Phase Two
We want to allow Corporations to be measured on their collective Warbarge Fleets. The Corporation will then be able to invest in power structure/umbrella that either increases the power of each individual Warbarge module or grants brand new bonuses to the Corporation, tentatively called Warbarge Command. Modules will only work while the Corporations have a strong enough membership of real players (no alts), as measured by Loyalty Ranks or be gated in construction by membership, making it necessary to go out and recruit and train new players to get to the upper echelon of power. This may be done through the introduction of Corporation Rank as the defining metric for Corporation eligibility and power.

The lynchpin to this step is the introduction of the Warbarge Clone Vats Module (name TBD) where Clonepacks can be built with regular intervals, allowing Corporations without Districts to launch relatively risk free attacks on Districts. These attacks should be initiated from a list of Districts, displaying Timers, Clones, Corporation and other useful statistics and not from the Starmap itself. Finally, we are working on a different reward method for Planetary Conquest, primarily based on the simple premis of GÇ£you get what you destroyedGÇ¥. Combined with a minimum Corporation Rank to initiate attacks, we may see the end of district-locking and exploits in 2015. We may also reduce the available Timers and/or set Districts to fixed Timers that canGÇÖt be changed.

Phase Three
All of it.

So community members are furiously masturbating collaborating on fundamental PC design. Here's an idea that I came up with that seems to have gone over well.

• Districts no longer hold clones, they hold MCC's. Control of a district is lost when the defender has no more MCC's remaining
• Defenders lose an MCC if they lose a battle on the district
• Attackers require an MCC and a "Clone block" (basically a single unit of an additional resource) to attack
• Attacks happen through a system other than direct clone movement; this is a full rework of part of the logistics subsystem that needs to be discussed
• Clone destruction is no longer the primary payoff determiner; this involves a full rework of the rewards subsystem that needs to be fleshed out and discussed
• In-game clone count for both teams is set at a reasonably high default. 150-180+ has been on the table for discussion.

The quick list of reasons:

• Simplification of attacking, defending, and attrition - The granularity of clone movements is an over complication that doesn't add much tactical value. Attrition rates are crazy hard-to-intuit calculations, and again don't add much tactical value. The new system is much simpler: You can attack a district, or you can't. You have defenses left on a district, or you don't.
• Removal of "unwinnable" games - Gameplay value is detracted when one team or another has to play a match with a critically low number of clones under the current system
• Separation of battle win-conditions and sovereignty/logistics in general. The intertwining of these systems makes balance a lot harder.

This theme of degranularization of PC resources is extensible, and should be applied throughout the redesign wherever possible. Complication for the sake of complication isn't necessarily more "tactical" or "strategic", and comes with its own share of pitfalls.