Paul Ellinas wrote:I Really believe the main changes we would like to see in PC are:
a) More players in PC and not a small elite. Everyone with proto fittings/ vehicles should find his place in PC. (if the price is to sacrifice small corporation so be it)
b)More corporations involved in PC
c)More interaction with Eve
Removing the timer (or taking him down from 24h to x minutes- 2hours) wil fix a) and b).
a)To set timers larger then would mean that the corporations will stay as they are now based on nationality. Not even 10% of the timers are now in EU timezone !!!
a)It will force corporations to merge with others and recruit new mercenaries to get them into PC.
b)Making it harder to hold a district means, that every corporation will hold only a few districts. This will have as a result that a lot of districts will be defenseless at the beginning and free to take for corporations outside of PC. Alliances and politics will play a bigger role to hold a district.
I don't see the current mechanics changing anytime soon. No offense to those on the CPM, but I think there is a slight conflict of interest here. The small elite groups of players stand to lose quite a bit if the mechanics are changed.
The current mechanics have locked the vast majority of corps out of PC. In fact there is little to zero chance that an up and coming corp can learn on the job fast enough to hold a single district. And that's buying a district from a small elite group.
The chance of a corp with players that have not been in PC taking a district from an established PC corp with clone packs are close to zero and they'd have to invest at least 144 million ISK to give a real try.
The fix to locking will lead to more fighting, but to expect any different outcome than what we've seen is insanity.
I think there is going to be a run on Renegade. Players will start leaving in mass. They will jump into one of the power alliances and then there will be a period of quiet before the two remaining powers go at it. It will be the same names, just some with different tags. One of these powers will end up with an absurd amount of land that SHOULD be undefendable and the cycle will repeat.