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[Aquila Shadow]

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=64984

Turns out that Dust mercs can be as worked up about their faction as the eve players.

Falcon if your reading this we need a Dust IGS.

Think of the tears 

[Graelyn]

What we need is some cross-posting action.

[Gorion]

Is there a faction of pre-teens shouting in their mics shouting "FAGGOT HOMO HACKERS!"? I imagine that will be the most popular.

[Vincent Pryce]

Is there a faction of pre-teens shouting in their mics shouting "FAGGOT HOMO HACKERS!"? I imagine that will be the most popular.

Never forget their epic fight against the faction of "The Imperial Regiment of Motherly Intercourse".

[Myyona]

Actually I refer reading the Dust forums above eve-o as there appears a general higher level of care for immersion and the setting and less e-peen swinging.

[Aria Jenneth]

FPS = more naturally immersive than a permanent third-person view of a ship you, until recently, could never leave.

The worst I can say about DUST's RP culture at the moment is that it's all potential and no actual. Eve has a well-developed, but marginalized, RP base. DUST has open, thoughtful discussions in "General Topics" of the most "realistic" way to represent a railgun and why people do or do not like the Gallente, but this is rarely refined into outright roleplay.

[Cmdr Baxter]

Actually I refer reading the Dust forums above eve-o as there appears a general higher level of care for immersion and the setting and less e-peen swinging.

It's on order. They're operating the Dustows v1.1 OS right now. v2.0 debuts at launch, and I hear there're going to be new e-peen settings for the forums.

[Reyd Karris]

I've seen a lot of discussion in local chat between DUST players that is as close to IC as I've seen in any local chat. Ever.

That said, if I want RP I go to The Summit between matches. Haven't really looked much at the DUST forums because it's a pain to log into. I don't really know any other DUST players, and I honestly don't spend enough time each day on DUST to really merit focusing on developing a presence in any DUST RP circles.

My experience is probably similar to a lot of DUST players. Add in the fact that a lot of DUST players may not have spare keyboards for chat (or don't know that you can hook up any USB keyboard to the Playstation), and the chances of a huge RP community in DUST kind of dissipates.

I'm more than willing to join in some casual RP with other DUST/EVE players. It's just not a priority.

[Aria Jenneth]

Yeah, the ambient background level of RP in DUST is pretty high. Which makes what I'm about to say next a real shame:

At the moment, DUST is incompatible with focused roleplay corporations. The reason for this is simple: focused roleplayers, e.g., just about everybody who frequents this forum, are rare, and it's difficult to get us all moving in one IC direction. DUST's best features are solidly team and corp-oriented: you need voice comms and enough players to reliably be able to form squads during most active time periods, or people will wander off to join entities offering better odds of success. This is particularly crucial if you plan to get involved in planetary conquest.

There just are not enough roleplayers in DUST playing like-minded characters for us to establish a strong DUST corp of our own.

I've signed up with a flat-out merc corporation, the Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz ("PFBHz" - I'm not sure whether the fact that they're one of DUST's deadliest corporations makes the name more or less funny), and plan to remain until I see a viable, RP-oriented alternative. This is not to say I'm giving up: quite the opposite. I'll just be developing Tarquin-as-ruthless-pragmatist rather than Tarquin-as-wounded-man-of-principle for the moment.

... And I might just see whether I can start up an immersionist "club" within PFBHz.

[Morwen Lagann]

It would also help if you could pick which side of a match you want to fight for, but given things are still in beta I can kind of understand the need for games to be played being more important than people being able to pick a side. :\

[kalaratiri]

Speaking of immersion...

One of the features in the Uprising release is:

Ships in orbit that are firing orbital strikes be visible to those on the ground. Players should also see things in a whole new light -- literally! Day/night cycles will also be implemented to increase the sense of realism. And as for realism, Fannar noted that these cycles (along with the direction of the sun and the shadows) will be accurate to the actual rotation of the specific planet within EVE.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/27/gdc-2013-dust-514s-uprising-update-conquers-your-ps3-on-may-6/

[Lyn Farel]

Since when planet rotate in Eve ? 

[kalaratiri]

They did it from Crucible to Retribution, you could sit in orbit and watch them go by beneath you. However, they only rotated on their axis, not around the sun.

When Eve was linked to Dust, they stopped them rotating again, so I can only imagine they will start them up again sometime before the Uprising dust patch.

[Lyn Farel]

Ah yes... I meant around their star.

[Morwen Lagann]

... which technically is another word entirely - "orbit".

Considering districts are supposedly linked to static locations on planet surfaces, I'm not sure how they're going to manage that, Kala. I'm pretty sure our ships don't move fast enough to keep up with the district satellites if they're in geosynchronous orbit.