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.

Hey guys

With the Rubicon 1.3 release on 2014-03-11 we are aiming to deploy two changes, one to Planetary Conquest and one to Factional Warfare. At this stage we're waiting for QA to confirm both changes are good to go, but we have announced it earlier to give corporations in Planetary Conquest a chance to be aware of the changes.

Planetary Conquest: Locking a district will now ensure the attacker loses clones and ISK when there is no battle result

This means that if no battle takes place, or if a battle is reverted due to it not being completed, the attackers will lose clones as per a normal loss.

Factional Warfare: Adjusted the battle spawning so that factions will need to spend more time defending their districts proportionally to the number of districts they control

What this means is that as a faction controls a higher percentage of districts in the warzone, it will generate more defense contracts for that faction.

You keep saying this, but at the moment it's cost prohibitive to use clone packs for any strategic purpose. When it was 80 mil per clone pack it could cost you 240-320 mil attempting to take one district.

You keep saying this, but at the moment it's cost prohibitive to use clone packs for any strategic purpose. When it was 80 mil per clone pack it could cost you 240-320 mil attempting to take one district.

can you please remove the "pick all 4" for people who never played FW before, so you have to select the faktions that you want to fight for? one of the big problems for caldari is that we got A LOT of minmatar and also gallente spawning in basic suits

I'm not sure, but I'll double check with the developer responsible for the change. My tentative answer however that it is treated as an attacker loss would be.

For FW could you please turn up the auto-aim for the Amarr and Caldari factions to something like... hell, 100% so that we Minmatar and Gallente can have a challenge?

Please let us know as soon as humanly possible. This is important. This needs to be fixed as soon as possible before the secondary market arrives. Otherwise it will be disastrous with this potential loophole.

I've clarified the patch note about the PC change. it looks for a battle result, which means if you kill all the clones bar one and the battle expires then the attackers lose by default.

So unless someone sees a battle result screen, the defenders win by default.

Alright CCP Logibro... I don't know how far the dev's are with our promised PvE mode as seen in the Jan. 22, 2013 Dust 514: Gathering Forces Trailer .

However, I have come up with a lore friendly way to integrate PvE into Molden Heath.

Pirate NPC Drone Swarms.

The very same Pirates that the Thukker Tribe invited the Clone Mercs to act as a deterrent against as explained here: Uprising: Thukker Tribe invites cloned mercenaries to police Molden Heath

District locking is a symptom of the illness that plagues Planetary Conquest.

With that being said, I propose that the simple game of Slay be used as inspiration.

Dev Blog: Helpful Guide to Playing Slay

Drone infestation takes the place of the terrorist mechanic.

The idea is basic. If your corporation secures districts and there is no activity on them for a period of time it will be seen as abandoned and thus invaded by NPC Pirate Drones of the Angel Cartel.

Failure to clear the drone infestation will result in a loss of clone production (passive isk generation) and the eventual loss of the district.

The NPC drone infestation should take as long as an average skirmish match to clear.

The infestations can also occur randomly across all districts if the Devs deem it a more effective mechanic.

The result is dominant corps and alliances will have to actually police their holdings as per the agreement with Minmatar's Thukker Tribe, and it will discourage corporations from taking a disproportionate amount of districts in Molden Heath.

With Planetary Conquest being the "End Game" of Dust 514, it only hurts the growth of the community if the few districts available are out of reach for the majority of corporations.

This mechanic will also allow for an expansion of districts due to the fact that corporations that turn inactive or incapable of policing their holdings will lose them to the Angel Cartel.

In my opinion, the Angel Cartel should always have a role in Planetary Conquest as that reinforces the very Lore of Molden Heath.

This integration of the Slay "Terrorist" mechanic makes that and the expansion of the number of districts available to corporations interested in Planetary Conquest possible.

Thank you.

STYLIE77

FW needs team deploy as the only way to join battle. Increase LP payout and and make LP market accept only LP (no ISK).

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Battles will now also terminate before the reinforcement window closes.

Hey guys

With the Rubicon 1.3 release on 2014-03-11 we are aiming to deploy two changes, one to Planetary Conquest and one to Factional Warfare. At this stage we're waiting for QA to confirm both changes are good to go, but we have announced it earlier to give corporations in Planetary Conquest a chance to be aware of the changes.

Planetary Conquest: Locking a district will now ensure the attacker loses clones and ISK when there is no battle result

This means that if no battle takes place, or if a battle is reverted due to it not being completed, the attackers will lose clones as per a normal loss.

Factional Warfare: Adjusted the battle spawning so that factions will need to spend more time defending their districts proportionally to the number of districts they control

What this means is that as a faction controls a higher percentage of districts in the warzone, it will generate more defense contracts for that faction.

Hey guys

With the Rubicon 1.3 release on 2014-03-11 we are aiming to deploy two changes, one to Planetary Conquest and one to Factional Warfare. At this stage we're waiting for QA to confirm both changes are good to go, but we have announced it earlier to give corporations in Planetary Conquest a chance to be aware of the changes.

Planetary Conquest: Locking a district will now ensure the attacker loses clones and ISK when there is no battle result

This means that if no battle takes place, or if a battle is reverted due to it not being completed, the attackers will lose clones as per a normal loss.

Factional Warfare: Adjusted the battle spawning so that factions will need to spend more time defending their districts proportionally to the number of districts they control

What this means is that as a faction controls a higher percentage of districts in the warzone, it will generate more defense contracts for that faction.

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.

can you please remove the "pick all 4" for people who never played FW before, so you have to select the faktions that you want to fight for? one of the big problems for caldari is that we got A LOT of minmatar and also gallente spawning in basic suits

What is being done about all the exploited free isk you have introduced into the game via the locking mechanic?

I'm talking about 40-50 (with half carrying the weight) active players holding 30+ districts

EDIT: didn't finish reading before responding

To me if less than 5% of the player base takes part in PC and a few dozen players dominate the playing field the mechanics are too harsh. And the learning curve only steepens the more time goes by without team deploy or mechanics that lend at least some importance to having some numbers.

Hey guys

With the Rubicon 1.3 release on 2014-03-11 we are aiming to deploy two changes, one to Planetary Conquest and one to Factional Warfare. At this stage we're waiting for QA to confirm both changes are good to go, but we have announced it earlier to give corporations in Planetary Conquest a chance to be aware of the changes.

Planetary Conquest: Locking a district will now ensure the attacker loses clones and ISK when there is no battle result

This means that if no battle takes place, or if a battle is reverted due to it not being completed, the attackers will lose clones as per a normal loss.

Factional Warfare: Adjusted the battle spawning so that factions will need to spend more time defending their districts proportionally to the number of districts they control

What this means is that as a faction controls a higher percentage of districts in the warzone, it will generate more defense contracts for that faction.

This LOL logic that has taken you LOL Devs months to come up with has pretty much let us all know that you all have no F-ing clue what you all are doing.

GG CCP

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.

Muhaha! I can sense a flood of nyain tears coming our way

No, even before locking they had all their districts at a time the majority of players wouldn't even want to play.

But they wont be getting payouts anymore and I would think that MAYBE they wouldnt want to just waste their isk in pubs anymore by running proto all the time.

Dont get me wrong, we are still going to see them molest people in ambush PROstomping but we might even get to see them run ADV once in a while.

It's too late for that.

Nah, It will only take about a year to milk em dry... lol

and people start to leave when they aint getting paid