Tue, Dec 08, 2009 | 21:19 GMT
Dust 514 and EVE will intersect over time with add-ons
Dust 514 creative director Atli Mar Sveinsson has explained to Edge how the game will intersect with Eve Online, with Eve’s corporations “ordering battles in Dust to claim control of planets”.
This bit of interplay and interaction will emerge over time, as CCP plans on updating the game with add-ons a couple times per year and keeping things regulated a bit.
“We have aspirations to add on to Dust twice a year – we have plans for expansions like we have with Eve, and we’ve already drafted out a wishlist of things,” says Sveinsson. “These will involve more involvement for Eve players with Dust, but we’re being very careful.
“Take the economy: this needs to be regulated at first, as the exchange rate of ISK [Eve’s in-game currency] cannot be affected by one game or the other too much at the start. Eve is a player-driven economy, Dust will use a hybrid model and then, as we learn more, we’ll deregulate in stages.
“The players of Eve have always been the greatest source of awesomeness. We tend to facilitate the things they invent for themselves, helping them to make their ideas work.
“Dust will be that sort of thing all over again.”
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Tags: Atli Mar Sveinsson, dust 514, eve online
7 comments
#1
Aperson
08/12/09, 9:31 pm
maybe this will finally in a way let me experience the eve online universe without having to experience all the tiresome parts!
#2
Gekidami
08/12/09, 9:44 pm
Seeing as EVE is only on PC can we take this as confirmation that Dust will be on PC to? Because right now its apparently only coming out on consoles officially.
#3
Stephany Nunneley
08/12/09, 10:07 pm
Dunno. I have no clue how they plan on merging the two. I sure it has to do with magic and slight of hand and maybe even a chicken sacrifice or two.
#4
Gekidami
08/12/09, 10:13 pm
Smoke and mirrors i bet.
#5
Jadeskye
08/12/09, 10:35 pm
i’m always interested to see how the EVE universe works itself out. never played it but the community is insanely entertaining.
#6
The_Villa
08/12/09, 11:52 pm
I think they will sacrifice some virgins.
#7
Mauller
09/12/09, 2:34 pm
“I think they will sacrifice some virgins.”
Plenty in that game, believe me.