No way, you set an 8 hour window for downtime.

The other 16 hours are gametime. A battle spins up within an hour and you go to battle.

This would open up Molden Heath. The super corps could still kick ass, they just wouldn't be able to hold huge chunks of land.

Within 6 months or so Molden Heath would have a lot more diversity and involvment.

Well arguments over the ethics of this and whether the huge amount of ISK they will farm doing this is a factor aside. I do not think this will speed up the process of fixing PC by any measurable amount, Kujo talked of hot fixing Ariana's glitching but changing PC mechanics is not likely to be something that can be hot fixed, and we will more than likely have to wait for PC 2.0 to come in a patch.

I'm going to use you as a sacrifice - sorry.

But what????

Do you not understand the concept of saying something - and not saying something? I don't see FA or other corps posting, "DOWN WITH DISTRICT LOCKER! *Chest thump*" - It's only been RA.

It's the reason everyone is now LOL in this thread. We all saw this coming - and the poor excuse associated with it.

So it has nothing to do with RA locking up - who even hits them anyways? But the hypocrisy of the move after announcing almost everywhere in the war room - there intent NOT to lock up.

They even have inner communications promising they would never do such things Lol

This should have been overnight-fixed when it was first heard of. At this point, CCP's just making things worse and worse. CCP should review the logs, and revoke ISK gains from exploiters once this fiasco is over.

And what corp am I in?

Unfortunately, they've had almost eight months to sit on this and I'm almost certain the aspect of District Locking came up when they were discussing the initial design on how all of this would work. CCP moves at a glacial pace but they're not entirely stupid, they know full and well how this happens and why.

Getting angry isn't going to make them move faster and having a dev (or several) sit down and do nothing but look at logs to find intentional district locking over "we attacked and simply didn't show" would be sketchy at best, let alone impractical and inefficient. That developers taken away from, I dunno, fixing the problem - or fixing something else that's actually in their department.

Team True Grit are the guys that handle this sort of thing, to my knowledge and they're working on two games at once (Dust 514 and Eve Online); just as well they've been on over-time working the grind on a monthly basis ever since Uprising was released and only recently (due to holidays) has this changed.

The one thing I always hear whenever I bring up PC as a balancing point is that "PC players are a minority" - well, you [the community] kept saying it over and over and now it's being viewed as such. PC is a minority. There is a list of issues with this game and they're probably not keen on fixing the things for said minority when there are higher priorities that need to be solved first.

ADDENDUM: This explains why I keep getting mail from random ****-lords talking about locking districts; like it's personally my fault that we decided to do this.

they have to many holidays. XD didn't they just have chirstmas and like 2 weeks off as well

Even if your stated reason is the true reason that you'll be locking your districts, you're going about pushing change in completely the wrong way. The devs have already acknowledged issues with PC and the locking of districts and have notified that they are working on coming up with a fix for the current situation. By locking all of your districts, it's not bringing up the problem to CCP - they already know of it. What it is doing, though, is making a bad situation much worse and it could possibly destroy and cripple the game if enough people get frustrated with the situation. CCP can work as hard as they can, but it will still take some time to come up with some fixes and implement them - we're talking about changing some of the fundamentals of the most competitive part of the game. They'll work as fast as they can while doing their best to feel comfortable to produce a quality fix and implementation. So there's no reason to go trying to push a change that's already coming.

TL;DR - Nice try, but I believe you went about this in completely the wrong way. You've made a mistake that will most likely affect the game in a negative way, and no one is going to thank you for it.

BUT AAREEESSSS!!! We need to combine the Eve/Dust economies! One universe one market, all that stuff!

Yeah, trust me - I get it. We all get it. We know just as well as the next guy. The economy is ****** but, yanno... Someone bitched about how we weren't making enough money in PC to cover our losses and, well, here we are. Dunno; it's a learning process.

Either way, everyone locking up their districts isn't going to prove to CCP what they already know - there's no grand overarching message being taught here. I applaud the endeavor and the reason for the action (I mean hell we all want the game to be a bit more healthy) but, yanno, I just see a bunch of people getting -more- angry than anything else.

A smart man would go and look at CCP's job listings and see all the positions open for Shanghai, then realize that they're already stretched thin working to push out a build every month with racial parity, balance changes, bug fixes, new content, insertanynumberofshitpeoplehaverequestedhere. Game isn't designed for the "I want it now" bunch, it's going to take some patience and getting all riled up about things isn't going to speed up the process.

I always love to use restaurants as the metaphor. Don't get pissed off at the cook because you've waited an hour and a half for your food in a crowded establishment. Throwing a temper tantrum and refusing to eat the appetizer (or, in this case, spilling the drink in defiance) isn't going to make him cook faster. EDIT: What it might do though is make a bunch of people leave - which will... technically get your food to you quicker... but lot of good it'll do if the restaurant isn't getting enough business to stay afloat

I love the community's logic. Duvolle Tacticals are OP because of their damage/fire rate so it gets nerfed... Then you have the Scrambler Rifle which has a fire rate -ridiculously higher- and no-one says a word.