Passive ISK should not be returned to PC while there's no viable way to prevent rampant exploitation that will in turn be used to harm other game modes. The end to district locking didn't prevent a complete lock-up of any sort of competition in the mode so everyone could just sit back and rake in ISK. Nothing has been done that will prevent another Dirt Nap Squad-esque situation where 98% of the districts are just free farming slots.

It didn't have to be completely removed, 2 million ISK per day would've been fair.

Passive ISK affects other game modes so it should never return. The idea is to promote good fights and simply having hundreds of districts to fight over for no reason is a problem. The districts should merely be the set up for tournament style competition. Every district should be ranked, 1 to whatever, and no corp team should be able to hold more than one district, then we all play to see how high we can get. You can challenge only three spots above your current rank. It is all about pride and bragging rights so it should be about proving how good you are.

This isn't a bad idea in itself, a ranked league scenario. But it's not even close to related to Planetary Conquest, which is meant to be a territorial fight. Your suggestion sounds like an entirely separate type of mechanic.

What's the point of getting territory if the only thing you can do with it is get clones to get more territory?

I was thinking about this earlier, and had a couple ideas. They are mutually exclusive, and having absolutely zero PC experience may be completely ridiculous, so you let me know.

They are not completely fleshed out, so maybe they are just idea starters and could help someone with more experience spark a better one, or give them some additions and changes that make them more viable.

Scenario 1: Tiered districts. As it stands, it costs one price to attack any district, and you get one set of rewards. What if there were multiple tiers?

For example, you could have certain districts that would cost 5 mil to attack, others 10, 20, and 40. Each will have rewards that are proportional.

This would enable smaller corps to participate without onerous costs, and could provide enough benefits for them to move up in tiers.


Scenario 2: The costs of attacking a district were reduced the longer a corp held one (this also assumes passive isk). I see this as a way to prevent some of the blue donut that happened previously.

By enabling more corps, who may not be in an alliance, to attack long held districts, they would hypothetically have incentive to attack a corps districts, and perhaps put enough of a corps districts at risk that a corp with a lot of districts couldn't simply hold on to all of them for a long time. Also, this could incentivize a corp in an alliance to break that alliance with the cost/benefit analysis being sweetened over time. Perhaps there are mechanics I am not aware of that would negate this, but that was my thinking.

As far as other Ideas CCP can include a 100% salvage rate (the more salvage you get the more likely its something you can actually use)

Adding the ability for officer weapons to be salvaged and not just from the enemy team but to get pub like drops of 3 officer weapons and preferably that drop rate increased

Adding ISK to the corp wallet for every victory. A huge problem right now is without passive ISK corps have trouble recovering getting into PC because you have to win at least two battles to flip a district costing the corp 100 million ISK (if you don't lose the re-up and have to start over) and their is no way to recuperate ISK without either donations, tax, or friendly locking. Tax is tricky because why should people who don't participate in PC have to pay for PC, and select groups in the individual PC having to pay 6,250,000 each on top of suit costs will make everyone go ISK negative and having your first few attempts in PC cost you millions even if you succeed in getting a district is discouraging. Another thing is that contrary to popular belief even when you own a district attacks are not free it costs 10,000 a clone so about 1.5-4.5 mil per transfer so if you flipped 4 Cargo hubs in a week you would lose 18 million. The ISK received would help get rid of or at least loosen these costs.

Decrease clone pack cost to 45million the formula for clones to ISK for a clone pack has always been 300,000 = 1 clone it was that way when 100 clone Clone Packs costed 30m and when 120 clone Clone Packs costed 36m so why the 5 mil increase.
great ideas

My last idea is CCP should provide incentives that change such as hosting PC events such as: Every member of the corp owning the most districts on oddelulf will receive 3 copies of ever officer side arm. Their can be prizes of officer weapons or ISK or Boosters or really anything attached to certain Districts/Planets/systems for certain periods of time.

They're good ideas but I don't think they would be possible because the cost of a clone is constant. If you implement your idea you would have to completely rework the way clones are bought and sold. Scenario 2 would also be far too easy to abuse.

Could you vary the tiers by number of clones needed to attack?

Would it even make a difference if they were able to implement a tiered system, or would it just end up changing things and getting the same, or a worse, outcome?

How does the passive ISK work? Would that be a constant as well, or could they vary that, like creating a significant drop off for any district that was held for a long period of time without having been defended?

This way if they wanted to make more isk, they would be inclined to attack and less inclined towards peace treaties.

I see ideas in here about tiering off districts. I think there's a lot of value in such a concept. But how do you make holding the smaller/less valuable districts unappealing to the blue donut?

There is basically no incentive to own more than a handful of districts anymore. District locking is now impossible so I fail to see why it should not be returned. It would breathe some life back into pc and encourage more corporations to take part.