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.

You're almost certainly correct, and to an extent that's OK in my opinion as a member of a small corp who learned the hard way about PC. (on a side note, I don't think your corp-mates answer that blowing up small corps is a good solution, that's what alliances are for.)

The elite players by nature of their skill, experience, and equipment, will always dominate PC, which is more or less working as intended. Whats not intended is a small hardcore group being able to hold so much land on their own, which is what you are getting at in your last sentence.

If you ask my decidedly non-expert opinion, the "district locking" in and of itself is not the major issue. If 2 corps from the same alliance want to legitimately fight eachother over and over again like a corp battle (since we still dont have those... sigh) to keep some districts in alliance hands that's not such a big deal. The big deal is that being able to be done on a massive scale without actually fighting, and with both sides making a profit.

If a corp with 50 highly skilled members can hold 4-5 districts by such a method (and only side making any profit) that's not necessarily game-breaking, it's when that same group can hold 60(!) districts like Nyain San does, with essentially zero cost.

The zero cost at least appears to be getting fixed here. That then eliminates some of the motivation for locking as you get a lower return on your investment. The hopeful downstream effect is that the next EoN or Renegade decides its not worth it to hold 150 districts or whatever, and some small sector will always be up for grabs, I imagine.

The community was half the reason PC was that way. WE cried about PC till it was made easier to defend and cheaper to do while making more ISK. It isn't totally their fault.

No, we need something that is an ISK sink and is ran off of passion or desire for faction gear. I say passion because some players do FW because they are like playing only for their faction/race. If anything is shows the need for players trading/market. Team deploy is fine to me but more ISK isn't.

Totally agree. What would be really superb is if we could get some type of "official" PFC administered by CONCORD and not the ruling powers at the time who have a profit motive. Basically a highsec area of Molden Heath where no corp can hold more than 2-3 districts, and you cannot take part in if you hold districts anywhere else. The big boys can go slug it out in low/nullsec for bigger prizes while smaller corps get their feet wet.

Unfortunately I don't know that CCP could be bothered with such a thing, better for the players to meta it amongst themselves In their opinion, I'm thinking.