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CCP Nullarbor
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:16:00 -
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We recently released a developer blog which covers some details of our upcoming Planetary Conquest feature. However we expect that players may still have some unanswered questions which I am going to try to answer here.
What happens with the existing corporation battle contracts?
As has been pointed out by many of the open beta testers the current iteration on corporation battles linked with faction warfare has a few issues, namely being easy to avoid conflict and a low investment for corporations resulting in abandoned battles. The tie in with faction warfare is difficult to visualize and the impact of the battles is hard to measure.
Alongside planetary conquest comes a new starmap where we will be displaying the war zone for faction warfare and the impact DUST 514 is having. We will also be removing the pre-negotiated contracts and instead opening up faction warfare mercenary battles to all players. The battles will automatically start based on demand and then players can join whichever side they like from the battle finder or directly from the map.
Does this mean we will be able to queue sync in faction warfare?
Yes, provided there are enough spots open up you can organize to fill one side of a battle. We expect this will be home to more organized squads of players who either do not have any corp activity at the time or are not interested in planetary conquest but are after more competitive gameplay.
How is the location of faction warfare battles decided?
The locations are decided based on recent plexing in EVE Online. There will generally be multiple battles to choose from of which you can see the locations and pick which faction and which planet you wish to fight for.
Will I receive skill points for faction warfare and corporation battles?
Yes, both the faction warfare mercenary battles and the planetary conquest battles will award skillpoints at the end of the battle.
Friendly fire?
Yes, friendly fire will be enabled but only for corporation battles not faction warfare or instant battles. This means if you have a problem with someone shooting friendlies you can have them removed from the corporation.
How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
How do corporations make money from planetary conquest?
Owning districts generates clones and clones can be sold for profit. You will however require clones for battle in order to expand and defend your districts so balancing how you use them will be important. At the end of a district battle rewards are paid out to just the winning team based on the value of biomass from the clones destroyed. Salvage is also handed out to both teams and is based on the items destroyed on the opposing team, similar to a loot drop from EVE. Rewards are evenly balanced among the team members based on their time in the battle not war points.
How do corporations take districts from other corporations?
The basis of it is you move clones from one of your own districts to an enemy district then battle it out with the occupant. How many clones you take dictate how many you have available for the attack, while the defender gets access to all of the clones on their district. With a fully stocked district we expect you would need to multiple successful battles over a few days to a week in order to deplete a district of its clone reserves.
There are a few other subtle rules which should make for interesting gameplay. CCP FoxFour is currently working on a more detailed guide to cover this.
What about pre-arranged friendly corporation battles or tournaments?
With the corporation contracts being removed, players will need to use the setting of planetary conquest to organize friendly battles. We realize that this is not as flexible as it could be though and so our current development plan is to introduce an arena mode where corporations can arrange a no consequences engagement. This then leads down a very interesting path of tournaments and betting etc.
We also want to make sure that when arenas are introduced they have consequences for not showing up to fight, something the current corporation contracts suffer from.
Can I have other corporations fight my battles?
You can always pull additional players in to corporation battles using squads and if they win they will paid out of the biomass rewards. However our plan is to eventually open up a contract market place where other corporations can be hired to attack or defend districts on behalf of someone else.
How does planetary conquest tie in with EVE?
There is a gameplay link, but the details are unannounced for now. We will be posting a dev blog about that later on.
If you have any additional questions then post in this thread and we'll do our best to answer them here. |
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CCP Nullarbor
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:17:00 -
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CCP FoxFour
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:17:00 -
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And here are all the fine details: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Planetary_Conquest |
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ChromeBreaker
SVER True Blood
Unclaimed.
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:19:00 -
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first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
all the loves <3 |
Moochie Cricket
SyNergy Gaming
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:20:00 -
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2nd |
Mors Falce
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:21:00 -
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YOU LIED TO US THERE WAS NO RICK ROLL!!!! jk yey for foxfour now getting to sleep! its a good read |
Beyobi
Soldiers Of One Network
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:24:00 -
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How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18? |
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CCP FoxFour
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:25:00 -
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Beyobi wrote:How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18?
The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad. |
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Sentient Archon
Red Star.
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:25:00 -
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Do we have to be enrolled in faction warfare to drop OBS? Please remove this as a restriction. |
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CCP FoxFour
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C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:26:00 -
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Sentient Archon wrote:Do we have to be enrolled in faction warfare to drop OBS? Please remove this as a restriction.
To do orbital bombardment for factional warfare battles yes, you need to be in FW.
To do orbital bombardment for planetary conquest battles, that is corporations fighting to own districts, you need to be in the corporation or alliance. |
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ChribbaX
Otherworld Enterprises Dust Control
Otherworld Empire Productions
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:26:00 -
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Interesting! |
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Iron Wolf Saber
BetaMax.
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:27:00 -
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A good start.
A good starting foundation indeed. |
Icy Tiger
Universal Allies Inc.
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:28:00 -
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Worth it. This will be so bad ass. Now we need an ETA. |
Mr Pwnykins
Arrogance.
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:28:00 -
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Die Well. |
Rhapsodyy Darkforce
SyNergy Gaming
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:31:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Beyobi wrote:How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18? The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad.
Was just thinking this.
Any particular reason you dont just make it 18v18 so theres 3 full squads?
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Gusk Hevv
Circle of Huskarl
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:33:00 -
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When will this build drop? |
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CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:36:00 -
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Rhapsodyy Darkforce wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:Beyobi wrote:How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18? The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad. Was just thinking this. Any particular reason you dont just make it 18v18 so theres 3 full squads?
The possibility of changing squad size means any number we pick could quickly not be valid. On top of that every player that we add to the match is another player that corporations need to field and the larger we require corporations to be in order to participate in this feature. For now we though 16v16 was the right balance. |
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GoD-NoVa
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:40:00 -
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will there be a way to track organized corp battles to make it easier for everyone to see which corp has the most wins and against who? |
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CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:40:00 -
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GoD-NoVa wrote:will there be a way to track organized corp battles to make it easier for everyone to see which corp has the most wins and against who?
Not at this time, but we do hope to add statistics for this. |
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SoLJae
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:42:00 -
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CCP, thanks for the exciting news.
I just have one question: When will we get this?
I know you mentioned that it will be later this year, but can you at least estimate it down to a month, if not a specific date?
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Muchomojo
THE DOLLARS
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:43:00 -
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Will we have access these districts outside of battle? Would it be logical that the defender has some sort of advantage in terms of knowing the terrain etc? |
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CCP FoxFour
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C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:43:00 -
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SoLJae wrote:CCP, thanks for the exciting news.
I just have one question: When will we get this?
I know you mentioned that it will be later this year, but can you at least estimate it down to a month, if not a specific date?
More information on this will come later. Sorry. |
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Alcare Xavier Golden
DUST University
Ivy League
52
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:43:00 -
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This just became kitten interesting again!!!
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Kitten Commander
Ostrakon Agency
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:44:00 -
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"In an update arriving later this year, " ... at least some things never change |
Sergamon Draco
Darkstar Mercs
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:44:00 -
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GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAT,when this starts?
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Alcare Xavier Golden
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:44:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Beyobi wrote:How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18? The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad.
So...two full squads...and a sniper squad perhaps... |
Kain Spero
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
1080
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:44:00 -
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I really think that the current corp warfare system shouldn't be completely scrapped. The pre-arranged battles allow for grudge matches to take place and can act as a vehicle for competitive play. Is possible that a system can/will be reintroduced to allow for pre-arranged battles with an eye towards competitive play, but not have an effect of Faction Warfare of planetary ownership? |
Rhapsodyy Darkforce
SyNergy Gaming
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:45:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Rhapsodyy Darkforce wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:Beyobi wrote:How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.
So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18? The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad. Was just thinking this. Any particular reason you dont just make it 18v18 so theres 3 full squads? The possibility of changing squad size means any number we pick could quickly not be valid. On top of that every player that we add to the match is another player that corporations need to field and the larger we require corporations to be in order to participate in this feature. For now we though 16v16 was the right balance.
Yeah i understand you dont want to exclude smaller corps from gettign in on the action. Just personally i would like to see team size remain as a multiple of squad size. And the fact it is only 2 less than 18v18 aka 3 full squads just made me think hmmm why?
A corp that has 16 probaly has 18 in most cases. Dont get me wrong this is far better than the 8v8 corp matches, and id like to see the size increase more over time, however i know that ccp dont want to exclude the smaller entities from carving out their little corner of space like has become so hard for new groups to do in eve.
Is there any thought around the ccp tables about having differant sized corp matches? So a small planet that only has 5 districts might be 8v8 or 12v12 battles on that planet, where as the bigger planets with up to 24 districts could have
the bigger corp battles. Or something like that, so that small corps can still get some competitive play and larger corps can still get into bigger battles, and yet still give everyone the chance to claim some districts?
Maybe its a crap idea, but i was just thinking what happens to these smaller corps anyway when the player cap is increased again, as personally id certainly like to see us getting up to 32v32 ish numbers at some point. |
Luke Vetri
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:45:00 -
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Quote:Genolution only sells clones in packs of 100 to corporations that do not own districts
Will we be able to trade/transfer clones between corps. I'm thinking a corp not owning a district buying clones and passing them to one that does to bolster the numbers?
Not sure if that would be a good or bad thing yet... |
Galdor Seregon
DUST University
Ivy League
1
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Posted - 2013.03.14 17:46:00 -
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New build coming? Not sure when? *cough*FANFEST*cough**cough**runs away having a coughing fit*fanfest... Fanfes... Fanfe.... Fanf... Fan  |
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