Ok, let me do some brainstorming on the incentives for EVE Alliances to care about Planetary Districts held by DUST players.


The current bonuses are clearly not enough. For one thing they only apply to Corporations, when it would be better to have the bonuses apply to the Alliance. It is common to have DUST Corps and EVE Corps in the same Alliance, but it is rare to have a mixed DUST/EVE Corp (other than alts of the management team) due to the challenge of managing on both sides of the fence. The current bonuses, based on district infrastructure are:

- Cargo Hub: 10% per district owned to a maximum of 4 districts (40%) decrease in manufacturing time at a POS.
- Research Lab: 5% per district owned to a maximum of 4 (20%), reduction in POS fuel usage.
- Production Facility: Nothing? I could not find an EVE bonus associated with it.


So we need new Incentives. Lets start with PI. CCP has gotten away from the idea of DUST players being able to take over an EVE playerGÇÖs PI setup, but rather than looking at DUST harming an EVE playerGÇÖs PI, lets look at ways they could benefit PI.

How about Corps that own districts being able to build facilities that would give a bonus to any Alliance member doing PI on that planet?

- Power Stations: Gives a 10% Power Grid bonus to ever Allied PI Command Centre on the Planet.
- Server farm: Gives a 10% CPU upgrade to every Allied PI Command Centre on the Planet.

How about giving an increase to PI harvesting yield and processing time when your PI facilities are within an area controlled by a friendly district?

How about if a Corp owns all the districts on a planet they have the ability to set an export tax on top of the tax at the POCO?


What other bonuses or benefits could a district offer to the EVE players in the Alliance?
- Higher bounty payouts for RatGÇÖs killed in the system proportional to the percentage of the districts in the system owned by your alliance?
- More POS bonuses?
- A corporate/personal hanger in the POCO if your Alliance owns the POCO and at least 1 district on the Planet.
- Have the hanger size for POCO hanger increase with the number of districts owned.
- Factories in the districts to produce components for POS fuel such as Oxygen.
- Factories to refine minerals. Drop off the ore at the POCO, and it gets processed on the planet at the factory in your Alliance's district for a lower cost than at a station, but with a 24 hour delay. Gets returned to your hanger in the POCO for pickup.

I am more of a PVPer than an Industrialist so I donGÇÖt have a full understanding on how POSGÇÖs work, so that is hampering my abilities to come up with good bonuses for them.

Do any of these ideas have promise? Do they give you any ideas?