I'm not sure if they talked about about it for dust, but I do know they are makeing exploration easier and funner for EVE.

Once they get this game running properly it would be cool if we (DUST players) could explore too. Without defecting away from the core gameplay.

I'll give an example.

Lets say you are defending a district, and you are a sniper. You're running along a mountain ridge. after running for a bit you find a cave. You say to yourself "Gee, that looks like a good place to set up shop!" So you run in with your nano hives and fall down a small hole, and stumble apon what looks like ruins of some sort. Once the battle is over (lets assume you won) you bring some friends/corp mates to help you explore the ruins. Inside of those ruins are goodies.

I know I could have put more detail into that. I just wanted to Post the base idea.



EDIT: i just noticed I posted this in the wrong section. Sorry!

It can't be part of a regular PVP battle or else it will just be a distraction from the battle, and participating in exploration will only hurt your team. It has to be in a separate mode, like maybe the upcoming PVE mode against rogue drones.
Would be nice to have players search and explore to find hives of rogue drones, then destroy and loot them after to get cool stuff.

that sounds like a terrible idea, not going to lie, it's going take away from the shooting aspects when you see half your team in that hole you found 3 games ago while the enemy takes all of your objectives

Black Jackal had a brilliant thread about turning districts into open world sandboxes that can be terra formed and subject to random encounters like Sansha Nation incursions, drone infesations, play initiated sabotage and spying, and even tied into PC and FW.

Black Jackal had a brilliant thread about turning districts into open world sandboxes that can be terra formed and subject to random encounters like Sansha Nation incursions, drone infesations, play initiated sabotage and spying, and even tied into PC and FW.