Thank you for the link here. The document was a very interesting read. If you'd ever apply for CSM you'd surely had my vote to promote this.

Allow me to add some points of critisism tough:

There are many repetitive passages about the planetary an lunar facilities which in effect are the same. Possibly you could pull the two togheter and make emphasisized passages about the differences applying (eg POS effects, Custom offices, Atmosphere.)

I would also like to voice my disagreement about the habitability classification of the planets.

I'd suggest a Master of Orion approach on planet type boni/mali that are more diverse than just population growth effects such as population size bonus on planets with own atmosphere (upper four on the list), maintenance penalty on planets with harsh climate (more heating on ice planets), reinforced structures on storm, lava and plasma planets incurring a building cost penalty. Moons should be classified as barren planets imho.

To my opinion it should be more like

Habitable:
Temperate

Oceanic
Ice
Storm
------------- upper have atmosphere (and water), lower have none and would need a complete hermetic sealed encapsulation -------------adding to building and maintenance cost)
Barren/Moons
Lava
Plasma

Gas (no solid nor fluid ground to build on, basically a settlement of any kind would in effect be a very planet near space station facing gravity and grave atmospheric pressure)
Hostile


In the Military Installations i miss some sort of Security Contracting Center as a kind of DUSTie base where the authorized city officials can contract mercs to assist local ground defense on a player set set of conditions like capturing/recapturing districts via domination, capture the flag or depletion of respawns, defending for an amount of time, sabotage, extraction and escort, emergency evacuation of goods roughly resembling the sidetasks in Mass Effect

Vice versa the invading fleet could have a ship-module (drop-off invason command center or so) allowing for troop deployment as soon as the ship is within range (usable for DUST-mercs with or without NPC soldiers, Vehicles, etc)

As I say to everyone who brings up similar ideas, CCP has game designers already. They are usually good at their job, and are almost always far better than players are at this sort of thing. The chances of them seeing a proposal like this and fully adopting it are basically 0.

In this specific case, CCP had a ton of stuff *planned* for PI, and it turned out to be too much work to implement, so they started cutting features, and we ended up with the system we have now, which is boring and lacks any sort of "game". PI is also where the DUST link will come into play, and they already need to figure out how to make that compelling, fun, and interesting.

Anything new happening in this field? Any hope for PI 3.0 anytime soon?

I highly appreciate the work!

I just started playing EVE and I think that there's a beautiful world out there, but you can do nothing with it...