2. Will Dust players actually gain or lose standings through the contracts they perform for different factions? Would this impact your corporation standings as it does in Eve since it is technically the same corp.

I'm sincerely wondering how much of an impact Dust characters are going to have on the current FW metagame. Is it just going to have to do with controlling systems, or will there be other effects that holding a planet in a system has?

I just hope that DUST has a big enough effect on low and null sec that it makes ignoring DUST unfavorable. Not impossible, just much more beneficial to invest in DUST mercs and have them fight for you.

Anyways, as others have said, answers would be nice! Even a roundtable discussion on mechanics of sov and such if CCP isn't sure yet.

This will be interesting based on how it was implemented, this could really limit the pub matches if someone gets low enough standings.

how would it deal with war targets, anyone have any ideas?

Greetings I, like many of my fellow alliance mates intend on playing in both Dust and Eve Online. Recently we have discussion about the mechanics involved with running a corporation that contains both Eve and Dust characters. Since this is our primary goal many of us have been pushing our already active Eve Alliance to get more heavily involved in Faction Warfare, specifically because from our understanding this is where Dust 514 will launch into. The more we discussed it we could not really find any confirmation about how Dust and Eve players will actually interact. We all know that Orbital Bombardment is the big wow factor for the interaction with it ability to bring direct fire support to the planet but what about everything else.

This brings me to a few important questions that really I need to know before making this commitment to move into FW with our active Eve Alliance::

1. Will Dust Corporations actually be aligned with factions or just do "merc" work for them?

2. Will Dust players actually gain or lose standings through the contracts they perform for different factions? Would this impact your corporation standings as it does in Eve since it is technically the same corp.

3. Is there any benefit/penality to having a Dust Corporation in a alliance? Does this impact standings, our ability to group up or the defense of territories?

4. If my Eve Alliance is not in Faction Warfare will they be able to provide Dust Players Direct fire support on the ground who are taking part in FW? If not would the action result in a security loss?

In the end the importance of the answers to these questions for both myself and my alliance can not be overstated. Thanks in advance for any answers that can be provided. Please help me keep this posting on top so we can get some solid answers on these questions.

Greetings I, like many of my fellow alliance mates intend on playing in both Dust and Eve Online. Recently we have discussion about the mechanics involved with running a corporation that contains both Eve and Dust characters. Since this is our primary goal many of us have been pushing our already active Eve Alliance to get more heavily involved in Faction Warfare, specifically because from our understanding this is where Dust 514 will launch into. The more we discussed it we could not really find any confirmation about how Dust and Eve players will actually interact. We all know that Orbital Bombardment is the big wow factor for the interaction with it ability to bring direct fire support to the planet but what about everything else.

This brings me to a few important questions that really I need to know before making this commitment to move into FW with our active Eve Alliance::

1. Will Dust Corporations actually be aligned with factions or just do "merc" work for them?

2. Will Dust players actually gain or lose standings through the contracts they perform for different factions? Would this impact your corporation standings as it does in Eve since it is technically the same corp.

3. Is there any benefit/penality to having a Dust Corporation in a alliance? Does this impact standings, our ability to group up or the defense of territories?

4. If my Eve Alliance is not in Faction Warfare will they be able to provide Dust Players Direct fire support on the ground who are taking part in FW? If not would the action result in a security loss?

In the end the importance of the answers to these questions for both myself and my alliance can not be overstated. Thanks in advance for any answers that can be provided. Please help me keep this posting on top so we can get some solid answers on these questions.

sov is too far down the line, FW they've stated will be where the integration starts, so knowing more on that would be alot better then any answers on Sov imo.

Although that'll come in time.

1. Will Dust Corporations actually be aligned with factions or just do "merc" work for them?

This is up to the dust corporation in question. They can take contracts from all FW militias or just one faction, if they choose. We're mercenaries after all. We can work for anyone and everyone, or be as choosy as we want.

2. Will Dust players actually gain or lose standings through the contracts they perform for different factions? Would this impact your corporation standings as it does in Eve since it is technically the same corp.

Details on Standings are undisclosed. However, the current plan is that to accept a FW contract, the corporation must put a ISK fee as 'collateral' into escrow, which they do not get back if they lose. This is to add a sense of risk/loss and make winning actually matter. If the corporation in question wins, they get their reward as well as the collateral back.

3. Is there any benefit/penality to having a Dust Corporation in a alliance? Does this impact standings, our ability to group up or the defense of territories?

The benefit is that you do not have to hire random people, mostly. Contracts could be set so only certain corporations/alliances can accept them, so you might not be able to have your friends join you if they are not in your corp/alliance.

4. If my Eve Alliance is not in Faction Warfare will they be able to provide Dust Players Direct fire support on the ground who are taking part in FW? If not would the action result in a security loss?

They would be able to OB the dust mercs, however there is a high chance that FW players in eve would take notice and come to do something about it, or already have ships near the planet. As said above, Standing stuff is undisclosed atm.

The duty to bump and I imagine that from what has been released, as far as we know, the corporations will function exactly like EVE's. Even though that doesn't really work for a Merc style game - taking contracts, ect. Now it looks like we will be more like employees of the corporations already in EVE and not really free to do whatever contract we want.

I get that EVE is big, that there are alliances, corporations, and more that I don't even grasp the complexity of, but that being said, I can still only join one corporation at a time, only work for their interests, not get involved in anygame that might offend or affect another member of the alliance negatively, ... and more. Just another day at work my friends, not a mercenary setup. IMO

So Standings and Loyalty points for Dust players are my remaining questions.

War Points could be how LP for a battle would be distributed to all parties. just saying