I want you guys to picture something with me.
A team of capsuleers take an activation gate into a plex or high level mission. There, behold, is the enemy command ship. It activates specialized hardening systems, similar to those on a POS, preventing the capsuleers from damaging it. While most deal with the smaller ships defending the command ship, one activates a specialized electronic warfare module which hacks clone modules on the ship, allowing friendly mercs to activate their own clones on board. As the mercs advance against the defending bots (be they drones, sansha, or whatever) they capture an objective, disabling the hardener. They then attempt to hold that position while the capsuleers, still dealing with the command ship's minions, take advantage of this moment of vulnerability to break through the command ship's shields.
Finally, the command ship begins taking armor damage. Oh no, it has a second hardening system for its armor! The mercs advance again, traversing everything from cramped hallways, to barracks, to massive open hangars containing deployable drones and packaged ships, to reach and hack the second hardener. They hack it, and again must hold it until the capsuleers can destroy the ship's armor.
As the command ship begins taking hull damage its commanders accept defeat and decide to take the boarders down with them. A self destruct sequence has been activated. Our mercs are faced with a choice: head back where they started and hope to escape before the ship goes up? Or move for the CIC, defeat the commanders and their elite guards, and hack the ship's computers to stop the self destruct, thus allowing better loot and salvage, and perhaps a WP/SP bonus to all involved.

i dont really see how it could work anyway, ships die so fast in eve theres really no time to actually get a battle setup inside the ship not to mention time to even fight the battle and you cant expect ships to just stop fighting each other and wait, i dont even see it being possible with titans/mother ships

i think fighting in stations is planned tho

A Dev mentioned recently they would like ship combat somewhere within a three year period with an Eve ship fitted with a drill bit insertion pod as a means of getting us there . So yeah Soon tm but m

You will never sell EVE players on this idea. The fact that its just not a good idea to be begin with doesn't help.

EVE is in space.

Dust is on planets.

Direct social interaction between both games through Incarna spaces? Hell yes!
EVE players being forced into stupid new mechanics to defend themselves from console players podding them from inside their ship? Yeah, good luck with that.

If you're talking about player ships it's not so much "Soon(tm)" as it is "that's a dumb idea, and it's never going to happen."

That said, if you're talking about PvE applications, or sovereignty (station and POS control) then yeah, that's pretty awesome and I bet it's coming.

To narcissisticaly quote one of my own previous posts.

Actually there has been an article about ccp implementing boarding SOONGäó

Link the article or it didnt happen. And if it did it was probally mis read as it is impossible for. Boarding to become possible in eves PvP

Thats a news article ccp says a lot to the press thats just speculations and such as was his comment yes the idea is concievable and I myself could possible right a very bsic form of code that would somewhat show this but realistaclly eve pvp battles are to short for this to be ship v ship. So everyone get ur eyes off bording a erebus controled by eve players. What he described is possible but u will only see them launched outposts and pos structures.or as a form of corp pve utilizing the mcc. Eve players wont be involved as the speed of the pve and payout is to small for capsullers

I think it's a lot more likely the dev was referring to using it for PvE because, as I mentioned earlier, boarding player ships is just a bad idea.

Alright,

a) Learn to spell. Holy crap, that was tough to read. You know modern browsers will offer suggestions on your typos, right? You don't lose points for using that.

b) From an economic perspective, this would be bad news bears. New Eden's economy works because things get destroyed. There are already serious inflation problems because PvEers aren't losing ships. If PvP becomes profitable, the economy fails.

c) There are three ways to defend a ship. One is by having a team of mercs standing by ready to jump in and defend if you get boarded. That's not likely to happen, because it involves 16 people sitting at their console for a couple hours for the off-chance they might get to fight. The second is by having it be a pub battle option. Now we have an organized team going up against pubbies. The attackers will win approximately 100% of the time. The third option is PvE. No matter how you arrange it, people will have figured out the defense system within a few months, and then the attackers will win approximately 100% of the time.

I've yet to see a valid reason why, other than the "speed of eve combat".

And I call BS on that front as well. Get a ship down to hull at a gate camp and introduce a new weapon type to disable its ability to fight back or move. Then you attempt to board it.

Now you effectively have given pirates a way of hijacking lone ships. I doubt they would complain, and I don't see how thats a bad idea at all.

Basically, because that amounts to bad and boring game play, and is bad for New Eden's economy. Here's a statement I made in another thread on this topic (holy crap does this ever come up a lot) that mostly still applies. The first point was unique to that thread, but b) and c) should help.

If you're talking about player ships it's not so much "Soon(tm)" as it is "that's a dumb idea, and it's never going to happen."

That said, if you're talking about PvE applications, or sovereignty (station and POS control) then yeah, that's pretty awesome and I bet it's coming.

To narcissisticaly quote one of my own previous posts.