Scrappy Bernard wrote:You have no response for how a fix is going prevent corps from sending clones to lock each others districts?
The suggestion of removing clone packs from PC is the worst idea of all. As the largest landowner in PC i'm sure it seem like a non self-serving idea to prevent new corps from entering PC, but the community is wise to see past that flagrant advantage to AE and ally's.
Presumptions that I have districts and thus justify allegations of partisanship in this matter through insinuations of engaging in district locking mentioned in the OP is a rather lame maneuver of preventing discussion.
I'm sure continuing to engage in such malfeasance is easier than answering quarries over how best to proceed in rectification.
I think you completely missed the point of not only what I said, but also another post I had made prior.
As you stated earlier, you checked on the biomass payment for your corp from such an endeavor (or, at least, the connotations were there that that is what you checked), and so I said, if that is what you are doing,
then hop in the match and AFK, yourself, and see the gains. The amount given was from an AFK PC that was performed by a now non-land holding corporation (not ANONYMOUS) that was using their district solely for farming isk... I know several who were involved (and based on your above post, you probably do too) who had earned the amount I mentioned. The request to join such a PC was that the player kept 2 million isk and gave the remaining to the corporation/CEO that held the land. The figure is accurate... and if you had read my post and what I said, you would see nothing more then me suggesting
that if you're already locking districts then to gather the proof for yourself. Since you're hiding behind an alt, you can say whatever you want or to impose any angle that you see fit.
Now, to the other part of selective reading, you left out that I, on page 3 (on a cell phone so this is based on memory) you will note I provided 3 points. The first point is that, roughly, they "punish the corporations that do this providing a cost that is more than they are earning". There are several routes that could be taken by this implications...
increasing the cost of clone packs to some economically equal cost (lets say 60 million), remove isk pay outs from PC if the enemy is a no-show (for both sides), and
to fix the bug that would return the isk of the clone pack upon launching a no-show PC. This is one of several routes that could be taken, however, I am not a member of CCP development and do not have the same statistical data that they have and therefore this is from an outsider who has no other way of coming up with ideas then as an armchair quarterback. What I am asking for, is for them to acknowledge that they are truly looking into a fix for this and that they have some ideas for a way to fix it.
Also, your step to say that we would greatly benefit from the clone packs is true,
but so would locking our districts... but we don't. I proposed that thought ALONG with the thought that they could greatly increase the cost of clone packs in order to put a preventive measure in place until the time that they release their actual patch for this.
If you want anything else discussed, please either post on your main or prove in some way that you actually have skin in the game. I have the courtesy of posting and discussing this on my main, please provide this courtesy to the others who are wanting this openly discussed and fixed.