I have played EVE long enough to become a completely cynical bittervet. I would say the most important thing about boarding a ship is SPEED. You need to get to the capsuleer fast, quick, and hard. I would say a single squad of stealthy shotgun scouts. Run through the corridors and take out anything that gets in the way.

Why so fast? Well, if you board any of my ships (subcaps, I don't fly capitals) I would much rather self destruct than let it fall into the hands of my enemies. I am immortal, and I don't care about my crew, they knew what they were signing up for (there is a chronicle somewhere about starship crews, the smallest life expectancy of any occupation).

The question is, how do you take out the capsuleer, and what do you do if you succeed. If I sense a breach and can't self destruct, then I will just eject. If not, then you still need to find a way to breach the hyper advanced pod, which once happens will kill me and transfer my consiousness over to a new clone. No matter what happens, you can bet I will exact my revenge. And a few measly warbarges are no match for my artillery the size of minivans.

Ah, your just in it for my stuff. For some reason I thought you were trying to kill me (a lot of good that would do). All you had to do was ask, I will gladly eject whatever scraps I have in my cargohold. The stuff on the outside of the ship is what is expensive (MWD, Guns, etc.). The only way you are getting that is if you can dock it at a station. But then comes the issue of who is going to fly it. Once my pod is outta the way, you are going to need another to replace it to operate the ship. If you have capsuleer friends, well good for you, mission success. If not, well I do, and I know how to use locator agents .

Couple of problems:

1) Entering the ship - Blowing a hole with remote explosives? Good luck with that. The armour can withstand hits from starship weaponry, nothing you can carry on your person will scratch it (well, I shouldn't say nothing, but the things you could carry would annihilate you as well). Drone bays are also closed when not in use, plus the ship is shielded. If you're entering through existing holes in the ship done by weapons fire, the ship is on verge of destruction anyways.

2) Hacking anything on the ship - ...how exactly? The capsule interface gives a pilots nervous system a direct link to all major systems of the ship. It is the most advanced piece of electronic technology in New Eden. Capsuleer ships can withstand the potent viruses that Sansha use during incursions to cripple empire vessels, so how exactly do you hope to do it?

3) The moment you land on the hull, the capsuleer knows. He can FEEL your footsteps on his metal skin. He would feel pain at any attempts you made to cut into him. You assume he is just the pilot of the ship, but you're wrong. He IS the ship, and by that same token he can put any sort of creative uses to his ships systems. No reason he couldn't pass massive current through the hull, iradiate everything, overload energy or plasma conduits in specific sections to kill you. You would be dead long before you could reach anything resembling a self destruct console.


As much as I know DUST players love the idea of boarding capsuleer ships, lore-wise it is extremely unrealistic

Attention Fleet I am being boarded, I am now primary target. take me out.

Also Capsuleers are suberb hackers which is why they're typically used to fight rogue drones because the drones are nasty buggers known for hacking regular ships.

I did some math
to blow a hole in the side of a Avatar titan with 0 mods (lol) it would take 400 boundless REs or 3846000 isk worth of explosives

THIS IS ACCURATE IF DUST HP CORRELATES WITH EVE HP
:)

According to the lore, the vast majority of these Eve Online ships still have a standard crew despite being operated mainly by a Capsuleer. Frigates might have only one person but a destroyer or bigger will definitely have a crew of their own. And don't expect that crew to be unarmed.

/Dust mercs board Eve ship
/Capsuleer initiates self destruct
/...
/tears