I think a better solution than getting rid of the redline is to have massive, multi-stage maps. I am very against the all neutral maps, where the 'defender' doesn't own the objectives to begin with. With massive maps. the redline can still exists... but the map is so large that it doesn't matter. Now there should be map variety, and these giant maps wouldn't be the only type, but these ones would have a defender protecting their space assets from an aggressor. Heck, even throw in districts that act as an "HQ" that can be upgraded with more defenses. Don't get rid of the redline... just make the maps bigger

This is, essentially, a completely unrealistic expectation of this game. It's not Planetside. And it would not be better if it was Planetside. Because Planetside sucks. "Open world" as a thing doesn't fix the problems with this game. In fact, in many cases, it would exacerbate existing issues, and make the game far worse than it is now.

While it would be nice to have that open world feelGǪI can't help but think that is a completely different beast with its own issues. Although, it would certainly make pilots infinitely more important and able to perform their roles better.

Maybe not completely 'open world' but how about a battle that spans multiple districts? And more like Skirmish 1.0

Draco, the way I see it, is an attacking MCC health bar, and a defending facility hack point, or something similar. The defense merely has to protect their base until the timer runs out, and I don't know, reinforcements arrive or something. (Technically, the attacker's MCC could be the health bar. Defenders just need to hold out until the attacking MCC is destroyed. They lose if their base is captured while the MCC is still alive.)

Draco, the way I see it, is an attacking MCC health bar, and a defending facility hack point, or something similar. The defense merely has to protect their base until the timer runs out, and I don't know, reinforcements arrive or something. (Technically, the attacker's MCC could be the health bar. Defenders just need to hold out until the attacking MCC is destroyed. They lose if their base is captured while the MCC is still alive.)

An open world in not only Dust but the Planetary Conquest version of Dust with the Personal Computer game of EVE running where exactly? Nearby?

Seriously you cannot be serious.

This game is written in Unreal Engine 3.5 with some undocumented enhancements (written by who knows). Then there is the fact that this ancient console has less memory than a $50 video card has. How would it handle your open world and have 32 players active.

Since 32 players is all that they can do now how to you propose that the game become open world? Open world for 32 players at a time? WoW uses server instances/shards/whatever to limit the population on their servers. And they use PCs and they have more than 32 players in a shard. Just trying to load all the texture as a hundred players just happen to wander by the same NPC was crash this sucker into the next week.

Well, thanks for the laugh. A little dementia can go a long to way to making what we have not seem as dire.

Wow, sat here for 20 mins reading all of this and soaked it all up.

I definitely love that Eve and Dust are becoming more involved with each other and thats from the perspective of a capsuleer and dust merc.

Unfortunately, this game is still about 2-3 years away from that and 4-5 years from its full potential. I don't think Dust will become open world.

Crazy thing that i want to happen with in the next 3 months is capsuleers needing to move the dust mercs to planets for PC and being able to wander in their ship and look ou the windows along with interacting with sofa just like how EVE is.

But to give you guys an idea how long this will take think about this.

-Eve has taken 9 years to get where its at
-Dust has taken about 2-5 years (not really sure)
-the time it takes to write all the codes is ridiculous
-CCP is limited by their workers and money
-CCP gets really lazy at some very crucial or interesting points in development