That's not all EvE players. Golden Day (Golden Dae in EvE) wanted me to come get him in my ship and transport him down to nullsec but I couldn't, simply because that hasn't been implemented yet. I would love if it was. I can't see any good reason why it can't, and as soon as it can, I intend to make use of it.

For those people who don't like the idea, they just don't accept contracts to do so. As with everything else in EvE there will be some way for people to hack their way in, and for that reason there should be a switch to allow the functionality so it's just not possible, to suit those players who never want to do this.

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.

I agree. It should be very clear who is attacking and defending.

EDIT: By the way, Eve Online still has that one feature where Faction Warfare systems can still be affected by Dust 514 battles. Obviously no one is playing Dust anymore but the feature is still there regardless. Considering the level of connectivity Dust had with Eve, I can see FW still being one of the first cross-game features if that were to ever happen.

Here is hoping Project Nova can improve upon that. At the very least later down the road after Nova has established its own foundation there needs to be tools in place that enable both Capsuleers and Mercenaries to better coordinate. Eve players should be able to know in advance which planet the next battle will take place while having, by default, a direct line of communication with the ground troops.