If you're small and good, winning every battle, I've shown the numbers in a particularly bad situation where you're suffering 100 clone deaths per battle, and you're still only suffering a net loss of 25 clones - less if the attackers brought more than 150 clones per attack and you win by MCC destruction, or if you have the Production Facility SI.

It would require a minimum of 4 districts to sustain attacks like for any length of time, and it would require more than a week of constant attacking to grind the target district down in this manner.

7 days x 3 million ISK = 21 million if you hold the required number of districts and can go for a week without ANY of your districts being attacked at the wrong moment, and assuming any attacks that do happen are repelled with minimal losses on your part.

7 days x 40 million ISK = 280 million ISK if you hold no districts and are really, REALLY serious about wanting that particular district and money is no object.

Either way, the defenders spend a grand total of 0 ISK making you fight for it for over a week. Who's really getting the better deal here?

I wouldn't ever take or offer a payout when one of the big corps is involved - because you can't guarantee either will happen, you're trusting that either the money will be paid when you hand over the district, or that the district will be handed over when you pay the money. There aren't any corps I'd trust that would hold me to ransom and then give me a good deal.

TECHNICALLY, it "backdates" the attack order to a moment before the RT.

11:59:59
Attack option created for the target district of the attack that's about to happen. THIS is when an attack using the option is actually created, not the time that the option is claimed.

12:00:00
Attack begins.

12:00:01 - 12:59:59
At any point during this window, the attacker can claim their option to attack, and it activates as of the option's creation - thus allowing the attack to effectively have already been initiated before being confirmed.

Another thing I'm curious about is whether or not this attack can be initiated before the battle ends. We already know it's possible - if unlikely - to draw a battle out for more than an hour. If it looks like that hour is about to run out, can you initiate the attack for the following day in spite of the battle still continuing?

And more importantly, if you can, and you do, and after setting the follow-up attack, what happens if you win the battle and claim the district? does the attack turn into a normal clone move? Is it cancelled? Do you get to launch an attack on your own territory?

I think of attacking an occupied district more as setting down a flag and saying "okay we're going to hit these guys, so you can't". It sounds a little strange, but it makes a lot more sense then "okay we've moved these 150 clones to this district and we're going to wait 24-47 hours for the defenders to get ready before we attack".

Also, it makes more sense that moving them to one of your own districts or to an unoccupied district wouldn't take any time because there's no one to stop you from just walking in. With an enemy district, there is.

I think of attacking an occupied district more as setting down a flag and saying "okay we're going to hit these guys, so you can't". It sounds a little strange, but it makes a lot more sense then "okay we've moved these 150 clones to this district and we're going to wait 24-47 hours for the defenders to get ready before we attack".

Also, it makes more sense that moving them to one of your own districts or to an unoccupied district wouldn't take any time because there's no one to stop you from just walking in. With an enemy district, there is.

Good thinking. Though the insta travel of attacking clones also has a downside that advantages the attacker. It allows him to replenish clones even before the attack.

Say RT at 6:00 for the attacking district. Fully stocked with clones (300 default district)
Attack is set at 5:30 => 150 clone insta move out => 150 clones remaining.

At 6:00
=> Generates clones => 225 clones remaining. 250 with a PF.

I dont see any attacker pass on this refill of clones just to shorten the warning given to its opponent tbh. Also, that's a huge incentive to attack if you have a good amount of money and dont care much about selling excess clones. With that and the fact that the defensive district has no option to send in reinforcement as soon as it's under attack + the no-generating clones when losing MCC and you have many downside in defending.

Also, i saw my last remark was unnoticed so displaying it again:
When a district is "under attack", you cannot move clones to it. OK.
When the fight actually happens, attacker gets "dibs hour". OK
When can the attacker decide to use that dibs hour to attack again the next day ? After battle ? Before ? both ? Garret raised that question before and it deserves an answer.

Point is to determine if the defensive corp can get a time during which its district goes back to "online" between the beginning of the RT and the battle and before the decision of the attacker to keep on attacking is made. Having the status of its district to go back to "online" would thus mean being able to move clones in or out.

Example:

District A attacks District B RT is 12-13
=> District B is locked. No movement of clones allowed.

Next day, RT starts at 12h00.
=> What is the status of District B ? Online again ? Still locked until battle happens and is over ?
=> If it goes back to online, nothing stops the defender to move clones in or out.
=> If it stays locked for the entire RT (which would make sense) then nothing changes compared to our previous simulation.
=> Other option would be to have district B go back to "online" status and give the option to the attacker to send a second attack notice even before the first fight happens. That could create a very tensed time during which both defender and attacker would have to anticipate their next move. Do i back up that district and risk that this attack is just a decoy for me to drop guard on another one ? Should i block that district reinforcement by re-attacking it without knowing if that first fight will be successfull ?

What do you guys think is best ? Should a defender be able to reinforce its district with clones from another district between two attacks from the same assailant ?

I like the idea of being able to reinforce your district if you win a defense. Effectively an attacker gets to reinforce whether they win or lose - maybe there should be some sort of mechanic that prevents a losing attacker from reinforcing?

Let's imagine a corp with 3 districts. If only one district is under attack they will never be at risk of losing the district no matter the quality of their attackers since they can easily reinforce with 150 clones per day. This principle expands out to corps with larger numbers of districts. A corp will only suffer a net loss of clones if more than 1 third of it's districts are under attack.

At this stage, it's not possible to accurately predict how many districts will be attacked each day and so calls for REQUIRED reinforcements are premature. I'd like to see the current system in action before we start theory crafting that reinforcements are REQUIRED to be allowed.

I would like the defenders to start with all installations and NULL cannons blue. This would make sense lorewise and give a much needed advantage to defense.

After this kind of boost, if attackers win they deserve the spoils and if defenders lose they deserve the clone loss and lockdown.

The point here is to detect if there is a loop hole allowing for reinforcements being sent as i dont think it would be intended in any way. If status is "online" at any point, then you can send in reinforcement. Guess i could add something like that though.

About the status of the targeted district on battle day, what state is it in when:

-RT begins and before the battle starts
-During the battle
-During "Dibs Hour" and until attacker decides its next move

If the district is online at any of those moment, then nothing can stop defenders from sending clones to it from another district ?