EVE General Discussion

From a business perspective Dust doesn't offer me any meaning. I can't get rich hiring mercenaries to take over planets, people in dust can't get rich working for me either.

As a person who is interested in crafting ships I'd like to get into moon mining, but that seems off limits unless you're the Mittani who effectively used propaganda to enslave thousands of people to fight wars for him. I'd like to be able to have planetary mining become equal to moon mining, and then give solo players an opportunity to hire mercs to fight, and when the battle is over I get my ore.

The way planetary interaction is done right now is meaningless to me, I am not going to train those skills for the next 30 days in order to make 15m a day, 15m a day is chump change in my mind, make it 100 million a day and now we're talking.

I would have to say yes to the OP's question regarding some things being EvE and some things being Dust.

New technology born from both sides could be switched to the other platform for the creation of new ships and modules that would not be possible without the other.

Capsuleers don't really understand what the EvE-Dust Hybrid is really about. Most just view it as gaming an a hassle.

But to the Master the EvE-Dust Hybrid is something more. The Hybrid is the linking of two totally separate gaming platforms into one environment.

The hybrid technology developed because of the EvE-Dust connection will eventually flow into the lives of other gamers and other computer systems.

EvE - Dust is on the edge of the unexplored technological realm which is awesome to be part of.

Just think sitting there many years from now hearing about young kids talking about Hybrid technology that will eventually allow Droid and I-Pad users to connect to PS4 Station and game on chat with you about EvE or Dust while they game on their I-pad or Droid while you engage in your environment on your PS4 where the rest of the corporation sends in reinforcements via the PC platform.

Who's to say that CCP won't eventually develop an I-Pad or Droid App where their manufacturers can bring up the production queue on their Droid setting up and maintaining manufacturing supply and demand while the rest of the corp mines on the PC Platform and you engage in missions on the surface of some god awful backwards planet that your CEO sent you to investigate because you missed a corp meeting.

Hopefully I can earn enough isk to pay for a wife

Yes definitely. CCP need to make Dust into something meaningful. Eve will survive without Dust just fine although it could certainly add to the Eve experience. But Dust on the other hand is dead in the water unless it can have some kind of meaningful interaction within the Eve Universe.

I would like to see a link that actually matters if there was a reason to believe that dust was here to stay. But since it's a game on a console that has reached the end of it's lifetime, please don't make Eve rely on Dust too much as it might just die out at some point.

To me, I was stoked when DUST came out but then it kinda went limp (for a lack of better words). Really if all I gain from DUST are PI stats then theres no use for it. Now if we can use them in other aspects like fighter flying or something like taking over a system. Then I would be rip roaring with support. Then there would be a use for them. Or maybe if I wanted to anchor a POS but had to have DUST players take it for me first......

I would like more interaction with Dust.

Since like 10 ISK is about how much an average family makes a year CCP allow me to hire and arm a twenty 10000 man divisions of soldiers for like 20 million ISK and drop them on a planet where Dust Bunnies are having their little Call of Duty Match ups.

Swarm the damn place. If I am going to take over a planet from the bridge of my 1.5 kilometer long 15 million ton Battleship it sure wouldn't look like a day in Blood Gulch, It would look like Space WWII ...

I was honestly hopping we would send whole armies and check their progress like once a day. Resupply them with food, ammo, guns and reinforcements and make broad tactical plans. I was not expecting CoD in Space. /Sigh.

That actually sounds awesome.
Give Dust players a job, they have a Planetside 2 sized battle (2000 man battles on HUGE terrain) and you have to supply them with resources or else they would be in disadvantage.
Food gives them extra health, ammo is ammo, guns are guns and reinforcements are respawns basically.

I tried DUST for the first time last week and while it certainly has the EVE aesthetic down, playing it just felt "wrong" somehow. Granted, most online FPS are relatively the same, but even with all EVE-centricites at play, it was pretty underwhelming.

Much rather get my paws on EVE VR. When, CCP? When?

The markets should be connected...and I think it would be fun if you had the choice of either destroying a Titan (like no), or hijack it for yourself if your mercs win 2 out of 3 matches on that titan.