I've actually be latching onto the idea that it's still a 24 hour wait time, but the entire conquest happens at once. So If the attacker has 3 MCCs they're going to use for the attack, you wait 24 hours, the battle starts, and then you fight as many battles as it takes for one side to run out of MCCs. So yeah its a 1 day wait still but the conquest of a district happens in 1 day (potentially) instead of over the course of multiple days like it used to.

Well heres kinda how I see it. If a corporation wants to hold a a single district, it needs 16 PC-qualified people to fight the battles. If there isn't advanced notice, those same 16 guys have to be online, ready to go, every single day. That becomes a chore, and isn't really fun. So even if you have say 8 alternates, that's 24 guys needed to hold 1 district and have it remain "fun". Now if you want to hold 2? The number of required people quickly goes a little insane. I mean attackers are setting the effective time of attack, so they're going to be prepped to launch the best guys they have at you. I think it may be a little unreasonable to expect every corp that wants to defend a district to have their A team on every single day.

If battles were like....6 guys? Sure, I could see very short notice. But with 16, you simply gotta have some sort of warning period.

I do get what you're saying though, and it's a tricky problem to solve for that particular aspect of battle generation and I honestly don't have a perfect solution for you. This thread was more about getting away from the aweful notion of fixed timers, which unfortunately also fails to solve the issue you've brought up.

To clarify Thor, I'd like to see where this Raiding mechanics branches out. I think raids, while incapable of flipping a district, should happen on the fly during your open window with very little notice. That being said if you neglect your district and have a huge attack window, expect to be continually pounded by everyone multiple times a day. They wont take your district, but they'll steal all of your profits.

I think lower risk battles like this can happen on the fly and don't require much notice, also allows for less experienced players to get a taste of PC without putting a corporation's districts on the line for the sake of training. It also allows for large zerg corps to be a real pain in the ass if they want to.

This is a decent idea. It allows smaller corps to participate cleanly. The system might end up hitting some level of over-complication bar though, fair warning. Our existing system, mind you, is also often too hard to understand.



Um... are you kidding me? People need to know to be online, so they don't have to no life the game to participate. Molon Labe's ever-present crowd appears again. o_o And yes, calling in ringers is gameplay.

Lets not turn this thread into bickering about 24 hour notice ^_^ It's really not what the thread is about.

If there isn't a 24 hour timer, then there's no game. It's absolutely critical to ensuring actual fights happen. If you don't understand it by now, nobody will be able to successfully explain it to you.

I don't particularly have an issue with hiring people to assist you, contract/mercenary work is not all that uncommon in New Eden. The reason ringers became so prevelent before was because the ISK faucet produced so much money, that those who held the land were able to hire out 100% of the time if they wanted. However with a raiding system in place, assuming its not exploitable, you will have to defend your district's resources on the fly. I think that much is reasonable since at worst you don't have enough people on and you get stomped in a raid, you only lose out on profitability for the day. However I think for district capture you need to be able to have time to ready and field the best team you possibly can since it's for the biggest prize, ownership of the district.

So for raids? Force people to be on during your Attack Window, but you don't always need your best players. But for District Capture? Give people the time to get their best people in on the job.