something new to do other than Skirmish/Ambush grind

While I like this idea compared to what we've got, I'd rather see an open world type thing.

Unfortunately, that is currently not logistically possible due to the fact that there are more planets on at one time than there are mercenaries. Multiply that by the number of districts and you end up with a lot of empty space, all taking up server power while mercenaries desperately look for some action.

In the future I would like to see an open-world, but I'm afraid it's just not happening now or anytime soon.

While I like this idea compared to what we've got, I'd rather see an open world type thing.

Then the game would be like planetside 2

For mental illustration, let me elaborate...

There are 7,200 temperate planets in all of New Eden.

Each has 10-20 districts.

72,000 to 144,000 districts in all of New Eden.

108,000 districts. Can you imagine how much empty space that is?

One day, I hope Dust 514 becomes open-world, but I'm afraid that such a thing may never happen.

I didn't go into the technical details in that post, but the way I'd do open world is the same way EVE does: via instances. So there is an instance of the area outside of base/town/whatever, as well as near any planetary landmarks you may be able to travel to. When you scan down something, such as the mineral deposit in my example, an instance is generated upon arrival. Anyone who travels to that point before the instance despawns (such as by scanning either it down or us down, as in the example) will travel to the same instance and be able to interact with the players currently occupying it.

It creates an issue of coming up with a way to hand wave the fast travel system. In my example I just said we took some dropships and left it at that. Maybe we give aircraft some sort of mini-warp? Or hand-wave it by having people drop to that point from the war barge. But from a technical perspective it's very feasible.

Spend some time in nullsec or, hell, even some of the more desolate high-sec regions (Why do you even exist, Everyshore?). Plenty of empty space. And those aren't even the instances, those are systems. Near as I can tell systems just contain a series of orbital bodies and their coordinates. Those aren't terribly memory intensive.

And right now the game is like Call of Duty. I'm not seeing your point.

Memory intensive, no. Still, it's seems silly to have more districts than mercenaries.

This is a fantastic idea! I don't know why everyone is complaining about "empty space". Empty space is good, especially for players who like to make their ISK from PVE rather than PVP.

Empty space in Null-Sec also allows new EVE corporations to start gaining their own territory, which could eventually turn into a huge war fought over the many lucrative resources found in Null-Sec space.

Tens of thousands of empty districts isn't really a good thing.

The "empty space" he seems to be objecting to is districts without players in them. What I don't get is the why. If there's no one in a district...so what? That's just more places I can go and do exploration stuff.

Tens of thousands of empty districts with no one to say "GTFO". EVE is different, the ratio is 10 capsuleers per system, not 10 districts per mercenary. There is no system in EVE available to the public that goes an entire day without a single capsuleer flying through. There might, however, be thousands of districts that go empty for days on end.

Actually they're probably plenty of systems that get no traffic in eve

There Can be no Peace in New Eden? If we are constantly Butchering each other in these districts, how will the Mortals do their jobs in Manufacturing plants and the like?

I'm just saying that there are too many empty places for people to go and very little risk of them ever getting stopped in an open-world. The fact that you need a starship to bring you to the district might increase that risk, though.

The reason there is an assload of empty space on DUST is because we will never go there. we only visit planets to go to Battle, not go shopping. I have no problem with infinate empty space, because we a never going to touch it.

Gravimetric Sites
Here, mercenaries can extract rare materials from small alluvial deposits scattered through the site. These are the least likely to be guarded. Rare ore deposits can be harvested with handheld mining lasers that take up an equipment slot. The ore will eventually fill up the mining laser. If you die, the ore will be lost. After evacuating, all ore is retrieved by the LDS.