If an EVE player is required for the clone movement, then everything CCP wants for this game wont work. The game is supposed to work 100% without any reliance what so ever on EVE - and visa versa.

The all of the ships main functions are controlled by the capsuleer as far as I know, and mercenaries are created specifically as war machines, they don't have much other value. So what "actions" would they be tasked with?

Mentally activates the neocom and holds his hand to head like a phone.

"Hey non immortal dude over there at the biomass facility?
Yeah uhm here I am going to wire over some some isk I wanna buy clones and enough nanite paste to cover all the manufacturing my liscences need.
I am going to need it for an upcomming battle on your planet...
Of course Ill not level your entire home city I only am interested in your place of work just be sure to evacuate the area before we land.
Yeah your boss should have alerted you guys there was an attack contract made this morning.
Okay thanks. Money should be over shortly."

That is where I'm stumped. Basically the actions regular crew would perform but exactly how to do it, i can't say

We could use dust soldiers to harvest areas far to dangerous/expensive to pay a for a non immortal to give up 20 years of schooling for in one shot.

Belive it or not mercs and capsuleers are 'cost effective' vs using regular humans.

When you take away the thought that things are impossible, you find ways to make them possible.

I will never stop requesting it

The only kind of ship boarding that's possible is mcc boarding in the style of bf2142, there are ex dice at ccp so maybe that will happen at some point, but as far as eve ship boarding goes.........forGET it! Not gonna happen......ev-er.
like someone else posted on this thread....they would have to create full maps for the ships interior, x that buy the amount of ships IN new eden.....on top of all the data for the planetary maps.............toooooooo much data.

and like i said before, the players of EVE have their say in this also, and i think, no, i'm positively sure they're not gonna let it happen

The major issue with ship boarding is that both parties will have to sit around for 10-20 minutes. In high sec concord will just come and blow the offender up, In Nullsec the person being boarded can just call his friends and they'll destroy the other guy.

Plus it is much easier to just kill someone yourself then sit around for that long waiting.

What if taking a ship could be done in a manner more complicated than simply killing the crew. Maybe a complicated hack sequence that takes a shorter time then having a full battle but something to keep taking a ship difficult

I don't know how movement is going to work, but I'm sure it wont rely on EVE. The games are not suppose to rely on each other, they're supposed to add a strengthening element to each other.

Maybe something like they did w custom offices; Concord decides to make some kind of space structure holding clones/MCCs so they can be deployed around the solar system/planet.

Those structures should be conquerable/destructible in low/0.0 (maybe just in 0.0)

It's in 0.0 when the war barges comes handy; the system/planetary structure isn't yours, so you gotta deploy a war barge, but they need a pilot, and that makes DUST dependent of EVE, but only in 0.0/[low?], places that actually belong to capsuleers.

If you want to be independent, stick to high/[low?], but sure not 0.0, DUST should be quite dependent of EVE there. (So forget about all those plans of destroying the Goons with just mercs and a lot of will)

The major issue with ship boarding is that both parties will have to sit around for 10-20 minutes..

I'm just gonna say it again - ship boarding would make mercenaries to valuable. Any number of ways could make it a more "complicated" endeavor, but complex or not complex it would still be far to valuable. It would make having mercenaries at your disposal a necessity rather than an opportunity.

and like i said before, the players of EVE have their say in this also, and i think, no, i'm positively sure they're not gonna let it happen

console players screamed at ccp not to add kb/m but they never listened, why should screaming eve players be any different, oh wait...they care more about the eve players.

I would just set ship to self destruct if I got boarded. Hope you can leave within 30 seconds. Cheaper to but new ship then let you have mine.

console players screamed at ccp not to add kb/m but they never listened, why should screaming eve players be any different, oh wait...they care more about the eve players.

Unless of course you're flying around in a ship that costs 50,000,000,000 ISK. That translates to about $200 I believe.

If you are going to lose it anyway due to ****** mechanics. Why would you let the enemy steal your big ship? You dont. Scorched earth. you aint getting jack. "Someone please bomb my wreck too"