What we're changing:
GÇó The resale value of excess clones generated by districts or victory in battle will be set
to zero.
GÇó The Biomass value earned by killing a clone in battle will be increased to 200,000 isk.

1. Economic
* ISK is kind of pointless. With the news that DUST won't be getting a player market, money is of no importance. If you run isk positive by .01 ISK, you have officially beaten the economy. Anything that can be bought is sold infinitely meaning there is no supply and demand. Money is not needed in a world of no economy. If PC had existed in EVE with people making hundreds of billions of ISK the game would have been destroyed. That happened in DUST and yet it doesn't matter. ISK is pointless.

I'll post what I put in the main sticky.



There is another side benefit to raising biomass payments. ISK generation shifting to biomass makes it possible to recoup costs much more quickly for breaking into PC. A team that consistently wins their battles can clone pack and take a districts and then proceed to use that district to attack others.

In the current system say you decided to take out a Cargo Hub. It would take three crappy clone packs ,that are too few clones to really win with anyways, so expect it to take more then 3 at best to take the district. This would result in an upfront cost of 108 million ISK plus whatever costs there are associated with fighting. You would likely land on the district with 100 clones or less, so you then have to spend at least 5 days just to fill up the district. You would then have to hold the district (without attacking or being attacked) for 2 weeks in order to barely get past breaking even.

With the scenario changed to biomass being the primary income source you would need to spend 5 days defending your district from likely counter attacks because you just kicked someone's teeth in. These attacks, because of the increase biomass payment, already start to fill your coffers as you win your fights. Once you hit 5 days of regen (or sooner if you decide to be bold) you can launch an attack with minimum cost and destroy an enemies clones for a significant profit. If you send a large attack (which owning a district enables you to do) you could even wipe out another district in one go. When you wipe out that district you will likely hit ISK positive if you have been defending from other attacks and payment from clones lost in battle as well. As you see with the changes a corp has gone from an ideal scenario of recouping their investment in almost three weeks to potentially less than 1 week. Nothing changes the fact that in order to be profitable you must win your fights.

Is passive ISK being entirely removed?

Dear players,

As part of Hotfix alpha we will be making a few changes to the Planetary Conquest system.
Goals:
GÇó To replace income from passive sources with an increase in active income earned by
fighting in Planetary Conquest battles.
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All those ideas can and would be gamed by shell corps. The foundation is even already set up via all the locking corps that were created back in the days of locking for profit.

How does my system allow for shell corp exploitation, exactly? Only so many clones from x many districts are created, and peace provides maximum profit...for the owner. Therefore, not being attacked is what you want so a shell corp is useless.

Also, Corp A owns district. Shell Corp a attacks Corp A's district. One person enters from each side, they proceed to kill each other for an hour, making 200k per death. No real fight happens and yet money is made as if it did. This sounds like shell corp exploitation to me.