To what extent do you mean "fully integrated"? That's actually a pretty broad statement. What specific features would you consider part of that "full integration"?

Yeah, that's kind of essential information to start the discussion.

Because say we include free transfer if ISK between DUST and EVE without some sort of conversion ratio, it would instantly make ISK rewards from DUST effectively meaningless, which I can't say would be an improvement.

Integration was the whole point, in my opinion.

I find it strange that eve focuses so much on the space aspect of space and hardly any attention at all to the planets which ought to be just as important as citadels or space stations.

How is it possible to control a solar system of you don't control the planets in them???


Imagine it, your Corp being overwhelmed in space, only then to hunker down on the planets in the solar systems and being able to launch gorilla attack squads from the planet until the enemy finally decides to take it. I think this would have made dust way more valuable and I think it would be a great and substantial feature to have in nova one day

I personally wanted and expected after a long pseudo beta stage, that equipment, weapons, suits, mods, vehicles, etc., would be seeded within EvE to give industrialists time to build a sizeable stockpile. I imagined that once there was a reasonable stock of equipment, a market link would have been made to start herding DUST mercs to the EvE-driven market. Over time, the static market that we were using would slowly deplete until everything was then purchased and sold via player market.

I never expected to come avatar-to-avatar with an embodied EvE pilot. Their world is space, ours is the ground. I expected communication in realtime via chat, mail, and vComms, squad play, or whatever, but I never thought or expected to meet a pilot on a ship, or have them "shuttle down" to my world.

I expected some generic NPC "tram" type system to "board ships bound for other systems/regions" where the fee would be based on distance and maybe standings or whatever---as just a simple NPC method of travel to break away from being stuck in one merc quarters and free instantaneous travel.

In time, I hoped to have PVE missions and mining caches for exploration and just to get away from things.

I fully expected EvE corps to hire DUST mercs based on specs and combat histories and stats to engage EvE-controlled planet-side installations affecting sovereignty; ground-based weaponry to target and fire upon orbiting EvE pilots; orbital strikes from EvE-side; and whatever immediate interactions that could play out there.

I don't think I wanted anything more than that.

...None of that happened, since the very first venture into that world, Walking In Stations, was abandoned by CCP due to poor EvE player acceptance of it. Basicly, EvE players didn't like the fact that resources were being used on those sort of ventures that they felt should have been used on "their game", and that changes to "their game" were being made that they didn't want and didn't ask for. To the average EvE player, all these avatars, Captain's Quarters, etc, were just a waste of time and energy.

Integration was the whole point, in my opinion.

^From an EvE player's perpective, I've fantasized of boots on the ground since 2006. I am not representative of all of EvE. Neither was that statement.