BursegSardaukar
Sardaukar Merc Guild
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2013.06.12 18:05:00 -
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What I like:
The feel of ownership.
Persistent map. Every time you fight there, its always the same. Very cool.
Some level of customization; changing the SI and stuff.
AWOXing is possible (but it's a little too easy, we all agree).
EVE-side bonuses!!!!!! YES.
What I don't like:
All of space is held by the massive Alliances.
That EVE corps require dust mercs to own districts.
Its all restricted to a single region.
The cost is really high to get started in it.
What needs to be added:
Disconnect of EVE side bombardments from WP's. If I have ships in orbit, I want to use them, to hell with WP. Hell, remove war barge Precision Strikes from this game feature entirely.
Contracts from EVE corps to claim districts on their behalf.
ROLES. Squad leader idea is brilliant. Do this now, so I can bring all my Smerglings back into my corp and stop needlessly stressing out 10m before a PC battle starts.
Squad finders, like EVE's fleet finders.
Resource harvesting, EVE-side production
The ability for EVE pilots to hot-drop clones into matches (either making a battle 20v16 players, or simply increasing the clones in the battle).
Closing thoughts on cost:
PC is awesome, it is probably the best thing to happen to Dust. But its so small scale and the barrier for entry is too high. First, a new corp will have to attack an established corp on a district that more than likely has a butt-ton of clones, and an inconvenient timer. Then this has to be successful at least 2 battles in a row, on average. And the 80M per clone pack on top of this is really steep.
I believe EVE players should be able to bankroll these planetary efforts. Either open up the floodgates to allow EVE corps to fully fund the attacks (give them the same interface and let them pay for initial clone drops at the same price), or allow EVE players to outright pay a corporation to claim a district for them. That way they don't need to deal with Dust chars "polluting" (trust me, some of my EVE guys use this term) corp chat, but can still gain passive clone ISK and bonuses. Not to mention you can just open up ALL of lowsec at that point and let the EVE players use mercenaries for their purpose! |