It was very simple.

Districts generated clones like now.

Clones destroyed in battle went to match payouts

Clones not burnt in battle were instead sold to genolution for ISK per clone.

This meant that passive generation of clones was massive generation of passive isk.




Basically these scenarios became a huge problem:

Corp A and Corp B would work together to lock their districts with minimal clone loss.

Corp A creates alt corp and always attacks itself ensuring minimal clone loss.

Remember that clones destroyed in battle were also paid to the winning team so there was no loss in those locks.




There was also the issue of these empty battles being used to farm 100% of the weekly SP cap in one battle by not hacking any thing and spending a couple of hours just generating logi points back and forth. This made it so those guys only needed to buy 1 day boosters and then would be gone for the other 6 and a half days.

Locking districts were not all evil. Corporations also used it for some fun stuff. Directors versus Members battles, PC training, learning how to fly ADS, general jackassery. But, yes, the money that was created was absolutely insane especially for the corporations that had more than 10 districts.

but I will reserve that for another time so that the thread does not end up totally derailed.