Sansha might be cool if they are implemented as a Mercenary mission in Highsec during Incursion periods. Save the populace sort of thing by meeting them at their drop zone(DZ) and eliminating them. Horde mode?

Rogue Drones are infestations. Could be clearing labs/research facilities or abandoned industrial facilities. That sort of thing.

Sleepers would have to be Wormhole specific. Maybe a Mercenary contract where you are brought through a wormhole to a Sleeper facility and need to recover some artifacts. Automated defenses and dangerous environments would be the elements you would have to overcome.

More like specialized supply depots, think starhawk

Never played...is it more complex than it sounds?

Isnt eve already a place to play this sort of thing? Dont get me wrong whatever floats your boat floats your boat but realistically they need every man on deck for years to come to actually realize thefps they have and have stated their making. This is verymuch a work-continuously-in-progress that Im guessing will not, unfortunatly or not, include most of the clearly but hopefully ideas stated.

The games premis is to attact players and media/people to eve. Eve verymuchso attracts the pve players already and would be silly to attract potential monthly subscribers to Dust (even as a seguay to eve). Dust, being a fps, seems to be targetting the attention of fps players, which eve dosnt. The best agrument for PvE in eve would seem to be making converts of FPS players--which seems less effective then getting them HOE'd(Hooked on enhancers).

It may run againt their goals, and may be unfeasible--or it may not. FFT.

PvE is what would keep me in Dust514.
I hope its added as per the coop pve drone atttack trailer. And I hope it's added soon
Some people would rather play Borderlands than CoD. Although I like PvP, personally I like coop PvE with my friends more.
If they have the mix of PvP and PvE Dust514 could be a fantastic game that would suck in all FPS lovers.
Please add it to the Open Beta CCP *begs* lol :)

Isnt eve already a place to play this sort of thing? Dont get me wrong whatever floats your boat floats your boat but realistically they need every man on deck for years to come to actually realize thefps they have and have stated their making. This is verymuch a work-continuously-in-progress that Im guessing will not, unfortunatly or not, include most of the clearly but hopefully ideas stated.

The games premis is to attact players and media/people to eve. Eve verymuchso attracts the pve players already and would be silly to attract potential monthly subscribers to Dust (even as a seguay to eve). Dust, being a fps, seems to be targetting the attention of fps players, which eve dosnt. The best agrument for PvE in eve would seem to be making converts of FPS players--which seems less effective then getting them HOE'd(Hooked on enhancers).

It may run againt their goals, and may be unfeasible--or it may not. FFT.

PVE idea - Throw in an additional alien gig. It doesn't have to be legit aliens, just a biological mishap (some freak mutant lizard that was supposed to be a fluffier bunny) that runs as a pest for most but can grow to be a real problem if left unattended. They would run a lot like Alien and would be a fun horror shooting scenario. This is on the basis that there are colonies that can have random events happen to them in EVE. The idea is that they've 'Lost Communication' and a duster needs to check it out. Dusters could run into any of the other PVE problems but don't know what to expect so they equip just about everything keeping a pseudo-adventuring party from the corp (EVE contracter could provide some of the materials). This would leave Dusters a fun who knows what will happen environment. (will it be Aliens? WIll it be Pirates? or will it simply be a radiation leak). Some leeway should be given because we don't want some corp to run into a mission that is L4 when they are equipped for a more simple L1 or 2. So they should get some sort of ranking of the mission and that will determine the difficulty of missions spawned.

Dis thread needs to be stickied. While the game is strictly PVP right now, there's no reason at all something based in the world of eve needs to be so narrowly confined.

Gonna spit out a rough idea for how high sec, low sec, and null sec influence PvE.

High Sec: High Sec PvE matches are overseen by CONCORD (perhaps with the in-universe explanation that they're there to mop up anything that's left if the mercs fail). Consequentially, trying to enter a PvE match as a hostile will result in having to fight rogue drones, mercenaries, and CONCORD. PvE in High Sec is limited to drone attacks and the occasional Sansha incursion.

Low Sec: Low Sec PvE matches are overseen by whatever NPC faction controls the area. Interfering will result in a loss of Loyalty with whatever organization owns the territory, as well as the occasional flyover from the group's fighter craft (basically a slap on the wrist). PvE in Low Sec includes everything in High Sec, as well as pirate raids, native lifeforms, and faction-specific political dissidents (slaves in Amarr space, etc.)

Null Sec: Null sec matches are overseen by no one. There is absolutely no penalty to attacking PvE'ers in Null Sec except for pissing off the corp that they belong to. PvE in Null Sec includes everything from Low Sec, as well as extremely rare confrontations with the Jovians.

After watching some videos about exploration in EVE Online, I decided to brainstorm some ideas for how it could work in Dust 514. I'll also post some ideas for mining, but that's been talked to death, so that part will be limited.

Exploration:

Exploration can be initiated from either a planet-side outpost or from an orbiting war barge. Upon doing so, you select an expedition vehicle (ExV) from the list and use it to deploy probes. There are two kinds of ExVs: Ground ExVs which can only be deployed from outposts, and Aerial ExVs which can also be deployed from the war barge. Probes deployed from a GExV are limited to a certain range around the outpost. GExVs come in Light and Heavy varieties. Light GExVs can travel farther, but can't carry as much loot back, while Heavy GExVs can't go as far but can carry a lot more. AExVs, on the other hand, can deploy probes to any point on the planet. They carry less than either GExV.

Upon scanning with the probes and selecting an exploration site to travel to, you end up in a proceduraly-generated location to explore. You can bring a party with you, but a small anomaly might not be enough for a large group to split. You start out in the selected ExV, but can leave it behind (and in fact, probably should when you reach a site of interest). You can leave the area by simply traveling far enough into the redzone (which doesn't kill you in this mode).

Just like in space, there are several kinds of exploration sites. They'll be obvious to EVE players, but I'll explain them for non-EVE players:

- Surface Anomaly: Basically the planetary equivalent of cosmic anomalies in space. A simple encounter with waves of enemy NPCs.

-Rader Site: Indicates active electronics. You can hack computers there to obtain blueprints for manufacturing, among other things. These are usually lightly guarded by pirates.

-Magnetometric Site: Indicates abandoned man-made structures. You can salvage the ruins for blueprints for advanced equipment or even the equipment itself. There are usually pirates or drones here.

-Gravimetric sites: Hidden mining sites that are popular spots for pirates to ambush unsuspecting miners.

-Ladar Site: Raw gas vents or minerals that can be processed into boosters. These spots rarely contain pirate bases.

Upon acquiring your loot and taking it back to the ExV, you can leave with your loot. If you die, however, you spawn back at the outpost or war barge unless you brought a CRU on your ExV or a drop uplink.

Mining and Exploration Equipment:

-Excursion Dropsuit: Low armor and shields, but high CPU and PG and lots of slots for fitting modules. One sidearm slot and no other weapon slots, but a large number of equipment slots for the equipment that miners and explorers need.

-Storage Module: A low slot module for carrying salvage and mined minerals. Comes in both dropsuit and vehicle varieties.

-Mining Laser: A piece of equipment for mining minerals. Can be used as a weapon, but isn't very effective.

-Salvager: A piece of equipment used to salvage usable items from wrecks.

-Drone Launcher: A piece of equipment used to launch mining drones. (I'm on the fence about whether there should be other types of drone launchers.)

-Active Scanner: Not an original piece of equipment, as it's already confirmed to be in with the purpose of finding low scan profile players, but it could also be used to help pinpoint loot once you reach an exploration site.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

Soon Dust 514 will have a PVE mode where you fight against rogue drones (click here to see). They seem to be come equiped with different kinds of weapons like the shotguns and HMGs, and in different sizes. I'm sure the weapons they use and their size would be good for variety, but their is a massive advantage drones have when it comes to variety; their bodies can be anything.

Unlike humans, drones are AI. An AI can be installed on a variety of completely different body types. This can be from massive giant robot spider boss that requires many squads to take down, to small logistics drones that keep the other drones intact. In this thread I will make proposals for drone types that go beyond the basic hovering tentacle monster type of drone that we have seen so far. I will also cover roles that drones can occupy on the battlefield.



[Swarm drones]:
These should be very small, and they should attack in swarms of dozens. They should be very weak, like only 10 points of health, and their damage should be very minuscule. They should only be a threat when they attack in large groups (a swarm). Swarm drones should only be able to damage when they make physical contact.

[Logistics drones]:
These should be moderately small, and hover above the standard attack drones to repair them. They should also be able to revive destroyed drones within a few seconds of a drone being destroyed; the revived drones should have with 20% of their health. Logistics drones should be fast, high flying, but moderately weak.

[Attack drones]: I don't know what they're really called.
The ones we already seen before in trailer.

[Heavy attack drones]: I don't know what they're really called
Bigger versions of the attack drones, we've seen those before as well.

[Fast attack drones]:
Motorcycle drones (or hoverbike since drones seem to like hovering) mounted with weapons. About as durable as a regular attack drones, but significantly faster. Here is an image from a movie to illustrate the idea (click here).

[Digger drones]:
Originally designed for drilling through tough terrain for mining purposes, these massive centipede-like drones have been modified with dozens of small turrets for offensive capabilities. They burrow underground and pop out to do surprise attacks on enemies. These have high health. They should be trackable underground with active scanners. Imagin a robot version of (this) with lots of guns mounted on it. This may be quite a challenge to do considering it will that it breaks through the ground, and that will require destructible grounds.

[Tank drones]:
Hovering HAV drones with powerful defenses, and wields powerful small turrets as well as a large turret. It could look something like this, (click here).

[Aerial attack drones]:
Large flying drones that have small turrets, drops bombs, and also deploy attack drones like a dropship. Has moderately high health, flies slowly. It can look something like this (click here).

[King spider drone]:
A giant spider drone the size of a building with multiple large turrets. It has around 20,000 total HP, and requires a full team of mercs, or a group of tanks to take down. This would make the ultimate final boss. Here is an image of how it might look (click here).

I realize CCP may already be developing a wide variety of drone types that may already do all the things I would like to see (though probably not), but I'm just posting this preemptively I guess.

NOTE: THIS IS GOING TO BE LONG. Read the Core Concept, if you don't like it, post to let me know it sucks and that I should suicide in a public area. Any feedback is good feedback.

Core Concept:

Drones have overrun an important research facility. The facility will be demolished by orbital bombardment in 15 minutes to contain the drone infestation.

Your team, working for the installation owners, and a...

Ship boarding would be fun, and exciting. It would offer players a new type of environment to enjoy (freaken space ships IN SPACE!).

[SHIP BOARDING PVE MISSION]:
I did some Googling earlier, and stumbled upon some pretty pictures of EVE NPC ships, like rogue drone ships (click here, here, and here for the coolness). We will already be getting rogue drones on planets as a PVE enemy in the future for Dust 514, but why not take the battle to space? These rogue drone ships could be carrying planetary rogue drones as a defense against mercs boarding them. This could lead to such a great PVE mode much more interesting than fighting off some horde infestation; we can be the infestation, and fight our way through a series of objectives and disable and entire ship, set up a bomb, and boom. This would give the sense of progression that Skirmish 1.0 had, since you have to move through the "map" (ship), and unlock more of it by completing the objectives. Objectives can include hacking doors, disabling indoor defensive systems (like a computer controlling turrets and cameras), fighting our through to the ship's "brain" to plant a bomb, all while fighting past all the hovering killer drones patrolling the corridors. Another plus could be the lack of artificial gravity, meaning that can drift through with some kind of boosters on our backs.
This kind of NPC ship boarding could also apply to Sansha's Nation. We could board Sansha ships, and fight our past the enslaved mind-controlled cyborg armies await us inside.

Thank you for reading.