As far as game modes, using ships and structures for standard matches sounds like a really cool idea.

However, any form of Conquest gameplay needs to stay on planets. You have to realize that now with them being on PC, this could allow them to develop massive open-world environments a few years down the line so we could actually get the gameplay many of us got into this game hoping for.

Trying to have vehicle combat inside a spacecraft doesn't really make a lot of sense, as well. Even if you could do it, I don't think vehicle users would be happy with how limited their mobility and sight-lines would probably be, and they'd be constant sitting ducks for infantry. It's likely any fighting inside ships will be infantry-only, which is likely why they decided to go that route for the start of the game since it won't have vehicles.

I wouldn't worry about Nova players every being inside EVE player ships. Trying to do that would be a special kind of torture on the programmers trying to make the database accept something like that, and I have to imagine the ever-present spectre of lag would rear it's ugly head hardcore if you got enough EVE players involved.

People over on the Valkyrie forums also love to speculate about a future where that game is linked with EVE Online, but you can't have the games linked in space in any way because of EVE's dependence on Time Dilation. Once you get a few thousand EVE players beating on each other and time slows down by 90% there's no way that the other games could participate because they would have to be slowed down too.

Again, this can NEVER impact EVE gameplay in any way. The server-side logistics would be horrifying and as I already said, as soon as Time Dilation kicks in in a fight the whole system would break down because you would have to allow the Dust players to impact the ship they were inside of in real time while the fight EVE-side has been slowed down up to 90%.

That's not even considering that you'd probably end up with another Jita Riot if CCP tried to set up any mechanic in Nova that allowed players of another game entirely to infiltrate the ships of players who are docked, which is supposed to give you absolute safety.

****, if they actually did that I'd drop both my EVE subscriptions in a heartbeat because that would create levels of unbearable cheese that no one would be able to stomach.

That still leaves you with more limited space, and I'm not sure those should be a complete replacement for planets whatsoever.

Kinda funny, honestly. People raged at CCP for announcing planets wouldn't be in at first, but now people are suggesting replacing them with the ship interiors that they used to claim would make the game into a CoD clone.

And you probs gonna completely ignore the feedback regardless what people say.

Speaking of MCC's wouldn't it be cool if they had something like battlefields 2142 Titan mode? Where the game ends when one team takes control of the map then invades the opposing MCC and captures it? That feature alone would have made dust seem a lot more cool