So to beat CmdrWang to the punch, what ideas do you want to see turned into maps?

Would definitely like to see various maps corresponding to EVE planetary industrial facilities.. For each planetary type. Command centers with their launch pads or space elevator, extraction facilities, storage, manufacturing, etc. Seeing maps like that would really reinforce the message that EVE and Dust are tied together.. Not to mention the delicious tears from PI industrialists when they see the writing on the wall..

Would also love to see Dust expanded to include POS and station attack/defense missions.. Would love to see fights inside these structures.

- Full Day/Night Cycle Maps: I'm a MAG veteran myself, and I always wanted to be able to fight on, say, Raven Sabotage at night - move through the jungle under the cover of darkness, avoiding floodlights set up by the defenders... being able to attack from the east as the sun rises behind you, blinding snipers, being able to ghost through the woods as night falls - these are the things I want to do.

- Boarding Actions: Currently, in the Eve setting, groups can set up outposts in their sovereign nullsec space. How fitting would it be for troops to be inserted onto these platforms, fighting in room-to-room boarding combat to try and take over or destroy the platform? An Outpost is on par with a Titan in scope of construction, and how wicked would it be to see these massive, indestructible structures become prey for tactical insertion?

As for natural environments - I'll agree, with a caveat. Natural environments can be hard to do well; it's hard to create a rolling beautiful landscape that fosters a good shooter game, and it's hard to create anything else that looks really fantastic. I'd love to play in a well-rendered Jungle, were the underbrush actually conceals you, and the defensive points were strange, alien redwoods stretching a kilometer high...

I'd love to play in some multiple terrain type maps, too - a swamp would be great, with frogmen soldiers sliding through brackish water, bullets tearing rotting wood apart, thunder and ominous clouds in the distance... god, would that be fun. I trust CCP to do the mechanics well, but I haven't seen any FPS manage the kinds of environments I like.

Barren
Simple enough. Get a windswept Gobi Desert kind of feel - the Radiant Barrens Escalation map in MAG is a good example. Most of the terrain is dunes, or salt-flat-style broken ground, with mazes made by the natural formations and only the occasional structure.

Gas
Cloud City. Have a low-atmosphere mining platform, suspended by various means in the soup of viscous clouds. Attack and defense routes are easily controlled, with troop transports dropping soldiers into undefended segments of the structure. Heavily industrial setting, with battles taking place all through the inner workings of the stations.

Ice
A frozen plane, with ravines a mile deep where massive glaciers pull apart from one another. The structures are prefabs dropped in from orbit, and drilled into the ice; I imagine a battle taking place on a vertical orientation, with a "city" clinging to the side of a massive glacial cliff, with walkways and ladders leading up and down.

Lava
Crematoria from Chronicles of Riddick. A dangerously unstable planet, with plumes of sulfurous ash obscuring vision to no more than a few meters. Underground structures on the most tectonically stable segments provide the main objectives - volcanic landscape, either choppy and rugged or obsidian-smooth, surrounds them.

Oceanic
Massive marine leviathans can be seen breaching in the distance, as your troop transport skims over the waves to the installation. Either a small archipelago or a floating/anchored station awaits you, something akin to an oil derrick. The dropsuit is many things, but one thing it is not is bouyant - so while you can venture into the shallows for a surprise amphibious attack, make sure not to lose your footing, for who knows what's waiting for you down there?

Alternatively, if we want to get industrious - underwater combat. Ocean floor drilling stations, with dropsuited soldiers dropping down to the benthic layer to duke it out among the detritus of the sea, as dark shapes slide by against the distant surface.

Plasma
A fight in an active plasma storm, the static in the atmosphere frying radar and limiting communications, making this very much an engagement of small groups hunting each other. Rifles flare against the flashing sky.

Shattered
Sure, there are no objectives here - but imagine in a Corp v. Corp battle, with massive shards of the world rising up or sinking around you?

Storm
The wind pulls at you, whipping dirt and dust past your visor as you try to discern shapes in the murk - you slide by the guard post unnoticed, and ghost your way through the sentries, using the cloak of the storm.

For storm planets, I imagine structures built to withstand/divert the force of the storm - massive lightning rod towers which harvest the energy of the tempest, buildings erected to create natural hollows in the chaos where the wind can't reach, screens and tarps and all sorts of thrown-up defenses to keep the storm out.

Visibility would be much lower - imagine sandstorms moving through that cut your non-electronic sight down to ten meters, with lightning crackling through the statically charged particulates.

"Storm" can cover a lot of environments. An arboreal world, the forests evolved to bend into the wind to mitigate losses, tree trunks ripped up and splinters the size of a man whipping out through the night, silent projectiles; a desert planet that never sees the sky for all the sand being blown through the air; a shifting island archipelago where the land is never quite certain, dragged out from under your feet to rebuild another island by the fierce tide, all under a lightning-split sky.

Id love to see a proper large jungle map and snow map tbh
havent seen a well done jungle map in a while, u know 1 that actually makes u feel like you're in a jungle

@ kush's assassin contracts, good idea let me share my thoughts on possible game mode. How about a smaller scale no respawn mode to go along with it? u infiltrate an enemy HQ or whatever and u and your small grp are charged with dispatching the VIP.

Each person has 1 life in this mode and its on more CQC maps like perhaps inside a ship or building complex.

I'd love to see a wide open plain with nothing but swarm launchers........

But tbh I'd really like to see a mix between everything, but i always prefer CQC. Jungles, small towns,possibly space shopping malls. Even cooler if there was a mix of different types between uplinks. Like a hilly or jungle entrance to a CQC building at the next uplink.

Defending a planetary/station evacuation.

Attacker's objectives:
Infitrate the command center and hack the defense weapons to target friendly shuttles
or
Hack their way straight into the civilian bunkers and open up on them.

Defender's objectives:
Keep the turrets offline,
Give the shuttles orders to take off when they think the sky will be safe for the 1-2m it takes for the shuttle to get out of range.