expanding on that idea you could make something like this

You could give the black ops and stealth ship's some kind of troop module that lets them carry troops as a raiding force. You could turn the armoury into an objective driven match with the defending corp having to defend supply points(where the gear is stored) and the attackers trying to take them over. Once the attackers have captured the supply points they have to hold them for as long as possible, the longer they hold them, the higher the percent of gear they can steal. say to a maximum of 15% of whatever is held in the armoury. Of course this this being a raid the defenders would be given short notice of the match (say 5 minutes) while the attacking corp gets a longer period.

To offset this disadvantage to the defenders the attackers get limited access to HAV's and other vehicles due to the lack of transport room eve side, while the defenders get normal access to all vehicles. . If the defender's don't show you would give the attacker's a default 10% of the armoury.

it just and idea what do you think?

Can you imagine the amount of installations and mercs guarding one controlled by a mega-corp?

If this made it to eve pvp some tech 2 BPOs might actually change hands

If we go the steal it all route, i want to be able to dump stront into my warehouse to put it into a full lockdown, so owners have time to organize a defenses. This way you dont lose all kinds of stuff becaus of a night raid. This way too, they attackers firs assault, deal with any defenders, "breach" the warehouse, and it goes into stront lockdown. From there, the warehouse owners now must assault and clear out the would be crooks before the warehouse reopens. Could be interesting

because of you mention a night raid, this mode would also take time dedication and much longer than a normal match. 1-2 hours, at least. the main requirement is cross platform organization/coordination in order to execute this theft, not just some pick up squad or lone wolf from local. which would also set off an alarm somehow in EVE space that the merc armory is under attack, perhaps presenting EVE pilots a new mode where they are less restricted to launch an orbital..? So in effect, the hack on the storage point could set off 2 alarms, one dust side and one eve side, so the thieves better have protection in space since the restriction on orbitals is lifted and pilots perhaps could nuke planet at will.

I might have gone a little overboard here, but the main line is: corp theft is srs bsns and should be tragically difficult to execute yet possible with enough coordination and support, which all replies have point point to.

If we go the steal it all route, i want to be able to dump stront into my warehouse to put it into a full lockdown, so owners have time to organize a defenses. This way you dont lose all kinds of stuff becaus of a night raid. This way too, they attackers firs assault, deal with any defenders, "breach" the warehouse, and it goes into stront lockdown. From there, the warehouse owners now must assault and clear out the would be crooks before the warehouse reopens. Could be interesting

but to prevent the attackers fom getting screwed over you would have to be able to give them some way out, say a grab it and run where they lose some of the kit they've captured but can still get the rest out. that leaves the attackers with a "grab and handful and improve our chances of getting it out" method or a "go for broke, lets grab everything and risk the major confrontation" one.

Fully agree with that. It should alert pilots a merc drop is in progress, and eve side the mercs dripships need to be defended while the raid akes place, promoting coordination on both fronts. And, allowing evepilot merc corps a chance to participate. As both defense and offense. As well, if this is the case, if a warehouse goes into full blown lockdown, it cannot be accesed by the owners during that time. So there is a real threat to losing things rather than just "oh, its in lockdown? We have 8 hours left to jump everything out dont worry."

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I see a system like that being abused though. Why risk a snatch all one day, when you can take 10% of a corps assets during thier off hours whenever you want? Sure, they can hire mercs, but its not realistic to expect every corp to have full time 23/7 defense they can rely on.

but you're going to need to give the eve side guys some valuable incentive to do this beyond giving the dust guys a firefight and stealing (by eve standards) a relatively cheap amount of kit. if you made it so you had blueprints or resources needed to develop planetary districts(which will affect both eve and dusk it might provide some incentive for the eve players to involved

Question: Are these things physical assets, or just digital instruction sets with DRM to limit the number if copies made?

From what I understand the majority is the latter with a smattering of the former for salvage and the suit you last had on (though a SD seems to have the capability of reversing the process),

If that's the case you could carry your entire "inventory" in your pocket.

What if the future corp armories were planet side and susceptible to a smash and grab that initiates a defend/attack contract on a new type of facility like a warehouse division? There could be different warehouses like a hangar for dropships and a warehouse for weapons. If the attackers win they get to loot the armories. Don't keep your eggs all in one basket; we should be able to build more than one corp armory to prevent a %100 loss.

The facility should be very easy to defend and very difficult to attack. If someday we actually have to physically travel, or someone has to physical travel to represent our clone bank and give us the ability to spawn on that planet; but let's say they remove this instant clone jumping we do, and someone has to physically travel to these armories else they would just be spammed with jump cloning mercs.

The point being if physical travel became integrated to include dust mercs, someone has to run a blockade that could be in place to protect the planet that contains the corp armory. This would allow corps to place their armories in protected space, so if someone wants to smash and grab a high profile armory, an EVE ship would have to orbit said target planet allowing us to initiate an attack/defend contract on that planets armory only if the attackers represented "troop transport" ship makes it to that planet's orbit.

These facilities would perhaps be guarded corp secrets for spies to uncover but an EVE player could scan a planet and also discover the facility on his own.

i felt bad here you go
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/dust-514-orbital-strike/

I see a system like that being abused though. Why risk a snatch all one day, when you can take 10% of a corps assets during thier off hours whenever you want? Sure, they can hire mercs, but its not realistic to expect every corp to have full time 23/7 defense they can rely on.

Maybe this is where drones and PvE come in to play. Corps could buy drones and AI to defend 23/7

Yep, or better yet you essentially have one of the most difficult PvE matches of your life, limited clone reserves( 4, 6...some number provided each time an Eve player successfully fires a pod into enemy ship's hull), and to top it all off a certain window of time before Enemy Dust marines are contracted and activated aboard the ship...talk about the ultimate challenge and greatest feeling of success I can imagine :)

I could see that working for a Black Ops type drop. Perhaps a new T2 Battlecruiser, the Black Ops dropship.

Only holds 6-10 clones, and once they are gone, you have to go and resupply more. But, it doesnt trigger an alarm until 10-15 minutes after the first clone drops in. Or a merc triggers an alarm on the ground by doing something dumb :D