To make this scenario interesting for the EVE pilot, they need to have a task to perform while the DUST mercs are traipsing around in the ship or ruined station. I am thinking about in the movie Alien II where the mercs are exploring the abandoned base and someone back in the vehicle is manning the sensors saying GÇ£I am reading life forms approaching you, 100 m...... 50 m....GÇ¥

Maybe as the mercs explore the wreck the EVE pilot is looking at an interface where what the merc suit sensors are seeing is getting mapped out for the EVE pilot to view, creating a wire frame 3D map. While other sensors on the ship are lighting up areas of heat or electromagnetic activity. Have the ability to launch scout drones to fly through and map out the area. The EVE pilot can be using them to try to find specific things He/She is looking for, and can direct the merc team via coms to head for a destination, or avoid a potential danger.

Of course there may be Drones in space to deal with some of the time, and in low/Null sec, other pilots.

The two games can be kept separate this way (what happens in the wrecked ship and what happens outside of it) but data can be passed between the games, allowing both DUST mercs and their EVE pilot to share the experience in a truly integrated gaming experience.

EVE side this would require a new interface, which would simply be a new popup window, and some new models. Of course the programming for that interface would be substantial, but it would not require changing EVE in any other way.

This is exactly the idea I posted back when the game was in Beta and several times since. Along with several other ideas similar involving sleeper stations etc etc etc.

We all want it. Dev's have never commented on a PVE thread. I suspect any PVE will happen once all the suits/weapons/etc are introduced. Possibly Dust514-2.0.