From what I've read it's all planetary based... meaning no boarding and capturing of other ships.


I mean if you think about it, the best thing about being a pirate would be the whole chargy into the other shipy with weapons blazing part so you can steal their loot, and maybe claim their ship for your own use.

Given title of the thread, how is it that no one mentioned it being a PS3 exclusive?

Dust allready has a 10 year expansion plan, including 20 foot tall Mecha armor. I'm sure they will get around to it.

You can however allready build your base piece by piece, placing elements where you want them, and you even switch teams right in the middle of a battle, Friendly fire is always on. even from space bombardment. so you better not **** your team off.

The question is how to get the buggers on the titan. Cyno in the war barge?

....That titans might have the potential to be boarded.

From what I've read it's all planetary based... meaning no boarding and capturing of other ships.


I mean if you think about it, the best thing about being a pirate would be the whole chargy into the other shipy with weapons blazing part so you can steal their loot, and maybe claim their ship for your own use.

I heard that in Eve Lore the inside of Titans can house enough space for entire cities?

Now THAT could work for a "Craterlake" size map.
everything would be remodelled in Unreal 3 and you can have attacker and defender with units being flown/dropped from/in a cavernous area of the ship. Maybe the Ship maintenance Bay, can;t remember but there is a figure for the volume of the Titans Cargo/Ship hangers.

I bet its enough space with a few connecting corridors and so on, for the current Beta map "Craterlake Biomass"

What would be nice was if, instead of having to destroy an enemy POS, you could have dust mercenaries invade it and take it over for you, potentially intact, so you could just take over an enemy POS instead of having to destroy it and put another one up in its place.

Sure, ships moving in space, players on land, then stop everything, because theres a ship being boarded, create an instance, freeze it all untill its done.... too complex.

I guess it will depend on how far ccp will want one game to be dependant from the other.

Boarding parties will assume a total dependency between games, neaning certain content will be unplayable unless players will want to be involved in both universes, even via contracts.

Actually,the biggest dissapointment for me is not getting a key yet.

Also, confirming that Dust is dying, just like EVE.

The question is how to get the buggers on the titan. Cyno in the war barge?

My understanding is CCP wants them to be very (very) integrated. Long term, a healthy EVE alliance will have a healthy DUST player group who do the ground work for them.

Planetary interaction production will be kind of hard if you don't have any DUSTies, and someone else works out how to take over all your planets one by one on the ground.

No, it's not too complex, because there is already a "Stasis state" for combat, called Reinforced Mode. It happens on PoS, and is fuelled by Strontium. CCP could just add in a reinforced mode to capital ships - once you get blasted into reinforced, you stop and the ship has to remain where you are for 3 hours (or whatever works as a good game time for such a battle). If the pilot logs off, and the defence side wins, the ship should just autowarp and despawn out of game. If the offence wins, then the ship stays in reinforced for 30 minutes more, during which the victorious side need to get a pilot into the ship or it crashes in a firey plasma death into the nearest moon, ravaged internally by the battle.

Once in reinforced mode, the DUST players would have access to multiple sequential maps. Perhaps mission 1 Take the landing bays, take the power core, take the command decks. Defending DUSTies have to do the usual, try not to get horribly overwhelemed by the attackers.

Oh, and orbital bombardments should be ALLOWED in boarding actions ... but at the risk of destroying modules on the ship. can imagine both defence and offence DUSTies calling in strikes, and with a huge battle raging outside between fleets, both putting heat lances through into the hull to try to win the ship ... would be really nice to have secondary explosion effects and map remodelling after such stikes :)

Obviously, all this would be an expansion. And how to make it work EVE wise? Have a "DUST Marine Cruiser" ship (covert ops type) which has DUST marines in it. Your fleet blasts something big to reinforced, you still have to get the boys there alive ... and others can be racing to try to get thier guys into the ship first.

No-one said it had to be just a 2 sided fight, and EVE was never about fair fights, was it?

Mechs are comming out next year.

Also Dust 514 plays more akin to battlefield than CoD.

I somewhat feel the Dust wont be as tatical as i would want it to be, but thats remains to be seen.


As long as troop transport goes, i dont see it happening, for the same reason as boarding might be tricky. The games cant be tied to eachother to a level where one games become unplayable unless someone is there on the other side, on that other game, wich you dont pay for.