There is an exploit that needs to be stamped out. If everyone wants to just hold hands and sing kumbaya, I still don't think I have an answer for that

Sansha,Jove, NPCs like Pirates should start battles using Pub Base as needed. To keep things moving.
Npcs should be able to take districts also.Maybe someone in CCP Shanghai can start attacks for NPCS in PC

Pirates attack all the time in Eve,Pirates attack we players fight for them.Remember there are Pirate Clone Transports in Eve that are for Recruiting Dust Mercs.

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At first I thought this an odd question however I quickly realised that my knowledge of the mercenaries is somewhat limited but I now know that they are not transported and merely jump from clone to clone. As this makes transport unnecessary I brings at least one vessel, the Clone Soldier Transporter into question, what does this vessel transport if not the clone soldiers.

So far I have some very loose theories but I thought I would open this up for contribution.


Clone Soldier Trainer - Possibly a ship where people aspiring to become clone mercenaries are taken to train.

Clone Soldier Recruiter-As the name suggest's a vessel that carries a crew who try to recruit people into becoming clone mercenaries.

Clone Soldier Transporter-Maybe a ship that carries new recruits.

Clone Soldier Negotiator-These I believe are the one's who negotiate the contracts made available to the clone mercenaries at large.

He really is. He's having a conversation with himself.

Crazy bastard, stop. In the name of all that is decent, quit being weird.

Kumbaya makes drones very angry
I mean, that requires drones which we don't have right now but hey, drones hate peace and tend to have suddenly violent AI so it makes some kind of sense right?

OK.

My general disregard for all things PC related is reasonably well documented. D-UNI tried it and by the time I decided to pull us out of it, the egos, histrionics, drama, epeen and exploits damn well near broke me personally and made me dread logging on lest I got dragged into yet another bitchfest of which my caring about was precisely zero. I very nearly quit the game entirely because of it.

PC is played by a minority of the player base, a passionate and vocal minority but minority nevertheless.

Any examination of the mechanics of PC is I feel not going fully service its potential, without addressing the question as to why its not as popular as it should be is kind of silly. Yes potential, I might not be its biggest fan but I know it could be something special if its failings a force multiplier for player participation are addressed and dealt with.

Rattati asked in the OP, 'Please, pass the message forward, and especially if you or your corporation was active in PC, and quit for whatever reason.' (my underlining).

It's vitally important that we use the opportunity that we have now, to find those reasons to quit and see what can be done about them now rather than later.

Was it logistical, time consuming, a failure in UI or explanation? Time pressures, technical problems or just plain odd boring?

Let CCP know.

With alot of the top corp players having 100's of millions and even billions of isk per player i dont see alot of room for improvement. Just like the matchmaking it was let go for to long, this should have been fixed before these players were able to exploit a broken system. At this point in pc bigger corps are giving districts to little corps to then attack and farm them. So unless your gonna take a portion of that isk away any changea will still result in these top corps dominating all others.

How about Gear level restricted systems and planets.
0.6-0.8 SYSTEM Milita gear System Standard
0.5 System Advanced
0.4 System Advanced
0.3 System Advanced
0.2 and 0.1 Proto
0.0 Above proto

0.6-0.8 Conservation Districts or the Slums where poor Corps can have a more of a chance to hold districts,Gear restricted Systems.

Lock out on a character basis
In Eve you can't fight for the enemy miltia .
Corp and Characters that have to choose what Sec Status they fight in and they will be locked into that Sec.They can ring in their Sec but not ring in the other sec status.
Planet Bob is Sec 0.7
Planet Frame is Sec 0.2
Elite Players to play in PC Attacking to Take District or defending District must Register to that Sec number and will be locked out of the other Sec Systems .

This. Oh god I am so tired of people being unable to count to 16 without me holding their hands.

I agree about the cat herding, but since the current team building is accomplished via the chat interface, wouldn't it be logical to assume that these changes would be persistent across all client 'states' we experience (Merc Qtrs, Warbarge, In-Match, and EOM)?


More broadly, are we conceding that even in PC, OMS will not be allowed to be placed directly by the Defender? As it is, the majority of OMS locations are hardly optimal for defense of Skirmish Maps. It seems obvious to me that since turrets operate in parallel with vehicle modules that they'd be a simple and straightforward resource sink for District upgrades and customization without insurmountable odds for the Attacker.

Defenders could be rewarded (directly and indirectly) for economic and strategic use of their infrastructure. Non Pilots could even be encouraged to skill into Turret Skills...

Ooh, and It would make (Local) Geography matter, and In New Eden, Geography always matters.

One question, and this is a crazy one.

If we were to setup a system that allows a SKIN to take into account the Corporation Name. Would corporations be interested in having CCP customize, based on request, a corp skin that would be available in the marketplace, but say "This SKIN only appilies if you are in D-Uni", for example?

I don't have the tech yet, but this seems fairly awesome, so I would love to get your feedback. A bit of a off-topic, but I already have 30 plus top corp emails joining the cause, so I'm happy.

Better yet, have a generic skin that will auto-change to whatever the colors of their current corp has. If they move to a different corp, the colors of the skin will change to match the new corp.

You could have a new form of griefing, SKINWOXING, where a spy will change the corp colors to bubblegum pink right before a corp battle so the entire team deploys looking simply fabulous.

We would love this make it so Number One