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?

GÇó attacking 3 fight timeframe,
GÇó split 16 players on 16 planets, run from defended and only afk farm non defended. you can roll approx 5 min per fight to see if defended. 1player kills 100 clones when no show happens.

This is passed by bringing 16 and leaving one behind, but you are right in that I am slipping from the growth period where planets are empty. My main concern is the exponential gold rush in start.

Minimum of 100 clones must be moved at a time

PRO will lose

What I just want to confirm is:

If I get one spy into another corp he could pull in 5 other guys for my side and because of friendly fire make it essentially 22 vs 10 and any kills they got on my 'commandos' would come out of their pocket?

This is going to be a murder fest :)

If you send 100, 60 make it to the planet, then you lose the battle you lose all 60. In the end our goal of ensuring a minimum of 100 clones lost is met, so we will not enforce 100 clones making it to the planet.

Lets look at the problem with this argument:

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.

+1 for the forst three points. Other points have validity too.

Hate to keep on this, but it's a stark reality and not really being publicly addressed by CCP, in spite of their stated commitment to prioritize core mechanics.

OK, i'll shut up about it. For now.

I love the changes. This is turning into a real time game of Slay, I love the mechanics. It actually makes the DUST4514 become strategical, complex, and a lite war sim for our arm chair strategists. CCP do not dumb this type of gameplay down, because simple people can't figure it out. We want New Eden, and we want it now.