So on these planets where you're the only one on them, what do you expect players to do? I see you mentioned missioning, are there other activities? will these planets have fauna? If so how will that work? with thousands of different planets and dozens of different biomes, how do you handle creating a diverse wild population? Drones work everywhere of course, but shooting the same handful of enemy AI types will get old pretty fast. To build a massive volume of interesting/diverse creatures would be impossibly labor intensive. If we don't have these it might feel weird to walk around on planets with lush environments, completely devoid of animal life, or NPC human life, and equally weird to walk around on different planets across the far corners of New Eden all with the same species of animals.

Regarding missions, I think the best way to handle this is to crowdsource them. Ideally CCP could release a separate app with a mission designer tool in it. It would allow us to place enemy NPC's, create triggers, write dialogue, etc. The community could build missions and upload them to the test server. Every month we could vote on the best few and CCP would edit/approve them to be patched into the game. In this way, we could have a huge variety of missions that build up over time. It would take advantage of the creativity of the player base and offload much of the work from the Dev team. I think this should be done with EVE as well btw. If the engine was designed from the start with this in mind, it would make things a lot easier than trying to shoehorn it into existing code.

Please don't take any of my posts as being negative. I'm really passionate about this concept and I've thought a lot about it myself. I had a lot of hard questions to solve and I was curious how you solved them. Overall I really love your ideas.

Hopefully this gets implemented into Dust. Instead of the Legion and Dust teams being separate, why not work together on both games. Its unfair how most effort goes to Legion but not Dust. Legion footage looks great I mean the OB strike = WOW.

CCP shouldn't abandon Dust because we the Community created Dust with all this Feedback. If it wasn't for the feedback then right now there wouldn't of been a 1.8 and we would of been stuck with 1.7.

Keep it going Iron Wolf Saber !!

Keep in mind that this is IWS's vision for Legion's open world. It's not necessarily reflecting that of CCP's overall plan.

Its DAME unfair how Legion gets all the fun stuff while Dust doesn't. I don't like using bad language but its just unfair. Look at other games. They have alot of stuff but in Dust oh no it can't because have Minmatar and Amar HAV, Dropship, LAV, ect..and maps because its limited. Was MAG limited when it was released NO, how about The Last of Us NO, Killzone 3 NO, or how about the Uncharted series Effin NOPE. I can keep going and going about how the ps3 is a console that has been pushed and that's what Dust needs to do. Push it to the limit, use every thing in the ps3 system and in the end Boom its possible.

Its DAME unfair how Legion gets all the fun stuff while Dust doesn't. I don't like using bad language but its just unfair. Look at other games. They have alot of stuff but in Dust oh no it can't because have Minmatar and Amar HAV, Dropship, LAV, ect..and maps because its limited. Was MAG limited when it was released NO, how about The Last of Us NO, Killzone 3 NO, or how about the Uncharted series Effin NOPE. I can keep going and going about how the ps3 is a console that has been pushed and that's what Dust needs to do. Push it to the limit, use every thing in the ps3 system and in the end Boom its possible.

I completely agree that the missing racial vehicles, turrets and heavy weapons should get added to DUST. It's a smart business decision, and I hope after a few more months of hotfixes, CCP will make the decision to bring them to us.

As far as PvE, Drones, big maps, huge fights, it's simply not possible with the current resources on the PS3 hardware. That's an unfortunate fact. Also the console approval process seriously impedes CCP's ability to release timely updates or have a test server. The PC will be able to evolve with the game going forward. It's the right decision, as sad as that reality is. Fairness really doesn't come into play, it's simply how it is.

As far as PvE, Drones, big maps, huge fights, it's simply not possible with the current resources on the PS3 hardware. That's an unfortunate fact. Also the console approval process seriously impedes CCP's ability to release timely updates or have a test server. The PC will be able to evolve with the game going forward. It's the right decision, as sad as that reality is. Fairness really doesn't come into play, it's simply how it is.