I think 'fixing the game' and PvE are two ways of saying the same thing. A large segment of my corporation wants to be able to plan co-op PvE matches. Those same guys are the ones getting increasingly bored with public contracts, FW, and PvP in general.

If you mean 'fixing the game' in the context of bug fixes and adding more weapons/dropsuits/vehicles... well I don't think those teams borrow much from one another. Unless I'm badly mistaken CCP Shanghai could work on both facets of game play at the same time.

I'd like to see a drop in game mode for PvE which turns into PvEvP.

Imagine if you will a squad of content bambi's farming drones in PvE.

Bambi 1- hahahaha we are getting good and enjoying this game look at the ISK we are about to make.

Bambi 2- Yeah Dust is great!

Mid match a band of hardened mercs jump into the match with the sole goal of killing the current contract holders and stealing the ISK rewards.

Bambi 1- Who they **** are they and why are they killing us. Isnt this PvP?

Vet 1- HTFU this is New Eden


Three weeks later......

Bambi 3- hahahaha we are getting good and enjoying this game look at the ISK we are about to make.

Bambi 4- Yeah Dust is great!

Mid match a band of hardened mercs jump into the match with the sole goal of killing the current contract holders and stealing the ISK rewards.

Bambi 3- Who they **** are they and why are they killing us. Isnt this PvP?

Vet 2 (AKA Bambi 1)- HTFU this is New Eden.....

If I may? I was watching Titanfall videos and apparently, they have PVE and PVP in the same matches. The Pilots (players) have Grunts, Spectres and other NPC's running around doing... much of nothing. lol Well, the Pilots are SUPPOSED to be better than the Grunts, so.... What if in these "massive land grabs for interstellar empires" we have regulars that fight alongside us. And we, as mercs, being immortal, inspire and scare them.

Of course, this IS borrowing from Titanfall, but it would be awesome.

Also, do this in FW and it will give it meaning.

Sounds like Titanfall is a Moba then. I think Dust would do well to try to avoid ripping their competition off, as I don't think CCP is up for flexing their programming muscles against a game that is already designed for a next gen system.

It's like Tylenol trying to make a better soda pop then Coca-Cola. Not a good idea...

Didn't say ripping them off. Make the AI smarter, it will draw people to THIS game rather than one where the NPC's just stand there. I watched an Angry Joe video and he literally stood and moved 3 inches every second and the NPC's couldn't hit him. Make the AI soldiers in THIS game hardened soldiers that are actually COMPETENT, but scared of US because we are Immortal. Like the non-capsuleer pilots in EVE are scared of the Capsuleers.

Well the only NPCs we do have right now (Turrets) can hit a fly at 1000 ******* meters, so I don't think we have to worry about CCP making NPCs that are too easy.

Everytime I drive past a Rail Turret in my LAV, it's all like, "You just drove through the wrong neighborhood holmes!" Annnddd I'm dead.

If the big surprise for Fanfest 2014 ends up being Planetary Conquest 2.0 you will have single handily inflicted more disappointment than any game patch to date.

I'd be good with ANY PvE at this point. Yet my inner devil is just dancing at the though of what CCP will do.

I'm looking forward to PvE, but it did take them a very long time to just add a few suits. It was what, a year? To add content equal to a monthly/quarterly patch that you might find from a more seasoned developer....

Bare bones CCP, that's all i need for now: Give me Drones that want me dead and a place to fight them, and you can then take as long as you need to add the pretty stuff.