, if they get taken of course.

Your salvage will be reimbursed by their value in isk, however there is no official word yet on the "vanity dropsuits"

That is understandable. However, what is the value of Officer (Rare Item) salvage? There is no value associated with them. Does that mean they are priceless? All of these items should be kept for future trade and replaced with working items if they no longer work.

There are to many unknowns and I hope CCP sticks to their statement of releasing an Excel document with the new skill tree and weapons specs by the 25th of April. I will be highly disappointed if the don't.

There are to many unknowns and I hope CCP sticks to their statement of releasing an Excel document with the new skill tree and weapons specs by the 25th of April. I will be highly disappointed if the don't.

So this is live now? I noticed a great change in skill points.

I came here looking for this comment. What's your source on this? Has there been any news as to whether or not CCP will keep this schedule?

When will the Excel sheet with the new skill tree be posted as stated in the podcast? I look forward to reviewing before the release of uprising.

This is a myth apparently. We will not be getting any further information. We will just figure it out on May 6.

Officer salvage and other proto salvage needs to remain untouched. While I am sure the ISK will be reimbursed for skillbooks, there are simply too many items that I saved up and plan to use in next build.

or wait untill the information is released for fanfest... as they arnt going to give away everything that they are presenting at fanfest now will they...


wait 2 whole days

This is a myth apparently. We will not be getting any further information. We will just figure it out on May 6.

Officer salvage and other proto salvage needs to remain untouched. While I am sure the ISK will be reimbursed for skillbooks, there are simply too many items that I saved up and plan to use in next build.

I figured that much. So far CCP does not impress me with their statements. They have not followed through on any that I have seen do far. Including not giving us our blueprints from the human endurance event.

I personally like the game or the idea of it. But CCP has to understand that we are not PC players and we console gamers expect our games to work as stated. The game needs action, depth, and clear information that are all available from the console.

I have hopes for uprising, but so far the game progresses very slowly. Other console developers are churning out new DLCs including maps, gear, and play expansion at a rate that makes CCP look like they are from the dark ages. If they can not do the same they will end up going the way of the dodo bird...

So far CCP does not impress me with their statements. They have not followed through on any that I have seen do far. Including not giving us our blueprints from the human endurance event.

I am willing to wait for them to develop the game, but the communication is frustrating as hell.

im my experience, these devs have way more direct communication with their player base than most others...easily. what more do some of you want short of Wolfman or Foxfour coming to your house for a one on one QA over tea and biscuits?

If the DEVs hadn't come out many times and stated that they would be making this information available then I'd be waiting patiently. But they got everybody excited stating a few times that it would be released "next week". Then another DEV gets on and asks what we DEV blog everyone is waiting on.

It takes a forum poster finding a post on an Asian playstation forum from CCP to get them to post this one here.

I think it's great that CCP is as open as they are, but in business you don't make promises you can't keep. Either keep your mouth shut or expect your customers to become anxious for what you've stated you can deliver.

And to make one thing clear. I'm not angry with CCP about this. I'm disappointed. It will make me second guess them when they release information. I've seen people mention that our complaining will cause them to stop releasing information. At this point I think them keeping their mouth shut in regards to timelines would be a good idea. They don't have a good track record of meeting timelines. And instead of coming out and saying that things are delayed and apologizing they just go silent. This causes frustration.

I'm pretty sure they just said it would be available later this month. Given that it's still April no need to rage until at least the 1st of May.

Do i really need to tell you guys its coming on the 6th?

My corp is small and quite easily managed, but when a full 20% of the players just quit playing it is hard to maintain a player base that actually plays.

I BELIEVE only "items" are being refunded. It would be REALLY messed up if they messed w corps.

Ace, I'm 74% sure you are the only person who expected to receive BPO's from the Human Endurance event. You were definitely the only one complaining about it.

And for the first week it did state "blueprints".

Blueprint COPIES genius, not BPO's.

There is no such thing as a blueprint copy in Dust 514, GENIUS... This is not EVE. We have equipment and we have blueprints. Blueprints never run out, they are defined by the blue background in the icon for the equipment. Otherewise they are bought and used up. When they allow us to produce and build our own equipment like in EVE, then we will have blueprint copies. Get your games straight then talk to me about DUST 514. Until then keep your EVE lingo in EVE. It does not exist here just like 99% of the other stuff we are still waiting for.

Pay attention, foo- we don't buy items in Dust, we buy BPCs that are assembled into our clone fit when we spawn from a CRU. So 50 copies of dropsuit X is 50 BPC that will be built upon spawn. There is no walk-in closet in the merc quarters for your gear.