Integration is the main draw for most people, but if you just opened the door to the EVE markets the Dust economy would be instantly destroyed. The mercenary aspect of this game, where you fight for ISK and you are reluctant to use your best stuff all the time because losing it is a blow to your wallet, would be totally out the window if people could trade billions of EVE ISK to a Dust character. It would be terrible for the game, and that's why they need to handle it very carefully.

1.Dust provides ground wars and at least slightly effects EVE's ladscape.... I doubt actions in dust will have any major effects in EVE. I just can't see there being epic wars for planets like corporations in EVE fighting for sectors.

If I recall correctly, I think planets are going to have an affect on Sov now; though I am not positive.

There is no trading between eve and dust players and.according to the CSM minutes there wont ne any of that at launch or for yhe first year. They are afraid of another economy meltdown because of the differences between eve and dust.. also it has been said that for the first year it might just be faction.warfare... this makes me sad if this is true... imo the main reason of interst in this game was the integration of dust into the eve universe. If this is true wake me when dust is actually part of eve not just a self contained biosphere floating on an eve server.

Well, faction warfare is part of EVE also. It's just kind of an system where you fight for NPC factions and it has support for it built into the game. It's a somewhat controlled form of PvP, as opposed to most other forms in EVE, in which pretty much anything goes and any order is enforced entirely buy player factions.

So there could be integration between the EVE and DUST sides of factional warfare fairly early on.

If I recall correctly, I think planets are going to have an affect on Sov now; though I am not positive.