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Moorian Flav
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Posted - 2014.10.09 16:26:00 -
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Quote:Issue 5: Getting new corps in PC. A lot of new corps complain that it's hard getting in PC. And for the most part, you're right. Clone packs are too expensive, and pub isk gained is laughable.
This is only the immediate problem. The main problem that has always plagued PC is there are simply too many buddy corps that squeeze everyone else out. Even seemingly rival corps will work together into squeezing newcomers out.
On top of that, PC has had multiple exploits where some corps were able to build up huge banks of ISK where they are quite honestly too rich to fail as they can always top hire ringers. I've said for quite a while that PC has been broken and should of been disabled until it had been corrected where now the only fix for the overabundance of ISK is an overall wipe but that is quite honestly not feasible at this point.
In all honesty, PC should of had it's own currency like FW has LP; instead of specialty items though like the LP store, the PC store would duplicate the ISK store with possible colored variants to note that it is PC specific items. That way if there was a horrible flaw with PC (like there had been multiple times before), devs could easily wipe if needed. CCP could even redistribute ISK for equivalent PC credits if it was due to a problem from their side like the server being down during a scheduled attack. Again, this fix is probably not feasible at this point.
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Posted - 2014.10.09 16:36:00 -
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Quote:Molden Heath shouldn't be restricted to the Dust elite. It should be easy for smaller corporations to give PC a stab. Big corps will always dominate Molden Heath but it doesn't mean that small corps should have to pay 50mil just to test the waters.
I was thinking about suggesting 1 free clone pack per corp a week to fix this problem but then you would simply see a lot of alt corps taking over districts with ringers just for a laugh. IDK. If there was a way to give non-PC corps with a member cap (like at least 20 members) that were not currently in PC a free clone pack, that may increase PC action but I am not sure how easy/difficult that would be to code for CCP.
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Moorian Flav
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Posted - 2014.10.09 16:44:00 -
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Quote:The problem is this only adds a minimal entry barrier. Now you just need 20 alts per alt corp. No big deal. Alts are free.
My thinking is you make it too hard for most players to spend the time to do. After all, you cannot counter everything. Besides, if someone wants to take the time to create an alt, get enough XP for the alt to be able to create a corp, spend the ISK to create a corp, get 19 (or more as cap could be higher) other alts into the corp, and then find the ringers needed to fight for them to use the clone pack, then sure I would be fine with them getting 1 free clone pack for that corp. 
And if they want to spend the time to do this over and over again with more alt corps, then more power to them as they obviously have a ton of time to waste. 
In the end, it is just one free clone pack a week and I think it would help more corps than would exploit it if such constraints were put in place.
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Posted - 2014.10.09 17:02:00 -
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Quote:Maybe you could get away with it if it had a weekly WP requirement to count. So the characters counted must be in active use.
I can't speak for CCP, but doing specific member stat tracking to apply for a free weekly clone pack looks to be a tad too complicated. That is why I suggested referencing corp stats; 20+ members + not currently in PC. I put the limit at 20 members because you need at least 16 to fight. Besides, if your corp has less than 20 members but can afford ringers, your corp doesn't need a free clone pack.
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Posted - 2014.10.09 17:29:00 -
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Quote:What about passive weapons/vehicles/equipment and so on instead of isk... these things couldn't be traded so alt corps would be useless, make them annoyingly random anything from militia to proto.
That's a cool idea but you could see some getting pissed from being consistently passed over such random occurrences. Also, players could end up with good stuff they are not skilled into such as what happens with salvage now. Still, it is an idea with promise that could be tweaked into something good for PC.
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I'm also known as "The ANTI-Propaganda Machine".
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