80 millions for 200 clones is too much, 60 millions will be much better.

@Kain

You are missing the real problems PC has. Those problems are passive isk generation and unlimited force projection, that allows a corp to chain fights with the same players all around Molden Heath instantly.


Those problems are inherent to PC 1.0 design. You can make all the small patches and fixes you want, but the current PC situation wont change because PC 1.0 is broken at its core. Even if DNS breaks after fanfest, Molden Heath will always be dominated by the 4-5 top corps of the moment.

Opening more districts would solve nothing. Those corps would have just double the districts they have now, with double the isk.


In my opinion, wasting development resources in PC 1.0 would be a mistake, because it is unfixable. Just focus in PC 2.0 and pray they don't screw it up.

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Also, I have a question. Are your proposals coming from Kain the CPM or from Kain the player? Because, honestly, some of your proposals seem to be made by the player.

Making the transfer of districts easier, or making easier the use of mercenary eve pilots, are things that would be of benefit to a very small part of the playerbase.

As Kain the player, it is legit for you to push for changes that benefit your game goals. But as CPM, I would prefer you to push CCP to dedicate the development resources they have to things that would make the game better for the entire playerbase, instead of 1%.

There is nothing wrong if you are pushing for these changes as Kain the player, but you should make it clear in the OP.

I think long term the price is good, but it HAS to be cheaper to involve corps that have yet to or no longer participate in PC for some period of time upon release.

This isn't true.

It should, in fact, cost money to hold a district. However, active combat in PC should be extremely profitable. So your income comes from actively using the district, either via attacking or defending and winning. This encourages people to fight instead of sitting on what they have. Therefore, you want to massively increase the payout in PC for clones lost in combat, while massively nerfing the payout of excess clones generated from holding the district (or eliminating it entirely). Then you have more reason to fight than to blue up.

Locking wouldn't be an issue if the numbers were tweaked to make attacking and winning the most profitable action. Also make clone packs only available to non-landholders. If the primary advantage of having a district were being able to attack with more clones it changes everything. If you also introduced the window timers and 30 minute spawns of battles you have a game mode that is going to be played by a much larger portion of our playerbase.

The end goal is to have fights and "surprise" we're fighting now isn't really a great mechanic. People have real lives and should be given the chance to schedule out how to respond to starting a fight or setting up a defense. The other side of this is that the timers as they are give a chance for the organization needed to occur between both Eve and Dust. This would be especially true if Orbital Support is opened up beyond the chains of alliance membership.

He doesn't want to hear that, but It's honestly a nobrainer for CCP to implement this because it opens up PC to so many more players.

If you were able to set a window of downtime for a district (let's say 8 hours) this would give a corporation the ability to cover a timeframe that they aren't likely to have people on for battles. Outside of that window, it's game time. You either have people on or you don't.

But like I said, they don't want this. It would require them to recruit and maintain more players. God forbid they have to add a player with a KDR under 4.