Hello DUSTies, DUSTettes, and those in between. The DUST 514 Community Team has been running events for several months now and we've been monitoring your feedback in threads across the forums, but now we want to collect your thoughts in one location. We want to hear what you've liked about previous events, what you've hated about them, and what you want to see in the future.

Just a few ground rules to start off:

1. Please try to be constructive. If you really, really hated, say, the Templar Manhunt we want to know that. But we also want to know WHY.
2. Similarly, if you really liked an event, we want to know why as well.
3. Shoot for the moon with your suggestions for future events, but be aware that certain things aren't feasible in the short or long term. If you really, really want an event where you get to fight against a 60-meter tall monster you can tell us, but it's probably not going to be something that comes any time soon.
4. Conversely, ideas that utilize current game mechanics are the best, because we can do them without asking for extra game development. Of course, if everyone likes an idea that requires development time, it gives us a good case to ask for it.

You know what I really want?

To fight on a space station and to see ships outside the window when I run past.

The station itself can simply be a small map that's all indoors--it doesn't need to be incredibly balanced or allow for every specialty to thrive in every way. The lore can be anything. Think of the ships outside the window as simply a skybox, and you can make that too. They don't need to actually be ships in the EVE universe around that station.

The only problem is how you'd get vehicles in and out with RDVs and still consider it realistic in any way. But if the worst problem we have is how we'd account for RDVs dropping tanks inside a space station in terms of lore, I don't think we should let that stop us.

These are some amazing comments guys. Keep them coming. I can't comment on all of them right yet (working on some other stuff), but I did see recommendations for some stuff we've kicked around and a few ideas we haven't thought of yet which are perfectly doable.

One thing I do want to ask, there were some comments about keeping things simple and using the current event as an example of one that is too complicated.

We want to make things that are interesting and unique, so I think that's why we go with more complicated requirements. Are we overthinking this? Does making complex events fail to make them interesting and just make them... well... complex? Or are we doing complexity in them wrong?