This would be really cool, but crazy complicated, but really cool. +1 (x3 posts)

This is well thought out. Thanks for posting it. I will say its just really hard to properly evaluate it since the high level stuff is still unknown to us. I would hope CCP FoxFour or CCP Nullarbor would put up their dev blog regarding this ASAP. Once we see what they have for us then a lot of the detail you provided can be evaluated along with what ccp has designed.

+1

What I want clarification on, is how will this affect Planetary Interaction in EVE online. My character in EVE is very involved with PI, and CCP said that they have installed PI with DUST 514 directly in mind. So I can't imagine the current PI changing too much from what it is, though I'm sure it will change some as realities of these two games interfacing begin to come to light. But as an EVE player, I want to see my PI involvement also make a difference. Possibly a new career in EVE online. A planetary base designer that is paid for his expertise, proven in battle, of designing and placing facilities.

AWESOME STUFF

What I took from the Seeding the Universe talk (link above) is that PI will be totally separate from SI for the time being. It's possible that they will integrate them more later- CCP has hinted a desire to remake PI previously.

This is not official; it is me running wild with stuff that CCP has hinted/said and imagining a system that I think would be cool.

Districts
CCP has said that districts are hexagonal, and possibly about 200km in radius. They have also said that the heightmaps for battlefields are about 5km square. We know that each district will have only one kind of Surface Infrastructure (SI)- mining, manufacturing, etc. We also know that some districts are planned to have supplemental emplacements, which IGÇÖm calling Secondary Surface Infrastructure (SSI) as opposed to Primary Surface Infrastructure (PSI). This is all from the Seeding the Universe talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmCRti9dFM

Wards
CCP has already hinted that Districts might have Wards, based on the Gribakir and Fetalis maps that used to be in rotation. This suggests that there can be multiple battlefields in a District.

Rim
These are purely my own invention, being small, outlying areas at the edge of districts.

This is a picture of what I think a District might look like under this system:
http://imgur.com/Oa1NWyc

Primary Surface Infrastructure
One Ward in each District hosts its Primary Surface Infrastructure. These include resource extraction, manufacturing, and something called a Surface Command Center (SCC) which is limited to one per planet and is tied to an Orbital Command Center (OCC). Each of these should be upgradeable with upgrading tied to some skill or other and costing lots of ISK.

• Surface Command Center GÇô Planetary Defense Hub
• Resource Extraction GÇô
-> Noble Metals (Garentium, Taplinum)
-> Base Metals (Magazinium, Ulaminium)
-> Heavy Metals (Iradium, Arunium)
-> Proteins (Vegeproteins, Carnaproteins)
-> Biofuels (Hydrocarbon Fuels, Carboniferous Fuels)
-> Aqueous Liquids (Water, Hydrogen Fuels), and so on.

• Manufacturing GÇô
-> Light Manufacturing (Weapons, Modules)
-> Medium Manufacturing (Dropsuits, Vehicle Modules)
-> Heavy Manufacturing (Vehicles, Installations)

Secondary Surface Infrastructure
These can be placed in the remaining six Wards of a district. The specific example given in the talk was an anti-ship cannon that attacked EVE ships that were near the OCC. However, there are many other types of SSI possible, from production enhancements and warehouses to spaceports and defensive bastions. Each of these should be upgradeable with upgrading tied to some skill or other and costing lots of ISK.

• Spaceport GÇô Three levels (Launchpad, Spaceport, Major Spaceport) each with improved ability to move goods and services off-world.
• Orbital Emplacement GÇô Three levels (Skywatch, Skyguard, Skyfire) each with improved levels of damage against ships in the DistrictGÇÖs skybox.
• Bastion GÇô Three levels (Redoubt, Fortress, Citadel) each creating a reinforced Defender position in a Ward that must be captured to take the district.
• Refinery GÇô Three levels (Basic, Standard, Advanced) permitting conversion of raw materials into useful minerals/inputs for manufacturing- each level improves efficiency.
• Harvester GÇô Three levels (Basic, Standard, Advanced) improving raw material yield for a Resource Extraction PSI.
Factories GÇô Three levels (Basic, Standard, Advanced) improving efficiency of a Manufacturing PSI.

Tertiary Surface Infrastructure
My own invention, these are smaller constructs that fit into the six Rim locations of a district. Each of these should be upgradeable with upgrading tied to some skill or other and costing lots of ISK.

• Warehouse GÇô Three levels (Basic, Standard, Advanced) allowing storage of more materials, finished goods, etc. in the District.
• Transit Hub GÇô Three levels (Basic, Standard, Advanced) allowing easier movement of goods from District to District across the surface.
• Bombard Emplacement GÇô Three levels (Firebolt, Firestorm, Firelord) that enable improved Precision Strikes on the planetGÇÖs surface even without a War Barge.
• ECM Emplacement GÇô Three levels (Haze, Shadow, Umbra) that limit the scale of Attacker deployments in the District.
• ECCM Emplacement GÇô Three levels (Candle, Lantern, Sunbeam) that reduce the effectiveness of enemy planetary ECM Emplacements.
• AA Emplacement GÇô Three levels (Cloudwatch, Cloudguard, Cloudfire) that prevent the deployment of Attacker MCC (1), Installations (2), Aircraft (3) in the district.
• Forward Base GÇô A special type of TSI that can only be built by Attackers who win control of a Rim space. A Forward Base replaces the DefendersGÇÖ TSI and enables the Attacker to bypass the effects of ECM and AA Emplacements in the district.

See, I like this because it contains several similar ideas to what I put forward in a thread of my own. +1 from me.

You've been quite busy Vaerana, +2! But I do have a question...

When you go on to talk about Infrastructure of Territory, and you talk about biological productions (Proteins-> Amino Acids, Biofuels, etc) do these types of Biological productions give an inherent bonus to clone supply should battle occur in the territory? Or even just in the general ward/rim? Or not at all?

So if I had Biomass Plant A in North Ward, would the whole territory have an inherent boost to clone supply, or just Northward, or not at all?

Although the Biomass plant has little to do with clones, wouldn't the resources it create supplement clone supply do to the nature of the production?

Good work though!

Hmm... That's a good question. I didn't really consider it. I still think of clones as being recycled corpses from the EVE lore ( http://community.eveonline.com/background/cloning/clon_02.asp ).

In my mind the major use of Proteins in Dust production was for building Dropsuits. If you look closely at them, most have flexible, fabric-like components. I just appropriated the PI resource and shifted it to a more Dust-y purpose.

Ok I was thinking proteins as in Amino Acid productions.

Now I have another question,

In developing a ward/territory, would you add infrastructure via a simple fitting mechanic or would you actually get to choose the location that a said factory can be built?

For instance you have an open territory and want to place build it up. You want to place an Orbital Emplacement on a mountain to better defend it, would that be possible? Or would it be generically placed?

That would be amazing. Could consoles handle that though?

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=search
I'm very very unclear WHEN any of this will happen.
There is such a mix out there of what CCP CAN do and what it MIGHT do and WHEN?