EVE New Citizens Q&A

as of now, i am not aware of any direct synergy between the two games, at least not for a singular player. the only place where eve and dust intersect right now is capturing systems in faction warfare which is a group effort.

there is the faction warfare support mentioned in the post above as well as capturing districts and even whole planets in the name of your corp / alliance. currently claiming sovereignty over a district for your corp is limited to one region of space in lowsec so that the game devs can asses the impact dust can have in a region and balance out the system before they allow capturing of districts across lowsec and eventuality nulsec.

currently interaction is in the form of orbital bombardments as well as the fact that corps exist in both dust and eve and therefore can have members from both games. the corps also share chat channels between the games, both default corp/alliance chat as well as any custom moderated channels that you may have. wallet divisions are separate between a corps dust and eve side for the time being to prevent wealthy eve players from providing massive amounts of funding to their favorite dust mercs until the economy is dust is able to support proper trading mechanics and not just npc buy orders.

if your looking to explore the eve universe from a different perspective (slower pace yet much more strategic in nature) then give it a shot but if you are expecting to hand millions each day to your dust merc then you will have to wait quite a while for that as dust isn't ready to be plugged into the full open market of eve.

Right now, there's limited interaction between the game. A few bonuses that EVE players get from having a planet controlled by their DUST friends, and the ability to provide orbital strikes to DUST mercs on the ground.

However, give it enough time, and that'll likely be fleshed out substantially. I anticipate battleship- or dreadnought-grade firepower being available in the next few years to DUST soldiers on the ground, as well as anti-ship weapons being deployed on the surface of planets. There's a lot of potential there, and being able to play both sides of the game could be handy.

Thanks for the replies all.

I'm rather glad there are no direct benfits, seems like it would be too hectic to try to, essentially, play two MMO's at the same time. Appreciate it! Looks like I'll just continue down the same path I am now, which is trying both out and see how I like them. I like the complexity of this game and it's completely different from any other MMO I've played.

I haven't touched Dust 514 too much yet.

DUST is pretty... mediocre as a shooter at the moment, it's essentially Planetside with even more annoying RPG elements.

So, no. You should play Eve and Tribes: Ascend instead.

(No offense to the fine folks at CCP.)

I play both(started with just Dust) but play them for different reasons I think. If nothing else I find it awesome to have these different windows into the same living universe. And as a bonus I get to chat and play with the same group of friends no matter which side of the atmosphere I'm on.

The gold membership was an april fools joke, just so you know.

Lol. So that's were I saw it. So the office furniture was a joke to? Dang. O well.

The only upside i can think of for having eve and dust accounts is so that one day when you realize that dust was a total waste of your time you have the option of shoving your dust guy in the airlock and flushing him into the deep cold of space. If you are lucky, you'll be able to talk other dust bunnies into the far away "hot drop", like in the sun.

Freaking dust bunnies, i'm telling you we need to wipe them out before they infest all the planets.

It is my understanding isk is much easier to make in EvE than in dust... but you can't transfer isk to dust players yet...