Roo, some things are relatively easy to do... tracking a few stats or allowing a player to gather resources don't necessarily involve graphics, complex computation, etc.

Free your mind.

First, let more people in FW by having multiple battles at once on a planet, and of varying game modes. Instead of every battle being completely independent of each other, they should share several things-

All battles on the planet will share a very large clone count- if this is depleted, the team with clones left wins
Each side has a finite amount of MCCs- like the clone count, a faction is forced to retreat from the planet if it runs out of them
When an individual skirmish is won, the MCC will wait to engage the next enemy MCC

This should make FW battles feel more connected

Speculating and imagining other crap that we wish they would do is a bit pointless isn't it?

It was fun to talk about stuff like this a year ago, but at this point it just seems like it candy coats the bigger problems the game faces to act as if this sort of conversation has any real merit here on these forums.

First, let more people in FW by having multiple battles at once on a planet, and of varying game modes. Instead of every battle being completely independent of each other, they should share several things-

All battles on the planet will share a very large clone count- if this is depleted, the team with clones left wins
Each side has a finite amount of MCCs- like the clone count, a faction is forced to retreat from the planet if it runs out of them
When an individual skirmish is won, the MCC will wait to engage the next enemy MCC

This should make FW battles feel more connected

First, I'm not saying to work on these things instead of ironing out any remaining issues with basic mechanics... so direct your hate somewhere else.

However, we need to give people things to do. Even in a perfect world when PC is hopping the reality is that people who aren't in the upper echelons of their corporations and alliances will be left on the sidelines.

So, who has some MMO content ideas? I'll start with one or two...

While I like the idea of some PVE to mix things up it would be nice to be able to leave an impression in the sandbox without having to worm your way deep into someone else's corporation.

What about "permanently" linking an EVE alt with a DUST alt? You could pass goods and money back and forth. For example, your EVE alt could manufacture variants of DUST weapons that confer small improvements such as slightly lowered CPU or PG usage in a given meta level. Surely you've been one or two points out of the fit you wanted before? Of course, this is more of a sandbox issue if you have an actual player market in place already.

Alternately, what about fitting a module that grabs rare elements while you are not in the MCC? This thing could be some type of high tech nano microminer throwing rare and valuable elements into your clone for extraction to your vault during post battle bio-mass cleanup. You can use this material for dollar value or officer grade weapon manufacturing -- though of course it takes a lot of battles to acquire enough. It would give you a reason to get out of the MCC and it would give you something of value to use/sell if you had the slot for it.

Anyhow, I know there are people out there with better ideas than this... neither of these are really "leaving a mark" but instead influencing the interaction between players and games. So, let's hear 'em.

Why have some kind of artificial linking system when everything you mentioned about interaction between the two will be commonplace within the next year or so?