Yes.

No They should improve it. They just need to make it more relevant for the mechanics in place in EVE Rather than just an added bonus here and there.

Initiating a heavier involvement with Eve for Dust is counter intuitive. Legion is the real focus for cross game integration, especially when Legion represents for Eve a bigger effect on it's world. Dust will never be it combined with Eve economy/null sec ect.

Actually haven't they said quite the opposite - No integration. And since Legion is still not a game why do people keep bringing it up? It will still need a test bed and thats DUST. If the connection of this type was meaningless in Dust the same link will fail in Legion.

Dust is integrated with Low Sec in one region - why not expand it to other regions? Why not improve the FW integration by making it easier to see where dust battles are happening. Why doesn't my dust Merc that Is in my FW corp able to see my factions Chat channel in the same way my eve character can? Why can eve players change who holds a system without dust mercs? Battles spawning randomly in FW doesn't make sence! It failed previously due to eve players not having to use dust to flip systems so no/few contracts were made.

No one mentioned Nullsec or economy as that is extra on top of what we have... There are ways in which they can strengthen what currently exists though.

WHEN Legion is a game they can disconnect dust and plug in Legion, but currently Legion is a concept not a game. To make it effective and to make EVE players care about it - they will need to loose some ability to control the space themselves and rely on players of the other product whatever its name is. Otherwise no fuks will be given EVE side.

Dust is integrated with Low Sec in one region - why not expand it to other regions? Why not improve the FW integration by making it easier to see where dust battles are happening. Why doesn't my dust Merc that Is in my FW corp able to see my factions Chat channel in the same way my eve character can? Why can eve players change who holds a system without dust mercs? Battles spawning randomly in FW doesn't make sence! It failed previously due to eve players not having to use dust to flip systems so no/few contracts were made.

Actually haven't they said quite the opposite - No integration. And since Legion is still not a game why do people keep bringing it up? It will still need a test bed and thats DUST. If the connection of this type was meaningless in Dust the same link will fail in Legion.

Dust is integrated with Low Sec in one region - why not expand it to other regions? Why not improve the FW integration by making it easier to see where dust battles are happening. Why doesn't my dust Merc that Is in my FW corp able to see my factions Chat channel in the same way my eve character can? Why can eve players change who holds a system without dust mercs? Battles spawning randomly in FW doesn't make sence! It failed previously due to eve players not having to use dust to flip systems so no/few contracts were made.

No one mentioned Nullsec or economy as that is extra on top of what we have... There are ways in which they can strengthen what currently exists though.

WHEN Legion is a game they can disconnect dust and plug in Legion, but currently Legion is a concept not a game. To make it effective and to make EVE players care about it - they will need to loose some ability to control the space themselves and rely on players of the other product whatever its name is. Otherwise no fuks will be given EVE side.

When i say strengthen, let me elaborate a bit as I may have been a little Vague and ranty with previous posts :)

Initiating from the EVE side.

In EVE the systems for taking over a system should in my opinion only give space superiority. As soon as this starts to tip in any system (FW for example) an option becomes available to the pilots with specific roles in a corp to issue contracts on planets or individual districts within the system. These contracts are then the battles that DUST assigns players to rather than randomly spawning them.

Once planetary ownership starts to increase the percentage of system ownership would increase unless the enemy mount a successfull counter. This would need to be both in space and on the ground.

e.g. without dust the eve players can only get space supremacy. This will still give out the bonuses for running the sites etc but you will not take a system for your faction like this.

Breakdown - The DUST gameplay does not need to change. Just EVE side features to make pilots NEED mercs more for their ends. The majority of this is in fact EVE side changes so potentially little need to modify DUST - note that i'm a coder but i see most of the systems in place already. DUST mercs fighting for a faction or in a corp engaged in Factional warefare or added to comms channels for that faction while engaged.

Initiating from DUST

A merc corp decides to drive into enemy territory. You can invade every system neighbouring a system already owned by your faction. The normal DUST starmap is used to choose a district to invade and you can invite your teammates to a team deployment or issue a contract for people fighting for your faction to join.

On the EVE side a notification goes out (using the new notification system) to all pilots of that faction to invade said system and gain superiority in the air.. Any Pilot selecting this message would get invited to the comms channel for that group.

This would need some modification to both clients.

I realize i will never see EVE ship swooping through the atmosphere type of integration lol unless CCP decide to join Legion to EVE and use the Walking in stations Engine (conspiracy theory).

I don't see how any of this is shoehorned in my eyes this is just creating a symbiosis between the games that is currently restricted to saving pos fuel or getting an extra percentage bonus.

This also wouldnt need to much modification to work in nullsec.... Flaming commence.