I'm sure there's one or two bad ones lurking in there somewhere ...just not very good at it...

And I'm not sure what the link means...all the basic information looks accurate and such though...so yeah, I guess yeah?

I got +1. They could have a little planet somewhere on the edges of the galaxy that has been invaded by a new spices of ALIENS! Players could hop into battles for districts in a real time event matches against the new invaders. If the districts on the planet were all lost for over 24 hrs, the aliens would start a fresh invasion on the next closest planet/moon ect. It could also take place in EVE, with ships fighting and lasers flying. The enemy could call strikes of their own twisted touch..as would the allies. Ground forces could capture and loose surface bases that would fire deadly payloads to the alien forces infesting the planets orbit in EVE space. Difficult boarding missions where EVE pilots try to get squads aboard mother ships to battle their way into the belly of a mother ship to leave an explosive surprise inside. Rescue missions of fantastic proportions. Recovery of samples, data and new enemy weapons for mercs and pilots to use against the new threat. Contracts of extermination on a planet owned by a industrialists in EVE to expand their territories to increase resource accumulation. The possibilities are endless. And it would be hard, still requiring teams of squads to accomplish a larger mission while squad only missions could remain smaller breach oriented play. Love the ideas here and will post if I have more.

I'd like almost any PvE option, but also just options like being able to access the EVE market for goods and resell them. Even though we can't actually use any of that stuff, being able to interact with the market would effectively give us access to a futures/stock market.

I'd like totally mundane options, like running around with a mining laser collecting ore/etc. for some totally tediously small profits and SP - just because it would be different than round-based team deathmatch. I'd like to be able to move to a system/planet of my choosing. I'd like to be able to see that planet/moon outside the window depending on where I live. I'd like to be able to customize my apartment. I'd like to have a crafting minigame. I'd like to have solo missions to infiltrate corp areas and steal data or sabotage things. I'd like an option to transport VIPs around a citiscape in my dropship in some deranged version of Crazy Taxi. Minor SP and ISK... nothing else.... just... flying people places.

Anything but the samey team deathmatch on the samey maps.

I justed drooled on the Gallante heavy dropsuit. Mmmmmmmm...dropsuits

Yeah, that certainly remains the only actual detractor from the idea. If they put all this work into PvE and it turns out to be good, then we might very well hinder the core PvP gameplay.

This is very much why I am an advocate for a community initiative to find an acceptable compromise that continues to prove innovation. I've said it elsewhere as have many others, the 2 I think of more personally is:

1. Secondary Market: Indiscriminate, Measurable, and gives the ability for players to make choices with their feet/money on what is actually OP or underpowered, etc. ---> Gives immediate VALUE to ISK, Rewards, and Loot!

2. Boarding Parties: The ability for Eve Players to use Dust Mercenaries as "living ammunition" to board their enemies ships and destroy/capture them would give an extraordinary boost to pretty much everything PvP and essentially create the meta-game. Throw in Stations, POS's, and POCO's and you got yourself an extremely high-demand resource in Dust-Bunnies. Probably almost too much...which would be great for our revenues

The PvE would have to be something rather challenging in my opinion though. (For the Boarding Mechanics). You would be limited to the number of "pods" Eve Players could launch into the ship (let's say ie: 1 pod/ per pod bay "turret slot" and it fires an average of 1 per minute, etc) For every pod, we get something close to 6-12 Mercs (I'd even be cooler with less) with very limited supplies. From there it's an uphill battle with a high demand for more supplies and clones, but absolutely no guarantee and the inherit possibility of defending mercs being spawned aboard (if the defending ship thought ahead to carrying clones or a clone barracks).

This creates a PvE mission with the every present threat of rapidly escalating to PvP. (details in earlier pages)

I think these alone would launch enough gripping material to allow players to create their own depth of the game as well as a provide a great window of opportunity for CCP to take some time getting SOV/0.0 warfare done correctly. Essentially, Dust Bunnies will prove themselves as vital assets to whoever is smart enough to use them early and create their own measurable demand which would only increase after the full gambit is released

Not sure if someone suggested this or not as I don't want to read 9 pages of ideas but, there should be vehicle based drones as well(extremely fast for lavs, flying for dropships, large for tanks). I'm also going to assume that if we can eventually drive the MCC that there will be a drone of about that size that will be able to drop vehicle and infantry drones.