As soon as a corporation accepts an Attack contract the matching defense contract will appear for everyone else. The filters set a minimum value for time / reward so it will show a limited number of results above that value.

Once both sides have accepted a contract, an 8 v 8 skirmish battle will start at the scheduled time and will only be available to those 2 corporations.

A Squad leader of a corp that has taken on a Corp Contract CAN bring in players belonging to different Corporation that are in his squad at the time to a Corp Battle

Example: We had a corp ZionTCD v No Name and we were able to bring a meber of Betamax in with one of our squad.

Any thoughts or comments on this?

A Squad leader of a corp that has taken on a Corp Contract CAN bring in players belonging to different Corporation that are in his squad at the time to a Corp Battle

Example: We had a corp ZionTCD v No Name and we were able to bring a meber of Betamax in with one of our squad.

Any thoughts or comments on this?

hmmmm maybe non corp members can't get squad bonus points? i don't know

i was just thinking about something like this. i dont disagree with it, but i can see how it could ruin a pure CvC. maybe CCP could have an option in the contract that states everyone has to be of the same corp. otherwise, wouldn't this be paying other corps to fight for you?

edit: if there is no fix then it could be possible to take up another corp members spot in a battle, i see how a corp could get upset that a spot went to another corporations member. easily done with the current 8v8

A Squad leader of a corp that has taken on a Corp Contract CAN bring in players belonging to different Corporation that are in his squad at the time to a Corp Battle

Example: We had a corp ZionTCD v No Name and we were able to bring a meber of Betamax in with one of our squad.

Any thoughts or comments on this?

They're mercenary contracts, not clan matches. Subcontracting is perfectly valid.

If someone else wants to join in, that should be entirely between that person and whichever corp accepted the contract. "Mercenary" is not just another word for "soldier" in EVE/DUST. It's actually just what it sounds like: someone who gets paid to fight for someone else and there is tons of precedent for this in EVE.

A lot of you still don't get it and still have this FPS clan match mentality.

They're mercenary contracts, not clan matches. Subcontracting is perfectly valid.

If someone else wants to join in, that should be entirely between that person and whichever corp accepted the contract. "Mercenary" is not just another word for "soldier" in EVE/DUST. It's actually just what it sounds like: someone who gets paid to fight for someone else and there is tons of precedent for this in EVE.

A lot of you still don't get it and still have this FPS clan match mentality.

I don't know where you're getting this from. I'm not in-game to check if they rearranged the tabs in the battle finder, but I'm pretty sure the corp battles show up under the Corporation tab, not the Mercenary one.

The problem here is that if corp battles aren't locked to corp members you won't know who you're fighting when contracts go out. Imagine the scenario where a skeleton shell corporation is set up each time to act as a front. The front squad leader(s) possibly using an alt then brings in his real corp members from Zion/Betamax/STB/"your corp name goes here" and kick the kittens out of you.

Your nice safe looking contract with a no name corp you were feeling confident about gets steamrollered!

Interesting play angle, but wouldn't most self respecting corps want to put their name out there, not hide behind shill corps?

The problem here is that if corp battles aren't locked to corp members you won't know who you're fighting when contracts go out. Imagine the scenario where a skeleton shell corporation is set up each time to act as a front. The front squad leader(s) possibly using an alt then brings in his real corp members from Zion/Betamax/STB/"your corp name goes here" and kick the kittens out of you.

Your nice safe looking contract with a no name corp you were feeling confident about gets steamrollered!

Interesting play angle, but wouldn't most self respecting corps want to put their name out there, not hide behind shill corps?

I dunno. For my money a self-respecting merc corp is there to win the contract and satisfy their customer. Its not about pride, its about business. I prefer honest business to shady business, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a corp reaching out and tapping their network(which they built based on good relations and honest dealings) to acheive their goals.

One thing is for sure, this is going to be one hella interesting ride, and for sure nothing like standard fps clan matches.

I do not like this as a possibility.

It prevents alternative ways of fighting, such as attacking when a corp doesn't have a lot of members online (such as at awkward hours when everyone's asleep), or attacking more territory than a corp can defend. As much as I think those are cheap tactics, I also consider them legitimate. I don't, however, see bringing in another corp to fight with/for you as legitimate, and think that should be prevented if at all possible.

If they want to allow this in an alternative style of contract, I'd be fine, but the idea of "corp battle" to me means between the 2 corps and nobody else.