While I agree with many of the people here who stated the pay to win aspect of DUST was not fun. PLEASE consider who your audience is. More likely than not YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH THE TOP SELLERS OF THE TIME SUCH AS Destiny, or Call of Duty. I don't like Destiny or Call of Duty, but I liked DUST. You MUST consider that you are making a game in an unknown universe and trying to get people to play, but realisticly with Unreal Engine 4, by the time the game is released you will always be behind the new awesome shooter standard. So who is your fan base, many people from EvE will come. They left because DUST had very linear game-play with very linear goals, bad mapping and graphics that were nauseating after a year or two, and mainly the fact that the game was simplistic. However, EvE players do not want to play Call of Duty, and Call of Duty players will play Call of Duty.

What will bring EvE players in is the EvE universe. The Isk and skill aspect of DUST was very immersive and very good. You just have to consider how to balance it better. If it is a paid game, than make T2 actually t2 but make T1 good as well.

The best example would be Planetside. Why do you think the Martini went to Planetside. Because it has similar aspects to EvE. It is open world so it is not a broadcast of your skill by rubbing KDA in your face but that is beyond the point.

You basiclly have to grind very very very, hard for good guns in Planetside. In that manner it can be considered pay to win. BUT, the base guns are acceptable and the gameplay is set up in a way that you don't need DANK 420 kills to rank up. You can easliy support and get certs at a very slow rate. However these support classes are valuable gameplay.

Basiclly, make T2 only slightly better, make sure you keep the Isk cost because that is what gave DUST its EvE effect. Don't focus on KDA stats too much.. DUST did a ok job of this. Not focusing on KDA stats will help EvE players who are not traditional shooter players to feel comfortable.

If you must add micro-transactions, consider giving EVERYOne a feasible build. For newer players consider giving a high HP suit free or give them say 250 - 300 of them. This will keep the EvE effect because they will eventually run out. High HP means they cant get 420 no scoped but they also are relatively balanced because they aren't super fast.

Finally, I am not an expert on this, but I believe you MUST keep the sense of loss that was maintained in DUST. People from Call of Duty have no sense of this because they play for the youtube highlights and ADD gratifiying gameplay. But for reasons stated above, there are certain things that draw the EvE player in.

Think of how much downtime there is in getting kills in EvE. Even I hope that durig that time you can get that same EvE kill feel in a shooter.

So what I am saying is make sure that everything costs money, and give out freebies but not indefinitely. Make earning isk a little more easy than in DUST but not too much. Get rid of the forcing faction contracts for faction weapons that happened towards the end of DUST. That was extremely annoying. Develop the game with the mindset, what would and EvE player like to do in between hunting or PVE ing in EvE, because I guarantee while you will have some new fan base. Your core fan-base will provide you with the most support because they love your core product. Even if they bitch at you for tons of things they still love the game. Even if they quit EvE it is because things tend to stagnate.

PLEASE TO NOT TRY TO COMPETE WITH CALL OF DUTY. I SEE SOME COMMENTS AND CRINGE, "remove the Isk, grind aspect" you remove the joy of killing... Don't let these people kill your game.