You know, a while back CCP was showing off a pre-alpha exploration game concept. The idea was that the player and his team would be invading ruined or abandoned stations to look for valuable salvage and artifacts, and would have to deal with stuff like security systems, environmental hazards and...other players. As far as I'm aware it was never even given a name, but it would make for an interesting kind of gameplay for Dust.

There was a Dust chronicle that included a capsuleer as part of a ground force who did some kind of high level hacking. It'd be cool to see that in the far future, if they ever get Walking In Stations working for Eve. Capsuleers and mercs walking around in the same space. The team is composed of mercs and a capsuleer, with a sort of protect the VIP / CTF mode. The capsuleer has to use his archaeology skill to remove something of value and get it back to the ship. The mercs have to keep him alive. Other mercs want to kill him and take the goodies for themselves.

I found out there are people with pc that think dust should not be on a console. There terrified that console gamers will have any impact on eve, they make fake dust accounts and make them look legitimate but there people that are afraid of change. Well dust and eve will become 1 universe 1war they either deal with or weep as we rip there ships apart from the inside. Troll away fake arse cry babies. No matter how much you hate it you cant do anything to change the fact it's happening

You do realize that I'm the ceo of a Dust corp, right? 380 some odd members? That's a very strange, defensive response to the idea of CCP adding an entirely new game mode that they've already prototyped.

Ok so the game mode would be boarding parties and would basically be 2 teams fighting for control of an eve ship.The interior of any eve ships would be the new maps.Attack team could start in assault pod or small eve craft.The defenders start in the ship being boarded.It would be objective based were the teams battle to gain control on primary and secondary objective such as engines,bridge,ships shields,internal weapon defence systems,life support ect ,bulk heads can be blown through with explosives and the ship hull could even open up through damage sucking team mates into space before being sealed off from the rest of the ship.

You could have each objective changing the environment of the battle to like when the enemy takes the engines the battle time stops or internal weapons turn against the ship defenders. You could hack and destroy the objectives forcing your enemy to repair the systems. Possibilities are endless. You would not need to have it linked to eve yet but one day maybe.

I really like the idea of linking this to exploration. You probe down an archaeology site, hire mercs, "fit them" into a special "merc torpedo" module or something. Activate your hacking module to bring down the shields and fire your mercs into the wreck. Mercs would fight drones and recover some artifact thing of high value. Mercs could accidentally trip off alarms which would send a reinforcement wing of rats to attack your ship. Maybe the Eve pilot could destroy certain modules on the enemy ship that would help the DUST mercs somehow.

If this goes down in highsec, you can compete for a site with your own set of mercs. The EVE ships can't shoot each other unless flagged, but their competing merc teams can fight each other and the drones onboard. The victorious team retrieves the loot, and the EVE pilot pays out his squad.

It might even be possible to ransome merc clones somehow.

That would be an interesting way to PvE with both games.

PVE - how about rogue drones begin boarding ships in EVE and they have to hire mercs to help protect them in drone space. This adds a PVE mode for us dust bunnies and gives the EVE lot a reason to need us.

To the EVE player, can't wait to take over your ship and have someone drive it into the sun :) eventually we will be able to affect EVE gameplay and at that point you better secure your alliances with good players and build up a defense to secure your ship. How the hell have you played EVE for this long and not learned that CCP tends to make big changes and that you have to adapt to? Also you're a moron, we shouldn't be able to play a game we like because you don't like changes that might adversely affect you? Dust is here *******, get used to it :P

Hire eve pilots? Are you trying to say there's something wrong with the carefully selected pilots in my Corp? The pilots selected around the world so there's always eve pilots on 24/7? The ones I have right now now not then? Think outside the box mate


**** EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE USELESS GARBAGE IDEA.


Now In A Calmer Fashion I'll Explain Why This Is The Worst Idea I Have Ever Heard:

Imagine that you are playing dust

All of a sudden halfway through a match, your body starts flashing and you get an alert "You are being hacked by an EVE player." You start losing health, constantly, moving slower, and you start praying that some friendly EVE player is counter-hacking you... But alas, it does not work.

Boom, your clone is terminated and you lose anywhere from a week to a year+ worth of assets, on average let's say three months of DUST assets... And you are booted from your current match. You might even permanently lose skill points too.


This is exactly what you are suggesting for EVE pilots. You want our game to be under the mercy of some other game that we might not even play, and have zero influence on, that will randomly screw us out of ships and pilots and time...

Wow, that sounds like fun... I've always wanted to play a game where randomly I just "die" and lose massive amounts of progress for reasons totally out of my control due to other turds playing some other game! Oh wait no that is a horrible idea...

+1 The high value item being key to the post, current data sites seem low on these, Risk=ISK yes but there seems to be a lack of Isk return for Risk. PVE in any manner in Dust is definitely welcome.

I have said this on other threads, but I want to spread the word so this can be implemented or thought about...Here's how it goes

In Eve, there are massive battles of epic proportions, colossal warships get destroyed in the process. This is where Dust plays in. A large battle has been carried out, thousands of ships die, and two titans are crippled and lay still, a quiet knelling in the darkness of space. An Eve carrier arrives nearby but at a distance, and launches several pods to a couple of the larger ships, and the two titans. The pods are filled with soldiers, ready to reclaim these titans are refit them with a warp drive that will bring them to a safe stargate for warping into a haven where a corporation can salvage the wreck and remake ships out of them for a much cheaper price than insurance or buying it anew. Another Eve ship comes by and pelts the wreckage with its own pods. This is where the fun begins. Dust and Eve players, fighting over scraps of wreckage for isk, loot, and ships. Isk won't be as high, but loot will be bountiful for Eve and Dust players, and of course, winner gets the scraps!

The match ends with the ship glowing slightly in a certain section, then warping off into somewhere else....


WWWWADDYA THINK, CCP, MERCS, CAPSULEERS, ETC!?

What's to stop the guys who blew up the titan from simply blowing up the wreck too? Or salvaging it with a salvager unit? Also Titans can't use star gates. They use jump drives and fuel. The other problem is that titans are HUGE, like REALLY F*UCKING HUGE. I don't even think a PS6 could render the map on that thing. And it would take a level designer her entire natural lifespan to design the level for 1 Titan, let alone texture it, fill it with objects, and QA it for bugs.

For a sense of scale, look at this image. See those tiny specs for each race? Those are frigates, which are the size of 747s.