The full article has been linked and is on the DUST514 website but the most important part is highlighted below.

How will these guys compare to Capsuleers, they seem to be locked in a pod same as us with a situational awareness interface and in control of their ship.

http://www.dust514.com/en/news/article/3073/the-future-of-war-dust-514-39-s-mobile-command-center-mcc

Locked within the confines of a modified hydrostatic pod, that the commander orchestrates the fate of those on the ground below. He does so having never set foot on the battlefield, but with the collective knowledge and situational awareness of every unit that has.

The closest comparison would be with fleet FCs - players with strong personalities who are able to convey information and directions accurately and succinctly by voice whilst having a good degree of situational awareness will be well suited to this role.

My questions are really more concerned about how much of the 'battle picture' is viewable to EVEs capsuleers - if its just a dry contracts process with a "you won / you lost" email at the end of it then for EVEs players at least DUST will be something of a non-event.

C.

There will not be live orbital bombardment where you target anything at launch or ever throughout the game's development. I think a lot of people have a very very wrong idea of what Dust will be. At the VERY most a player in EVE will be required to have a ship somewhere in orbit during a fight in Dust. But even that will be a long way off. It is much more likely you will be paying for an orbital bombardment with ISK when you contract a battle and that will give the players in Dust the ability to use it.

There is really no way to connect these two games in real time like some people expect. D: Especially if you actually expect to see the Dust battlefield. You may eventually get a little popup on your screen in EVE that says: Player requesting orbital strike. You click accept and on their end they get to use it.

Interesting. What's the source of that information?

C.

Seems like common sense to me. All those eve vision of the future videos have gotten people's hopes up but there's really no way I see these games connecting significantly soon.

At launch, it might be something like - Your extractors have gone offline due to surface fighting

I mean, seriously, incarna (which was a part of that vision) has now given us 1 room. Expecting massive eve/dust interaction seems unrealistic.

That said, I'd sure like it if some kind of minigame appeared in eve where I could do orbital strikes in battles that would have limited effects in dust.

Seems like common sense to me. All those eve vision of the future videos have gotten people's hopes up but there's really no way I see these games connecting significantly soon.

At launch, it might be something like - Your extractors have gone offline due to surface fighting

I mean, seriously, incarna (which was a part of that vision) has now given us 1 room. Expecting massive eve/dust interaction seems unrealistic.

That said, I'd sure like it if some kind of minigame appeared in eve where I could do orbital strikes in battles that would have limited effects in dust.

There is really no way to connect these two games in real time like some people expect. D: Especially if you actually expect to see the Dust battlefield. You may eventually get a little popup on your screen in EVE that says: Player requesting orbital strike. You click accept and on their end they get to use it.

They did show the Planetary bombardment thing right after gamescom to some reporters.

It went something like this -> Ship is in orbit, some dust dude marks a target. -> EVE Pilot activates a module -> bombardment begins.

There will not be live orbital bombardment where you target anything at launch or ever throughout the game's development. I think a lot of people have a very very wrong idea of what Dust will be. At the VERY most a player in EVE will be required to have a ship somewhere in orbit during a fight in Dust. But even that will be a long way off. It is much more likely you will be paying for an orbital bombardment with ISK when you contract a battle and that will give the players in Dust the ability to use it.

There is really no way to connect these two games in real time like some people expect. D: Especially if you actually expect to see the Dust battlefield. You may eventually get a little popup on your screen in EVE that says: Player requesting orbital strike. You click accept and on their end they get to use it.

Ciar, I reckon that the main difference is going to be training. You know all those skill that you train now as a pilot? I'm betting that they would have a different group of skills. On top of that, I reckon that there are a whole bunch of already trained skills that everyone has that don't show up in skill training because they're that basic and low level. They too, would have a similar set, and that's what prevents (maybe?) capsuleers from piloting the MCCs. But for the most part, they are similar. I'll get onto CCP Remnant via CCP Shadow (who is on twitter - go annoy him) and see if he can get some answers as to what exactly the difference is between the two.

And ont he orbital bombardment issue, yes, it's going to be live, yes, they nuked a site in Germany from orbit with a Raven in Shanghai in real-time.

I for one welcome our new nuke happy overlords.