Player Features and Ideas Discussion

As a player of both Dust and EVE i can see quite a bit of room in the PI mechanic to bring the games together more. Maybe not the communities with this but for 2 games that are supposedly in the same universe this is one mechanic where there should be more consistency in the lore in my opinion.

In Dust we play on the various districts on the worlds (currently only temperate worlds) and each district has several buildings - these might be research labs or production facilities etc.

In EVE we plonk down individual command centers, Storage and Manufacturing and mine heads.

At no point does the EVE planetary infrastructure show up in DUST. Conversely at no point are the buildings that exist in DUST referred to in EVE.

To me this makes little sense and does nothing to tie the worlds together.

I propose that the current PI mechanic of placing your own world infrastructure is scrapped in favour of one which uses the buildings that are supposedly already in each district and that are the building you would see as a dust player.

When in planetary view you would still see the world as you do now and still be able to scan the world to see quantities of material available however replace the building mode with Interaction mode. This mode would show a hologram of the existing Dust Buildings in each distruct and give an overview of their purpose when you select one.

You would send a team of clones (which eve players can manufacture and use or sell or buy on the market) down to a facilityn that caters for what you want to do and select an activity for them i.e you would place team in a Manufacturing building you would choose gather material Xfrom from the function menu, Add a second team to gather material Y. Then a third team to Manufacture Material Z. Material Z can then be selected from the building storage bays and be launched into space as it is now or sent to a POCO for collection.

This would continue to pump out what it does now with less need to continually move extraction heads etc. and reduce the clicks needed.

The mini game here would then be moved from reactivating/moving the mine heads every so often to looking after the needs of your team. You would have to send them Food packs etc maybe every so often there are random requests that must be met otherwise there moral would take a hit and they would produce less stuff (You would get a notify in the new notification system of each teams requirements which must be met).

It might not be exciting I know (hell what we have now isn't either) but it bring the 2 games into the one world a bit by being consistent about what is on the worlds below our immortal selves.

I know many EVE players don't care for DUST (ps3 kiddies or whatever) but if CCP is serious about this being in one world it needs to have consistent lore to begin with otherwise you will struggle to join the 2 together in the long-run. Other advantages of this would be that there are different types of building in DUST weapons labs, research centers and others coming up in the future. If CCP have a definitive list of what building there are they may have other functions that can be useful to EVE players as well - say as a replacement to the terrible POS mechanics. I know the interfaces for research and manufacturing where overhauled recently but people still complain about poses... why not replace them with planets?

Other opportunities that probably shouldnt be missed would be planetary Drone infestations that would sweep across systems/Regions a bit like small incursions and affect PI output unless cleared and Incursions where planetary populations are at risk of being removed and turned into sansha slaves... of course these must be replaced if PI is to continue to run but you could save money by getting a merc to clear it for you.

+1 for any improvements to PI