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 Shanghi can start attacks for NPCS in PC

Love this. If nobody is raiding the PC landholders, popup special contracts from the npc pirate corps.

I used to want nothing more than drones in this game.

Now?

I PRAY we never get them. Poorly animated drones with Turret AI? Lmfao

No.

I'm sure CCP has models for jet fighters since they were originally available to players back during the very-early days of closed beta or maybe alpha. Though I'm not sure how a rudimentary AI would be able to handle jet fighters if they are ever used as pirate NPC attacking PC districts.

Been spending a few days mulling over an idea for a completely different game mode: Let players run the drones.

Keep it as simple as possible: 3 drone models with a few loadouts each. It would be a completely separate account/character and while playing the drone a player would be anonymous(or maybe with a unique drone ID, not sure). Drone battles would not let you choose where to fight or who to fight.

No profit or loss just free experience.

That's the guts of it. Might be a great way to introduce players to PC-like battles.

I'm sure CCP has models for jet fighters since they were originally available to players back during the very-early days of closed beta or maybe alpha. Though I'm not sure how a rudimentary AI would be able to handle jet fighters if they are ever used as pirate NPC attacking PC districts.

Simplistic drones or drone infested vehicles (a simple reskin) might be easier (only if the AI understands terrain that is). Use the AI for turrets to pick targets (something that has shot the drone/got within a certain range) and make it relative idle until actvated then it tries to move into its optimal range/maintain its range.

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This would prepare you for PC battles as much as playing Mario Cart would.

I think the notion of adding controllable drones and things of that nature on this hardware is ridiculous.

Might as well ask for them to make your Johnson bigger.

There is no such thing as a passive benefit in PC.

If you own land, its going to be threatened. That means you're active enough to defend it, or you're not.

The mere concept of passive isk only ever applied to Nyain San because they were able to sit behind timers nobody could bother with.

Work on FW first, that would likely have a bigger playerbase than PC.

Unless PC is set up so that all corps can participate. That want to at least.

But how many corps really want to have a schedule to play Dust?

Unless PC is set up so that all corps can participate. That want to at least.

Seems about as logical as introducing American football to Europe by starting out with a pro league. Google NFL Europe to check out how that worked out.

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. 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.

Here's the problem with PC. The only reason to egt into PC... is to do PC. I gain no benefit of PC outside of doing even more PC. As mentioned earlier it becomes "I do raids in order to get better gear to go do more raids." What can PC give me that pubs do not?

Now we could have owning districts give bonuses in Dust, like extra damage, more health, better regen, cheaper item costs, etc. But then we widen the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. The reason sovereignty and wars work (well, somewhat) in Eve is because there is so much more to do in Eve than PVP. There's mining, ratting, industry, missioning, all kinds of activities that aren't about killing other players. So by owning systems in nullsec, I can provide an area to have miners get resources for my industry moguls, who then build ships and modules for me to go gain even more systems. All of the considerations of war, from the fighting to the logitics and supply lines, are player-controlled. Dust has no such variety. We can kill other players in pubs, kill other players in FW, or kill other players in PC. No other options for gameplay exist. No industry, no mining, no PVE content... Only PVP, PVP, PVP. So any bonus we give to districts either is OP, like a damage bonus for owning a district, separating the rich from the poor even more, or you give a bonus to clone packs or other PC logistics, which returns us to the "I raid to get gear to raid with" circle.

What we need, and honestly should have had from the beginning, is non-PVP gameplay in Dust. Clearing rogue drones, maybe some form of industry, or maybe helping Eve players gain salvage in special sites, as proposed in a thread that came out before Rattati came along. Sadly, these will likely never happen. But until we have something to do other than kill other players, any bonus that districts give will either be OP or not worth the effort.

On point 1, no. No one will care about the prestige of anything. We don't now, and we won't later.

on point 2, you will never stop people from holding lots of land through artificial player limitation. We will just use alts, and we will hate CCP for making us do that. But we will do it all the same. You'll be pissed off, we'll be pissed off. That's a lose-lose suggestion.