i don't understand how this will keep PC from being controlled by 1 alliance.....

how does having a home district cripple the isk making mechanic that has killed PC? It doesnt

how does having spawn timers prevent the corporation from sending clones from districts all over the place? It doesnt

what do ringers have anything to do with the PC situation? Nothing

how does changing a home districts affect the status of PC?

It would be amazing if it actually played more like a RPG than a terrible version of RISK.
Anything that gets us away from the current state is welcome.

We'll see. CCP will have to start implementing something to make PC not completely stupid.

The main problem right now is that you need only one very good team to dominate PC. The change PC needs is to force a larger number of teams to fight for a district.

Maybe smaller timers. Or 3 simultaneous battles for 1 district.

But you have to think about preventing ISK farming,district locking etcGǪ

Its not a easy quest.
If they move the game to PS4 its possible to make it open map.If you look from the boarders of one district you see the next district already.

a "small group"? Did you even looked at the DNS alliance? it contains 22 corps which have in total 1824 players. You can look up alliance, corperations and districts @ http://evemaps.dotlan.net/

And the information i just posted where aswell from there. Here ya go: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/Dirt_Nap_Squad.

Lulz, penalty to ringers? Then what's the point of an "alliance?"

y would an alliance only hold one district even if they're small one district doesn't benefit the alliance as a whole. and the point of the alliance is to help each other in pc's

These idea's aren't the answer.

Spawn timers away from a home district?

This is a terrible idea. Why should I have to spawn in slower for a battle...giving a handicap to the other team?

I'm all for handicaps that get us back to skirmish 1.0 in PC...but adding seconds to a spawn modifier is a bad idea.

Penalties to ringers? This is just an annoyance, not an answer.

Being mercenaries in new eden should be encouraged, not limited.

If corporations in New Eden had accessible means to attack as often as they wished with the proper clones to fight, then there's 240 battles that could be fought every other day...an average of 120 a day.

It's a sandbox bro, don't box others out with poor ideas that fit your agenda:

PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO OWN SO MANY DISTRICTS QQ MAKE IT STAHP WITH RULES!
RINGERS BAD! LET'S PENALIZE!

Empower others, don't restrict.

I think an Open World concept being applied to Dust would solve most if not all of the PC issues. There would be no warning, people would just attack. Landing an MCC on the planet via Eve pilot flying it there would initiate the attack, players not on and not expecting it would be unable to participate but it would give Dust corps a reason to be part of new eden, not just having the same company make the product.

In addition to the Eve pilot bringing in the MCC, this would allow for a space defense of your districts to be possible. Bringing a need for PVPers to be a part of your corp, alliance and coalitions. This also allows for the hiring of pilots to take on the giant corps as a valid tactic, considering they can bring anything from subcaps to caps into these fights it is sure to make things more interesting Eve side anyways.

Now for the juicy Dust bit (I call it mud). No redline, no line at all and if you have the time, moving the battle (strategic withdrawal to the district beside yours) would be possible. Allowing battles to go on until clone reserves are depleted.

Clone Packs would also need adjustment. From the 150 clone (hope I get this right) to 300. As a caveat, this suggestion could be modified to allow for multiple clone pack purchases rather than an increase in size.

Deployment and grouping of troops needs to change as well to allow the formation of the team beforehand in Platoon deploy, whereby there is a platoon leader who can invite squads to his platoon. Max number of troops in battle should be unlimited, the only limiting factor being the number of clones available (sandboxes are fun).

District maintenance and upkeep is another factor not addressed atm which I think would need to be changed as well. Putting a drone damage to structures mechanic in place (PVE for Everyone) whereby troops deploy to the planet during off hours to kill drones and thereby prevent damage to their districts would add something different and flavorful to Dust. If there is an incursion in local this should also affect the districts, causing us to have an additional way to earn Concord LP to be converted to whatever faction we choose for the purchase of items.

Incursions being mobile in nature and quite deadly for the unprepared I feel that is important to point out that this would give a great reason to have more districts open in more regions to help the Eve pilots depopulate the Sansha as efficiently as possible. Joint Incursion parties (EVE + Dust) would add a new dynamic to the universe unseen thus far whereby the Incursion community would be able to enlist mercs to help kill the MOM via a ground to Space cannon. Who says we need to be defenseless against the horde of evil sansha?

Everything is 1 jump away from something owned by DNS. Holding 240 of 245 districts in MH. 97.9% Domination. 5 more to go before the universe implodes on itself.

This is it right here, OP. What Draco said.

Dust doesn't have nearly the same open-world versatility as EVE. That is why PC suffers. Eve is big enough for everyone. Dust isn't

The absolute MOST annoying part, is CCP's REFUSAL (not incapability) to put Dust on PC and PS4.

A stronger platform would be better able to depict the Dust vision we were sold on. Basically, Arma3 meets EVE Online.

You look at a company like Digital Extremes, arguably smaller than CCP, successfully developing Warframe for PC and PS4... and watch them win the MMOBOMB competition for greatest free2play game...
Then you ccme back to this to hear CCP crying about how hard developing is for the PS3 and how they have to "focus their efforts on developing on the PS3", because the PS3 is an "overflowing well of opportunity". (There were several million PS2s, aint no one developing on that. There are MILLIONS of obsolete gaming consoles in people's possession, aint no onedeveloping for them. At LEAST do an HD port of Dust to the PS4 and PC, so we can get 60+ frames, becausr the graphics are terrible.)

1.8 has restored some of my faith in Dust, but there are some problems that are not going to go away while the current platform is maintained. Problems with PC are one of those problems. An open-world system would never have had an EoN, simply too much ground to cover and not enough players. And with interception of the MCC possible EVE side, threats bigger threats can interfere.

(facepalm)

Now you aren't being compelling you've resorted to shifting the spotlight instead of defending why your ideas are plausible or refuting the qualms i've raised.

In the best corps you can only field that 1 team at 1 battle...so if they have 5 timers in an hour how will they defend with those same 16 as you suggest?

Your guess that it's the same 100 is artibrary and incorrect. Not even close tbh.

I can tell you between 50-60 of my people in FA play PC on a weekly basis. Las week was a bit down at 45. I have a spreadsheet for the purpose of tracking.

And ERA/TP play another 50-60.

AE has another 50-60 i'm sure.

That's just 4 corps and doesn't include RND/DDB who played and lost tonight. Dia Valk who have recently lost to WTF, and Cap Aq/G0M who also have their own respective teams. Not to mention NS.

You're talking about 3 of the top 5 corps in the game for weekly activity in every category.

Be a little more open minded.

0.02 isk

-some scrub

Yes your numbers must be right. 4 corps making the dirty work for the alliance. This is my point 4 corps to take MH.
I respect you guys and i don't question that you have top players.

But should this be the end of it??? GAME OVER ??? Don't you want more challenge ???

And i don't respect NS,DDB the only reason they are in PC is lucky t be in the right alliance. I have seen allot better coprs.

I can tell you between 50-60 of my people in FA play PC on a weekly basis. Las week was a bit down at 45. I have a spreadsheet for the purpose of tracking.

And ERA/TP play another 50-60.

AE has another 50-60 i'm sure.

That's just 4 corps and doesn't include RND/DDB who played and lost tonight. Dia Valk who have recently lost to WTF, and Cap Aq/G0M who also have their own respective teams. Not to mention NS.

You're talking about 3 of the top 5 corps in the game for weekly activity in every category.

Be a little more open minded.

0.02 isk

-some scrub