Seeing that normal corp battles often are a dreary affair, I hope planetary conquest will be different. Corp battles as they've been played up to now normally consist of 20 minutes waiting and talking BS in a corp channel, followed by a battle that may or may not have any action in it.

Its the low pacing of everything in Dust that makes it, well, dreary. Facing good teams is a challenge and the battles may be very fun indeed, but those are far between. Even in those we often end up in situations where I get maybe 5-6 actual encounters during a battle, the rest is "staying at X just in case something red comes a long." This is mostly due to the huge maps relative to the small player counts, I hope it will improve over time.

I have to admit that I just watched a MAG domination vid and the pace of combat, map progression, the sence of urgency are all good qualities from MAG that are totally absent in Dust. In just about all the major MAG games I've played its more or less non stop action from start to finish, you never had to go far to find enemies. And yes I know, Dust isn't MAG and I don't really want it to be.

I just fear that the game becomes a nerd fest in the sence that we use more time on grouping up, discussing fittings, getting stuff organized, trading and so on, everything but playing hectic, chaotic, stressfull and exciting battles.

Now its easy, just do back to back Ambush games and you'll always have something to shoot at. Not that pubstomping with the occational good group on the other team is that much exciting in the long run, its still the place to go to if you want constant action and regular panic attacks.

So I ask you, the community, will we be able to keep the percentage of time spent in Dust doing actual battles, or will we spend even more time doing everything else?