It feels a little underwhelming. It reminds me a lot of the RPG in Battlefield 2.

I think the Single Transferable Vote system as used in electing CSM 8 is one way to mitigate dead weight candidates. I think the CPM will need to watch how CSM 8 develops and see how STV and merit -based travel impact the quality of the council.

in the end I feel that the community and players should have their voices heard and any processes put into place ensure that everyone's vote counts and isn't tossed out on a whim.

So

Vehicles

How ****** are we in uprising?

There is a new feature called vehicle recall that I think will interest all drivers and pilots. I'm really pleased with some of the changes that have been made to dropships as well.

To put it simple I may actually spec into dropships myself. I had a great time flying the assault variant during the Fanfest Tournament. I still think a lot of work needs to be done to give dropship pilots the WP they deserve for filling their roles though.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can make about 51K SP a day (without boosters). 5.5M/51K = about 108 days, which equals about 3.5 months.

Ah your right. But it still stands that as of now with 4 tanks 4 dropships, 24 suits, 8 lavs, dust is starting with 10 years of skills In just the basic gear , not even ccounting weapons and such. That's active training. But those are all x10 and higher skill requirements

In eve online there are only a very tiny handful of ships with this requirement level. Capital ships. What happens once that kind of stuff comes to dust ? Why are the frigates of dust capital ships ? What happens to power creep, when dust needs new skills for bigger stuff.

I'm sry I feel like I'm the only sane person on the forums today.

One last bit of comparison, to max out every frigate, tech 2 included, would take you 2 years. That's , 48 ships , and I was including the time tp max out all frigate sized tech 2 weapons and support skills.

2 years is a LONG TIME. and I love it. But to max put all 24 dropsuits will take 6 years, this is with zero weapon skills or support.

The SP sink created by all of the suit variations is something that needs to be looked into. I think having the suits broken down by race is good, but that needs to be balanced with SP sink it creates.

Serving as that bridge starts right here. I've already had a few people reach out to me on Skype as well. Come to me respectfully with your concerns and input and I'll be happy to listen and convey those concerns.

If I see things that I will hurt the health of the game in the long run I will do everything in my power to stop it. Non of the meta game or all of the hard work all the us as testers have put into the game matters if Dust fails.

You are going to put the entire system of checks and balances on a single annual vote? That strikes me as incredibly naive, at best.

There is a new feature called vehicle recall that I think will interest all drivers and pilots. I'm really pleased with some of the changes that have been made to dropships as well.

To put it simple I may actually spec into dropships myself. I had a great time flying the assault variant during the Fanfest Tournament. I still think a lot of work needs to be done to give dropship pilots the WP they deserve for filling their roles though.

You've put your contact details on the forums, why? they will get lost in the sea of posts, never to be seen again. Ask CCP to give the CPM a dedicated page or arrange for somewhere we can easily find your data. Posting threads on the forums is just horn blowing. It's unstructured, hard to process and should only be used for recorded communication, not logging.

Vehicle recall is the only impressive part of uprising

We are ******

Hey Kain. Speaking of Dropships, would you happened to have looked at the control schemes? I haven't heard anyone else mention anything about it, but I'm anxiously waiting to hear if the Southpaw control scheme was re-implemented, or if the Legacy Southpaw scheme was added.

I am completely incapable of flying aircraft on Default controls, so I was grounded at the beginning of the current build when they removed the Southpaw control schemes. Despite the perceived faults of the Assault Dropships, I am still interested in trying them out, but the control scheme is absolutely necessary for me.

Thanks. ^_^

I'll be honest. I don't play the vehicle role in Dust very often and I think that the concerns of pilots and drivers alike should be addressed. I put many many hours into tank driving in BF2 and BF3. While that gives me perspective to point on a fraction of that knowledge translates into Dust.

I would really like to have regular talks with the vehicle community (Mavado, Noc, Ragewardog, and many others). if you guys don't have good reasons for getting in your tanks and dropships then I end up not having targets. That is a lose/lose situation. As an AV player you guys showing up and providing a challenge is one of the major things that gives me a purpose in Dust.

Just restating this because it was probably just missed. Any confirmation about Southpaw schemes would be appreciated.

You should make a chat channel and invite some tankers to it to chat about ideas and improvements. it would also be nice to have a few dedicated AV users in there aswell to hear both sides of the story

I remember seeing various control schemes for infantry, but I honestly can't remember of the top of my head in regards to dropships. I ended up flying the assault dropship using default controls on the DS3.