I honestly thought that passive needed a down play, not a complete eradication.

You generate more clones for free and with that you can launch more attacks on hostile districts. The change is there to encourage fighting. On the plus side even if one alliance has all districts they have to fight each other to generate ISK. This could either mean that large groups dont take over all of the districts or they fight each other for fun in starter fits/BPO's.

I'm a little confused as to what exactly Goons do in Dust. Could you clarify?

No, I'm actually curious!

If I wanted to troll, I'd say I've ~always~ been in AE. because, you know, I joined them in November last year.

I've been there all along.

Yeah but with those free generated clones you can launch attacks for free. And dont forget that the income from the PC matches is aswell increased. So beeing lazy wont pay off. You have to continuesly search for a district that you can launch a attack on. I could even see a long run agreement where district flipping is prohibited on the community. Lets say your corp holds 5 districts and launches a attack. That attack is not there to flip the district but instead to have a decent fight and good payouts. Ofcourse both sides will still fight hard simply cause the looser gets no ISK payout at all.

Another thing is the new system will prevent another blue donout cause its not attractive to hold all of the land. When nobody except 1 alliance has all districts then there is nobody to fight against. So showing mercy on some scrub corp could bring more profit then flipping the district. Cause it is better to get their clone count low and then wait 2-3 days to re attack again to farm them.

you see now even the biggest scrubs in the game have a purpose in PC. And that is to get farmed every day while we keep them the illusion that they defended their home successfull.

Calling a system where ISK only comes from killing other clones carebear ...

What was stopping your from attacking one of the 244 Online districts? What was stoping every single player in every single corporation in the game who was not in DNS from forming a huge alliance, working together and forming a 16man super team to smack all other teams asses. Let me answer that for you. Lazyness. None of you wanted to put the effort forward to form that team. It would have taken you lots of time and effort. Pride stopped you, lazyness stopped you. None of our teams in DNS could have stopped you. You out numbered us 10 to 1.

Owning districts took time and planning. Strategy and strength. Removing the reward from the game, removes the competiveness out of the game. Congrats. Own your 1-3 districts..sit on them. Make NOTHING. No show battles you know your going to lose, and the attacker gets NO isk. They get land...yay.

We've been living in Farmville 514 for over a year.

As the system stands right now if a defender no shows then you would still get payment for destroying 150 clones. Feedback from players seems to have stalled out the idea of only the killed clones counting but this may still end up being the case of an attacker no showing a battle yielding no ISK for the defender.