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.


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


• 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.

Those fuel bonuses are great if you have a POS in system, but I'd be surprised if there is a single corp in Dust/Eve that is taking advantage of it.

In terms of what can be done for Planetary Conquest 2.0 I get really excited. I get the feeling that the potential in Dust that drew us to this game can actually be realized and the Dust 514 can become a true game.

I think being vulnerable during resource export and allowing for those realtime no timer fights alongside timer fights for the districts really would be a great way to go.

While these visions comes to be though we have the reality that is PC 1.0. I really don't feel that letting it languish while we wait for PC 2.0 is an option. The two biggest issues to me are passive ISK and clone pack size. The rest of the discussion becomes nuanced mechanics that may or may not be able to be addressed with the resources available.

Listening to the discussion here though is seems if we could get two things thrown into a quick hotfix while some of these other things are looked at it's increasing the clone pack to 150 with the same current cost per clone and turning off auto sale of clones. These are things that must be done and every day that goes by PC 1.0 digs itself further into the hole.