Why would I spread myself thin on a main account, while being a major part of our corps PC?

Makes no sense....

Also with no ability to test/try things out without major investment is just plain awful game design

a strong specialist.

At least you fit right in with the majority

You don't seem to understand the concept of tradeoffs.

You can be an average generalist or a strong specialist. Not both.

You clearly don't understand what this game is about. I wanted to dislike your post but there's no button for that.

^ hence the term Omni-soldier. Its an extremely difficult and challenging play-style as you have to make up with lack of good gear with player skill and experience just to remain competitive.

This doesn't just effect me but you as well, you think new players are going to want to be stuck with a role they choose at the get go without being able to try other things that may suit them better?

When you launch into your game and see no one on the other side, maybe then you will realize.

lol player skill in a game with ONE hit box, is laughable.

This doesn't just effect me but you as well, you think new players are going to want to be stuck with a role they choose at the get go without being able to try other things that may suit them better?

When you launch into your game and see no one on the other side, maybe then you will realize.

The new ad campaign.

Dust 514: The game you have to wait 5 months watching an arbitrary number go up before you can actually start playing.

Fun for the whole family.

Disclaimer: CCP takes no responsibility if you spend those arbitrary numbers incorrectly...just wait another 5 months.

You can be rather effective day 1 characters, any vet around here can attest that for the ones that have been fully reset to fresh can tell you the are just as capable of destroying the entire field as they where when they got 8-12 million sp more.

You can be rather effective day 1 characters, any vet around here can attest that for the ones that have been fully reset to fresh can tell you the are just as capable of destroying the entire field as they where when they got 8-12 million sp more.

Every time iv'e seen you, you've never been effective on any level...

This does affect me especially since i'm sitting on a mere 2.2m and i have to constantly balance between further specilization and getting some more options.

I have no clue what your last sentence is supposed to mean, so i just leave it at that.

The new ad campaign.

Dust 514: The game you have to wait 5 months watching an arbitrary number go up before you can actually start playing.

Fun for the whole family.

Disclaimer: CCP takes no responsibility if you spend those arbitrary numbers incorrectly...just wait another 5 months.

with only 2.2 mill sp, you have know idea what your talking about and are still relatively new to the game, but congrats on putting your 2 cents in on something you know nothing of...

There's an alt for that.

Is the game about turning away customers?

Is the game about only appealing to Farmville in space (EvE) players who can't aim worth a crap but spend excruciating amounts of effort and time studying spread sheets hoping that one last level will magically make them a good player.

Or is the game about compelling FPS game play the rewards good FPS game play?

The choice to have an RPG style Leveling systems in an FPS MMO is Ludonarrative dissonance...the leveling systems in RPGs are supposed to tell a story but when the actual game play is a multiplayer FPS which depends on the players skill to move that story forward that story breaks down.

It also conflicts with CCP Vision. A Dust mercenaries story is about how he preforms in the battle field and what alliances he make, what districts he takes, how much isk he can accumulate...not what gun he puts spell points into. Furthermore this game is about having the player fill roles not letting the game fill those roles....you really cannot take over the players role more then letting an SP/level system do all the work for you...especially when an FPS is meant for letting the player do.

Alts are too much hassle to maintain. Having a respect system would be nice. However a cost factor should be associated with it. Most RPGs I play the cost increases after every respect.

For example the first respect could be a 1 million ISK. The second one could be 10 million ISK and so on and so forth.

You can be rather effective day 1 characters, any vet around here can attest that for the ones that have been fully reset to fresh can tell you the are just as capable of destroying the entire field as they where when they got 8-12 million sp more.

LOL vets.

Want to make an alt and play some academy with me?

We can then see how effective these vet skills are.

And yes i have gone against you with your 10 million Sp while I have 2 million.

Bad aim, slow reactions vulnerable to flanks (do you even look at the map?)

I was not impressed.

Also being effective 5 months ago when everyone only had 4 to 5 million SP is not anything like like having 2 million SP and going against someone with 10 million....and that is not even considering all the changes which now requires even more SP to get anywhere near competitive.

By definition a "vet" does not know crap about starting the game now.