Referencing Prisonplanet or Infowars for anything is like using a placemat map from McDonalds for directions instead of a GPS or a refadex.

I navigate by landmarks and paper maps. I break out an old lensatic compass if I need orientation.
(Actual truth. I don't get lost.)

Actually: I just grabbed the first link that had images. Prisonplanet was the luck winner today.

You mean like BF3 with spaceships? And that is the problem. By the time Dust reaches its nadir it will be outstripped by other FPS that do everything better. I envision Dust will eventually be the playground of EvE players and their corps that see profit in participating in both at once.

The image is either broken there or there isn't one. Alternatively, this post on another forum entirely has a legitimate image of the Project Thor concept.

The problem with implementing space militarisation, though, is that once you put a weapon like this up there, everyone else is going to want to even the playing field, which means more expenditures on defence systems to maintain the system as a legitimate platform.

Same image source - Though the Prinsonplanet linked one is better resolution. Dunno why can't see it.


Welcome to EVE.

I welcome something like this in EVE. Weapons platforms like this deployed to protect their sov planets from DUST assault? Bring it on

The more I think about OWPs, the more I'm geeking on the concept...

Sov and planetary control rules to enable the emplacement of different size OWPs...
OWP fuel and ammo re-load runs past hostile fleets....
Sieging each other's OWPs, maybe even a mechanism for capturing them?

Oh, I've only just touched on the possibilities, but I SO want to SEE this HAPPEN!

Didn't you say, not that long ago, that there'd be new ships with bonuses to the orbital bombardment?

The real question is why there is no way to grief. Dust does not deserve to be a part of eve if there is no griefing.

Wouldn't ground-based defences (big-ass weapons seen in trailers) just eliminate orbital platforms?

Wouldn't ground-based defences (big-ass weapons seen in trailers) just eliminate orbital platforms?

I like the carrier-based air support idea, though. A carrier can launch support craft such as bombers (which can be destroyed by AA equipped tanks), or can deliver additional clones via orbital dropship. Both ideas would be subject to a delay while ships deploy to the surface, but air strikes would have to be able to do something that bombardment cannot - such as dusties being able to control the craft we launch (drone uplink?) or being able to specify a strafing run after being called down from orbit.

The real question is why there is no way to grief. Dust does not deserve to be a part of eve if there is no griefing.

Because the console FPS players are a fickle lot and Dust will die a quick death if griefing is a major part of the game.

Came to this thread to devour the whiners and nitpickers with logic and science, but ten pages later,I see that everyone else already did a fabulous job. So now I have nothing to do.

Well, maybe point out my own (very narrow) disappointment regarding orbital bombardment with Dessies. In the novel Templar One (yeah, I read it) the story foreshadowed two forms of orbital bombardment - dreads and dessies. I'm sure the dreads will come later, but in the books, dessie bombardment came from what amounted to strafing runs. I think it's perfectly in keeping with lore and logic for dessies to bomb from orbit, but strafing runs would have just been soooooooooo much coooooooooler.

Imagine an A-10 Warthog, x9000