I mentioned an idea i had in local chat and people seemed to like it so i'm wondering if there's more people that would support it.

First of all, i have to say that i never played EVE, so excuse me if i get some things wrong.

Now, most of us will be aware that Drone co-op is coming sometime in the future. CCP discussed it at Fanfest and showed the design for the drones and the drone installations from where they spawn. They also mentioned how it could be that districts in Planetary Conquest would randomly become infected so your Dust corp involved in PC would have a bit of cleaning up to do on the districts they owned which also would give people more things to do with their districts.

My idea was that the Drone co-op would be a perfect opportunity to get the Dust/EVE link a much needed overhaul. If these infestations that were hinted by CCP to happen in PC districts were to also happen in planets controlled by EVE corporations, it would open an intersting way to get EVE pilots invested in contracting Dust soldiers to work for them.

The system would be setup like this:
- Districts have to be in place not only in the current planets but on nullsec planets too.
- Ground drone infestations would occur randomly on any (temperate for now) planet containing districts.
- Drone infestations in districts where Instant Battles take place would be available to all, designed for single players.
- Drone infestations in FW districts would be available to squads made prior to entering battle.
- Drone infestations in planets owned by EVE corps would temporarily affect negatively the benefits said corps get from owning that planet. They'd have two options: wait it out or contract mercenaries to clean up the infestation.

There would be a lot of specifics to iron out but this could open up some new interactions between both games. There could be EVE corps that would fully work side by side with the mercenaries they contract (i'd hope them to be able to contract specific players) or just open a contract that would appear in Dust for random players to fill and initiate. EVE corps would pay a sum of money to initiate a contract and a major part of that amount would act as a sink with only a fraction ending up getting to Dust players. For example, EVE corp pays 100M ISK, Dust mercs share 1M ISK of loot for the contract.

So, that's my idea. Suggestions are appreciated.

Instead of instant public matches make them so they appear in the mercenary tab.

Which ones, the high sec or the Null Sec ones? Null Sec ones would make sense, but High Sec ones should just be a mode called Drone Infestation or whatever.

The null sec ones should be in the merc tab.

Make Null Sec infestation Spread faster.
Also make so, that as a corporation if you Manage to win a Fight in a Hive (lvl V infestation) you win lets say 100 Drones, that you can send to any other planet to infest (enemy planets for example) thus making people actually have districts full of drones just for this.
Other wise, big corps would just attack the district as soon as they spot drones

The null sec ones should be in the merc tab.

High Sec: Weak Drones, Pub Matches
Low Sec: Medium Drone, FW
Null Sec: All kinds, Fast Spread, Fast level up, PC

I like this idea, it's basically incursions for DUST.

I would add, however, that the infestation percentage is also the chance for rogue drones to show up in any match in the district, so if you've got a rather high level infestation, there's a good chance that rogue drones will show up and agress both sides. This will open up another cost/benefit aspect on whether or not to quell an infestation or to let it linger.

EVE/DUST: Bridging two games through PvE

As we all know, DUST and EVE really don't have that much of a connection, CCP can say it til they're blue in the face but nobody cares, it doesn't affect us, but there is a little bit of a connection and CCP are taking it slow and steadily, which makes sense, it's perfectly reasonable.

There's been some posts on PvE and some are brilliant idea, take Yagihige's post for example.



Overall the suggestion is solid, and I'd truly like to build on it, remember click the link above and give the man a +1 for a great idea.

So anyways, onto building the idea, Drones can be the proper tether to EVE side, giving us the ability to use it in building a bridge for DUST and EVE, it needs to start slow and needs to benefit both sides, provides an income for DUST Players and also creates an ISK "Sink" for both sides.

So Drone Infestation would involve High Sec, Low Sec and Null Sec, I don't know too much about the security statuses as I'm not an EVE Player, but High is where we pubstomp and where the Empires are, Low is where FW is and our little empires are and Null Sec is where the big boy EVE Alliances are.




As High Sec is the home of our Pub PVP battles, it makes sense to start PvE there. These battles are constantly generated, being automatically "scanned" by the various groups that inhabit High Sec (NPCs), this means that if you ever want to que up for a Coop PVE fight, it doesn't mean you have to sit around.


In Low Sec, the only thing I'm looking at is Molden Heath as I don't know enough about it EVE side. In Molden Heath, District Owners are able to scan their district whenever they want, this will notify them that the district is clear or has hostile Drones on it. An EVE Player can also scan planets and it will notify the CEO/Directors automatically that the district has been scanned and Drones are detected.

Fighting them is simple, you would have to use your clones to kill the Drones but as a result would get higher payments than a public PvE battle as well as better salvage. You'd set a time for the attack and the battle would appear in the Corporation Battle tab similar to if attacking a player district.