Simply put.... +1. Good work, with a lot of thought put into it. Also, is it possible for , let's say, the HAV pilot to join up with the solo nerc and become allies, or would they just inherently be put against each other. I guess what I'm asking is, if you and some random feel like working together, could you squad up right then and there.

I like it especially the part where EVE capsuleers would be feeding contracts into Dust.

In EVE players have entire bussines based around running exploration sites. People get them or find them and hand them the site locations to be run for a % of the gains, usually 50/50.

So, people inside Legion corps could also get these business up as well, the same as in EVE, making the experience even greater since players would start to have other activities besides PVP.


But, all things in EVE have a risk.


I think it would be nice also that, after a locations is being run, if another capsuleer finds the site and sees people runing, he could put up a "counter contract" that would allow another Legion party to enter the fray.

So there woudl be the risk of PVP on PVE activities. I believe in all activities in the EVE universe, there must be a risk of a Real fight.

Why couldn't the merc simply get onto a district, and walk around and explore FC style?

What's the guarantee there's going to be something there? It would be the equivalent of flying to deadspace and hoping to find a site. While immersion is a big thing, time spent performing these activities still needs to be kept in mind as you want things to be flowing consistently much rather than a haphazard hop of absolute boredom travelling from district to district on foot or dropship or LAV to find out there's nothing on this particular moon and then you still have a lot more to check. Some of the planets in EVE have ludicrous numbers of moons and I'm only using moons for examples. What about the potential for derelict stations, or pirate outpost stations?

If that what if was an actual problem, the America's would never been discovered.

EDIT: Actually, even worse, if that what if was a problem, humans would probably be killed off by now.

How about if the EVE pilot equips a module on his ship that allows him to drop a CRU on any lunar sites he scans down. He can then sell the access code to the CRU to a Legion merc via the contract system.

Trust me when I say I would love nothing more than to run around an empty district; in fact I have a couple in times in Dust, something I'm sure many of us have done, but look at it from the point of view of "Okay running around on the ground by myself with nothing to shoot at is fun, relaxing and all but this is a FPS/MMO I want to shoot and loot."

I'm actually go a little off base and use one of my personal favourite games Fallout 3. For me one of the biggest things I loved about Fallout 3 was the fact that everywhere I turned there was something to find. I never worried about getting lost because I knew that no matter where I ended up, I would find something interesting to do, shoot, loot, craft, read or what have you. This was actually a problem I had with New Vegas which while there was still plenty to do, there was not a lot to find.

Here you don't want to spend so much time in a game where there is so much to do doing nothing, unless of course you deliberately set out to do so, therefore I find that a mechanic that flows quickly and leads into the ability to get to a site do it and move onto the next one, not necessarily quickly but smoothly, would be advantageous. To deploy on foot to search several square kilometres by whatever vehicle you have at your disposal, only to find nothing and still have multiple districts on multiple moons would lead to a bit of emptiness unless you spawned something on one in every two or three districts, which would kind of diminish the rewards for seeking out the signature.

Of course there would also be cosmic anomalies, things that you immediately pick up that are in system that you could immediately deploy to. These could play out in that sort of manner, but because of the lack of effort required to locate them, their rewards would be a little less attractive, not to say you wouldn't want them.

I feel a little uneasy about a merc scanning down a site on another celestial body, because it leads to the question of how they would get there.

I donGÇÖt think CCP will include off planet travel in ships in Legion, so you will not be able to fly your own ship there. It might be possible when they allow your character to cross platforms. Then you can log out from Legion, log int to EVE, fly there, and then switch back, but that is a long way off.

The other way to get there is to download your consciousness into a clone at the site, but how do you get the clone there?

Having the EVE pilot doing exploration drop off a CRU, and then sell access to that CRU, would be easier to implement, and would not break immersion.

Exploration is such a quick and emergent thing that I believe it needs to stay that way. For example the EVE player would still need to scan down the site and hope that the contract gets accepted before the group already there finishes the site as it would remove the site and by extension the contract. It needs to be a system that can't be exploited however as in the second example, when EVE Player 1 had to obtain equipment to deploy to the surface which would take time, instead of making a contract which automatically puts ground troops and equipment on site without any preparation or assembly of assets.

There is nothing more annoying in exploration than finding a site, getting to like 98% scanned and then it disappears because someone else beat you to the punch.

Yeah, but thats kind of the way of the business, its not like WoW where you go to a raid and do it, it needs some work.

Also, scaning isnt the only source of sites. Escalations are very common as well with good pay outs.

Would it be possible for a dust merc to give out exploration contracts? Let's say that a platoon sized group is looking for a challenge, but none of the current contracts look to be very difficult. Could we put out our own contract, asking an EvE pilot to find a high level PvE zone?