Funny thing is the CPM thing is taking a lot of time away from Eve as well. Kain is in the business mogul side of things though most of that is afk profits though. I retired to some quiet corner of high sec and I watch over a lab. Not sure where the others are in Eve. Hans is a Faction Warfare fanatic. So far its been pretty useful background knowledge when dealing with out counterparts when we have to talk about the link with them. At least we're knowledgeable enough to poke them about just anything involving everything involving Eve.

I wished I can say the same for our own counterparts in eve playing Dust 514 though... One guy insisted that the "Gallente Medic" among 3 other suits (amarr heavy, minmatar scout, and caldari assault) had to be nerfed first before fixing the link and the entire CPM was like

This week's theme on tales of an omni-soldier, ninjas gallente styled. :( Currently doing very badly.

It seems he was talking about the market, not PC other than PC is only important to Eve players. Isn't this what you just said too - you want to make PC more important to Eve players?

Links of importance includes the following interactions

Corporations & Alliances,
Economy,
Interplaying.

The way I see it the pre-requisite for us having any business with eve trading/isk transfers is that our OWN trading is made available. By this manner this gives isk true value. Because as it stands now there is nearly no difference between a player with 8 billion isk and 80 million isk if they're not the sort into hiring other people. By allowing players to trade their own items to other players for isk suddenly that 8 billion isk means much more.

Corporation tools need to vastly improve and catch up to eve's own, to which in itself needs a massive maul over. While a minor piece of the puzzle its the critically important edge of it at least.

Then Interplay.
"The Why should I care if TEST alliance is falling apart?" - A Dust Bunny
"The Why should I care if a bunch of dust bunnies are getting steamrolled by EON?" - An Egger

Improving how both games play with each other will increase the value of an eve player to a dust player and vice versa. You would care if the guy that was supposed to be OB support and hire proper escorts, your eve pilot will care enough that he will break through hell just to make sure you got that game winning OB your team desperately needed. To do this you have to make both sides care, quite a bit.

This all and all is rather tricky, we do currently know that the Starbase bonuses are not cutting it and will have to provide something else. Suggestions are many and myriad and ultimately we're not there in many places but we want CCP to start thinking about better ways of improving the link before the commit to something stupid that isn't going to work which the last idea CCP threw to us CPM went lol and when brought to the CSM's attention they pretty much agreed at the lameness of it. I would be absolutely mad if they go ahead with it. True Eve pilots will benefit from it, however its nothing to write home about or start a multi-month/year war over.