Worth it. This will be so bad ass. Now we need an ETA.

The defender loses at least 100 clones regardless of how many they consumed. The remaining stay at the district and the attacker can launch another attack if they wish.

Awww, have a little pride, Kain! Your enemies will think you lack confidence in your men.

I mean I know there's a lot of chest-puffing going on in Imperfects but you're not THAT terrible.

Extended down times hopefully will fit into the 2 hours they have blocked out for. Their words, too lazy to find it in this monster 30+ page thread. :)

If it goes over 2 hours... who knows.

I don't think the constant attack is actually related to the subject of split expand. Surely it makes expansion hard. Splitting makes it easier but won't ultimately allow you to hold any more (I never claimed this). What I claim is that split expand is a fast shortcut to your maximum districts.

The reason it makes expanding easy is that the expander corp will not need to waste clones on attack.

EDIT: I'm sorry for the unclear discussion, the potential of splitting is just getting clearer while at it. Right now what I see happening is:
1) corp splits based on how many fights they can sustain merc number wise. E.g. having 64 active every day at your defense frame allows 4 districts.
2) corp takes said 4 to start with, possibly more to narrow down the chances of failure and to get 4 good starts.
3) one of the 4, the main corp, expands to the pre defended districts by yielding fights on alt corps.

Gains as opposed to going 1 corp "as supposed":
GÇó fighting no show, one fight district flips as opposed to 300 clone districts with reinforcements that fight back. this for all your expansions, since they were pre taken and defended as individual corps
GÇó any spare clones on the alt corps can be used to counter attack (clone wars)
GÇó you can put more of your mercs in nullsec fights, providing content
GÇó if one of the starts fails, hop on another instead of trying to restart with pitiful 100 clones

Losses as opposed to 1 corp:
GÇó costs isk to set up
GÇó is tedious to manage
GÇó requires planning

The outposts mechanic could make this less tedious and public, widely used as opposed to shady try hard game. Still the issue of attack spam by making satellite 100 cloners and dropping them on distant enemies exists. You can do that by alt corps currently; outposts would be more expensive in isk, less on metagame and alt creation.

You can't just say 'I know how this exploit could work but I'm not telling any of you' and claim something needs to be fixed or addressed. I thought this was supposed to be a constructive debate?

I'm still solidly of the opinion that you will never have the opportunity to consolidate either as a single big corp or multiple small corps because your districts will rarely if ever have the peace required to expand. Your sub corps will look small and weak, making them targets. Your main corp will be the target of larger corps who want to take you out of the picture early on. Mid-sized corps that try to fly under the radar may fair okay but with the corps:districts ratio so high nobody will be safe, especially early on. Who knows what might happen after everything settles down a few months later.