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Here is a conceptual design I did for an overhaul of the Planetary Conquest System. Please view the links at the top of this post.

This system is designed around the concept of resource management and balance. Corps must decide what the proper balance between factories are in order to properly defend the district but also pull a profit and support their EVE support. They must also manage their time and manpower as not to take too many districts and allow them to be overrun by Rogue Drones, making them both weak and vulnerable. This also opens countless opportunities for corps to hire each other for things such as Drone Scrubbing or Shipping Services.

It discourages singular groups from holding massive amounts of land and allows for newer corps to get a taste of PC without being completely locked out on every front. It also establishes a rudimentary industry and market system, allowing for corps to make money off of their districts without raw ISK injections into the economy.

Please remember that this is for conceptual purposes only and while we may not agree on everything, healthy and constructive criticism is expected.

Solid idea, Pokey.

Looks like you've set up a method where neither EVE nor Dust require the other to actually do anything but they are incentivised to use each other and that looks like a healthy approach.

How do you envision this creating opportunities for smaller / mid-size corps and alliances vs what we have now?

I believe this sort of system will open up additional opportunities within PC that do no necessarily require the holding of Districts. Because attackers obtain all of the resources in the captured District's armory, we could see smaller to mid sized corps attacking and taking a district, shipping all the stored materials off site, and then let the district be recaptured. These 'Raids' would give smaller skilled corps the ability to make PC profitable, even if they're unable to maintain and defend districts for long periods of time.

There is also the prospect of being hired to scrub infestations or transport goods, making PC more than just attacking and defending districts against other corps.


As CCP opens up new territory to control, it will be harder and hard for the existing PC Corps to maintain a stranglehold on the new areas, especially with the PvE Infestation element. As player counts increase, CCP can expand the amount of available space to accommodate that balance. I would like to see your average small corp of 20-30 people able to hold a least one district so they can be involved in PC.


However if it eventually comes to a point where there are not enough districts to service everyone and alliances start holding massive amounts of land, the system must make renting districts to other corps more profitable than the cost in time, effort, and ISK for an alliance to defend in the long run. If a situation like that occurs, smaller corps should be able to rent a district or two from an alliance and still make a decent profit maintaining and defending it themselves.

Pokey, great concept.

I'd been thinking along the same lines but lack the ability to get it across in a simple way like that. Lol

I would add one more thing however.

I would make it so the PvE element works like how FW does now. The more districts a corp owns the higher the rate of district infestation from rogue drones. Make it so it's harder work to maintain more and allow smaller corps a change to make ISK.

We need to expand beyond MH however.

Awesome work, now we just need to get the OP on the CSM

With something like this, I'm not sure you'd need to expand for a while.

I don't think people really understand how few people are actually involved in PC at the moment.

Something like that yes. On that same note there should be some incentives to holding blocks of land, so a corp can consider how much effort they can put into defending groups of districts. If they can handle dealing with the infestations, then go for it. But if they're lacking in manpower then the cost of maintaining those districts may not be worth that "bulk" bonus.

You could also introduce a new SI that reduces the rate of infestation buildup.

EDIT: I'd also add that you get what you kill for. Capturing a district also means inheriting its existing infestation. So while heavily infested districts are easier to capture, you're then stuck with the task of clearing it out before its going to be profitable.

Would the drones have some sort of salvage value that we as dusters could sell to the Eggers at all you think? Perhaps a product that can normally be harvested in PI and sold in the open market? This would bring a further revenue stream to corps that would make maintaining a District profitable while still having to work for it.

Im happy to have your support! Post up in my CMP1 Candidate thread to show your support (link in my signature) and tell your corp and alliance about me. I'd be more than happy to meet with anyone to discuss whatever you like.



As for the infestation bit, what if we implemented a system where Infested districts would boost the infestation rate of adjacent districts by a margin and that rate boost would stack with additional nearby infestations. It would give the sense that the Infestation is spreading from district to district, and corps that control entire planets would need to diligent in constantly scrubbing infestations, otherwise the planet would very quickly become overrun due to this stacking effect.

This would effectively make the infestation rates of districts controlled on planets higher, such that holding a large chunk of land would mean a lot of work to maintain it.


As for opening up additional territory, the beauty of that is that the rate at which new districts are opened up and when that happens, is easily controllable. CCP could implement this system and see how it goes. If we still need more space, more space can be easily opened up. Obviously there is a ton of number crunching I have not gotten into, but I think the concept is fairly clear.

The main problem is that PC happens in the WORST region for EVE pilots to be. Staying there longer than 5 minutes, or even orbiting a planet for that long, you are bound to be killed by someone. PC should happen in somewhere else, Molden Heath is a pretty bad location for anything IMO.

+1

It wasn't til I sat down and thought about this for a while, that I realized how important it is that PC 2.0 look like this. Is there any means to achieve this, in addition to getting Pokey on the CPM, that can help make this happen?

I'm afraid that it's already been determined, but rest easy Kain Spero is the voice of PC to CCP. What could go wrong?

Wow. Perfectly done concept map.
I really hope CCP Looks into this.
May i suggest posting this in The Councils Chambers?