So who gets picked to get fired into space and drill into the control panel to open the ventilation panel so they can crawl through the ventilation system while trying to remain undetected and not get lost so they can find the CRU and active it?

I sill love the idea of a war barge fight. Having a war barge map would be just as awesome. I love CQC!

War Barge is a failry large ship. You could have some huge warehouse where the fight wouldnt be so CQC as well. I guess vehicles would be harder to add though lol. But as many people seems to wish for a vehicle free mode. that could be it.

Didn't read through the topic but am picking this for comment.

I think the excact opposite. What dust needs for me, is a wide range of fights so that merc outfits need to adapt to the situations. Some merc corps could to specialize in shotgun range bulldozing and make it their niche. This is where ship fights would come in, extreme close quarters and tactics to accompany.

Just as long range oriented fights are needed IMHO. A wide spectrum = wide specialization of corps, instead of just doign the same thing with FOTM setup.

Edit: naturally, the thing can be both CQC or Midrange. Just pointing out the need for pure CQC :)

In reality I am not playing this game all the time. I play it maybe once to twice a week now. So how could that work? If half a corp is on East coast time and asleep while the other corp is full of West Coast time zone people, the West Coast team would overwhelm the other because half the players aren't playing...

Outsourcing.

If your warbarge gets raided while you're undermanned, a mercenary contract goes out, and a bunch of players who are awake & online defend your warbarge for you.