So how would you feel, if someone activates their "mega death ray" out of nowhere, not even in grid, not even in the same system with you, while you're battling some gang or doing missions or incursions or whatever and cause your ship and everything around you to suddenly explode?

This man sums it up pretty well.

Orbital bombardments are not something you can go around and just toss out. They are something that require organization and planning.

which makes it as lame as we all expected it to be.
"May we have permission to nuke the hell out of you from space?"
"no im not telling you where we are..."
"oh ok then... guess i will go back to being a carebear in the padded cell they call high sec..."

i wonder ,will you get concorded ,if you could shoot at a planet without approval

Awwwwww...you mean I don't get to sit in orbit and pulverize the planet below?!?!?!?!

CCP FoxFour, you disappoint me.

*sad face*

I say give the Dust Bunnies weapons that can 1-2 shot ANY non-allied ship in orbit.
Give them SoonGäó

Jen, the game does not revolve around me. I never said that. I donGÇÖt want EVE to revolve around me. Where did you get that, or did you pull that out of your *ss. You assume what you perceive, which isnGÇÖt based on fact. DonGÇÖt read words into what I wrote. Oh, and your football example was just plain stupid.[

Seems like a reasonably appropriate reaction. After all, no one asked to be blown up, therefore probably an outlaw action: Concordokken!

Dude,you owe me a keyboard, I just spewed soda everywhere reading this. I'll try not to read words into your word no more, promise.

Fact remains you are doing it wrong. I have to wonder at people like you, you make a post, MULTIPLE people tell you you've got it wrong, and it's everyone else's fault. Amazing.

Dust will be dead by this time next year and I will quote this post once it happens to prove it.

Ask yourself will it still be fun when all the console gamers get tired of yet another FPS and choose to go play COD 5000 and you are still sitting there all by your lonesome self shooting at nothing or constantly being sniped by some pimple faced teenager sitting in his parents basement.

Dont get me wrong I love the idea of integrating a planet game with EVE but I think they would have have better sucess if they had made it a strategy game similiar to Civilization and not a FPS and made it for the PC not some outdated console that will be extinct in a few years.

I have played dust and I actually enjoyed it but after 30 mins or so It became alittle mundane and this is coming from someone who loved COD and who played it constantly for hours on end.

This man sums it up pretty well.

Orbital bombardments are not something you can go around and just toss out. They are something that require organization and planning.

I failed to read that until today... So as much as interacting with dust bunnies requires thorough planning and organization and scheduling and preparation and wasting heaps of time just to push a bloody button and see nothing happen... That truly is EVE at its finest, congratulations on a job well done. I was a bit worried that DUST could derail the stagnation express, but now I see that all is back on track...

Awwwwww...you mean I don't get to sit in orbit and pulverize the planet below?!?!?!?!

CCP FoxFour, you disappoint me.

*sad face*

If the DUST bunnies are in your corp (or at least under contract and in your coms) it doesn't take even as much effort as organizing a hot drop. Not to say that organizing a hot drop doesn't require organization and planning, but it's really not that big a deal when your corps standard operating procedure already has the right people in the right places with the right skills... like most "good" corps do.

I'm sure most Dust Bunnies would be all for randoms OBing them as long as they have the ability to target orbiting ships with ICBM's or an orbital defense grid. I'd love to see the whining when kb's start filling up with 'Random Pansy' killed by 'DustBunny123' using 'Orbital Beam Weapon X'.

Will the Eve OB pilot get one KM for every dust bunny they nuke from orbit?

Just read my signature and learn on the improvements of adding yet another awfully time comsuming multiplayer chore to EVE when you compare it to what people actually does in game.

Dust will be dead by this time next year and I will quote this post once it happens to prove it.

Sure, and while we are at it you might be pleased with what you find in the CSM meeting notes concerning that very issue. It appears that single player pursuits are gaining needed recognition from CCP, which is good. But that is certainly no indication that team play is going to be (or should be) neglected in current and future development.

You might also consider that there are many people already doing planetary bombardment, and far from considering the few minutes required a "chore" they consider it entertaining to watch the planets surface light up and the kill notifications scroll across their screen.

Planetary bombardment in particular is one area of game play in EvE that needs a cooperative element to avoid ruining associated game play.

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Sure, and while we are at it you might be pleased with what you find in the CSM meeting notes concerning that very issue. It appears that single player pursuits are gaining needed recognition from CCP, which is good. But that is certainly no indication that team play is going to be (or should be) neglected in current and future development.

You might also consider that there are many people already doing planetary bombardment, and far from considering the few minutes required a "chore" they consider it entertaining to watch the planets surface light up and the kill notifications scroll across their screen.

Planetary bombardment in particular is one area of game play in EvE that needs a cooperative element to avoid ruining associated game play.

I am not an miner ,but people say mining is boring gameplay ,bc you can only shoot a laser at a asteroid.
but shooting a planet is gameplay .

hmmm i find this interesting

Even worst, i heard a rumor that they're actually shooting Barbies on that planet.

Just throw another Barbie on the prawn...