Erm - being totally honest, I definitely didn't say that.

If for no other reason, 3 months ago I had only recently joined CCP and wasn't even particularly knowledgeable about Planetary Conquest and it's issues. Whoever's quoting me on that is making things up I'm afraid.

Just say "Female dogs be scared, Yo! so the Feds wont find out.

I think the general consensus is that District Locking itself isn't the issue - it's more the disincentive and whatnot. As I mentioned, we're discussing this through with the CPM and they've sent us their thoughts on it.

As for removing ISK - that is something I can't comment on yet because I'm not sure how it would work in actuality. We'll discuss it, though.

Do you have any ideas on how to make PC more accessible without timers? I think that it would be nice to be able to coordinate strikes more tactically rather than waiting for a battle.

Land in PC should be more of a tool to generate ISK by giving you the clones you need to smash other districts. Clone packs are expensive and limited clones give less opportunity to re-up when compared to a wave of clones used in an attack from a district.

If you aren't in PC to be smashing face with other corps then you really shouldn't be in PC anyways.

I utterly frustrated that we have brought this topic consistently in the War Room, and then some random makes a post on General, and ... poof Blue Tags

However, Saber is too chill a dude to get angry at + it is just a game at the end of the day

One of the greatest weaknesses that I have seen from CCP in relation to Dust 514 is that game breaking design and balance issues are left in place for months and months both frustrating and alienating veterans and new players alike.

Billions of ISK have been poured into the economy via this method at no risk to the abuser. Dust 514 is a game built upon profit, loss, and risk. How something like this is not a high priority and may take over 60 more days to correct is beyond me.

Big corps should be able to overrun small corps. This is New Eden, where manpower, planning and tactics > individual skills.

Something that people need to understand though. When you are looking at the Star Map a district in the "locked" state can still be attacked. Only when a district is under attack is it truly locked.

Unfortunately, the blight of passive ISK is still on PC and will continue to create the desire for corporations to hold as much land as possible and lead land holders to find non-content generating peace more profitable than conflict. At least if profitable district locking can be squished that will be one step closer to getting PC where it needs to be.

The problem is there is really no way to stop district locking. You can only make it cost ISK at best. Just one of the flaws in the system as long as passive ISK exists and even if you remove passive ISK it can still be a thing.

The problem with PC is that the mechanics of it allow for small groups of players to dominate it with the 16vs16 and the 24 to 48 hour timers. I donGÇÖt think many people have a real grasp of what that means. When Eon controlled Molden Heath there were very few players doing the heavy lifting when considering the overall number of players involved.

Ringing started a situation where you would spend 160-240 million ISK attacking a district. In the last battle to take a district it was guaranteed that the match would be filled with an all-star team. This quickly whittled away at the number of players that were willing to participate and put up with this. By the end of EonGÇÖs reign many corps had pulled completely out of PC. 100s of billions of ISK was being generated with little to no fighting. Corps willing to take that on risked the infighting and implosion that resulted in the death of many corps.

There was a push by a random mix of players and corps in an effort called the F Eon Coalition. Massive numbers of attacks were dropped on their districts. Despite the bravado from Eon, they dried up and went inactive within weeks of this push. Districts were sold and traded and farming began.

Fast forward a few months and Ancient Exiles and Nyan San control the majority of Molden Heath. You are talking about 200 players with the active numbers much, much lower. These corps are pulling in levels of ISK that is game breaking due to mechanics that are crap. They are great players, amazing even but how long does a game mode sit unfinished while a select few go largely unchecked and racking in more money per day than the vast majority of Dust pulls in COMBINED on a daily basis.

IGÇÖve proposed in the War Room to remove passive ISK totally from PC.

Districts would be attackable every day with a 30 minute to 1 hr timer beginning at the time of attack. Corps could set a downtime window of 8-12 hours that effectively lock the district.

- successful defenses increase a payout multiplier

- successful attacks have a 2x multiplier

- successful, multi attack district flips increasing exponentially along the way.

If IGÇÖve got 80 people only and we want to go do some PC we should be able to launch some attacks and go have some fun. Not launch some attacks and 24 to 48 hours later hope that weGÇÖve got the right people online.

I also propose that ringers from outside of the alliance cost ISK, call it a clone transport fee. And it should be expensive.
District locking is the only thing keeping Molden Heath from being 100% dominated by an active group of less than 200 players. I agree that itGÇÖs bullshit, but I put that on CCP for a failed game mode. Planetary Conquest should be removed and replaced with corporate battles until PC 2.0 is released.

Looking forward to PC 2.0. Hopefully it'll open up new doors in PC. The current state of it is quite brutal. If you're not in a big alliance, or blue with a big alliance, holding land is impossible. Not to say I'm QQ'ing about it, it's a war game and that's how war games are played. I'd just like to see some changes made to PC where smaller corps can get into some action without being the underdogs 99% of the time. It doesn't help that the majority of the big corps blue with each other to take out the small fish either, and almost never actually fight.

TL:DR = somehow there are people who play this game that think District Locking is OK and can be a good thing. These individuals will likely possess the notion that "some griefing is good for the game" as well. These individuals should be shunned, habitually made fun of and ridiculed.

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Off topic rant: PC is broken as hell (lag, timers, district locking). Then "elite" players go around waving their e-peen on the forums about others not being in PC and that those players doesn-¦t matter, etc. These e-peen waving asshats can not wrap their head around the fact that other mercs realized that PC was not worth their time ONE DAY after it was released. It is amusing that so many endured this laggy crap of a game mode so much that they actually got burnt out IRL. What kind of masochists are these people?!

Lag in PC has been drastically reduced. CCP deserves to be credited with this.

To make PC easier for smaller corps...introduce a clone pack that is cheap...but can only be fielded by the purchasing corp....no ringers? Then small time corps can easily bring assaults on larger ones without such an isk sink.
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