I think it would redefine mankind's place in the universe, bring about universal peace, cure cancer and generally engender a new paradigm of humanistic karmic wellbeing.

The devs would have mile high golden statues built to them as praise from a grovelling, worshiping populace of true believers.

Seeing our new-found enlightenment the Galactic Council would descend to Earth and invite us to join their Million-Year-Utopia where we all played Dust together in harmony for the rest of time.






Or .....

Mine? Would blow everything out of the water. Even the water itself. I'm curious about the community's opinion. Especially CCP's, if they don't mind.

The problem is that there are multiple planets in New Eden, not just one, and there are FAR more than could ever be feasibly fleshed out.

Think on this: Most EVE players have NOT been to every system, and likely many have not even been to even half of all the systems in game. So already just the number of systems is beyond what most MMOs even have in scope, and then take into consideration -every- system has -multiple- planets.

The only way an open world would be feasible if they vastly reduced the scope of what mercs can explore, either making each planet only have a tiny, tiny fraction of it's surface be "open world", or only open a small planet (Even a dwarf planet is massive in this case) for players to interact in. Even then, things would have to be crunched together, or only have one demi-continent to hold player interest.

Not to mention the issues already inherent in the game such as simultaneous player count in an area, or the issue of the massive number of art assets that would be needed in the game.

Ultimately I think DUST would be better served by deployment to specific locations in the Universe (such as current battles) except there would be the option to deploy to much larger warfronts (perhaps the entire 5k x 5k map) that host multiple installations, large player count etc.

CCP will not do this because it would involve EVE-side work as well.

Last I checked, Hilmar was still terrified of what happened during the Jita riots, so I'm afraid the rest of you will be made to suffer until that changes.

Which will probably be never.

This would never happen, we would use iron over gold, it's tougher and cheaper.

Mine? Would blow everything out of the water. Even the water itself. I'm curious about the community's opinion. Especially CCP's, if they don't mind.

It's actually something that CCP have expressed a a long-term goal for DUST, CCP's physicist talked about it at fanfest.

I think that boat has sailed. But they will have stations where Dust and EVE characters walking around (Seen in CCP long term future vids). So I think in a way (long time in the future) your open world and trade markets will be in the game. But that is just my opinion.

Mine? Would blow everything out of the water. Even the water itself. I'm curious about the community's opinion. Especially CCP's, if they don't mind.

Honestly? I'm not a fan. Open world games sound good in concept but very rarely are they made well in a multiplayer setting, especially for an FPS. The game would have to become so different from its original concept that I fear it would just go completely off the right track.

I prefer large scale, large map battles with social lobby elements in between. That makes it easy to focus the action into a specific area or map. Otherwise if you just have free roam you have giant dead zones and just nothing happening with maybe one or two squads max of players fighting. Like in Planetside how even with that huge map there is only a few big battles ever happening...

So no. I dont want open world. I like interconnected battle instances affecting a sov map

just how exactly do you make an open world that spreads over thousands of planets ?