Hey Foxfour, great to meet with you and drink with you at Fanfest. I still owe you 2 beers for losing that bet (you can collect them next year) and my wife was surprising cheerful that she got to talk about the pros/cons of python code!

Anyway, I have some questions, so here they are:

1) So since we can attack districts that belong to corps in our alliance. How do the OBs work in those cases, since the only rule you've told us is that anyone in the alliance can provide OBs.

Will they essentially be able to fire for both sides?


2) You mentioned during your PC talk that the loot chance to drop is 50% (just like eve). Does this apply to every suit, vehicle and everything fit on them (mods, weapons, equipment, grenades etc.) ? Because that is A LOT of loot.

How will the loot be shared amongst the mercs in battle?

Since you're working on mail I need to ask if this is or will be fixed.

With the neocom, for contacts and corp search, when you select a text box to bring up the keyboard for entry, you press X.
For mail however, pressing X SENDS, which is a bit annoying if you accidentally hit it thinking it'll bring up the keyboard, and end up sending a blank message. How simple would it be to just flip what the X and Square buttons do? Or make the whole thing consistent across the game so only Square brings up the keyboard. (Though if you did that, I'd still like send be moved to a button box at the bottom of the message, or set to the triangle button instead of X.)

(Yeah, the chat screen also uses Square that way, but since X doesn't do anything there unless you have it on the lists, it's less of an issue.)

I just wanted to say congratulations to the whole CCP staff for yet another awesome Fanfest (I just watched the stream) and I really hope you all had a blast, you really do deserve it.

I've been playing DUST for almost a year now, and it's been great to watch the progress, and seeing how true to your vision you've stayed is inspiring for me. It was good seeing you all up on stage, smiling and doing what you love to do; bringing us the coolest experiences in gaming, day after day.

Take it easy everyone, watch those hangovers. One day I hope to meet you all and toss a few back, but for now I'll just live vicariously

Here's to another 10 amazing years CCP, and 1000 more to come.

We are aware of this issue however there are no changes coming to it for Uprising. We hope to be looking at it in the future though.

I look forward to seeing you at a future Fanfest in person! :P

It would be, it however is the best fit. I have a document around somewhere in which I describe every region in the game and give a reason why it should or should not be considered, if it is considered why it should or should not be the chosen one. Molden Heath won out. That is a LONG document. :(

I kinda want to look at that document.

Not going to show the whole document, for many reasons, I will however dig up a TL;DR version of it.

The following regions are involved in FW so are removed:

• Devoid
• The Bleak Lands
• The Citadel
• Black Rise
• Essence
• Verge Vendor
• Placid
• Heimatar
• Metropolis

The following regions are removed because they are null sec:

• Wicked Creek
• Venal
• Vale of the Silent
• Tribute
• Tenerifis
• Tenal
• Syndicate
• Stain
• The Spire
• Scalding Pass
• Querious
• Pure Blind
• Providence
• Parrigen Falls
• Period Basis
• Paragon Soul
• Outer Ring
• Outer Passage
• Omist
• Oasa
• Malpais
• The Kalevala Expanse
• Insmother
• Impass
• Immensea
• Great Wildlands
• Geminate
• Fountain
• Fethabolis
• Fade
• Etherium Reach
• Esoteria
• Detorid
• Deklein
• Curse
• Cobalt Edge
• Cloud Ring
• Catch
• Cache
• Branch

Removed due to mostly being high security:

• Kador
• The Forge
• Everyshore
• Tash-Murkon
• Domain - Also just ungodly big.
• Lonetrek - What low security space it does have is broken up by high security
• Sing Laison
• Kor-Azor
• Derelik
• Genesis - Actually is more low security space, but it is all broken apart by high security pockets.

To many temperate planets:

• Metropolis - Double the number of worlds we wanted, half of it is high security, and it is just a REALLY large region
• Khanid
• Derelik - This was almost removed for high security space, but the low security stuff is basically all group together so it would work.
• Arridia

This left us with two regions:

• Molden Heath: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath#sec
• Solitude: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Solitude#sec

Comparing the two of those left us with Molden Heath for the following reasons:

• There is less high security space breaking things up; the three low security systems in Solitude shown at the bottom of the Dotlan map don't even have temperate planets.
• Molden Heath has more varying stratigic value with systems hidden away behind other systems with no temperate planets. Attrition means those will be harder to take.
• Molden heath is cleaner and easier for us to show on the new infographic map. Something to consider when it is the first and only region out the gate and the one that will be the most viewed.
• Molden Heath is also more active from the EVE side of things.

Analysis? I just looked at all the regions and picked Molden Heath. Much less work that way.

Since you are the guy working on corp mails, you seem to be the best person to ask....

Will the Dust side mail send window be fixed? I've sent MANY blank messages on mistake.

I don't even recognize that term, where was it used?

Hey man, want to say community loves you, also I know this might be little unrelated but I don't think I heard anything from fanfest about it. My question is: when are the rts elements going to be introduced? or are you guys still doing that? i.e. turret placement and mcc piloting?

oh wow you're actually responding, so you work on PC right? well I think ISK needs to be divided at the end of a PC match based on WP not everyone getting the same amount of ISK, it punishes offensive players.

oh wow you're actually responding, so you work on PC right? well I think ISK needs to be divided at the end of a PC match based on WP not everyone getting the same amount of ISK, it punishes offensive players.

The ISK and loot distributed at the end of a match for planetary conquest will be based on on time spent in the match. Not WP and not evenly (unless all the players joined at the same time). You will also get loot/ISK if you leave the match, again only if you were in it for more than 60 seconds.

oh wow you're actually responding, so you work on PC right? well I think ISK needs to be divided at the end of a PC match based on WP not everyone getting the same amount of ISK, it punishes offensive players.

But that's not fair, if I contribute more I should get more! do you not see that? or are you blind foxfour?

But that's not fair, if I contribute more I should get more! do you not see that? or are you blind foxfour?

Or you could just die less.

I'm not changing my play style for any game. I'm the best type of play style and I'm going to stay that way.

Why should you get more?

Planetary conquest is about working as a team for the team objective of winning and conquering planets.