so I actually wrote this as a reply in general discussion, but then realised it was a pretty good idea so now I'm posting it in feeback/requests. alot of people don't wan't dust players boarding their hard earned ships and taking them out in one battle. heres how ship boarding should work:
the attacking eve player will have to dock with the enemy. this presents an interesting set of tactics; 'do I attack using my ship from afar, or do I try an extremely risky docking manoeuvre that will pay off massively?' now, the most important part of this idea is that if the dust payers are successful, the enemy ship won't just get blown to smithereens. after all, a decent ship is HUGE. why would it's life blood be housed in one room? the attacking eve player can decide what damage they'd like to do aboard the enemy ship and say 'okay, my ships can deal damage fairly well, but he could outrun us, lets send in some Dust boys to take out his propulsion.' this way we cannot really destroy an entire ship, but lend a significant hand in doing so.
any opinions/ additions welcome, lets see if this can actually work in the game!

Hmmm.... i suppose so but how would it work? how would the EVE client react? and could the player hire us to repair his thrusters?

and could the player hire us to repair his thrusters?

This will never happen. The eve players would EMO rage like you wouldnt believe knowing that Dust bunnies as we are reffered to could dare board and damage there ships. As an EVE player myself its a hard pill to swallow that console gammers will have any effect what so ever on the EVE side. So asking to board our ships and blow them up your gonna get ALOT of push back.

This will never happen. The eve players would EMO rage like you wouldnt believe knowing that Dust bunnies as we are reffered to could dare board and damage there ships. As an EVE player myself its a hard pill to swallow that console gammers will have any effect what so ever on the EVE side. So asking to board our ships and blow them up your gonna get ALOT of push back.

so I actually wrote this as a reply in general discussion, but then realised it was a pretty good idea so now I'm posting it in feeback/requests. alot of people don't wan't dust players boarding their hard earned ships and taking them out in one battle. heres how ship boarding should work:
the attacking eve player will have to dock with the enemy. this presents an interesting set of tactics; 'do I attack using my ship from afar, or do I try an extremely risky docking manoeuvre that will pay off massively?' now, the most important part of this idea is that if the dust payers are successful, the enemy ship won't just get blown to smithereens. after all, a decent ship is HUGE. why would it's life blood be housed in one room? the attacking eve player can decide what damage they'd like to do aboard the enemy ship and say 'okay, my ships can deal damage fairly well, but he could outrun us, lets send in some Dust boys to take out his propulsion.' this way we cannot really destroy an entire ship, but lend a significant hand in doing so.
any opinions/ additions welcome, lets see if this can actually work in the game!

I think it opens up the possibility of larger corps financing ship ownership and then sending out repo-fleets to capture and repossess those ships for non-payment using dust mercs to enter and forcibly eject the pod, stop the self destruct countdown, or pod kill them - ef da polizia.

I sort of envision those instances as quick and dirty 5-10 minute death matches with limited clone reserves and single objectives where the attackers must fight their way through any combination of drones and Mercs in a confined area to hack objectives or eliminate opposition.

Yes, we're a long way from this but putting the idea forward isn't bad since they can test this in DUST as just another random battle and integrate it later if it works

yet you say this now but it has been confirmed that those dust bunnies will be able to kill eve ships.... so bring on the tears haha

The issue with existing capitals is that they are designed as large ships to be autonomously controlled by a pod pilot; why would there be passageways which would allow for access to the sensitive areas of the ship at all?

This will never happen. The eve players would EMO rage like you wouldnt believe knowing that Dust bunnies as we are reffered to could dare board and damage there ships. As an EVE player myself its a hard pill to swallow that console gammers will have any effect what so ever on the EVE side. So asking to board our ships and blow them up your gonna get ALOT of push back.