i have mixed feeling about this.

this sounds too good to be true, what made CCP turn a 180 degree to their attitude? is this just an RP exercise? soon (tm) we shall find out (when things get fixed)

We are pleased to announce that we have just concluded a lengthy meeting with a considerable portion of the Dust514 community and development teams, as well as upper management such as Executive Producer CCP Jian and Creative Director CCP Praetorian.

It was an opportunity not only to cover the the most urgent issues surrounding Uprising's deployment, but also to review the steps that CCP will be taking in the immediate future in order to fix some of the unexpected results that occured from Uprising's migration onto Tranquility. We also discussed many ways that CCP can ensure that you, the players and beta testers, receive more timely and comprehensive information about what exactly is being worked on (and why).

The contents of this meeting are being drafted up for release by CCP CommanderWang and CCP Frame, and will be posted shortly so that the public is in the loop with the CPM and CCP as to what took place. Rest assured this meeting was comprehensive GÇô while the nitty gritty details will be hammered out in the days ahead, everything from general dissatisfaction with item balancing, to input issues, to the frustrations we've all shared with the new skill tree were discussed extensively.

The CPM is satisfied with CCP's timely and focused effort to take care of these issues in the days and weeks ahead, and we expect this to play out here in the forums as well. The CPM was adamant that with increased level of information and clarity, unnecessary noise can be reduced to that the best of your ideas reach the people they need to reach inside the development circle. This is in fact our primary purpose for existing in the first place GÇô if we've done our jobs right, you'll be seeing more from CCP than you have in the past, and have more opportunities to give specific feedback in places you know you'll be heard, and see evidence of this as CCP continues to roll out fixes and updates to the game.

Not everything everyone would like to see will be ready by the 14th, lets be perfectly clear here GÇô but the reason that the CPM asked for this meeting to begin with was to ensure there was both resources and process were in place to take care of the things we've noticed as issues between our Fanfest playtest, and what we've seen since Uprising's initial deployment on Tranquility.

We appreciate everyone's patience while you await further news, but we feel it is important for you to know that the community's concerns are being heard at the highest levels thanks to your representatives on the CPM. We also strongly encourage you to continue to send us your repeatable bugs, balancing advice, and other suggestions for us to use in our talks with CCP in order to expedite the process of improvement.

-The Council of Planetary Management

Heinrich Jagerblitzen
Iron Wolf Saber
Jenza Aranda
Kane Spero
Laurent Cazaderon
Nova Knife

Probably has to do with the fact they have a focused group to talk to rather then people raging in threads.

We appreciate everyone's patience while you await further news, but we feel it is important for you to know that the community's concerns are being heard at the highest levels thanks to your representatives on the CPM.

-The Council of Planetary Management

Heinrich Jagerblitzen
Iron Wolf Saber
Jenza Aranda
Kane Spero
Laurent Cazaderon
Nova Knife

And after all this "serious" discussion was the decision made to rollback all the WEapon stats to previous build? Because this is the ONLY way to fix this..

Start there then make small adjustments to what needs work..

But im guessing it will be some halfway stealth buff for heavies, while the rest stays the same?

If the CPM truly intends to represent the Dust community then I would hope that they recognize the recent groundswell of support for a SP respec on the 14th of May.

I would ask that each member publicly support the recent player's initiative to get this done.

Thanks.

I'll be the first to start. You'll be happy to know that a full respec following an adjustment to the skill tree in order to reduce the overall SP requirement back in the direction of Chromosome-level train times was actually one of the primary "must-do" items on the CPM's agenda. Not only that, I think there is a strong possibility that we will see this, and see this within the month. No promises or dates here yet - but based on the positive reception from CCP I think this is quite likely at this point, enough to say so publicly.

I'll be the first to start. You'll be happy to know that a full respec following an adjustment to the skill tree in order to reduce the overall SP requirement back in the direction of Chromosome-level train times was actually one of the primary "must-do" items on the CPM's agenda. Not only that, I think there is a strong possibility that we will see this, and see this within the month. No promises or dates here yet - but based on the positive reception from CCP I think this is quite likely at this point, enough to say so publicly.

Ill believe it when I see it. The ignorance CCP has shown with Uprising is extraordinary. All they had to do was take Chromosome and add stuff to it, but no. They just had to go and change the entire core of the game and kept us misinformed about what they were doing the whole way.

Heinrich Jagerblitzen:

With a rebalancing of skill rankings and overall SP cost can you push for an accurate data dump that includes prerequisites with at least a week of lead time so that the community has time to build tools, analyze data and provide guidance so that we don't have the same issues as on Uprising release day? What they provided the day before was a fair start. It just needed some work to be useful.

Heinrich Jagerblitzen:

With a rebalancing of skill rankings and overall SP cost can you push for an accurate data dump that includes prerequisites with at least a week of lead time so that the community has time to build tools, analyze data and provide guidance so that we don't have the same issues as on Uprising release day? What they provided the day before was a fair start. It just needed some work to be useful.

Dust 514 could use some of CCP Unifex' magic touch atm.

I'll be the first to start. You'll be happy to know that a full respec following an adjustment to the skill tree in order to reduce the overall SP requirement back in the direction of Chromosome-level train times was actually one of the primary "must-do" items on the CPM's agenda. Not only that, I think there is a strong possibility that we will see this, and see this within the month. No promises or dates here yet - but based on the positive reception from CCP I think this is quite likely at this point, enough to say so publicly.