Nice Idea, so you can still attack and capture the district but it requires figjting through a whole army of drones, inventive.
However your implementation still lacks 1 important factor:

Reasons for the Gel-Breathers to care

ISK alone isn't an incentive for EvE players to get involved in holding land. Their needs to be a reason, unfortunately the expansion EvE:Colony will male this harder to achieve as EvE players aren't likely to be handing 'ownership battles' of these structures to Legion players. I can only hope that this idea for planetary conquest involved with EvE is considered and passed on to gel-breathers.

• Step 1: Triple the Districts per planet.
Currently there are only 10-15 districts per planet, this is too few for any kind of Corporation/Alliance to be intrested, it also makes Logistics far too easy.

By adding more districts a larger number of facilities can be created for more varied bonuses to EvE and Legion Plauers alike.

• Step 2: Basic Infrastructure


• Step 3: Legion centric installations


• Step 4: EvE centric installations


• Step 5: Overlapping Installations

Then you give corporations the option of more than just capturing or defendingmthe districts.
Let them steal from Storage/Holding facilities, let them sabotage research facilities to take more resources, let them delay temporal wet-docks.

Doing this turns Legion Districs into cold war weapons, entire arms races will be driven by holding Legion land, the abilty to have a Capital ship in 5 days instead of 7 is a massive advantage that will get Gel-Breathers attention, you can build entire fleets in days for a few more resources, we will become the prelude, involved in the middle and epilogue to war and it will be glorious.

How do you intend to deal with preventing small corps from owning half the map because they have sixteen of their finest?

I like what you've said about having a reason for capsuleers to care and a lot of the buildings are some good ideas which ill write down. Some though are unfortunately a bit far fetched and/won't work, for example I don't think CCP would include things like a Battle-dome when they would have corp contracts, and a temporal wet dock would be very hard to balance with our making it either not worth it or to OP.

I think your right In looking at a planet as another form of POS. an EvE player could have the ability to store there stuff on the ground, doubt they would trust us with expensive ****, but a place to store a bunch of minerals seems viable.
The research facility is defiantly one that should be considered. It makes the most sense to me, all you do to research at the moment in eve would be to drop off some stuff with an agent and wait, well why can't you drop of at a planet instead?

Some good ideas, thanks for the reply.

Fair enough, though you would be surprised how important the temporal docks become, currently large battles have little to no gear-up if Legion facilities allow you to get a larger fleet to the battle they then become the first tragets, no doubt they will be hard to balance, but if you aren't giving some rather powerful bonuses to the pilots, they just won't care enough to let let go of EvE:Colony, which is currently the reason PC operates in molden heath.

Yeah we do need some tasty bonuses for pilots to stay around. What would you think to having warfare links planet side? Instead of needing an extra ship hanging about in space (doing nothing) the Mercs were given them instead. And it would provide a constant boosts to your corporation (not alliance). Depending on whether the EvE system is used for mining or PvE of just of strategic value. [imagine the battles dust side whilst something like this is going on]

I mean EvE players love what there doing NOW. So a good incentive would be to improve upon this aspect of their gameplay (whatever it is)
But honestly Im not sure if EvE player would like something as delicate as this in the hands of us Mercs, but it would defiantly give a reason to want to hold a planet/large amount of districts.

Hell yes, the thing is though if there is enough interest in Legion land, then you won't be dealing with single mercs or small p*ssy alliances, it'll all be overseen by the alliance, they will have one guy ground-side incharge of running legion operations.

Not to mention if they don't want to loose it then pilots can provide orbital support, creating more space battles everytime a district comes under attack.

That's also true, but again the idea of this is to make it harder and harder for an alliance to be able to hold more districts than they have the man power to defend. Ideally what this strives to do is give a small amount of districts to many separate corporations. This way we have lots of fighting, lots of districts changing hands but no one/two alliances owning a monopoly.

yeah we need a president offering us a 'newdeal' prohibiting monopoly... oh wait....

That's also true, but again the idea of this is to make it harder and harder for an alliance to be able to hold more districts than they have the man power to defend. Ideally what this strives to do is give a small amount of districts to many separate corporations. This way we have lots of fighting, lots of districts changing hands but no one/two alliances owning a monopoly.

You seriously think that relying on AI to hold down the fort is a good idea? LOL

Yes bu at the same time, just like in EvE there needs to be lots of land, such that holding say a planet or 2's worth of districts isn't uncommon.

You can break the monopoly cycle if there is enough interest in holding the land, it needs to be something large alliances want to be involved in, yet have enough districts that the smaller corps with land aren't considered worth the effort for them.

It needs to be like EvE your expansion is limted not by how much land there is but by the amount of resources you have at your disposal.

Do agree that this will also be a major factor in keeping the big gus of the little persons back. For something like this to work (or any idea really) we would need a lot more space to colonise.

By itself no. Keep in mind that I'm talking overwhelming numbers, depending on how you overheat (or at least vastly over powered AI) holding down the fort. And like I said the command centre CANNOT be hacked while on overheat. It will be impossible to loose anything.

This idea is there to provide an alternative to a defence of your planet while your players are asleep, which without any actual players awake defending a planet, yes AI will be needed.

Thanks for the constructive criticism.

They could just wait for the overheat to end to hack it. I'd say the command as well as 1-5 km around it is locked down, and the rest is okay.

Look, my problem is not that your system is good or not. My problem is that is it enough?