This actually looks alot like what they are doing, other then the open world stuff. Those aren't bad ideas. I'm not sure what the "technical" limitations are they say is preventing them from doing the open world stuff. If they can't do open world I would still like to see the skirmishes against the bugs as something to do on your planet while you wait around, maybe especially something you can instantly drop out of when its time for a corp/district match.

If technical limitations were to prevent this, then Defiance, RIFT, and so many others wouldn't be possible...

And Defiance is Open World on PS3, PC, and Xbox.

Behind the Lines (Covert Raids and Tactics)

One of the best things about an Open World is the fact that you can do your 'prep' work, or utilise guerrilla tactics to weaken your enemy's forces.

Raiding into a hostile District without an MCC, maybe just a limited Clone Unit (20 Clones or so) inserted by stealth, could allow you and a squad to wreak havoc on the infrastructure, steal supplies, or simply fight them on and off in hit-and-fade tactics. This would become an art form, that could precede any major invasion (or just be used to grief larger corporations when you haven't got the manpower to challenge them directly.)


Clone Reanimation Units (The Ins and Outs)

Clone Reanimation Units, the name says it all doesn't it? You die, your mind is transferred to one fo these, and then placed into a new clone. Brilliant.

What, however, does this serve at the moment? Not much beyond a permanent Drop Uplink. So instead, to make these valuyable assets worth taking , holding, and defending, I proporse that they have a stock of clones in them. Say 50 Clones. (Preloaded when Player-Owned).

So when you land on a battlefield, and your enemy has a CRU deployed, they get a bonus 50 Clones to their clone count. A place to spawn, and each time they spawn there, it takes away from that unit's clone count.

2 options stand before you. You can Destroy this CRU, denying them a spawn location, and reducing their clones by the same amount as what is storted in there, or, you can capture it, making it a spawn point of your own, and adding those clones to your own stock.

If technical limitations were to prevent this, then Defiance, RIFT, and so many others wouldn't be possible...

And Defiance is Open World on PS3, PC, and Xbox.

The limits are in the differences of the games, a open world game with destructible world has been made and games like defiance and rift are open world games that are mmo with not much variety in the weapons. i don't think we have the computing power to combined the two and have a solid game. your suggestions are good but they would limit the differences in the maps and i do not see having a sim city/defiance/red faction guerrilla coming out for a few years if ever.

If every single terran planet suitable for dust was made completely open world, then it would be a hell of a lot bigger than any of those games you mentioned.

I hope Singularity doesn't explode if this is implemented. Maybe it could freeze districts with no players inside?

Districts with no players on them would drop put of existence. Love this idea. Player count would have to be bumped drastically, and for that we will probably have to wait for the ps4, but it will be well worth the waiting.

Only each District, broken up across a Planet.

Each District would amount to a map 25 times bigger than what we have now. Then link to other Districts via Gates that essentially transport you off one grid, onto another. Similar in effect to what EVE Online does, but based on a FPS MMO Model.

http://files1.guildlaunch.net/guild/library/283303/Simple_District_Map.png
Above is a poor attempt at quickly whipping up a simple design overlay of what I am trying to say. It's done is MS Paint, and done very quickly and crudely, so forgive the child-like scribble.

I'll be creating a much more impactful version at a later date.

[Link Added in OPs.]

Sounds like a plan to me, but EVE's systems are mostly empty space, they can do all kinds of computer sorcery to limit how hard wearing that is on the hardware (get it!?).

DUST, I imagine is a very different beast, you have to have ground to walk on, buildings to explore and I'm certain that these two things would make the game ridiculously huge. Unless you propose that we download every new map we come across?

I like these ideas.

Also, there are no real technical limitations. Check the map out in full sometime when you're in a game. The area that isn't redlined is already there in game when you drop. It's already loaded or streamed as part of the Unreal engine functionality.

Just removing the redline on the existing maps, that we're already playing on, would increase the area vastly and provide that open world feel.

This actually looks alot like what they are doing, other then the open world stuff. Those aren't bad ideas. I'm not sure what the "technical" limitations are they say is preventing them from doing the open world stuff. If they can't do open world I would still like to see the skirmishes against the bugs as something to do on your planet while you wait around, maybe especially something you can instantly drop out of when its time for a corp/district match.

Also, there are no real technical limitations. Check the map out in full sometime when you're in a game. The area that isn't redlined is already there in game when you drop. It's already loaded or streamed as part of the Unreal engine functionality.

Just removing the redline on the existing maps, that we're already playing on, would increase the area vastly and provide that open world feel.