When we have to preface our commens with "don't poke fun at me" society has broken down and courtesy is no longer a staple of our lives.

I doubt this will happen. I could be wrong but its very doubtful. What would be the purpose anyway? You would be running around on a planet anyway in your own battle.

Not a live EVE battle per se, but i'd like to see a battle going on in the space outside our War Barge windows.

@Cretrian

I can see one logical purpose.

To decide where to go for profitable ventures. In New Eden, conflict is the life blood of our economy. People who buy and sell mercenary weapons in Dust could use this information to see where to make the most profit with what they want to sell away. And yes, once everything is fully interfaced, buy and sell orders will be common in Dust. Such information on the star map would be an valuable asset.

Seeing actual battles in real time seems like it would take a lot of resources and it's kind of unrealistic (but it'd be cooooooollll so +1)....

But it'd be cool to see a "current" sovereignty map! Watching the ebbs and flows of territory is sort of like watching battles happen, right? And to top that, how about some tokens/icons that can be explored with sizable battles happen? Like, click on the battle icon and it tells you that so many people fought against so many with a minimum threshold of some sort.

I can certainly understand this reasoning. Though I would think that there will be a contract interface just like there is in Eve that you will be able to access. It will have a search filter function as well that will allow you to look for the most lucrative contracts.

The Star Map in Eve does not give market/contract info so I would bet they are not going to use it for this in Dust.

But the stats alone provide ample reason to use it often:

Number of ships/pods destroyed per day or every hour.
Number of jumps per day or every hour.
Number of NPC kills.
etc.

That alone is enough to get a good assessment on where to go to make the most profit.

Now imagine applying that and adapting the stats for dust.

They could just make generic explosions in the sky so you could see something up there, I guess. That would be lame though. Especially if a titan blows up and all you see is a small puff of smoke.

I now have visions of a Titan deflating like a balloon. ^_^

While seeing the combat evolve in space from the ground or in a station sounds cool I think it would be more hassle than its worth. The only thing that would really matter from that perspective is if an orbital strike is called.

C9N-CC is a lawless system out on the edges of the EVE Galaxy that is notable for being the location of the first Avatar Titan wreck in all of the Galaxy. The captain of the Titan was asleep so with no one to man the ship, a fleet of adversaries took about 10 minutes to destroy the Titan. Since the ship was so significant, the wreckage hulk remains in space today. Due to its notability, a Player Owned Station was built nearby, named the C9N Steve Mausoleum.

I know but it would add to the sense of epicness if it was possible, it would be just that little cosmetic feature that makes you feel you're part of something big, to know that something really is going on on the same server as eve.
It could be used from a strategic point of view too in some way (I don't know what way but in some way)