Yes that what you described is also what I would like to see, but it doesen't haveto end there. And yes we are first and foremost a mercenaries. Now. But this is a evolving game. and at the fanfest presentation/keynote? there were hints as well as that a way of mercenary video, that along the way some of us mercenaries would rebell against the idea of being always told what to do and where to go. Hence taking matters to out own hands.

We will be owning planets. To do what? Own planets so that EVE side can hire us to take over or us to disrupt their PI? What there will be for DUST side to own a planet than bragging rights or annoyance for EVE side or ISK from EVE? That is quite a thin gameplay enviroment to look forward.

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And to expand... what is the ISK incentive from DUST side to controll a planet?
What do we get from it?
What activity there is to drive DUST players to capture planet?
If for EVE side, what do they get from planets to be enough if incentive/annoyance to sink up ISK into DUST to make it worthwhile?

And is sure hope it wont be another passive ISK printing machine as "there you go! you controlled this planet for a 1 week, now you get x million ISK as a reward, or x ammount of minerals"

Facilities that are on DUST? or EVE?

And i thought planetary sov and sytem sov were two seperate things in null. If they are the same then in EVE there are some damn 'happy' folks in corporations. Because if current prices of battles are any indication of how costly it is to take over a whole planet, consisting of multiple districts, then to defend/attack a region or even one system would bankrupt a good size of alliance.

And what do EVE side benefit from this waste of ISK? To continue their PI in it? Or to have PI taxed by DUST?

And on the case of if on EvE side there isnt no-one doing PI then what? If DUST side dont have it's own industry capability planet bound those facilities on planet are useles. And you can't ferry up and sell those goods on planet to other star systems, while on planet.

stuff like this is why I have an issue with dust. Plain and simple I want a slightly more shooter. I do not want to have to get a degree in economics or mineralogy in order to play a game. I just want to shoot you in the face then bunny hop away laughing. if I wanted to devote this much of my cerebellum to something it would be to better myself in real life. Just saying to me spacemen are not serious business.

Well... if warbarges are supposed to travel betwene starsystems they should be destroyable on EVE side.

So how abot our items. Modules, tanks, dropsuits, etc.. or rawmaterials to producing those in-situ in warbarge(if that is the way, which I'm not fan of).
Since assets are location aware, we as a mercs need to take account asset management and logistics. That makes DUST higly dependent on EVE capsuleers if our equipment is produced soly in that side.

Yes, that is one interesting way to do attrition.

1. At release, FPS elements will be the most important area Dust will be judged on.
2. Industry can be passive and handled with menus to start with.
3. At a later date, the ability for EvE players to offer PvE contracts, to mine/loot sites could be super kewl :D

Link about sites.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Magnetometric_Site_List

Upon locating one of these sites, an EvE player could theoretically offer a contract to send a scavenger team aboard. Dust corp accepts, and those Dust Mercs are shown a live stream of the EvE player flying back out to the site. Simple linear PvE mission starts when EvE ship reaches a set distance (5000m for example). End goal is to reach a certain area/piece of equipment/mine x amount of minerals.

Edit: Sensible steps for CCP to achieve this.

Build simple linear PvE mining mission.
Formulate a way to transport Dusters (including distance to mission start condition).
Showing a live stream of EvE on ps3.
Build complex non linear scavenging & mining missions.