http://youtu.be/znxFrgql5dc

Except for all those other times when numbers didn't win the war....

I know from putting all the members of another large corp I was in on my contacts list and watching activity that only about 20% of 300 of that corps members got more then 1 kill during a week and only about 20 of those got more than 200 kills.

Maybe other corps are different to one degree or another, but my point stands, numbers mean jack if you can't field 16 good players and win a battle.

I have always loved the idea of this tactic.

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.

• 1. Increase Clone Pack Size to 200 Clones at 80 (or 60) million ISK a piece. Alternate option is go back to 150 clones at 45 million ISK.


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


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


• 4. 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.


• 5. 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.


• 6. 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. (Probably can't be done in a hotfix)


• 7. 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 (Probably can't be done in a hotfix). Alternate idea is to just give some amount of ISK even when losing.


• 8. 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.


• 9. Add the ability to bring up the map for upcoming battle while in the War Barge. (Probably can't be done in a hotfix)


• 10. Make attacks generate mail notifications like defenses currently do.

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

Edit: Points Updated to Reflect Discussion

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