Expansion (throwing out ideas)

When I first heard about Dust 514, one of my biggest concerns was variety of planet environments the player would be able to fight in; I was hoping for a massive amount of planetary environments, like permanently dark and stormy environment with lots of lightning, harsh deserst, volcanic, arctic, predominantly liquid (doesn't have to be water, could be liquid methane, or other possible liquids), various levels of gravity, and various atmospheric lighting, and sky colors. Killzone, however flawed it is, has spoiled me with its environments. An interview with Halldor Fannar (the CEO CTO of CCP) revealed that the majority of the battles would be fought on temperate planets, and battles on more extreme planets would be rare. Furthermore, those extreme planets would require the player to purchase special suits to fight in (which makes sense).

Finding this out was kind of a let-down for me, but I suppose the variety of lighting effects and sky colors is still possible... though I seriously doubt that it will be a focus of CCP when they have such great technical challenges to meet in order to usher in the new era of gaming. Then I thought, EXPANSIONS!

With expansions, more types of infrastructure can be added specifically for the harvesting of more hostile planets. New suits can be added to fight in a greater variety of hostile planets.

Perhaps expansions could even broaden the combat applications of Dust marines. Example: Dust marines being hired by EVE players to board ships, and steal cargo/destroy the ship/steal the ship, and the EVE player whose ship is being attacked can hire Dust marines to defend the ship.

I mentioned a liquid covered planet earlier, this raises the possibility of an entirely new kind of combat while still on planet surfaces. Naval warfare, and ship-boarding. Massive ships battle on water, as one of them launches several squads on little boats whose mission is to invade the enemy ship to disable/take control of them. Perhaps even underwater warfare.

More simple expansions are also welcomed possibilities, like armor colors and patterns can be added, and new modules for new abilities, or changes that give more managing power to commanders.

Dust 514 raises so many possibilities of what a shooter can be, I hope CCP capitalizes on this with the right expansions. Anyone, feel free to propose ideas for expansions in the comments.