The CPM represent the community, without the CPM we would not have a game as good as this. They are the communication between the devs and the players.

TK. There isn't much of a penalty as long as the victim doesn't report. Automatic boot is based on amount of damage dealt, and scouts don't have enough hP to warrant this.

I don't have patience to que up on both sides. I know neither of you are interested in Amarr LP. And we can do it away from blueberry/redberry interference (in the redline, for example).

Sucks for anyone who hasn't paid. I've been here since open beta and I'm only at rank 2. Meaning they're preventing me from trading for no good reason.

On a related note, looks like my 2nd and 3rd characters on my primary account have a Loyalty Rank similar to that of my main. I expect that folks will be able to farm experimental weapons, barge components and golden keys from second and third memes for transfer to their main.

At least the extent of farming will be limited.

So this basically negates everything he said.. Good find and seems like an epic fail on their part. Why do they do this to themselves?

That would require the ability to join an alliance in dust I would think..

With all this cool talk of Corp stuff, I might have to look at finding a Corp to run with again. Been wanting to find a group that does more FW anyways, you can be LFS for awhile, even with the Kirjuun Heiian channel.

I am really liking the recent matchmaker changes. It caught me by surprise to be tossed against better players like that, so I wound up getting butchered for a couple of games. But it's been really good for my sneaky scout game and now I'm going more 13/2 or 13/4 in games, with lots of hacks and running a good harassment game. It's been really beneficial and makes the games alot more fun.

I still play too aggressively though sometimes, and I have a very bad tendency to keep going after a wounded target who knows I'm hunting them. A challenge is the spice of life however!!!

Right now, Adv cloak/jump Min scout is fitting my preferred style of play perfectly, but I am looking to expand out of it and try something new. Anyone have any suggestions? Currently I'm skilling up the AR and Plasma Cannon for the Galmmando since I have the APEX suit, and you can never have too much PC goodness.

I have seen someone who I think speed tanked a Min heavy, had knives and a heavy machine gun who was absolutely terrifying in his ability to sneak up behind an enemy formation, kill a few with knives, and mow down the rest of the people with the HMG.

Rattati's seeking input on a specific topic.

Exactly what I was thinking !! +1


EDIT:
I would also add that this is a perfect example of what Rattati was looking for when he asked us:

How do we make Dust feel like New Eden without making it EveOnline???

I would say that CONTRACTS are the bread, butter, heart, soul, flesh and blood of New Eden. Both in the NPC and Player issued variety.

Yes, we could also add special requirements for each contract because I'm sure that the top PC corps don't want fresh blueberries out of the academy. Corps could be able to set it so only players 10 mil SP or above or 20 mil SP or above. Or perhaps they could do it by the Skills you have, for instance if a Corp is looking for tankers in its PC it could set a contract so that people with the HAV skill unlocked to lvl 5 could join. Sorry just spitballing here.

That does stink. How the heck are you only Loyalty Rank 2? You've been here forever!

Anyhow, there is a good reason for the restriction. Newbros get a free booster, so a newbro farmer could effectively produce unlimited boosters. Unsavory characters would be able to redeem unlimited newsletter items. An alt farmer could generate a disproportionately large number of experimental weapons. Keys for winning a daily mission could be freely and easily produced. And so on.

Some restriction had to be put into place to prevent exploitation, and this one's as good as any other. But we should try to find a way to make sure that legitimate players like you aren't being left out. I would say, find a way to work the Forums into the equation, but that'd be too easy to exploit. Maybe let everyone's first few million WP somehow influence Loyalty Rank?

Any other ideas?

Sucks for anyone who hasn't paid. I've been here since open beta and I'm only at rank 2. Meaning they're preventing me from trading for no good reason.

Sucks for anyone who hasn't paid. I've been here since open beta and I'm only at rank 2. Meaning they're preventing me from trading for no good reason.

http://imgur.com/bOGySxX
http://imgur.com/hgDqfqE

An overview of my layout of skills right now.

Min scout 3
CR 5
AR 4
Dampening 5

Uh

You're doing pretty dang well for a 10M SP player!
(... could've sworn I sniped you in an Assault M/1 today.)

The Eve CERTIFICATE system comes to mind. Do you guys know about that?? It would be absolutely PERFECT for this.

First off no clue why, but I was in a pc.
1.3 mill isk for the win lol
Everyone gets the same amount.
I've seen better payouts in pubs.
400k more than what the losing team got.

Also, losers don't get anything.

The old rules were recently changed.
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2724739#post2724739

Dear players,

Last night we changed PC reward mechanics from Biomass to GÇ£Keep what you KillGÇ¥, on a team basis.

CCP has been aware of an exploit involving alt-farming ISK through the Biomass No-Show method for some time now until we could gauge the situation.

After lengthy discussions with the majority of District holders, we have decided to switch the reward mechanics to a new method, which has been previously discussed in the Features and Ideas Forums.

This means that Team A will earn Team BGÇÖs ISK losses, split equally among Team A members, and vice versa.

This means that District battles are no longer GÇ£winner takes allGÇ¥, making it viable to stick it out, switching to more cost effective gear and causing enough losses on the enemy to break even.

As the exploit was the only viable way of creating wealth in PC, we hope this change will influence a bigger shakeup in PC tactics. We may reduce the cost of Clone Packs to initiate a Raiding aspect, where Corporations decide to try to make money by minimizing their losses and inflicting more than their own cost plus the Clone Pack.

We are also preparing changes to Planetary Conquest, introducing Command Points and Earned District Income (not passive) which allows us to say GÇ£while Districts are not economically valuable now, they will beGÇ¥. This has also been extensively discussed in the forums.

Some corporations may decide to stop investing in PC, some will change their tactics, and we predict that some will continue exactly as they have been, and collect as many districts as possible before the changes.

A change is coming, and we hope it will be worth it.

Try this one:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2724739#post2724739