http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0gOjOWDuI
Dust isn’t just a console game, it’s changing how EVE Online players will interact with each other in the universe in a major way. Dust players will share the same chat channels, will be able to join the same corporations and be involved in the same rivalry and backstabbing shenigans that grabs gaming headline news every month or so. The update will obvisouly change how soverignty works over planets and over systems. Dust players will be able to duke it out on the ground to help corporations resolve their rivalries over owning a specific planet. PC players won’t be micromanaging their console shooter counterparts, but they will be able to buy mercenaries at top dollar, or train their own ground troops within their corporation to control their planets on the ground.
Farrer told me that while playing EVE Online on the server where DUST was being tested, he saw some activity on a planet as he was flying by it in space. He got close to the planet and looked close, and he see the combat raging below, and got a sudden message in his chat box: “Hello!” It was the Dust player on the surface of the planet who had seen his ship above him in the sky and sent a message of greeting. Let me state that in simple terms: a PC EVE Online player flying a space ship could see and communicate with a PS3 player shooting on the ground of the planet.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/08/e3-2011-what-could-dust-514-mean-for-eve-onlines-pc-gamers/
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RPS: When I first heard about the idea of DUST and EVE, I felt like there was a class structure to it. You have your upper-middle class people flying ships, and then they employ the grunts on the surface. Now, that sounds massively appealing to an EVE player, but how do you sell that to a DUST player?
Thomas: It’s actually not quite the case. It’s not a one-way relationship. The way we’ve designed it, and the way we’ve iterated on the design, is that if you have a corporation that’s pure mercenaries, pure DUST players, then sure, an EVE corp can say, “I want you to go over here and destroy this guy’s infrastructure. I’ll pay you this much to do it. And if you don’t do it I’m going to be kind of pissed at you.” But then you can also have that DUST corp load up their war barge, go to any planet, and just attack it themselves. And they can take control of that infrastructure. There’s no difference between the infrastructure being deployed between the games. So a pure DUST corp can come in and just start attacking, or if it’s a virgin planet they can deploy planetary infrastructure themselves. So they’re not slaves. They can be self-sufficient. But unless they cooperate they’ll never get the full benefits, because the orbital constructions and the surface-based constructions, they do literally need to be linked to form a space elevator, to gain the maximum benefits and impact sovereignity, so that encourages players to act together.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/08/interview-ccp-on-dust-514-and-eve/
-Dust will be an MMO in its own right, not just an extension to EVE.
-Dust is planned for release only on the ps3
-Dust players will be privy to a form of the EVE cloning system.
-Dust players will be able to buy configurable, modular vehicles and weapons.
-The Dust battlefields will include a Battlefield-style commander system and RTS elements.
-Permanent structures can be deployed inside battlefields for a particular session of the game.
-EVE players will be able to fund and arm the Dust troops.
-Planets will be divided into distinct districts, and battles will likely take place over individual districts.
-EVE players can contract Dust mercenary groups to invade planetary districts on their behalf.
-Dust will form part of the EVE sovereignty system for faction warfare and 0.0 territorial warfare.
-According to the game-play footage in the video presentation, attacks may be planned from the control deck of a kind of orbital station or ship.
-Dust will be free to download / free DLC
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