DUST Search - Proposed Ideas to Improve Planetary Conquest

Kain Spero wrote:

I think we all realise that Planetary Conquest has some holes in it still and I think simple changes could be made to dramatically improve how PC 1.0 plays out. The current situation I think exemplifies some of the numerous issues from clone pack size to passive ISK being better than fighting. I have a series of proposed ideas that I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on.

Increase Clone Pack Size to 200 Clones at 80 million ISK a piece. 2 different clone packs. 120 for 36mil or 200 for 80

Turn off clone auto sale or reduced passive clone sales to 60k and increase biomass from battle to 160k. Remove auto sale. Period.

Make it where you only get ISK for clones killed in battle, which will tie up some loose ends potential locking for profit.

Make clone moves a minimum of 200 clones so that a district is weakened when an attack is launched and help minimize the snowball effect of owning many many districts.

Explore the idea of opening another Region of space in Dust 514 Planetary Conquest to spur activity, but only if the issues with passive ISK are addressed.

Implement a district transfer function so that a corporation doesn't have to use a clone pack to get into PC and also open up possibilities in terms of how conflicts are resolved outside of battle.

Add an option at the end of battle to liquidate loot for ISK, so that even when a battle is lost you still have a way to make ISK out of it or come close to breaking even.

Add the ability for any Eve pilot to connect to a district and fire for either team. This would allow freedom of association when it comes to alliance membership and allow Dust matches to be content for all of New Eden.

Thanks to Eugene Killmore for helping get some of the brain juice flowing in this discussion.

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Radar R4D-47 0uter.Heaven 588	Posted - 2014.04.06 19:07:00 - [1] - Quote Kain Spero wrote: I think we all realise that Planetary Conquest has some holes in it still and I think simple changes could be made to dramatically improve how PC 1.0 plays out. The current situation I think exemplifies some of the numerous issues from clone pack size to passive ISK being better than fighting. I have a series of proposed ideas that I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on. Increase Clone Pack Size to 200 Clones at 80 million ISK a piece. 2 different clone packs. 120 for 36mil or 200 for 80 Turn off clone auto sale or reduced passive clone sales to 60k and increase biomass from battle to 160k. Remove auto sale. Period. Make it where you only get ISK for clones killed in battle, which will tie up some loose ends potential locking for profit. Agreed. Make clone moves a minimum of 200 clones so that a district is weakened when an attack is launched and help minimize the snowball effect of owning many many districts. Would do little to change the situation. Unless after an attack is launched no reinforcement tier is issued. Explore the idea of opening another Region of space in Dust 514 Planetary Conquest to spur activity, but only if the issues with passive ISK are addressed. Implement a district transfer function so that a corporation doesn't have to use a clone pack to get into PC and also open up possibilities in terms of how conflicts are resolved outside of battle. An actual way of trading or giving contracts is the only way to do this. Add an option at the end of battle to liquidate loot for ISK, so that even when a battle is lost you still have a way to make ISK out of it or come close to breaking even. Isn't a big issue but would be a nice complimentary prize. Add the ability for any Eve pilot to connect to a district and fire for either team. This would allow freedom of association when it comes to alliance membership and allow Dust matches to be content for all of New Eden. Going back to the ideas of contracts... Send isk to pay for a mercenary group to drop an OB. If anyone could do it things would get messy for no reason. Thanks to Eugene Killmore for helping get some of the brain juice flowing in this discussion. Replies in post. The single biggest thing that would fix this 100% molden heath stuff is reducing clone production to 50 and 25. If enough isk is spent and your killing enough troops eventually the district will flip. Your opposition can easily take it back the same way but passive isk would be impossible to gain as long as battles are played. This would also reduce passive isk gain in half. The only extra mechanic they would need to implement is reinforcing districts with owned districts. So Cargo hubs, surface research labs, and production facilitys have to be used together to wage war efficiently.