How the hell would they incorporate Dust into ring mining?...

And the whole point of Dust is to be a huge ISK sink so in theory we'll always be rich in Dust terms if everything works right, they want to siphon money out of the EVE economy and into Dust so that's its destroyed, right now there's a tiny volume of ISK destroyed each day in comparison to what's brought into the economy each day with ratting bountys etc so people get richer every single day in EVE and that's having a massive impact on Inflation, they want EVE to have a recession to bring some balance back into things.

That's not hard. Easy to generate scenarios. Try these:

Ring mining needs an orbital platform which significantly increased the efficiency of mining ships. Said platform has hellacious sheilds to survive the ring environment, but is also vulnerable to infiltration by mercs....

The processing of ring 'ore' requires a plantetside/space elevator facility in it's refine/react/manufacture chain....

Ring mining requires a gas giant 'floating city' infrastructure hub that will significantly improve long-range scanning in the rings for high-grade ore...

As one post in this forum has stated the CSM 2012 Winter Summit Minutes are out.
http://community.eveonline.com/council/transcripts/2012/CSM_CCP_Meetings_December_2012.pdf

I encourage every one to read that document through, even tho EVE/DUST 514 part isn't covered in that document, but released at latter date seperately, this is to learn how and what kind of mentality CCP has in developing this New Eden universe.

Even tho somewhat lenghty one, I found this very interesting to read through.

You put a lot of thoughts into that and that is awesome, personally I would just be really amped to have some running gunfights through the hallways of a starship ala the very beginning of Star Wars. Here's hoping CCP makes my nerd dreams come true someday

I recently interviewed Alekseyev Karrde member of CSM 7 regarding the Winter Notes. Here is a link for those interested. http://www.twitch.tv/mitauchi/c/1843740

This ROFL show is new to me. Hmm.. Very good interview.

Thanks for this Hans.

I'd already learned from another CSM (no prizes for guessing witch one) that the Dust section of the summit and the additional session added was nearly the most heated, discussion wise, of of the whole summit.

I thought it very telling in the minutes that Unifex pointed to an iPad and wondered why PI wasn't being done on that. Certainly shows the direction that CCP want to go.

Can't wait for the full transcript to be released.

So in all seriousness. I'm putting my ass up for sale. Gimme a recruitment pitch, show me where I can get involved in some cross-platform pew. I've been in betamax up until this point, and Jenza is a true hero, but this will be much more interesting. I'm in an NPC** corp due to the wipe and its time for a clean slate. Until CCP gives capsuleers the capability to give me a reason to fight, I'm going to rely on you, the community, to provide that incentive. I'm a solid player, I'm going to be skilling up as anti-vehicle, and I can be professional on comms. Show me that your corp is more fun than the next, I'll happily lend you my forge gun.