I imagine the mother corp would come in and dominate those that took advantage of the smaller corp so the smaller corp may loose here and the but the main force is a few districts away and now holds a grudge

There is some flawed logic in the splitting up a corp scenario.

For one, there might be a long line of people lining up to attack the sub corps districts, who is to say the "mothercorp" will even get a chance to attack? There are well over a 1000 corps and only 250 districts to start. Not only will there be a mad dash to grab land but all out war before corps can produce and stockpile clones.

Two, if a sub corp sells its clones for profit instead of saving them, anyone can swoop in and grab it on day two or three, it's easy prey.

Three, the mothercorp must bring 100 clones to battle to take the sub corp's land, meanwhile, they too are under attack and defending. Remember, they can't purchase them once they own a district, but must produce them.

Maybe someone could make it work if they stomped the field and demolished their own attackers, but I just don't see it as feasible or easy. The 100 clones max per corp (that must be lost to boot) is a great fail-safe. Allowing any number to be purchased as suggested??? Crazy talk... sways all favour to large and rich corps.

Anyone can buy the starter pack of 100 clones and launch an attack in 24 hours on any district. There'll be 750 corps with no districts who will want one because it will be the new thing to do. That's 3 corps wanting to attack every 1 district that's already owned.

I repeat - there will be no peace. You will be lucky to be making any extra clones ever.

A quick question about the player owned districts;- will they be in 0.0 or will we have some in high sec?

Thank You! Will there be any docking stations for the Eve pilots? It would be really nice to me to have a ship and a jump clone there.

It can still be attacked if it's locked.

Edit: The only way for a district to not get attacked is to be under attack from someone else.

Contest this thought, please:
GÇó ringers are allowed
GÇó you don't need to flip districts for mother corp
GÇó mother corp just means the ringer community for split corps

GÇó results in that splitting corp ONLY expands possibilities, gives more attack chances, and speeds clone production to attack. why flip them for one corp? make a swam of corps, its even thief and disband proof.

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 must not be an eve player...But I'm glad you are still interested in these details. My post has nothing to do with transfers. If you read the wiki it talks about bonuses that our SI will have on Eve PI. When this becomes known, hopefully it will be attractive enough to make people want to work together with us near our districts, maybe Eve players in our corps, maybe friendlies, maybe just nuetral investors. Everyone though will ship stuff through POCOs and thus there will be multiple parties interested in the happenings of who owns what districts on a planet because it will affect their bottom line.

What I'm saying is that when planets could be making billions of isk in products each week after the stacked multipliers, and they are making hundreds of millions in POCO taxes, people in the air will want to continue to see those stacked multipliers. But more people will want to end that profit as well. the average FPSer could just forget about all this and remain stupidly ignorant, but I'm just saying all this so that hopefully some of you guys will start to figure out who to be talking to and make friends with.

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.

Wait how many starter packs can a single corp buy on day one then? I thought it was just one...?

It is, but there is a lot of talk about corporations splitting into multiple corporations to get around that.

In addition to my previous (already huge - sorry) post, there are also the problems with Alliances and EVE Interaction to be considered.

How long before we get Alliance tools in DUST?

And more importantly, will a Corporation with no assets in EVE, and no affiliation with any EVE-based Corp, have access to any form of Orbital Strike? I'm hoping we're going to at least be given a Precision Strike from our Warbarge. We DO get to bring a Warbarge, right?

For now the concept of war barges and MCC are very simple, they are there and exist. We want to get this out an working before we expand on those two concepts. There is a lot that can be done with them but this whole feature is so big already we want to focus our balancing and development efforts.

It would result in a fight, as for the orbital bombardment... we are still working on that. >.<