Two Days?!? What is this madness? You guys really are insane.

if you defend your district successfully are you safe from all attackers or just the one particular?

Graphs are hot.

So is feedback on this stuff, let us know what you think because we want to deploy it all Thursday :-)

PS: Here is evidence of SocksFours pro football abilities: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3lvz1u5dod79loe/foxfour.html

July 9th 2013

I failed to see in all their useless charts about the cost of PC battles did they once address the game's problem with how many players were disconnected, or had some game ruining glitch happen...be it frame rate drop or the problems with using a comm channel with too many active mics? How many players started and finished without a re-login to the battle?

"Remember push to talk is your Friend" line from the Dev's.... funny how that is just being swept under the rug....plans for a Comm channel system that works when officers want to talk? (but then again I like telling my buddy that 3 enemies are coming for him because seeing XXX (core flaylocked) Wakko03 just doesn't cut it to properly warn them and I didn't have time in the middle of the gun battle to hit the P2T button.

Not even going to discuss when I might be able to hit back against the ship in orbit, sure they can bomb me on the ground...where is my answer to that?

How about we discuss something like, I don't know ... say how many matches took place across multiple servers? How about the LAG... maybe players were spending so much money on the win/loss because they thought if they had the good stuff they could overcome a LAG problem. So in the instances where it was say America vs Europe or Europe vs Asia who did the lag favor more? With teams made of mixed groups Americans with Europeans and Asians vs say a team of all Europeans (vs Asians, Americans etc.)?

I love it, although I think that you should be able to attack again even after a loss immediately.

There are going to be a ton more fights from this, but I think the only downtime should be after a district trades hands.

If they have a cargo hub, they can withstand 3 attacks before losing the district. Does this mean that we can have 3 battles in one day as long as we have 100 clones left after the second battle? Or is it limited to only two fights a day?

Just finished chewing thorough the whole thing and I support the changes. +1

I think it will breathe some much needed life into PC and do wonders for immersion and add tempo so you feel like you are fighting kinetic operations not just punch carding every 24 hours, its welcome.

The changes to attack and defense of districts should make things far more rewarding and stacked up with the new rewards and pricing it is certainly tempting for getting scraps going.

The only prob I see right now with this is that sure there are great rewards to get but what do I need the ISK for? I'm not a dragon. We need stuff to spend our ISK on and right now me and every other pro player is so bloated with cash I might as well buy the new FoxFour Le Mans LAV.

Really at this point what do I need ISK for? Incremental number Increase fetish?
You might want to think about adding some things to the game for me to spend my half a billion personal ISK on.


As for the dev blog itself. Huge thumbs up from me. You gave us a decent amount of raw data explained what you felt you where seeing and what you wanted to see and what changes you where planing on implementing and what was being implemented when.

I hope to see more dev blogs in the future hand down more raw data and the thought processes that go into changes.

Hopefully the combat balance teams can take a page from this and we can see more raw data on combat/weapons in the future along with graphs and balancing processes for other parts of Dust 514.

I hear what you are saying about the isk thing, but it's certainly not the case for non pro players. I think a majority of guys have to grind in BPOs or AFK to build large piles of isk.

Grinding in BPOs doesn't interest me.

And Pro players should earn more isk. I think this is a realistic scenario.

I'm sure someday there will be things you can blow money on.

Would take away the importance of winning, imo. Theres minimum clone loss so why fight at 110% when you can just burn the enemy out on defending? I like that defenders can get a moment to breathe before being attacked again if they worked hard to keep their district, especially with the threat of multiple attackers over other districts.

If they don't have 100 clones they wouldn't be able to.

In other words you could attack with 300 clones. Lose the first battle, but have 150 clones remaining. Technically you could win the 2nd and still have 100 clones remaining to fight a 3rd.

This sounds interesting to me.

All we are doing is saying if the attacker loses the battle they lose their exclusivity. Which was the only thing that let them get an attack in the following day. It effectively means anyone can now attack the district, including the attacking corporation that just lost, but the battle will not happen for at least 47 hours.