I don't know if an idea similar to this has been posted, but I'm posting it anyway. Better post a repeat than lose a good idea.

The idea is that there is a ship wreck in eve online space, and an eve player can go in and deploy a CRU/supply depot combo. If it gets overrun by people or drones, it is destroyed and the loot you have gathered is scattered everywhere. There are a number of deployment areas. The map is based on a couple of possible layouts, with each room and hall picking from a number of possibilities, making a large number of possible layouts, which the mercs will have to figure out on the fly. A pathway open on one ship could be closed on another. The mercs have to go in and look for loot.

The loot is guarded by drones coming from hives that start producing when the first mercs land on the ship. drones roam around and are attracted to noise, such as gunfire or heavy equipment picking up big boxes of loot. The ship is hard to find on scanners, but when the first eve player deploys a squad of dusters, it becomes easier to detect. The eve player acts as the commander, and looks at the overall map as the mercs discover it and directs them. If he meets another eve player who decides to shoot at him, he could have a hard time commanding or even have to leave the mercs without coordination.

If the mercs are abandoned, they can find a distress beacon, and turn it on, so that the ship is automatically visible to all ships in the system, like low level high sec pirate complexes. Anyone can go there and negotiate a contract for the mercs loot. The original contract will specify how much money is paid out for various levels of loot. There are a few levels of loot, each more valuable but more guarded. All sorts of eve stuff could be in in. You could also find some dust equipment, which the mercs get to keep if they get out. It is quite possible that mercs with no particular loyalty to the person who hired them(i.e. most of us) could end up negotiating a deal with the person who killed the person who originally hired them.

Finally, another eve player could swoop in and deploy his/her own squad of mercs in the middle of this, making the teams chose between cooperation and competition. There will be some chat channel that the mercs may or may not use. Deployment is done by a module that loads one of the moderately expensive mini command centers made by eve players and shoots it into the ship. It is easy and quick to deploy, so you can deploy it and immediately fight the other person. On the ship there are turrets that can be hacked by mercs, and control transferred to the eve pilot, who can use it to his advantage in the event of a confrontation. That's all I can think of, and it is not organized, but here it is. I hope its new.