hmm, the how's about 50% of the total HP of the ship must be depleted(shield+armor+hull)? before boarding parties can be used. they could even be used for security (if someone attempts to use a boarding party on you, and you have a contract, it pops up an alert to the designated members of the contracted corp(directors and such, not every tom **** and harry) to assemble a team for immediate deployment)

not really, you don't have to have a specific model for each ship, just a kind of node system with certain rooms and randomize them, like most adventure games do these days. larger ship class = more rooms. pass it off as the ship's modular nature leads to non-standard room design to accommodate whatever mods the capsuleer uses.

and these are corporate contracts on both sides, so it won't be randoms, it will be corp v corp, and since EVE players stand to lose the most(their ship) they will want to hire the best, there will be groups of dusters who make a name for themselves by taking large numbers of ships, or defending them.

but, feel free to post a link to your idea while you're spending so much energy trying to tear mine down.

Soon as I have an EVE account I fully intend to put up lots of topics on their forums, but alas, my laptop can't run EVE anymore(they upgraded it right off my specs. stupid vertex shader 2.0 requirements) and I therefore have no reason to keep an account for it active.

And I can already tell, they'd be all kinds of pissy about losing their ships(it's kind of like 50% of the game to have a fancy ship) but how would you do real integration? I want to feel an effect on the EVE side, not just a change in the planetary color coding system.