Yagihige
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.16 12:45:00 -
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How about if we were to entirely remove the selling of clones to NPC for profit? Meaning you could only sell clones to other players.
Corps would have to actively find buyers for their produced clones instead of it being an automatic way to earn money.
If a corp wanted to supply their own members, they could donate clones or sell them directly at the lowest they could without losing money.
If any corp/alliance owned too many districts on their own they'd be sitting on a stack of unusable clones.
Corps would want to sell clones to players outside of the elite and open up ways for many more people to participate in PC.
A Clone Market would be introduced. Anyone could browse this market and buy clones from PC corps. Clone packs would still be available for corps to buy at a higher price. Corps that opted to buy the packs would then need to distribute bought clones between their members. These clones also couldn't be resold on the clone market.
A corp selling on the market could put their clones up for sale either as free clones, slave clones or excluded clones. This would mean that they could prevent rival corps from buying clones and use them against the selling corp. Free clones could be used against any corp, slave clones could only be used in favor of the selling corp and excluded clones could be used against any other corp but the selling corp.
Corps would have safeguards, when selling clones they coulp require that the buyer has a minimum amount of SP or require approval from corp directors before your buy offer is accepted.
Once clones are in the hands of individual players they can't be put back in the market again or transferred back to the corp, they have to be used in the battlefield.
Then when battles were scheduled, CEOs would need to set the minimum number of clones each player would need to bring in with them. 10 clones meaning at least a total of 160, 20 clones meaning at least a total of 320, whatever. You could still function as usual and use players of your choice or open up the battle to whoever filled the prerequisite number of clones to enter.
If done well, this could open up PC to smaller corps and limit how much territory any corp can control before their income stalls.
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