The problem with your solution is there are no such barriers in EVE. A capital ship (which I'm assuming is what a battle barge is) can just cyno into any low or null sec system. Yours is a 2D fix to a 3D environment. However, they could definitely implement things like neutral spaceport districts on an actual map being the only places you can start a planetary invasion from to mitigate some of your concerns.

Personally, I think it would be cool if they went in the direction of cost over distance as the main barrier to corps and alliances hopping all over the map at will.

Every player should have a current home or district where they are currently based from. For PC battles, you should have to pay for transport for everyone involved. If you are on the same planet, it would be next to nothing, a small amount for the same system, a lot more to a different constellation, and so on.... This would have no effect on public or FW matches, but it would be interesting if there was a cooldown timer on home changes with penalty charges to transfer before the cooldiwn is up. If they ever expanded PC to other regions or introduced a null sec sov raiding feature, where your clone is located could have a big impact.

I also think the metagame would be incredible if vehicles used in PC were corp assets. Throw in similar travel costs as mentioned above and I think you could build a risk-like metagame, with the barriers being cost, not invisible space fences.

Round abouts when is Planetary Conquest 2.0 slated, this year or next year?

Yea has this game been released yet or is this still open beta?
I would think if this was a release product many of the core issues would be written in stone and that additions would be in the form of different gear and variations of gear. Maybe even new maps and such. Instead we have a game that is still trying to figure out many of the core mechanics and how to get the controllers just right.
Myself i still think controller play is lacking. There is no real fine movement everything is very much gross movement. It takes a whole of of movement of the stick just to start moving or to turn.

Actually there are barriers, 1 fuel costs for jump capable and bridge capable ships can get pretty expensive, and they have a limited range. They get around faster than using gate travel but every time you light a cyno it sends out a huge becon to everyone in the area HEY GUYS CAPITAL SHIPS HERE!!!!.
Secondly in sov space there are cyno jammers, they prevent all cynos, both friendly and enemy from being lit in the area, the way friendly caps get around is you can load up cyno beacons and jump bridges to friendly towers giving people a jump bridge network.

I am fairly sure the Battle Barge is not a Capital ship. It would use jump gates just like most other ships.

Also, the clone death mechanic is the one already in place. I was only suggesting that they stop circumventing this mechanic on the clone packs. It would make sense that you would only be able to buy clone packs in High Sec.

You are suggesting a completely new mechanic.

I figured the barge was like a JF, capable of both jumping and using gates. Of course, it can be either to justify whatever game mechanic is in place at any given time.



And one that is vague, not completely thought out, and something that wouldn't be needed until they expand to other areas of New Eden. They aren't even hinting at that right now.

+1 Fox.

I agree and made the same points when PC was a week old. CCP has managed to completely short-circuit any game design they might have done on PC by implementing clone packs in their current form.

I do think that it's only a placeholder mechanic, but it is a destructive placeholder mechanic - It's war without terrain, and it makes PC so uninteresting that i can't force myself to be interested and don't want to take part.

And connecting PC to geopolitics and the resource wars, which i am constantly pointing out is the only way to make DUST relevant and worthwhile, won't help. It would be adding a cash incentive to something fundamentally distasteful.

The cross-region magic clone teleport game mechanic is bad. It can't be prettied up or glossed over. It needs to go.