A lot of talk about mercs owning districts versus capsuleers owning districts. Speaking of which, mercs and capsuleers are both not part of my browsers dictionary and so have red lines... should add them...

Anyways, back to the topic at hand. DUST versus EVE ownership. STOP IT! Corporations own things. Corporations are in both games. Corporations can have DUST and EVE players. So yea, the question that needs to be asked is how do we get DUST players and EVE players to care about both sides of this. DUST players should care about things in space, and EVE players about things on the ground.

I came here to say something, forget what now because I saw this and had to respond to it. Bah, next time.

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Not sure I follow what you mean. I mean, I know you mean DUST players need to control the system. If they want to do that get to know people in EVE. DUST players should not be able to control space without friends in space. Right? . Right?

I think anyways...

Long term this would be awesome. However we have to be REALLY careful about this type of thing. CCP stated a long time ago that the two games would be developed to not rely on one another. If one stopped existing for some reason, got hit with an asteroid for example (or had a circus elephant run through the server room. mad props if anyone gets that reference.) the other should still work.

Maybe a bonus for having EVE players do it though?
Or EVE players required to get DUST players to certain planets?. Discussion on this kind of topic is always awesome though. Love hearing how you guys think the games should interact.

he said it, they're working towards something like that, i KNEW it!

I DOUBLE POSTED! :D I feel initiated now.

feeling lonely in the pot?( and it's my crappy wifi, there's a reason my ps3 has an ethernet cable in it

I should really finish that dev blog.

My apologies, I did miss understand that. You are correct though that not all DUST corporations will want to participate in owning districts when that eventually does come around.

We are aware of that. The really nice thing about corporation battles right now is that they allow two corporations just to set up an arena type match. If you remove the FW bit of them they can be fun with limited to no risks and rewards or extremely competitive with lots of ISK on the line. This is something we are aware of and are actively thinking about.

As for the null sec NAP fest: The problem with null sec in EVE as I see it is that an organization (corporation, alliance, coalition, whatever) will expand and take as much territory as they can hold, or think they can hold. Once they have reached that limit they stop. Then they start adding friends on so they they are even safer. There is no point in attacking anything except for the explosions (which I think are awesome) or for taking it. If you are extended to the limit though taking it is not really an option.

Stop for a moment, this is just random chit chat and discussion here, even though I know some of you will still run off as if this is all done and done, this is just me discussing stuff because discussion is fun.

Anyways, what if once you own whatever you think you can you still wanted to attack. Not because you want more stuff, but because after an attack the winner walks away with more than they would have if they sat there and did nothing. So you can sit there and just make money, but attacking without the intention to take ownership gives you the chance to make more money.

Thoughts?

Again, random discussion.