I LIKE PIE

In this build we have active infantry modules, but we will refer to them all as equipment. Plan is for way more play/counterplay with active reps/hardening/dmg mods so fights are less predictable. These mods will have cooldowns and icons on the HUD, familiar to vehicle users from dust

Grenades are equipment, you can toggle to them on the equipment to cook them or quick throw using G

My biggest question is probably the timeline - both of the 'project' and when more communication is going to happen. Can we expect devblogs or forum-discussions on this project in the mid-term future? You probably didn't say anything about that topic on purpose, so I'll just wait it out. In the meantime congratulations on a well performed announcement. CCP actually learned. Well done.

Love the fact that many of the wildest ideas that some of us had in Dust 514 closed beta are becoming a reality (infantry active modules, hell yeah). So far so good.

The only thing I'm a bit concerned about is the mid/long term: large scale battles with a huge variety of vehicles and tactics, the planetary conquest, player-owned corporations was just some of the selling points of Dust, and I hope there's also something that aims that way in the new project.

Autumn and winter: Industrial structures
We always knew an industrial infrastructure overhaul was coming eventually as it was part of Executive Producer Andie NordgrenGÇÿs ambitious long-term space colonisation plan revealed at EVE Fanfest 2013 and discussed at each yearGÇÖs event since, but this year we learned a little more about the features and finally have a timeline for their introduction. This autumn will see the introduction of a new class of citadel specialised for industry, and CCP has confirmed that it will come in medium, large, and x-large sizes just like standard citadels and they will be specialised for manufacturing and research. This will come at the same time as mining barge overhauls to improve both their visuals and gameplay, though we donGÇÖt have any details yet of exactly what those gameplay tweaks will be.

The winter update could revolutionise the way we collect resources in EVE with the introduction of a new drilling platform class of structure. This is sure to spark wars over moons and asteroid belts and will replace the Starbase in its current role of mining moon minerals. More details will become available later in the year as the feature set hasnGÇÖt been designed yet, but this has the potential to radically change the way that we acquire resources in EVE while also giving new targets for attack or disruption. Once all current starbase roles have been moved over to new structures, they will be discontinued and CCP will run a buyback programme for them.

There is now a Scan range circle on your minimap, its width is your scan range, and it's precision is a fall off curve, so ewar is no longer binary.

We also have dynamic scan profiles, crouching lowers, sprinting and firing raises

It's a project, not a product. There are no guarantees that this is becomes a ccp game.

3 Classes (HEavy Support, Main Frontline, Light Recon) each of which branches into Vanguard/Sentinel, ASsault/Support, Sharpshooter/Infiltrator. Each of these 6 roles will branch into themed Faction Role Specializations (Amarr Sentinel = Templar) for a total of 32.

So if no one else is going to ask this, what's the plan for vehicles? I won't lie, the presence of vehicles is pretty much going to be the selling point of me playing it (I suck everywhere else). And I'd also like to help with the production (by that I mean ideas/feedback) of the aerial vehicles.

4 races X 6 roles = 24
where the missing 8?

Please think again about to add back the fitting stuff
its not complicated for the medium PC player

I was thinking about that as well. Officially we have 4 races in EVE, unofficially 5, but lets not think about Jovians. So maybe in remain 8 racial-roles are 'pilots' and some super-class(?!?).

I was thinking about that as well. Officially we have 4 races in EVE, unofficially 5, but lets not think about Jovians. So maybe in remain 8 racial-roles are 'pilots' and some super-class(?!?).