Don't get me wrong here, I want to point out that I love this game, I play it all the time, and it's probably the most fun I've had with a FPS in a long time.

But something is seriously wrong here.

This game is designed around one basic concept: I am an immortal mercenary in New Eden who can fight my own war.

How does the game implement this concept? It doesn't. In fact, it doesn't even make sense when you consider the fact that you can't be a mercenary if you're fighting for your own reasons. I guess that's what the word "can" is good for.

From my understanding, I'm supposed to be paid by someone to fight their wars, unless I figure that I want to fight my own instead. But that's where the problem is...what's the purpose of fighting a war? isk? Okay, well what can I do with isk besides buy more war related stuff?
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Where to begin?

Let me first start out by listing what is missing from this game that should have been here to begin with:

-EVE players hiring DUST mercs to fight for them.
-DUST corporations hiring DUST mercs to fight for them.
-A ranking system based on your effectiveness in battle (if you are constantly at the top of the scoreboard, you should have a higher rank).
-A system for EVE or DUST players to view the current online ranked players, and the ability for any player to be hired on into a battle from that list.
-The ability to set yourself as a mercenary, and to set a price for how much you're willing to offer your services for.
-Faction Warfare actually having a purpose.
-Reasons to flip districts besides hoarding isk.
-Player trading of items.
-Some sort of PVE mode that directly relates to EVE (EVE players hiring mercs to mine a section of the mineral rich planet for them?)

As of now, I don't belong to a corp, which means that I can't fight for anyone else unless they specifically pull me into a battle that I offered myself for in one of the top corps public channels

I mean, there's no place in this game for skilled mercenaries like me to go if I'd like to offer my abilities.
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What I mean by "DUST lacks purpose" is that there is nowhere I can go in this game and feel like I'm actually doing something in the EVE universe. It doesn't seem like PC is really doing anything in EVE besides taking up space, EVE players aren't really participating because they're too limited and there's not really any reward for them, and FW doesn't even let me at least fight for increased rewards from an NPC corp.

I was pulled into this game expecting so much of what should have been obvious things to implement first, yet I was mislead to what this game is really about.

I'm not a mercenary, nor am I some war leader.
I'm just a clone fighting meaningless battles for fun.