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?

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.

In Eve the zerg can balance the wealthy older entities(or used to be able to), because of our lobby shooter structure we can't make that happen in a single match, we have to find a way to introduce a zerg mechanic, but as naturally and immersively as possible.

A successful implementation of PC will be a game of check and balances on several fronts. That means for each factor in PC we have to set up competing mechanics. The community has already touched on all of this, i'm just trying to corral ideas into game rules in this post.

It would be good at this point to know what the devteams's warbarge is going to do: in his origainal post, quoted by Maken above, Rattati implies that the warbarge mechanics will address alts and district locking through 'loyalty rank' and 'command point' mechanics. I have no idea what this actually means. It's prolly time to spill some of the beans, Rattati.

Most of this is going to orbit around the idea of a Strategic Resource(SR). For now this will be isolated to Dust but if we do the job right what we set up now will be ready for near-seamless integration with EVE. What is the SR? No frakkin' clue atm, but it doesn't matter for the ruleset, just keep it EVE-relevant.

Strategic Resource balance mechanic
Make the SR over-subscribed. Make spending SR useful/necessary for district maintenance, defensive bonuses, offensive bonuses, clone transport bonuses and make it a tradeable commodity between corps/players.

Empire size balance mechanic
Positive feedback mechanic: SR 'extraction' scales with # districts held.
Negative feedback mechanic: Raid generation rate scales with # districts held.

Alt Corp Balance Mechanic
Positive feedback mechanic: Give logistical & defensive bonuses/tools to single-corp holdings.
Negative feedback mechanic: SR production will be lower for a set of districts split up over alt corps.
Warbarge mechanic: Dunno but Rat says he's got this taken care of already.

Elite Player Corp lobby match power
Positive feedback mechanic: Income generation through destroyed-equipment salvage.
Negative feedback mechanic: Raid windows based on # districts held + SR oversubscription.

That's some of the main systems, just to illustrate the balancing mechanics. Whatever systems the devteam do come up with they should all be fully parametrized and server-side configurable.

Phase 2/3 - Warbarge Flotilla (Corporation Warbarge)
Mobile Factory - generates Warbarge Components // OR // The Flotilla depends solely on donations of Components from Members
Mission Network - Corporate MIssions are available to all Corp Members, with higher rewards // AND // possibly some earned Activity Points that are needed for Flotilla Actions
Clone Vats - generates Clone Packs // MCCs if we change the name of Clone Packs to MCC's // may need Components to claim
[img]Hangar[/img] - upgrade MCCs or more owned

Phase 4 - Warbarge Flotilla (Corporation Warbarge)
Space Elevator - claims unique resource from Districts owned
and more

PC became a minority... It is a learned behavior from a game feature that has stayed the same since implementation.


Nearly every corporation participated in PC for months when it launched.. There are some who didn't like the scheduled time line approach to it.. As even Pyrex uses this as an excuse to why they stopped PC'ing..

But in majority most people stopped PC'ing because the lag made it nearly unplayable for 8-9 months of DUST's mid product cycle.


That mixed with the DIsconnects.


Now we have largely lost our veteran populations and are stuck with maybe 400 players max that are true active vets...

And a majority of DUST's players are users that have picked up the game within the last 3-6 months.. PC for most of 2014 was near pointless.


D-Uni was alot of bullshit... The Drama that one corporation created in PC was insane... Nearly every power corporation who ended up running the show ended up making concessions to D-Uni on allowing them free districts to which they completely tried to manipulate situations so that leadership was making a profit off of PC that was given to them because of their name.


Despite what is said about pulling D-Uni out of PC... Pretty much D-Uni held districts for a majority of PC's existence.. Largely given to them by the alliances of power those days.





If your argument about relevancy to PC is based on D-Uni students not being able to form 15 people under a leader and be competitive with people at the end game of DUST? well that is just funny..

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.