Just Throwing out some ideas.

Now, I assume the whole point of creating defiance 2050 was to add more to defiance in general.
Here are some ideas I have had for the game.(just some personal thoughts to hopefully improve the game).

Perhaps adding more to the story, (if that is even possible), cause I would like to see more environments. Most of the game seems to have the same enviornment, nothing but grass, hills, and a few trees. Adding more story would include adding more to the map, if not an entirely new map to the game. Giving players more environmental variety would make the game seem less repetitive, or as many descriptions of the game go by "boring". An example of a new map would be a desert since the game so far takes place in California, adding a desert map would change things up.

Another idea is perhaps more cosmetic options, such as back pieces. I was thinking it would be rather cool to be running around with perhaps a giant radio on my character's back, or some kind of cloak or something.

I don't know if vehicles would fall along the cosmetic lines, but I loved the mission where we got to drive the titan truck vehicle. Which makes me think that the basic two vehicle types seems a bit bland. Yes there are many variants of the rollers/runners, but they all seem to operate about the same. Perhaps adding 2 new vehicle types would be good, if possible. Also vehicles should have an alternate utility other than going from place to place. Perhaps a vehicle type can act as a form of temporary mobile cover that lasts for 5 seconds till it despawns or something like that, or another vehicle type can lay 3 temporary land mines.(all these vehicle abilities would likely have to have a really long cool down).

My final idea was if there are ark falls, what if there were ....... ARK STORMS!!!!!!(makes lighting sounds). The whole theme behind the storms would be to find or deploy some kind of shelter, and deal with the after effects once the storm has passed. An ark storm would rain pieces of ark shrapnel down on a large area of the map, if not all of the map, and it would slowly deal damage to players, and in-order to survive the storm you would have to deploy your cover which would be a small micro bunker. During the storm enemies will try to attack you, which would mean finding a group would be better for surviving the storm.

I find it irritating when people talk crap about this game, yes the graphics are not the best, and yes the running animation looks awful. Heck I would've quit this game by now if I didn't think it had so much potential. I mean a terraformed Earth sounds awesome, and I would love to see more of it.

"Could you survive the storm?"