I'm not sure if opening up more regions is necessary. I think they should liquidate the clones on districts plus the cost of a clone pack and wipe ownership in MH.

In my opinion the #1 reason why a 100% takeover of MH was possible is the lack of participation in PC. Over the last 11 months the poor mechanics and game performance dwindled the numbers down. This isn't to take away from the skill and dominance of Those on top, just a realization that is easy to see if one is being honest with his/herself.

This way owners don't get screwed out of what they earned, but we get to start anew. I think for the opening weeks of PC 2.0 that clone packs should only be available to non district holders and they should be cheaper than normal. Call it an event, but the Dust community as a whole has to get more involved for PC to grow into something great.

PC needs to be entirely re-envisioned, not just suffer arbitrary fumbling with numbers like clone counts and ISK. The fact is PC is boring as hell and far too large an investment for people with lives outside of DUST.

What does this in turn promote? Well, exactly what we have right now. Massive blue donuts and conglomeration of all competent PC-worthy players into these megacorps.

It only makes sense, though. You can't possibly hope to own any territory as a corp unless you have at least 20-30+ competent players who are online A LOT and are willing to play at any given time. The circumstances revolving around deploying attacks/defending districts require a strict schedule of being online at certain times to take part in battles. If you happen to have a job or what have you and can't make it to that battle, your corp loses its territory and you're now stuck in Clone Pack land. There's no room for little guys in this game, and so you get blue donuts.

It's not like EVE where even if you're just a handful of guys you can go logon whenever and wreak some havoc in nullsec and still profit. No, in this game, you need 16 GOOD players at a SPECIFIC time on a CERTAIN day, and sometimes consecutively . It's not feasible nor rewarding for the majority of players whatsoever. Increasing clone counts and reducing profits doesn't give incentive for the new guys.

PC is this: repetitive, laggy Skirmishes on pre-determined maps at pre-determined times vying for colored squares on a starmap that will ultimately function as ISK drills for your corp. There's no sense of consistency to it at all. No reward beyond ISK which can be easily made in other ventures. Nothing PC provides really shines and gives people that hope of "Yeah! I really need to train to get into PC so I can reap these rewards!" Dealing in petty politics and the frustration of getting people online to defend districts is not worth getting grey hairs over.

Like I said, PC needs to be re-envisioned to be made fun, not just have some numbers tweaked and declare "fixed!".

Sure. Go ahead. Go experience PC and see how much a blast it is.