As we are right now the Orbital Strikes requested in public matches are not delivered by EVE players. Only orbital strikes in PC and FW are delivered by EVE players, which results in only a minor part of EVE players interacting with DUST players and only a minor part of DUST players interacting with EVE players.

Now, since public matches do take place in temperate planets scattered across new eden's high sec anyway, why not create districs for them and let players in high sec do the bombardment? I realize that the number of districs could act as a limiting factor for the maximum number of simultaneous public matches happening if you did this, however... If you use the high sec districs only as "adresses" where more than a single battle could take a place at the same time (effectively different matches at the same district) you would solve that problem and increase the number of orbital bombardment requests per districs (supposing you do have enough battles to fill them all).

Only thing you would need in the EVE side is a little reward for the capsuleer that goes through the trouble of helping the mercs. Maybe the NPC Corporation that contracted the Mercs calling for the OB could pay... 200k? modified by standings, or even a little bit of standing boost. I can say that EVE players will be more than happy to blow us up if they can make some isk in the safety of high sec out of it. Hell, they spend hours mining, running from planet to planet looking for mercs to kill can't be more boring than that. Specially if they get killmails... EVE players love killmails.

What would we achieve with this? Making the EVE - DUST connection more solid. Maybe mercs could start to spam local while in Barge requesting assistence from players in the system (supposing you actually change your local channel while deployed, which I'm unsure of). EVE players would actually get more content and another way to make a living (the isk reward may easily be adjusted to not be too much nor too little. And I'm supposing it wouldn't be so hard to implement it since almost all of the aspects involved already exist. Would require some cooperation from EVE Developers, but doesn't sound like a completely insane idea from a developing point of view - no art assets, only some adjustments to the districs functionality... At least for me, I may be wrong and if so I'm sorry.

Only downside would be that you are not 100% guaranteed to have your OBs delivered. This isn't necessarilly a downside, though. I particulary think it's a good idea to promote relations between Mercs and Capsuleers, even in high sec, and let the Mercenaries with the best connections enjoy some advantage. If this is really an issue you could always make an NPC do the bombardment if an capsuleer doesn't respond in, say 30 seconds or 1 minute.

That's it. What do you think?