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A 70 km radius planet has 61000 square km to mine. A solar system will be bigger. Sensor ranges will not be infinite unless its a really big ship. You should be able to go out and mine if your sneaky. Don't pick the closest, easiest, most obvious place to mine.
Ship stealth should be a major part of PvE game play. Be the asteroids not a big target near it.
In the videos the main dev seems to have a focus on teaming up but talked about solo play. Hiding in a hole or having a fast sneaky ship with rear firing turrets. Let the pirates fly into a hailstorm of exploding rounds while chasing you. Solo is not his first option but it is a option. In some eve systems I spot mine, don't loiter long enough for them to track you down. Grab and run. Fast mining will matter in DU space. 

Have you met Black Ops? A faction's weaknesses increase with their population. More internal strifes, more people high up belittling lower rank guys in the organisation. This is an actual thing. A faction with 10x people that another faction is simply 10x more prone to infiltration, since they seem to scoop up everyone. 
 
Welcome to the amazing world of sandbox MMOS and its seedy underbelly, where you got sociopaths infiltrating your organisation, befriending you, becoming your friends, just to sabotage you during a siege.
 
What? Will you ban people from entering your org? Will you ask for violations of international law by asking the Devs to give you the IPs of another player?
 
If people are stupid, they will do stupid things. If you see a guy telling "HEY! Give me 100,000 SpaceBucks and I will give you back 200,000  SpaceBucks in a week!", that guy is scamming you and if you fall for it, you are stupid. The Devs can't ban chat, nor they can police people who took advantage of your naivety. 
 
I do take advantage of people's naivety in PvP by bluffing, should I be banned to be prevented from exploting a guy's inability to grasp game mechanics and acting too soon? Should I be banned because I keep running and drawing my foes into ambushes around corners?
 
No. A sandbox game has a sort of PvP unseen in other titles like WoW or whatever Korean MMO aside from Lineage 2. Economic Warfare. It's essentially, trolling the market to create monopoly. What, should it also be banned because people have no idea how money works?
 
And the problem with a zerg is you gotta buy in bulk player-wise. Zergs are the easiest way to sabotage your own organisation in the long run.
 
So what, will you ask for instances to be in the game to prevent an "unfair" fight? If you do, you miss the point of DUAL as a game.
 
And as of a last point, the combat system in conjunction with the way the server treats updates to the player is the strategic value.  You can read up on the devblogs, see how they explain it in their youtube videos, and you'll see that being a pirate is not an easy thing in DUAL. It's in fact, an actual high risk, high reward business. And this is also why Zergs don't work. The fleets will need tactics, Zergs have NO tactics, just pell mell charge against the enemy.
 
 

Short: yes
 
Long: Yes please

SilverLight Industries
 
Founded as SilverLight Research by the United Nations in 2055 as a way to pool the research capabilities of many smaller companies into something that could assist with developing advanced Arkship technology, they were one of the few companies and organizations that could possibly compete with the globally powerful Nexus Corporation on a technological basis. Eventually, SilverLight expanded to include many other industries such as extraterrestrial mining and Arkship construction, assisting the U.N.’s Ark program through multiple facets of the project. However, the core project and top priority of SilverLight remained the artificial intelligence systems that would run the Arkships and assist humanity when they arrived on their new homeworld, Alioth. Soon after the last of the Arkships was completed, the U.N. shocked millions when it announced that Arkship resources were scarce, and that it would utilize an “artificial genetic selection algorithm” to decide who would live and who would perish in the oncoming apocalypse. Naturally, an uproar rose up, and riots and violent protests ravaged the streets of Earth in its last days. Recognizing that this was planned long before the Arkships’ completion, the Nexus Corporation, in cooperation with SilverLight and various other organizations, launched its own retaliation: “Project Cinderfall”. With SilverLight’s artificially intelligent algorithm development combined with Nexus Corp’s networking capabilities, Project Cinderfall circumvented the U.N.’s originally biased selection algorithm, allowing a much larger and more diverse population, including many members of SilverLight, to make it aboard the Arkships and into the rebirth of humanity in the age of Alioth.
 
SilverLight Industries > Here <

Also i think people in programing and engineering should get together and start making a list of possible vehicles, ships, weapon systems, and working structures to design and build so we have an idea of what to start on when the game comes out.

Yes, whilst this is true, you also have to remember that these guys are going to be running a cloud server, which at the moment are not the most cheap things you can purchase and run. 
 
See, ARK has a huge difference there, know what it is? 
They don't run the 1000s of servers they have, it's also not an MMO. The servers are bought, rented or run by the players, which reduces the costs on their end.
These guys are trying to run thousands of players online at the same time on the same server structure, not thousands broken into separate servers of up to 100 people. 
 
They aren't even comparable to be honest and I don't know why I am trying.
 
Players that want to play this game will pay what they have to, whether it is P2P or not - they will because they want too.