1. Music to set the scene ... You can never underestimate what a good soundtrack can do for a game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmssY9PmF142. Improved Immersion ... We mercs get told about this amazing universe called New Eden but .. we really don't get to experience it .. we need things like
-Free Roaming Residential Areas maybe including gambling halls .. it'd be nice to have neighbors
-Tangible feeling of travelling across the universe .. to have a game like Eve based on Spaceship warfare and then to have a game like Dust where mercs are instantly transported from merc quarters via a lobby to take part in battles across the galaxy is a missed opportunity .. if i wanted to play a lobby shooter I'd play COD and BF4 .. As sad as it may seem I'd rather spend 1 minute or so being transported to a battle location on an Eve ship than be instantly sent into a battle via a lobby
-More to do than just .. fight in battles, there must be other ways to make ISK in New Eden .. there certainly is in Eve so why not in Dust ?
-Home planets of the 4 main racial factions .. maybe allow access to them via having a certain level of standing with a particular faction through FW 2.0 eg instead of going to a market screen LP store to acquire items why not have to go to the actual home planets to cash in your LP at stores instead and maybe get access to unique avatars of suits and weapons and maybe unique equipment only obtainable by that particular faction by having a certain level of standing ? Sure it isn't convenient but it certainly would help immersion and you could get a feel of who it is your fighting for
3. Crew mentality .. Allow Eve pilots to create crews of say 6 mercs who they transport to various locations to take part in new operations like acquisition of goods/Assasinations/Rescues/sabotage/black market trades right now the only connection between the 2 games gameplay wise is Eve ship flies above a district and can maybe fire an orbital or 2 ...
-why not add to this by instead of having RDV pilots deploy vehicles why not have Eve Pilots sending down drones to deploy their squads vehicles ? If Eve pilots were used to transport Mercs to and from battles and actively aided their squad by deploying vehicles this would enhance the link between the 2 games .. right now Dust mercs don't need Eve Pilots and Eve pilots don't need mercs
-Why not give Eve pilots increased salvage when performing actions with a crew ?
All of these ideas can be expanded on and are just the bare bones (otherwise this post would end up being 10 pages long) so don't be too harsh with your feedback and they are just concepts rather than PUT THIS IN GAME NOOOOWWWWW demands