I only find one issue with clone counts:
When you hit 0 reserves remaining, don't you still have a team-ful of clones, you know, Alive and fighting?
We should be able to fight to the last man/woman!

Too many ways to exploit this with redline and other stuff, especially if the team about to clones has just one or two bars left to go on the enemy MCC.

Im not saying it isnt worth discussing but it there would have to be a lot of coding done and a lot of secondary factors that need ot be considered to make sure it cant be exploited.

It also worth noting that the clone count doesnt drop until a person bleeds out. The problem now is too many bluedots die and think oh well i died im not gonna get revived anyway and if i do ill likely die again(which only effects the persons individual death stat but not the clone count).

So as clones drop it becomes even more important to revive players to keep the clone counts from dropping.

They could just make it so the game drops into overtime when the clone count hits zero, something like:
"You now have 2 minutes."
They could redline, yeah, but it won't get them anything, just wasting their own time.

In Low-Sec or Null-Sec maybe such restrictions would be worked out between the factions. E.G. A major district is being fought over so Corp A and Corp B negotiate a Clone Reserve limit of 250 for a Skirmish where there is only one major point to fight over. Maybe this would be better suited for Low-Sec as I'd imagine Null-Sec would probably be even more riskier with no Clone Reserve Restrictions for the missions like what happened in the Tourney in the last rounds I believe...?
No Clone Reserve Restrictions would be incredibly risky because there is no negotiated "roof" for asset lost and the battle will only be one when a team withdraws or when the battle is actually lost. I digress.

The way I see it...In Restricted High-Sec battles the Clone Reserves numbers are a guaranteed safety net for the teams. Not wanting to expend to much ISK and AUR on a battle that they're probably going to lose if it comes to that point, the cap and it's cut off have good reasons.

In Low-Sec or Null-Sec maybe such restrictions would be worked out between the factions. E.G. A major district is being fought over so Corp A and Corp B negotiate a Clone Reserve limit of 250 for a Skirmish where there is only one major point to fight over. Maybe this would be better suited for Low-Sec as I'd imagine Null-Sec would probably be even more riskier with no Clone Reserve Restrictions for the missions like what happened in the Tourney in the last rounds I believe...?

No Clone Reserve Restrictions would be incredibly risky because there is no negotiated "roof" for asset lost and the battle will only be one when a team withdraws or when the battle is actually lost. I digress.

Clone Reserves seems like a safety net, in economical terms, for a faction so that they do not expend so much that they end up losing in other ways (E.G. Winning a distrctict by using 20 percent more than the funding which means that later on the same district will have an underlying weakness in assets for defense because they can only wait for more funding and assets, thus making it futile to win the district as there is no true benefit in losing it before any benefits can be actually gained.)

I've played like 5 games of Skirmish in the past 3 months

Ambush is faster, simpler, you die less, and you get right around the same reward

Ambush > Skirmish.

I only find one issue with clone counts:
When you hit 0 reserves remaining, don't you still have a team full of clones, you know, Alive and fighting?
Once that count hits 0, any who are still alive should be able to keep fighting, just without being able to respawn anymore (no clones in reserve).
That way, we can fight to the last man/woman!

I only find one issue with clone counts:
When you hit 0 reserves remaining, don't you still have a team full of clones, you know, Alive and fighting?
Once that count hits 0, any who are still alive should be able to keep fighting, just without being able to respawn anymore (no clones in reserve).
That way, we can fight to the last man/woman!

I only find one issue with clone counts:
When you hit 0 reserves remaining, don't you still have a team full of clones, you know, Alive and fighting?
Once that count hits 0, any who are still alive should be able to keep fighting, just without being able to respawn anymore (no clones in reserve).
That way, we can fight to the last man/woman!

I want to stab the 'X' number of people who liked your post with my nova knife for +1-ing your idea. This is a terrible idea for skirmish and it's useless and pointless even for ambush given that the last player will simply hide and ride out the remaining time on the clock.

I only find one issue with clone counts:
When you hit 0 reserves remaining, don't you still have a team full of clones, you know, Alive and fighting?
Once that count hits 0, any who are still alive should be able to keep fighting, just without being able to respawn anymore (no clones in reserve).
That way, we can fight to the last man/woman!

I only find one issue with clone counts:
When you hit 0 reserves remaining, don't you still have a team full of clones, you know, Alive and fighting?
Once that count hits 0, any who are still alive should be able to keep fighting, just without being able to respawn anymore (no clones in reserve).
That way, we can fight to the last man/woman!

Ok, maybe I didn't finish the idea.
How about, once the count hits 0, the timer drops to 30s. They get that amount of time to fight just in case they were winning the Skirmish match requirements while expending troops faster.
If they all die, other side wins.
If the timer runs out. other side wins.
If their victory condition (destroyed MCC, or the attacker condition) is filled within 30s and before the last soldier dies, THEY win.

I just needed to clarify futher, but I understand why it would sound silly with my first post.