DUST Search - Expanding the Connection: Eve and Dust

Django Quik wrote:

Kain Spero wrote:

Cyrius Li-Moody wrote:

Incorporating being able to speak to them over voice comms will bring these two games together immensely. I feel one of the biggest problems right now is the lack of a "community" when you log in. There's tens of thousands of people in spaceships in New Eden at any one time. As of right now, it's like they're not even there. There needs to be a better way to find be able to talk to those doing the PEW PEW in space.

It would rad to be able to find out who you're supporting in space at any given time when playing FW.

You can actually pull Eve players into and use voice communications in any player created channel.

The problem there and main reason Dust players never actually speak to Eve players is that Eve players don't generally use the ingame comms - they mostly use external tools like TeamSpeak.

On another note - I would be really interested to hear from Eve players what they want the Eve-Dust link to be like from their side. Integrated Eve-Dust forums (or even just a Dust-Eve section) with both sets of players would really help get ideas flowing.


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Zanzbar clone Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 18	Posted - 2013.06.21 04:42:00 - [1] - Quote Django Quik wrote: Kain Spero wrote: Cyrius Li-Moody wrote: Incorporating being able to speak to them over voice comms will bring these two games together immensely. I feel one of the biggest problems right now is the lack of a "community" when you log in. There's tens of thousands of people in spaceships in New Eden at any one time. As of right now, it's like they're not even there. There needs to be a better way to find be able to talk to those doing the PEW PEW in space. It would rad to be able to find out who you're supporting in space at any given time when playing FW. You can actually pull Eve players into and use voice communications in any player created channel. The problem there and main reason Dust players never actually speak to Eve players is that Eve players don't generally use the ingame comms - they mostly use external tools like TeamSpeak. On another note - I would be really interested to hear from Eve players what they want the Eve-Dust link to be like from their side. Integrated Eve-Dust forums (or even just a Dust-Eve section) with both sets of players would really help get ideas flowing. very true, the only reason SI uses eve voice is that most our corp is made of dust players and their eve characters and we like to keep the coms open. before dust was pluged into the eve server we used 3rd party coms for various reasons and those reasons are numerous and some more dire for some corps then others. if an eve alliance is in a massive battle and people are lagging out or needing to reset for other reasons its important for them to be up to date with the battle coms and 3rd party software lets them do it while they log back in. others have api checks to authenticate if a player is allowed on the coms or not, priority speaking permisons so the comanders cant be drowned out by useless chatter, and several other advantages when compared to a rather-áfeatureless eve voice client it would take quite an incentive to get most eve players back onto eve voice and dust isnt enough of one for most corps at this stage. some kind of vent/ts/mumble plugin that allowed those clients to access eve voice for the best of both worlds perhaps?
Zanzbar clone Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 18	Posted - 2013.06.21 05:01:00 - [2] - Quote Kain Spero wrote: Paradoxical Nature, I think you are absolutely right that in the long run Dust has to provide something unique and needed in the Eve economy and industrial complex. That's where some of the issue with "Kid Gloves" really causes issues, because it needs to be something significant. Whether its a resource that's newly created or a resource that is taken from Eve and made Dust focused I don't know. If that bridge can be crossed and the games can really have their economies linked in a meaningful way that will be the key to making Eve care about Dust. kind of how wormholes are the only way obtain the materials needed to make t3 ships so therefor players have an incentive to frequently explore them for riches. but at the same time a great deal of the eve playerbase dont make wormholes a part of their normal playstyle, including players who might be flying t3 ships themselves. - a resource is created where the only way to take advantage is with dust - player A participates and farms said resource - player B dosent care about dust so he buys said resource off of player A by using that massive booming economy eve is so well known for. dust gets its interation as there are always players in eve who will decend upon an opertunity to fill a new market and make some isk. but just like people can chose to not ice mine while still recognizing the need for fuel from ice, the same can be made true with a new mineral.
Zanzbar clone Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 19	Posted - 2013.06.21 11:34:00 - [3] - Quote sadly thats the most active thread the dust section of the eve forum has seen in quite a while. as people who have dust do most their posting here the majority of the posts on the eve side are either missinformed or started by people who dont like the idea of dust at all.
Zanzbar clone Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 19	Posted - 2013.06.21 16:31:00 - [4] - Quote Pete Bogs wrote: Dust needs many of the things that drive Eve, manufacturing, Invention, mining etc. (why should you only be able to get tritanium from asteroids?) funny enough tritanium isnt supposed to be stable in atmospheric conditions and as the main structural material in eve it would make some sense if there was a stable alternative that dusters could provide to eve players for refinement and production and then shiped back planetside in the form of weapons and equipment.