Not Signed.

It would ruin the way this game is if you make it open world. What if you were ganged up on by a full squad of protos with no limits? PvE is out of the question (For Now) But a PvP world would just kill the game altogether. I like the way the game is now. As far as I know CCP probably looked at this thread and laughed because its just not possible.

Ask yourself this: How many sandbox games exist today that are the size of, or bigger than a planet? The only one I know of is Minecraft, with a theoretical size only of being bigger than our planet.

Look at other popular sandbox games, Skyrim/GTA etc. Don't you think if whole worlds were possible they would have been made already?

How about being able to freely walk through districts we own? That sounds like a great way to practice map strategies as well as practice in general.

Honestly it is an OK idea in concept as far as conquering cetain districts go but as soon as the opposing player gets bored or enough people go to sleep that district gets taken over again.

I'm really in on this ^
Right now it might not seem sandboxed at all !!
But it'll come SOON ^TM and all that. They do want to implement this into null in eve. ( thats where all the sandbox stuff is) there they talked about maknig us take stations, take pos's, assault valuable planets. And that's only the fighting part. When market is like fully opened and eve players will be making the stuff we buy. Simple fight can change those prices from one month to another. We'll be fighting for the resources to pay for our guns.
In PS2 you would run around and a lot of the times for one silly guy hiding in a corner waiting for you to go away so he could cap the rest of the objectives.
Here you'r more forced into the combat. The sandbox here isn't that much the combat ( it still is you can deploy vehicles that can have well over 500 different fittings. Suits that can even more as therer are many more suits and stuff to put on them ) the sandbox is the logistics of keeping an district of making the most isk out of on using the isk on the market getting more isk to found even more war to maybe become a major part who earns isk on making the tools of theses wars.
Your sandbox will at some point (soon ^TM and all that) become the entire bloddy SPACE !!

And not a boring one where you have to stand and wait for objectives to slowly turn your way and at some point you'll have to run back to cap it yet again

NOT SIGNED !

Enjoy your 8 hour walk to nowhere with no map getting stuck on every ascent and descent.

This time next year if we are still spinning circles in the basement and CCP is only giving us more weapons and more vehicles then sure we should probably start bitching..

I don't even know what you're on about. It's an FPS, dude. It's all about matches.

I don't feel enthused by the thought of them spending months on a system that lets us roam around 25km+ fishbowls and mountains trying to find someone to shoot in a broken game.

Free Roam in games like Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto IV aren't really very popular. Most of the time if you see people playing multiplayer in open-world games, it's to go through campaigns with friends. If Dust 514 goes the route of open-world campaign missions, they'd probably have to put in enemy AI and the game would look a lot like Global Agenda. So it'd probably get stale very quickly, except to people who like sandboxing, which EVE Online was more about exploration, trade, politics, etc. and less about sandboxing. So I think it's just trying to grab a market that EVE Online doesn't really like... appeal to.

I think Dust 514 is fine the way it is.

Pretty much the people who have not signed it have covered the reasons why it would be a bad idea.

Dust -Can- be an amazing game. But right now, it isn't.

As a fan of this game I for one would have to say No.

I think you have a good idea and vision, but I think it's all secondary to what this game is supposed to be.

From first perception and then after a little bit of background info, one gets the impression that you are first and foremost a clone mercenary fighting on behalf of corporations in a larger Faction War between the empires. So all in all pretty much just an extension of faction warfare. You are a battle clone, possibly bred or grown for a single purpose. To chew rocks and murder other clones.

Which is great really. This game is a nice blend of technical and action. I would have little to no interest of going into the role of a mercenary only to do some scientific research and attend social gatherings. When I play DUST I want tactiacal battlefield action. That is all I want them to improve. I would like market integration with EVE and more warfare inter-mingling between the two games, but everything else is just for making it more fancy.

I think making BATTLES more refined should be the primary for quite some time. Just an honest opinion.

there is no way a ps3 could handle this.

You don't let the dog off the leash until you know it wont run away and never come back.