ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:currently its only the large alliances or corps that have managed to take and hold the current planets that are available. if (and i believe this is what ccp will do) ccp releases planets in blocks then these corps and alliances will have no problem snapping them up with ease and little opposition.
my suggestion is open up all planets everywhere at the same time. this creates a land grab atmosphere allowing not only new corps to snag a planet for themselfs but also gives mega corps and alliances the risk of over streaching themselfs if they grab too much. this in itself would offer opertunity for corps to steal land off them.
more planets gives more corps the funds to actually go out there on conquests rather than scraping a clone pack or 2 together over a few weeks or months from player funds. attacking and failing and then starting again or never bothering again as is the current state of play
Although it is true that currently it's very easy for a large corp or alliance to grab a hold of a lot of districts throughout the Molden Heath region in New Eden, recent events show that even EoN is having trouble defending their territories from a massive onslaught of all the other small corps that have banded together against them. It's become a classic example of a powerful entity falling real hard because almost every hated.
There are even rumors (not sure if they're confirmed) circulating that many corps within EoN are actually giving up by hardly defending their districts when attacked. Twitter feeds from @DUSTAlerts seem to confirm some of the rumors based on the number of districts that TeamPlayers have lost in a single week alone. Owning so much territory even in a region as limited as Molden Heath is already proving to be a challenge to the big corps because now these big corps are having to face off against multiple attacks at once but hardly have enough people online at one time to defend against them all.
Although it would be nice to open up all the other regions as I'm sure there are most powerful alliances out there that are interested in controlling the planets within their own regions. We haven't heard much of anything from Goonswarm, Pandemic Legion, CFC, etc.