Would it be possible for you to release a map editor so that we can build our own maps and submit them to you for checking and implementation. There's a lot of planets in Eve to maps for so this would make things go a bit quicker.

Until Dust goes to pc, I doubt they will. Besides, CCP hired people to do the work for you. (P.s. Dust is using the Unreal Engine)

The game is still being developed on PCs and then encoded onto the PS3 (this is my understanding of it anyway!). I am suggesting that the Devs release a custom map editor for Dust 514 utilizing the unreal engine that Dust 514 testers can have a play around with.

If the map editor were written properly then it would be easily implemented into the game once it has been tested by CCP for obvious bugs etc.

This suggestion comes in a bid to help the devs develop the game more rapidly. I am aware they are paying professsionals to make the maps for us but as it stands they are reading the suggestion forum and then working on a new map with those thoughts in mind. My suggestion cuts out the beginning of this process and just means that the devs are required to 'touch up' the maps they like best.

I have heard somewhere (I think it was at the fanfest 2012 keynote) that CCP would like to create a new map for every planet that Dust 514 will take place on. This is a huge undertaking and will take a great deal of time; furthermore (not to insult anyone) but the imagination pool only runs so deep within a confined group of people.

A map editor would hopefully create a large influx of user made maps that could be used for the huge number of planets in the Eve universe. Not to mention spaceship maps on titans etc. like I have seen suggested on the forums.

All this may help to reduce CCP's work load in the long run and provide for a more varied game.

This game will be about persistent worlds.
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I have heard somewhere (I think it was at the fanfest 2012 keynote) that CCP would like to create a new map for every planet that Dust 514 will take place on.

Go download Unreal engine. You now have the engine that CCP uses to build the game.

have fun.

Not sure what you are trying to say here.

Eve players will make the map when they build a structure in eve. All the maps will be different every time. Eve players who run player controlled structures decide how they are laid out on the planet an the the battlefield commanders from corporations will deploy Dust structures on and around the Eve built structure. You are thinking too small. We are battling for control of planets and solar systems not death matching on the same stupid maps. These maps in the beta are to test balancing issues and to test how to set up skill points and skill trees.