I assume that this is a default infrastructure that does not give bonuses?

Is there a max amount of clones an attacker can move? And does the amount of clones moved affect the cost of transportation or is it just distance?

Correct.

This is alot like the rules of Diplomacy. Which kind of begs the question of reinforcements...How will allies factor in to all this?

I know others have shot down the dummy corp idea for holding a district indefinitely given the isk cost but once EVE isk can come into play that can easily be overcome at current isk rates.

So again there needs to be some safeguard beyond ISK to prevent dummycorp to attack valuable districts, if done properly keep the dummy corps to hold no districts, buy 100 clones attack most lucrative districts and keep them perputally engaged in combat 20million isk is nothing to make that happen.

What of Eve's current planetary installation system?

And also besides that, at the end of the blog it says corps will have to form armies and navies so does that mean that we are going to get boats or will we just be swimming around in a big ocean?

We are currently thinking PI bonuses, POS fuel reduction, POS manufacturing bonus, and more but only for corporation and alliance members on the planet or the moons of that planet. Would love to hear more suggestions though.

If anyone still reading is not an Eve player...

One thing that DUST players may not know about eve is that the linkage between planets and space goes through POCOs. So even if a DUST corp manages to control a few systems worth of districts, someone will also have to protect these fairly weak (has no guns) structures.

What does this mean?

Well, POCOs are basically shipping stations that set tax rates on goods shipped from the surface of a planet, and if they aren't on the planet, producers on the surface can only export in very small and expensive amounts that are fairly easy to steal. So say you have 4-5 different groups battling on a planet, and 3-4 big investors harvesting off of that planet. The Customs Office has just one owner. He is setting the tax rates of anything coming off that planet. Too high, and people won't make money, if its too low, he could be missing out on profits, but will likely draw many more producers.

The more productive a planet gets from Eve PI, the more attractive it gets to attack the POCO and its users. And it becomes THE place that the industrialists will be going to to pick up their goods. So what we will be looking at likely, is escorts for industrial ships picking up PI materials at these POCOs, since pilots will know where they will be and that their cargo could be very valuable (100s of millions in isk in fairly weak ships).

So as stacked advantages on the EVE side of Planetary Infrastructure happens, unless they have some sort of defensive impact on POCOs, you will need a group of pilots to match the strength and ability of your ground force if you want to fully reap the benefits of your ground dominance.

So to me this means it may be just as advantageous to spread yourself out a bit if you have the ability so that you can be diversified in terms of POCO owners and not beholden to the politics of a single planetary tax.

So I haven't seen much talk in Eve about this, but I'm guessing that once this really starts to trickle in, and the Region is announced all temperate POCOs in those systems will be targets.

You cant transfer clones between corps so each would be even until one produces more. 1 corp with 1 district (no upgrades) can attack once every 3 days (40Cl a day, 100Cl needed). 1 corp with 3 districts can attack everyday with spare.

Its economically and tactically better to have more districts as you can attack, and enforce your own districts, more effectively.
But you need to have more districts which is how this convo started

Okay cool, I can see the other people's points though, that the stacking properties on the eve side would be better if districts were united under 1 corp.

But i've been thinking about a valid strategy with sister groups where you have a shell group take a planet, fill up their clones, and then sell them all right before parent attacks them. Not sure how mechanics affect this...does it become locked after you sell?

Could you make a single page version of this thread with only the Dev posts?
Or, could you compile a Q&A thread that has all the questions asked and answers given?

The Devs tend to quote the question they are currently answering and having a single page with all the Dev posts would make it much easier to search for an answer that might have been on page 5 or 17 or 22.

Thanks.

Can't you just go through the Dev-posts forum tab...?

Not the prettiest, but you can subscribe to it. It's a search query so it will give you all dev responses. Someone could spend a couple hours summarizing everything that has been said, but there is still a lot between the lines that we will need to reason out.

My point there was that if the attackers control the battle so well they can keep the defenders away from the NULL Cannons and not have to cap any themselves, they could drag out the battle WAY past an hour...

It is only an advantage on day one where you can buy lots of starter packs and try and take a bunch of unowned districts. Once things get past that initial flash point it will be far better to be in one corporation and having the ability to transfer clones between districts.