1. Just don't.



It is a really important period for you and CCP. We have the birthday of EVE and the DUST514 public release. Everyone is super excited about both and we are working our sitting muscles on both, to make them real, to make them yours.

I can feel your excitement for the new build and new contents, and that is good!

I can also see your passion when you see nerfs to your favourite class or weapon, and that is good as well!

I can see a group of players with different opinions and emotions about DUST514 and that is amazing because you managed to grow up a lot as a community. An year ago we were a hundred, now we are thousands, thank to your passion!

What it is not good or helpful is what is happening in the forum right now: a swarm of spammy one-post micro-treads that casts a shadow on good ones. We need your opinions, we need to hear your voices,
through your posts or funneled by the CPM. We need these to develop DUST514 towards the direction that you want. We do not want "noise" caused by spam because it will make more difficult for us to see constructive (not good, constructive) posts among toxic ones.

Thank you for understanding.

lol, see how it feels as a heavy?

Huge threadnaughts are a-brewin'...

Anyways, I have to say one thing before I go on,


Take it easy on GM Unicorn, he is here to moderate the forums, and there are many spam threads starting to boil over and shutting out the original threads that had good, useful debate in them.

In that regards yes, I agree with GM.

But,


We are told to come up with hard numbers and stats to support our positions... Based of a line of patch notes that says "reduced range and damage on HMG"

No numbers to base it on...

Listen, the screaming and crying on these forums might not be positively uplifting at all, but it is basic concerns about the game, and people have been resorting more and more to GTFO noob instead of logic when arguing... Not good.

I am rather upset as a heavy player by these changes also, and the forums are the place to express our concerns and sometimes outrage. But spams are not the way to do it.

CCP could be more forthcoming about exact changes in terms of a numbers dev blog or forum post to make our calculations with. They also could step in and try to more directly understand the issues behind these things and respond in the good threads.

But I will hold my tongue until the 6th and make my judgement there. I will tell CCP what needs fixed, and they either get on the ball with it or fail. I care too much about DUST to see CCP make honest mistakes and destroy it.

I know CCP wants this game to succeed, but there are many stumbling blocks, internal and external. If they can adapt and push out updates faster I would be more forgiving. Atm, its too slow of a development process to deal with a situation for 6 months...

Game development is hard, we understand that, but there are also certain standards, and glacially slow content trickle and updates are a sure way to kill an incomplete game...