The current PC system is flawed in so many ways. Even when the PC district lock exploit gets fixed at some point in the future, PC won't change that much because there will still be 16 man A teams for a specific corp or an entire alliance that will still be able to hold 10+ districts. On top of current PC functionality enabling so few players to actually be involved, PC is often very slow (which is part of the reason 16 man A teams can hold so many districts). Outside of DUST, have you ever heard of an attack with a warning 2 days prior? There's nothing even close to a surprise attack in DUST. To me, I think PC timelines should be moved back from days to hours (1 hour warning prior to battle) with the only thing occurring daily is the sale of excess clones. To keep burn out from occurring, this could be implemented where a specific district could only be attacked a few times a day If winning battles. If attacks were able to happen every hour, you would definitely see different players participating in PC as it would be a necessity. No more would you see the same 16 man A team (unless they stopped sleeping) and no longer could a single corp fight for an entire alliance. Best of all, no more would you see a single corp or single alliance owning 80-90% of PC. I could go into more detail of what I think should happen but I think I'll leave this open ended for discussion.

It is beyond a passive faucet, it is a ******* silver spoon that spoon feeds the wealth straight into the mouths of the circlejerkers.

still constrained by timers?

I suggested a long while back that a system that allowed multiable battles take place at once be put in and base district control on a percentage instead of clones. Releasing clones from being your measure of control opens up to them being a useful resource in the greater eve dust link while also releasing PC from revolving around killing and more about establishing control.\

killing the enemy should only be one tactic not the tactic

overwhelming numbers should be another valid tactic
sabotage and infiltration
reconnaissance
propaganda
politic

all these have been left by the wayside for a boring lobby shooter mechanic and it bugs me.

Long read ahead, just my thoughts on the issue. Constructive suggestions/criticism is appreciated.

I really think that we just require more space to occupy.
More space = more opportunity for newer and emerging corps to get a foot in the door, and then alliances can be formed and we can all have our own little spots in the universe.

Ask any corp that was involved in any of the many wars that have gone on in MH, it turned what was supposed to be an enjoyable competitive experience into a job.

I was a member of SyNergy Gaming, We were part of EoN. EoN started out as 5 medium sized corps with some very talented players coming together and trying to carve out their own little corner of our current MH playing field.
Large alliances (Chronos) and others who I have forgotten snagged up as much land as they could for free when PC first started.
Everyone was pushing to get as much land as they could, because land means money, and money means higher end gear.
Timers were even more ****** up than they are now, and we all had to alarm clock the **** out of ourselves just to keep the few districts we had, this caused the alliances to grow larger because we needed blues to help us hold districts at extremely inconvenient times, we also did the same for them.

As the alliances grew, we gathered districts. Whether it was from the new corp bluing up with us bringing their districts into the fold, or they were being taken by force. Battles raged from server up to server down, every day. It turned into such a chore to get on and see that you have 16+ PC battles to fight that day, knowing that you would have to do the same thing again tomorrow.

All because we were all running out of space.

Yes, EoN ended up "Winning PC" as some people call it, I believe EoN occupied ~95% of MH before GTA V came out and KZ4...causing a large majority of the more competitive players to flock to the newer games where they could get a fresh start in a new and exciting place and start the whole cycle over again.

Corporations and alliances were formed, grew, died, broke apart, merged, got burned out and straight up left...it happens, its the eternal ebb and flow of the EvE universe.

With more space to occupy in New Eden and a fix to district locking, it would allow each corporation to control as many planets as they could actually handle without turning this game into a job again.

Smaller corps could get a start in the outer edges of our playable universe while larger and more active corps could continue their struggle for territory and simply not care about the "Insignificant new corp way over there" that's 15+ jumps away (Reducing the amount of clones that can be sent at once for the attack) or actually having to buy a clone pack to attack them. (Whats the point, they have 1 or 2 districts in the middle of nowhere in a forgotten part of the universe)

Eventually as our playing field expanded we could end up having something akin to what they do in EvE when you look at the alliance territory images. 1-3 vast alliances holding as much territory as they can, fighting the other large alliances to keep them from getting larger, and leaving (For the most part) the smaller guys to do their thing because realistically they aren't that much of a threat (Yet).

The current PC system is flawed in so many ways. Even when the PC district lock exploit gets fixed at some point in the future, PC won't change that much because there will still be 16 man A teams for a specific corp or an entire alliance that will still be able to hold 10+ districts. On top of current PC functionality enabling so few players to actually be involved, PC is often very slow (which is part of the reason 16 man A teams can hold so many districts). Outside of DUST, have you ever heard of an attack with a warning 2 days prior? There's nothing even close to a surprise attack in DUST. To me, I think PC timelines should be moved back from days to hours (1 hour warning prior to battle) with the only thing occurring daily is the sale of excess clones. To keep burn out from occurring, this could be implemented where a specific district could only be attacked a few times a day If winning battles. If attacks were able to happen every hour, you would definitely see different players participating in PC as it would be a necessity. No more would you see the same 16 man A team (unless they stopped sleeping) and no longer could a single corp fight for an entire alliance. Best of all, no more would you see a single corp or single alliance owning 80-90% of PC. I could go into more detail of what I think should happen but I think I'll leave this open ended for discussion.

Check out the original concepts of the Warbarge in 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvDKbiUnxTA


The Original concept of Planetary conquest and warbarges in general was supposed to be very different then the simplistic dumbed down version we got on Uprising Launch.

We where supposed to save up at great costs to corporations for Warbarges and be able to move them around and have limits on expansion based on warbarge counts and movement time. We then were gonna get hang out areas in the warbarges, trophy rooms.. be able to buy Mercenary quarters on the warbarges etc...

We barely barely even have a Shell of the original concept of Planetary Conquest that got the side project and enthusiastic spark of DUST 514 even started..

It's why everyone want's PC 2.0 and are more then willing to wait to make sure it doesn't get massively under delivered on again because between the horrific aiming controls that have plagued this game since Uprising launch and the massive disappointment of PC there isn't anything more that has hurt the consistent player count growth in this game.

PC is a failed concept in my opinion. I think it should just be removed until the drone battles and PVE get added to the game.

when the PVE is added it would be nice if every corp gets at least one district after reaching a size of say 25+ accounts and defend it from the PVE content getting SP and ISK from those battles and none from passive ownership.

after that PC could be kind of the same has it is now but without the red lines and with this posts suggestions added to it.
i would like to see PC maps where the maps look like a castle layout with the main base being a domination point inside a building HQ with multiple levels to clear to get to the capture point. vehicle pilots would be needed for taking down installations and the front door and dropping troops off in crucial areas. just thinking old castle siege warfare would be awesome in this game.