What about interaction with EVE via Dust? The new maps are great and it'll be greater to see new weapons + suits but even with all that we'll still be playing pub matches and Planetary Conquest (Expensive type of skirmish to me). Many people came to this game for their own reasons, I came here because of it's connection to EVE which isn't much right now. If Dust 514 was meant to be another lobby shooter I probably wouldn't have bothered looking at this game. Pub matches are alright but pub matches get boring eventually, doesn't get as boring when you're squaded up though. New modes would be interesting for awhile but then again if it's just pub battles then it'll still be a lobby shooter.

I like that CCP has switched to monthly updates temporarily though... but what separates Dust 514 from other FPS games is it's connection to EVE, which it lacks right now. We can chat with EVE players which is important, and they can do orbital strikes in FW (Isn't really that different from Pub skirmish battles) and PC battles ( Like I said expensive skirmish mode, nothing special really). But there is really no need for us to have EVE support since we have NPC strikes, and EVE ppl really don't need us at all. Except for maybe FW but that's it.

That would be great but I think that's the most difficult part, figuring out how the market would be affected by our presence in the marketing (us making our own prices and other complicated things)