I thought for a while on how sleepers could work in Dust but then I had an idea!

Follow me with this, What if it became a bording type mission? This would have to work in 2 parts a way for The Eve dude to get him in his ship and the dust person from the ship to he sleeper.

So in Eve there would be a new weapon called "Breaching Torp" or something along the same line as that. Of course there would be different types of them to allow more and more people to sit in them so you can run with your buddies! Wih the skill level having some small chance of causing of blwing up or something? Put in some kind of mini game to un jam a door IDK, just shooting out ideas!

But as the dust player you join some kind of Que or something to get you hook up with an Eve Dude or contract out the trip and get in there sit in the "Breaching torp" bahed in red lights as you fly towards the unknown.

Inside there are Robots drones W/e you want to loot/Salavge And then get out.

You would need a benifit to the eve player perhaps if the people they put in survive they get some kind of bonous loot and such!

Im at work at the moment and have a lot more to type but i doubt they would like that!

But let me know what you guys think!

The fact that it will never come out and CCP isn't even working on it is an every growing fear in my mind.... all they would have to do is introduce it and then I could dive into it for weeks on end and ignore the crappy meta that has developed in Dust only infrequently emerging to fight FW matches.....

So What is the news on PVE? Aside from the work on the drones, any other dialogue going on?

From the CPM AMA thread, so I thought I'd pop in. I haven't posted in this thread yet, but It is definitely a pretty awesome read. I think everyone loves seeing posts like this. Great work OP!

As far as News... Last we've heard on the CPM... PVE was not nearly as far along as was hinted in places like IRC, or even my own Podcast Cast514. We had a guest speak about it being actively tested, which led many to believe that PVE was almost ready to be rolled out.

This is apparently not the case, much to our dismay upon hearing this.

The CPM doesn't know of any specific timeline of when they want PVE out, but it's not going to be in 1.4 and very likely won't be in 1.5 (Though we have heard nothing about 1.5 at this time)

8 pages and, if i'm not mistaken, not a single troll in sight O.o

P.S. Is all of this true?

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?

Was talking about the pics of the vehicles, weapons, etc.

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.

The possibilities are endless for this game... don't think it is possible to say they for any other console game to date.

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST .

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 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 o f 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.

8 pages and, if i'm not mistaken, not a single troll in sight O.o

P.S. Is all of this true?

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

I think the ideas are great. I think PvE is needed for new players to get there SP up besides PvP. It will help keep players in the game. Make ISK and SP later for PvP. PvE wont take alot of players from PvP . It might for the first few days. Don't wait for everything to come put. If they do it might be a long long time from now.

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.

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.

driving the MCC sounds like a bad idea, the closest we came to that was skirmish 1.0 which the MCC was escorted by the attacking team accross the map to the enemys base

This would certainly keep things interesting for drivers/pilots instead of taking out easy targets the whole time.

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.

Can we still Expect PvE ?
I saw the DUST 514 keynotes on youtube... they said it's really hard to do ...

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.