I'd be happy just to look out a window.

Message from Godin: You hate to be on anything smaller than a cruiser, and even then, Cruisers are kinda cramped.

Rifters are the size of a Boeing

Message from Godin: You hate to be on anything smaller than a cruiser, and even then, Cruisers are kinda cramped.

#inbeforeEvePilotsdemanddoorlocks

Destroyers(smaller than cruisers) are almost 300m long; that is almost as large as a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier. I would hardly consider that cramped.

Comparisons:
Frigates: 50-70m
Boeing 747: 68.5m wingspan

Cruisers: 225-300m
Gerald R. Ford Class Aircraft Carrier(Biggest Military ship today): 337m

Cruisers: 300-400m
Maersk Class Container ship: 400m long

This won't work for a variety of reasons. EVE players would do everything in their power to prevent this including trying everything they can to make DUST fail (making characters to ruin NPE, scare off noobs in voice chat etc.). Imagine having a pimped out armor tanked boat that you spent months saving ISK to acquire. Your shields melt quickly (as expected) and now your tank is holding strong as you're at the mercy of a team full of random 12-year-old blueberries who don't have a clue what they're doing to to save your ship. EVE players would hate this.

Also modeling these ships would take an absurd amount of time. As mentioned above, a destroyer is the size of an aircraft carrier, and they get a HELL of a lot bigger from there. It would take the team decades to model the interior of the existing ships. Are the ships that don't have interiors yet going to be immune to boarding parties? The only way this would be practical would be to limit this to smaller/cheaper ships, and those melt in seconds in a firefight that it's not worth the effort to try to board them.

I posted a way boarding parties could be used in PvE sites that makes a lot more sense.

"Cramped... COMPARED TO A SPACE STATION" Space Stations are the size of cities. Cruisers are not small.

You know the MQ? That's a very expensive apartment. Now picture smaller than that. That's a Cruiser quarters. Now picture smaller again. That's a Destroyer quarters. Now picture even smaller. That's a frigate quarters. Catch my drift?

door locks? no,no,no you fail to understand, my favorite ship ran me around 750 million isk, your suit cost what 150k tops. it will be a cold day in hell when I take you for a ride lock or otherwise.

I wouldn't mind flying warbarges for you though :) as long as my clone isn't in danger.

your clone: 150k
my clone: 45+ million

this is why eve and dust's economies aren't fully integrated.

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.

I want to BE the new weapon for eve players, a way for them to take an opponent's ship without destroying it(better profits I'm assuming). then they have something to do that involves dust, and an incentive to do so.

I imagine it goes something like this:

Player A puts out a contract at a station, dust corp A bids on it(these are corporate contracts, to ensure unit cohesion and such) Player negotiates their terms(payment mostly))

Player can then deploy the dust troops as a boarding party(loaded using a missile launcher and a clone pod or some such maybe? has to be something specific to this kind of run) to an enemy ship after dealing with the enemy ship's shields(ships they have kill rights on) with either an AI crew, or they could put out a contract for immediate defense(this might require a specialized module of some sort, wormhole's and such to pull the troops in)

Each class of ship has different objectives, but they all start the same: disabling the self destruct so the enemy player cannot detonate the ship and abscond, them attempting to after it has been will notify that the self destruct is non functioning, but they can still eject.

after that, a series of secondary objectives(with a noticeable effect in eve) such as disabling weapon systems, engines, and culminates with locating and ejecting the enemy capsuleers pod, forcing them out of the ship and readying it to be scooped by Player A or a friendly for dis-assembly, resale, or reuse.

That provides a tangible benefit for EVE players, and engaging content for dust players.

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.

Yes, I want to ride on an EVE ship, and look out a window!

Maybe there's something I can do on the ship? Re-modulate the phase gigawatt generator or something... giving +1% to an EVE pilots thrusters or some such.

Or just be ship security. "Security to the bridge!"

Or perhaps one day there could be boarding parties. Dust players can board eve ships and boot the capsuleers out!

But like I said, I'd be happy just to look out a window.