Hell to the no.

Time scales between the two different kinds of fights are too far apart. Fights can last a long time in fleet engagements but most often it's more like "hey I'm good, life is fine. . . . ZOMGWTFBBQ-snap-crackly-dead" for whoever dies.

I do support boarding of POSes and outposts. That kinds of structure grind is much more compatible with a DUST style match and would give the whole CQB fighting in a corridor feeling similar to a ship. It even makes sense in terms of gameplay and setting in both games.

Would PVE enemies of EVE make good targets for boarding?

Any answers?

It really depends on the ship, and the system behind it.

If you target a ship that's gonna get instapopped, then you have wasted your shot. The system is self-limiting. You don't need to limit it to certain kinds of ships because it is self-limiting. It would give an advantage to fleets that have strong communication: they could send boarders to cripple or even capture high value targets. I see a lot of people saying 'no this won't work it takes too long and ships blow up' but I guess you've never flown in fleets. Good fleets call targets and communicate.

If the defender installs a DUST 514 Merc internal security module, it could automatically add their ship to the playlist for people to join in the 'ship-boarding' queue, with the payouts automatically deducted from the pilot, when the ship is hit with boarders.

If you have Dust players in your corp you can work with, you could have a 'private' lobby, where your corps Dust mercs could be standing by in major fleet battles to spawn on any ship that needs assistance, or to spawn in any boarding craft, and only allowing in freebooter mercs from the queue as needed.

Ships and stations would have base level NPC defenses, which could be augmented with modules that affect the terrain of the map, the difficulty of the NPCs, and the ability to hire Dust mercs. These would fit in new internal security module slots.