PFC deserves to burn as a whole. Especially the ones foolish enough to have agreed to pay the "extortion rates".

We made a vouch to never take out PFC or make people pay taxes, it's all stupid if you ask me. Sounds like NF needs funds. Whomever is on PFC and want to counter it, you should collaborate.

You have no idea how wrong your intel is.

It doesn't need to be touched by an outer entity

Same thing happend when STB fielded TP to murder the imps...

from the desk of Cubs:

" you miss the bigger picture. Yes the end result was SVER prime turning to ashes, but STB fielding TEAM, RND, ZION and other top talent NOT in IMPS at the time handed IMPS their first EVER loss in PC. and 2 other extremely narrow victories, the closest anyone had come to toppling the beasts that were IMPS.

this in turn led to the catapulting of TEAM, RND, and the rest of EoN to the forefront of PC, which allowed many more wars to unfold and lots of good times for all.

and no I wouldn't EVER say 'murder' imps. the match won was by 7 ticks, the 2 lost matches were by 2 ticks and the famed 0-0 match.

It showed everyone that ANYONE can win on any given day. even having the most talent doesn't necessarily translate into a win

and that KoNo is an absolute monster (akin to 'the Duke' from Boondock Saints) and that Jesse and Grimmiers, to this day are probably THE most underrated slayers of all time on this game'

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reminiscing the good ole days when talent, skill and teamwork actually determined victories and not exploits.

Who are you again? becuase your always posting, but dont really know anything about what your talking about? I doubt you were even a merc in New Eden when the above occurred!. Makes you look a bit stupid TBH.

Thank you to Cubs Secretary for clearing a few things up, no we didn't 'murder' the imps, but it was enough. It was definitely a pin-ultimate point that turn the tide in TP/EONs favour.

The good ol' days indeed.

Not in charge. But I have an answer and my own question.

Either zero or maybe one or two.

Why is that?

PFC has had many problems since it was first conceived. Originally it was made with the purpose of being a "leave the politics at the door" brawl zone for the larger corps. You can see how our notion of "graduating" does not apply to this timeframe

After, when it became clear that it wasn't going to be used in this manner, it was repurposed towards what it is supposed to be today. In TP we tried to get it to work right, but it never quite got there. A few problems kept it from becoming what we hoped it would be.

1. Neglect. Controlling 80+ districts and having no real incentive besides playing sheriff, we only really had time to do defenses and removals when we were not busy. We were unable to keep good intel on who was using the district as intended and our ability to keep it running suffered. DDB had enough of its own problems to deal with as well, and AE just don't care.

Outside forces will always have a hard time keeping up with what is actually going on the planet. The PFC/Protector format will alleviate this. It splits the job(THIS IS WORK, Don't kid yourself) in half.

As a result of #1.
2. Corps on PFC not using the district as intended. Includes district lockers, farmers, using the area as a beachhead, etc. A great many corps that have been involved on PFC have just used it to farm isk. They had no intention of getting better or anything like that. Because of this, the planet has never run at anything more than 50% efficiency.

3. Fear of outside threat. The corps on PFC paid good money (or illegally seized a district) to get there. Using the district as intended could have lead to an opportunistic attack from someone like Men in BLACK OPS on a low clone district. This fear and uncertainty may have caused an already low usage rate to fall even lower.

As a result of #2 and #3.
4. Few potential opponents. It Is hard to get a good feel for PFC if you just played one person all the time. If all you ever played was Pro Hic, you would think that PC was all just mass drivers and roof tops. Solid tactics aren't well learned from few sources.

5. No graduation timeframe . No incentive to leave PFC (or disincentive to stay). Incentive makes the world go round. If PFC is to succeed, I ask the PFC council to make hard guidelines/rules for people to eventually move off.