So, is Valkyrie going to be the fighters from the carriers that get launched from carriers in eve and fly down to planets to fight the dust people?

The only thing CCP will have trouble against is EVE Players who don't want their stations or possibly ships being boarded by Dust Mercs. Or maybe mercs being able to destroy capitals from anti orbital weaponry. or Valkyrie pilots going around killing peoples drones, fighters and fighter bombers.

The only thing CCP will have trouble against is EVE Players who don't want their stations or possibly ships being boarded by Dust Mercs. Or maybe mercs being able to destroy capitals from anti orbital weaponry. or Valkyrie pilots going around killing peoples drones, fighters and fighter bombers.

The only thing CCP will have trouble against is EVE Players who don't want their stations or possibly ships being boarded by Dust Mercs. Or maybe mercs being able to destroy capitals from anti orbital weaponry. or Valkyrie pilots going around killing peoples drones, fighters and fighter bombers.

I dont agree with my ships being boarded by mercs but using mercs to take over stations and structures i like the sounds of as it fits into conquering a system. I don't want to be flying round in my ship and suddenly be told sorry you are dead due to merc infestation.

You could have it unified, yet still seperate, in the following way:


EVE: A large null sec alliance is currently in the process of taking over a system from a rival. Captial ships have been deployed, and fighters have been launched around an outpost station.

This leads to the following "events":

Valkyrie: A battle lights up in a null sec system for the pilots of those alliances that a fight is taking place in that sector and that they have been scrambled to deal with it. The assualting force is also carrying drop ships filled with DUST mercenaries ready to assault the station. The defenders obviously have to destroy the landing craft before they arrive.

If the number of landing craft reaches a certain threshold (say 30%) then another event is launched:

DUST/LEGION: Again another battle appears for members of these two alliances, this time in a space station enviroment fighting over control of the station. This would be a very close quarters game and offer no armoured support. Victor of that match would get a boost to capturing the system from the enemy (with the station suffering some form of damage)


Or something like that :)

What we're focusing on now is to make a kick-ass VR-only dogfighting game. Only when we've achieved that goal will we think of ways to possibly merge games. It's fun to think about the possibilities but its not our focus at the moment.

Yea i'm actually really ok with this. Get bored in eve, jump onto valk and do a quick dogfight session, then jump back to eve and do other stuff.

CCP needs to get their heads in the game if they want anything to take off. They need to unite the 3 games making them reliant on eachother.

Not "reliant"... just mutually beneficial.

The last thing you want is some colossal screwup in another game borking EVE. Think it through.

What we're focusing on now is to make a kick-ass VR-only dogfighting game. Only when we've achieved that goal will we think of ways to possibly merge games. It's fun to think about the possibilities but its not our focus at the moment.

What we're focusing on now is to make a kick-ass VR-only dogfighting game. Only when we've achieved that goal will we think of ways to possibly merge games. It's fun to think about the possibilities but its not our focus at the moment.

No merge game, no community.
You sell dream to us, we wait for that.

And, where is the walk in station?

What we're focusing on now is to make a kick-ass VR-only dogfighting game. Only when we've achieved that goal will we think of ways to possibly merge games. It's fun to think about the possibilities but its not our focus at the moment.

This is a huge mistake. The biggest mistake made with DUST, was that the entire Reykjavik team wasn't focused on integrating it for the expansion cycle where it released. I fear this mentality will lead to even more poor links in the future.

DaReaper, it would've done the same on PC. The mistakes it made were not respective of the platform, and EVE players are not numerous enough to make a difference. If it had a stronger link, people between both communities would've interacted heavily. The idea that it would've been better if it was just the same people playing on both games is dumb.

They have all the tech. The tech is there. Reykjavik isn't putting enough effort into it. Had CCP dedicated a EVE expansion cycle to implementing DUST integration, DUST would be twice the (actually very solid) game it is today, and EVE Online would have a lot more content to work with, and a much larger social interaction base.

Examples:

The API exists. You can actually log into the EVE site with a DUST account. But no work was done to allow DUST characters to get API keys or use API features.

The EVE Gate exists. You can actually log into the EVE site with a DUST account. But DUST accounts are not able to use the EVE Gate for in-game mail or to look up employment histories of other players.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show territorial control of Planetary Conquest districts.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show progress of fights in districts you were orbiting.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show additional details about DUST players other than their employment history.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show DUST corporation wallet ISK.

DaReaper, it would've done the same on PC. The mistakes it made were not respective of the platform, and EVE players are not numerous enough to make a difference. If it had a stronger link, people between both communities would've interacted heavily. The idea that it would've been better if it was just the same people playing on both games is dumb.

They have all the tech. The tech is there. Reykjavik isn't putting enough effort into it. Had CCP dedicated a EVE expansion cycle to implementing DUST integration, DUST would be twice the (actually very solid) game it is today, and EVE Online would have a lot more content to work with, and a much larger social interaction base.

Examples:

The API exists. You can actually log into the EVE site with a DUST account. But no work was done to allow DUST characters to get API keys or use API features.

The EVE Gate exists. You can actually log into the EVE site with a DUST account. But DUST accounts are not able to use the EVE Gate for in-game mail or to look up employment histories of other players.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show territorial control of Planetary Conquest districts.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show progress of fights in districts you were orbiting.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show additional details about DUST players other than their employment history.

No UI was ever placed in EVE to show DUST corporation wallet ISK.

Saying it was for ps3 pissed off a lot of eve players

Saying it was for ps3 pissed off a lot of eve players

What we're focusing on now is to make a kick-ass VR-only dogfighting game. Only when we've achieved that goal will we think of ways to possibly merge games. It's fun to think about the possibilities but its not our focus at the moment.

For a start, if you are not thinking about the larger picture throughout the process, you are axiomatically limited in the scope of your achievements. If and when you ever get around to integration of the games, we can reasonably expect a great many problems due to the fact that you were not thinking about integration as you went along.