Orbital bombardments happen in lowsec FW systems, and only during corp-vs-corp battles between Dust corps. Not on the temperate planets in a hisec system.

Corp battles are arranged beforehand and have set dates when and where these battles will occur. Talk to a Dust corp director (they get to arrange corp battles) and maybe they'll share this information with you.

Note that any dust or FW corp worth their salt will not disclose this information to randoms, as it is a combined effort that requires planning & is a security risk.

It was available to try on the test server Singularity between Christmas and last week.

Orbital bombardments happen in lowsec FW systems, and only during corp-vs-corp battles between Dust corps. Not on the temperate planets in a hisec system.

Corp battles are arranged beforehand and have set dates when and where these battles will occur. Talk to a Dust corp director (they get to arrange corp battles) and maybe they'll share this information with you.

Note that any dust or FW corp worth their salt will not disclose this information to randoms, as it is a combined effort that requires planning & is a security risk.

It was available to try on the test server Singularity between Christmas and last week.

However, why does EVE list Marthia as one of the places that orbital bombardment can take place at?

-Kirst

DUST is still in Open Beta, to go live in a week or so. This will open the game beyond current EVE players who also have a PS3. Hopefully once it is live on the PSN, the number of mercs will increase and in a month or so the need for orbital strikes will be increases and more common.

*Obligatory "Bring the rain" comment goes here.*

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.

So, at some point in a future iteration of "Orbital Bombardment", may we hope that it will extend to allowing people to hit other people's Planetary Interaction on various planets by the use of war decs ?

I applaud buffing Faction Warfare with Orbital Bombardment at this point, it's a good way to limit the application at this early point in it's development ... BUT... that seems very limiting in the long run.

Early days yet. Let Dust learn to stand before you demand it walk, let it walk before you demand it run.

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.

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

Good luck with that .
The same thing was said about WIS ,at least we have a sofa to sit on. the only real interaction in the cell
i hope there is a sofa anywhere on some High sec minded low sec FW planet

The sofa is still a sofa, and a pointless one at that - I can't even take a nap on it.
I'm not a console or FPS player, but at the very least Dust has actual live bodies playing, albeit very few.

We'll see - I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt for now.

So, at some point in a future iteration of "Orbital Bombardment",

Early days yet. Let Dust learn to stand before you demand it walk, let it walk before you demand it run.

Here's the link for "Orbital Bombardment Mechanics":

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/EVE-DUST_514_Link_FAQ


I believe I followed every step. If there's more to it, then maybe it should say so. It doesn't differentiate which systems can only have battles. If the mercs at Marthia will never be able to participate then Marthia should be removed. It is misleading.

-Kirst

So, at some point in a future iteration of "Orbital Bombardment", may we hope that it will extend to allowing people to hit other people's Planetary Interaction on various planets by the use of war decs ?

I applaud buffing Faction Warfare with Orbital Bombardment at this point, it's a good way to limit the application at this early point in it's development ... BUT... that seems very limiting in the long run.

So, at some point in a future iteration of "Orbital Bombardment", may we hope that it will extend to allowing people to hit other people's Planetary Interaction on various planets by the use of war decs ?

I applaud buffing Faction Warfare with Orbital Bombardment at this point, it's a good way to limit the application at this early point in it's development ... BUT... that seems very limiting in the long run.

The only Orbital Bombardment I will see is when I sit on the toilet which is where Dust belongs right next to WIS.

The only Orbital Bombardment I will see is when I sit on the toilet which is where Dust belongs right next to WIS.

Here's the link for "Orbital Bombardment Mechanics":



http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/EVE-DUST_514_Link_FAQ


I believe I followed every step. If there's more to it, then maybe it should say so. It doesn't differentiate which systems can only have battles. If the mercs at Marthia will never be able to participate then Marthia should be removed. It is misleading.

-Kirst

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

CCP FoxFour, you disappoint me.

*sad face*

When you want to form up a fleet to go roam, do you go to a trade hub and ask in local for people to join your lowsec PVP fleet?

No.

EVE is a social game, but it is social with people you know, not a game for random PUGs. If you want to participate in the Dust bombardment, then you need to meet people who play it and work together with them.

When you want to form up a fleet to go roam, do you go to a trade hub and ask in local for people to join your lowsec PVP fleet?

No.

EVE is a social game, but it is social with people you know, not a game for random PUGs. If you want to participate in the Dust bombardment, then you need to meet people who play it and work together with them.

I guess, that CCP feels that if they can get a person to join a group, and become "social", they will continue to subscribe. . .

Well best of luck to CCP to produce another successful product. I hope Dust takes over as the best FPS game for console.

Why?

Because CCP can then shift their developmental attention to WoD and with two successful products for the income to develop it properly.

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.

Ask yourself this, do you really love EVE and the activities you currenty do in it, or do you love the idea of how EVE could be for you, if you could play it in another way that your lifestyle would permit?

If it's the latter, and you like your current lifestyle; do yourself a favor and get out now.

Well those live bodies should be in both games not only in DUSTcrap
CCP want interaction ,then give interaction and not a cross hair on a planet only for EvE

...the sooner that great features like "Orbital Bombardment" have more autonomy from DUST, then the better.

Carry on, crack a cold brew, and drop those nukes !

DUST would be more interesting if you had 5 Capsuleers in orbit of every planet randomly bombarding the surface for no apparent reason....

Why, that would constitute griefing the Dust Bunnies. I'm positive the EvE community would shun such a malicious activity.

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.

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.

Development attention should be at Eve as long as Eve exists. Don't share resources, I don't want to wait another 19-1 months for a POS overhaul.

EDIT:
The development of Dust is giving me the creeps already. Some day there may be even systems in New Eden which are not compatible with others any more. Capsuleers playing in the past with old UIs and unable to leave their systems crying in agony for some dev attention to relieve them of their miserable fragmentation disease.

And how exactly are we supposed to get to know the Dust bunnies and get them to trust us, when the only interaction we can get when not yet trusted is talking in local?

Bahahahah! You must be new around here. "future iteration" doesn't happen in Eve. The CCP way is to produce some new shiney video, pre-nerf the implementation to point of absurdity, release it, then NEVER come back to it. Ever.

MDD

You are correct, EVE (and Dust) is a social game. That doesn't work very well for all us random PUGs. When I belonged to the Inf1dels, I loved going on the roams and ganks. It was awesome in how they worked together. But I respectfully had to withdraw from them, I could not set aside the time away from RL to play a game. Same for the FWs, and Incursions.
I can run a boring L4 mission every night, and that's about it. (besides wasting my time on these forums) . . . my comments are not delegated to you or anyone, they are only for CCP.)
I really do love this game, and I do hate that I cannot play it the way I want to. I am not alone in those feelings. I would bet that there are many, many others who also feel the same way. (they are smarter than I, as they probably don't even bother with these forums.) I guess, that CCP feels that if they can get a person to join a group, and become "social", they will continue to subscribe. . . that they will belong to something greater than themselves, and that they will feel needed. That is not the case for us PUGs, I guess I'm anti-social, and going on 5 yrs, it's how I want to play, so because of that I realize there are some things I cannot do, so again there's the disappointment in EVE.
So please, you do not have to preach to me that I need to be social, as if you're thinking you're enlightening me or something. (been there, done that.)

-Kirst

That is how you build retention in a Sandbox, yes.

PUG gameplay is more suited for Themeparks, which is why themeparks go F2P these days and allow players to super-spend their cash in those bursts they get to play, instead of having to justify their monthly cost; to a customer who hardly makes use of their service.

Ask yourself this, do you really love EVE and the activities you currenty do in it, or do you love the idea of how EVE could be for you, if you could play it in another way that your lifestyle would permit?

If it's the latter, and you like your current lifestyle; do yourself a favor and get out now.

If it's the former, accept that not all activities are going to suit your playstyle.

So DUST is a super HI-sec expansion in FW-lowsec,you have to have approval to shoot at planets.

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...