This may be the best idea yet.

Since EVE players can drop orbital strikes on dust players why not allow Dust players to Board EVE ships and kill the captain?

Eve players could put out contracts for Dust pirates To Board and kill Other EVE Ships or just take them hostage for ransom.

Seems like an awesome way to further the interactions between games.

This would also make Dust players even more valuable and versatile.

You pretzelboys. If you ever managed to somehow penetrate the defenses of a suitably equipped Eve ship and manage to gain access to it (which seems kind of farfetched to me), and killed the captain after dealing with the ships internal defenses, you would live about 5 seconds before exploding in a beautiful fireball.
What do you really think you would do if you took over a ship? Raid the liquor closet and throw a party? No, the ship would turn red to all other pilots occupying the system. While you are bustin out the champagne, the ship is sitting motionless in space as every other ship in the system warps to it, locks and fires a plethora of armaments at it that obliterate it almost instantly.
If you have some silly notion that once you took over the ship, you could fly it; well that caused uncontrollable laughing fits for me. The only way you are going to get to fly an Eve ship is to play Eve.
This thread is just silly. It's a nice daydream for Dust players; especially for those that have never played Eve but, it's not gonna happen.

Holding a ship for ransom. ROFL! The systems local populace might let you live for a few minutes just for the amusement of hearing you make your demands before they simply destroy the ship and all of the naive Dust players in it.

Killing the 'Captain' wont do a hell of alot. The ships are run by capsueleers. We kill off our Capts and crews everyday just to check fits.

The idea that you can board a ship, through deductive reasoning, one can only assume that others can defend the ship.

This may be the best idea yet.

Since EVE players can drop orbital strikes on dust players why not allow Dust players to Board EVE ships and kill the captain?

Eve players could put out contracts for Dust pirates To Board and kill Other EVE Ships or just take them hostage for ransom.

Seems like an awesome way to further the interactions between games.

This would also make Dust players even more valuable and versatile.

This idea is exemplary of the problems every ship boarding idea has: it sounds cool, but no thought has been put in to it. Like Marxism it only seems like a good idea until you try to figure out how to implement it.

Let's imagine some capsuleer has a bounty on her. A DUST corp finds out about it, and finds out where her ship is docked. They travel to that station, load up into her ship and...what?

If she didn't put up any sort of contract to protect her ship there will be no battle to be had. You'll waltz in, blow it up from the inside, and walk out without ever firing a shot. That's not fun for any party involved.

If she did have a contract out, then there are a dozen or so DUST players who are literally just sitting online in whatever station she's docked in waiting for her to undock so they can do something else, or for someone to attack the ship so they can defend it. Since no one will ever accept such a contract, you'll always end up with the above scenario.

Is the capsuleer even online during this? If she's not, that's kind of crappy to destroy all her assets while she isn't even online. If she is, can she undock? Do ships in EVE have artificial gravity, or will we be floating around? Can DUSTers survive warp? What happens if she scuttles the ship?

1. There are 556 ship types in new eden each one has a strong enough argument to have thier own map instead of copy and paste.

Good to know. If there are 556 ship types each one should get an individual map. Yes, that would be a lot of maps.

In the future someone will make a game with ship boarding that should be fun to play. Like the opening of the very first Star Wars movie. There could be a capture the princess contract. The forum has too many for my tastes, but I like games with a princess or two...

Until such time...

Capture the amarr queen, and execute her!

Capture the Amarr queen... and make her breakfast?

This may be the best idea yet.

Since EVE players can drop orbital strikes on dust players why not allow Dust players to Board EVE ships and kill the captain?

Eve players could put out contracts for Dust pirates To Board and kill Other EVE Ships or just take them hostage for ransom.

Seems like an awesome way to further the interactions between games.

This would also make Dust players even more valuable and versatile.

no, it isn't, would you like to be in a fight, then a mesage says: "your ship is being boarded, prepare for a 20 mins match between ppl who don't give a **** about your ship, get a tea or something while waiting or eject and lose the ship for good"

POS boarding on the other hand, seems like a good adea.

CCP is god so therefore they can make this happen.

Disagree if you can fanboys

It's a really nice idea, and it sounds EPIC. But in reality, for a range of reasons already described, but largely a matter of scale and timing and consequences. I'm prepared to explain in greater detail if anyone is particularly interested, but in short, I'd personally be against the idea, although SOCO's and the like would be good and probably more viable. I might stretch as far as the MCC, but tbh, I would then wonder why bother fighting on the ground if you can just board it and take it out.

Actually dust 514 players will be not particpiating after eve players show how lame they can be blowing up shuttles full of dust 514 soldiers trying to take it over and they just kill both teams.

Actually dust 514 players will be not particpiating after eve players show how lame they can be blowing up shuttles full of dust 514 soldiers trying to take it over and they just kill both teams.

More like eve players want to cause the most amount of grief as cost effectively as possible.

even to the point of destroying your own ship???
I fail to see how 100 or so clones and equipment would be anywhere near the cost of the ship they are trying to board

One word

Insurance.

Nope they only adjust to the price of the material the ship is made of based on month market average then the level of insurance paid. Either way some will say spending 5 million isk to blow up a ship full of dust bunnies on both sides is well worth the cost of admission with 3.2 isk payback abouts.