Would be more use for FW tbh

Have an extra letter which has a OB cannon and if your team holds it for 3min you get to fire a strike into EVE and at the enemy ship if there is one

Nobody will care about districts shooting ships near the planet unless they do silly things like massive damage to capitals, in which case it would be ridiculously overpowered.

What is something that they would care about that doesn't require doing massive damage?

Shutting down modules perhaps? Decloaking? Inability to fly out for set amount of time?

Yes and No

That doesn't make it valuable to EVE players in FW, it makes it valuable to DUST players in FW only. It's still a great idea that would really make teamwork keep going, I know I would communicate a lot with my DUST players to make sure I'm not about to get blapped by an OB Cannon.

Making it valuable to EVE players by allowing them to defend poco's and tcu's against attackers would be a big step.

Arkena Wyrnspire is wrong. I've already talked to several EVE players who agree, the ability to defend poco's and TCU's (the things that control SOV SPACE) would create a large demand, as long as they are placed near the district, it's a huge bonus :) ESPECIALLY IN NULLSEC

would love to mine rare ore for eve ' the good stuff ' and have eve pay us for it . or make our corps weapons and armor . swinging a pickaxe as astros fall from the sky we run over mine it out like the belts in eve . also give us time to explore our maps ,to walk around

I guess I reason that we don't have null sec yet is that there aren't enough planet types atm

Arkena Wyrnspire is wrong. I've already talked to several EVE players who agree, the ability to defend poco's and TCU's (the things that control SOV SPACE) would create a large demand, as long as they are placed near the district, it's a huge bonus :) ESPECIALLY IN NULLSEC

Maybe the POCOs/TCUs got some sort of passive bonus (financial or towards the system bonuses) for dust controlled districts - and never a penalty - that could be implemented with less resistance from eve players and less resources to code from CCP.

I doubt Eve pilots would get behind NPC planetary defenses. Sure, if you're the defender it's great but from the attackers point of view it's completely imba.

Arkena Wyrnspire is wrong. I've already talked to several EVE players who agree, the ability to defend poco's and TCU's (the things that control SOV SPACE) would create a large demand, as long as they are placed near the district, it's a huge bonus :) ESPECIALLY IN NULLSEC

Remove districts.
Make dust mercs required to take planets in eve that other players have unless they give up control willingly.

Not the difficult. This whole district thing is nonsense.

Here is an idea: Give the ability to set up dust side planetary sockets that affect a large area of space around the planet.
Ex: Warp Disruptor with iFF, a facility that uses the planets gravitational field to spread and amplify a warp disruption field affecting those without a superior standing with the corporation/alliance.

Now, make it so EVE players can destroy it with sufficient orbitals from say, battleships. To balance this out make planetary defenses very powerful (districts with those sockets) only able to shoot ships in orbit (where they have to be in order to drop orbitals).

Result: There is an incentive to take out the planetary structure that is powerful but won't break EVE side game play. EVE side forces can fight back but would probably either lose or suffer terrible loses if they tried to take out the warp disruption district without having ground forces weaken or nullify the planetary defenses.

Not only do I like this idea but on top of that it makes the orbital cannons useful and not OP