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CCP FoxFour wrote:

Kevall Longstride wrote:

Right now I've read the Wiki piece I have two questions at the moment.

1. What is the dispersal pattern for the initial district seeding. High, Low and Null sec? All three or just one.

2. District actions. With the complete lack of roles available to a corp, Just CEO and directors I think I can speak for what many CEO's will be thinking.

District actions should ONLY be the purview of the CEO and not directors. It's not that I don't trust the guys I've picked for directors, they do sterling work in D-UNI but they have the director role because it was the only one available to give them and it gives them nearly as much power as the CEO.

The CEO should have some definite separation of power from the rest of management other than being able to pick the logo.

1) One specific region, we have not announced which one yet.
2) To be honest we need more roles but I don't think limiting this to CEO's will work.

Would love to hear from other CEO's though about that.


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Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 368	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:03:00 - [1] - Quote For a feature release lacking in new screen shots and full of tables its pretty kitten interesting. With only 250 districts open for grabs at the beginning there should be a mad scramble to find space for each corporation. I need time to digest all this information but the strategic element of moving clones around looks really interesting. Is development far enough along to provide screen shots of what directors will see when planning for conquest?
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:14:00 - [2] - Quote CCP FoxFour wrote: BursegSardaukar wrote: Lol, but can I buy 10,000 packs and plop people into every single district all at once? Is there any limit on how many districts I can attack? You buy them as you use them. So no stock pilling the 100 clone packages. Once you own districts, you can attack as many districts as you have clones to attack. You can only buy clones from Genolution if you own no districts and you pick an empty district for delivery of the 100 clones? I'm assuming at that point you own that district and can't purchase any more clones and you are limited to the 100 clones for the first day.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:17:00 - [3] - Quote When this is deployed we'll still have separate economies? I'm guessing so and that we'll need to look to corp donations from our mercs to grab our first district.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:35:00 - [4] - Quote If I log in on the first day and immediately order my batch of clones do I immediately take ownership? If someone wants the same district on the first day can they schedule a battle for the following day or do I have to hold that district for a day before someone can declare an attack? Once I buy clones I have to wait for 3 days to have enough clones to start my rampage if I didn't luck out and get the SI that increases clone production? My head hurts.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:50:00 - [5] - Quote CCP FoxFour wrote: Kevall Longstride wrote: Right now I've read the Wiki piece I have two questions at the moment. 1. What is the dispersal pattern for the initial district seeding. High, Low and Null sec? All three or just one. 2. District actions. With the complete lack of roles available to a corp, Just CEO and directors I think I can speak for what many CEO's will be thinking. District actions should ONLY be the purview of the CEO and not directors. It's not that I don't trust the guys I've picked for directors, they do sterling work in D-UNI but they have the director role because it was the only one available to give them and it gives them nearly as much power as the CEO. The CEO should have some definite separation of power from the rest of management other than being able to pick the logo. 1) One specific region, we have not announced which one yet. 2) To be honest we need more roles but I don't think limiting this to CEO's will work. Would love to hear from other CEO's though about that. If you don't trust them they shouldn't be a director. If I'm offline for a few days the corp shouldn't sit helpless without me. It does sound like its time to stop being a friendly little squad and start recruiting though.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:52:00 - [6] - Quote What is the thought behind making clone transportation so limited?
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 19:58:00 - [7] - Quote Let's say an ally wants help in a battle and provides a squad leader to bring in some of my guys. We use their clones for the battle? It sounds like freelance mercenaries will have it easy since our "employers" will be the ones footing the expensive part of the bill. Will we be paying for MCCs in this release?
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 20:03:00 - [8] - Quote CCP FoxFour wrote: Reav Hannari wrote: Let's say an ally wants help in a battle and provides a squad leader to bring in some of my guys. We use their clones for the battle? It sounds like freelance mercenaries will have it easy since our "employers" will be the ones footing the expensive part of the bill. Will we be paying for MCCs in this release? No paying for the MCC, not yet. We are introducing enough numbers to try and tweak that I am already scared. >.< I now understand why you planned a weekend of drinking. This looks really interesting though. I do appreciate how this is designed to not require alarm clock operations for the defender too. I'm a lot more interested in trying to hold territory knowing that I'll be available when necessary. Family + Work > Planetary Defense.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 20:06:00 - [9] - Quote Kevall Longstride wrote: Oh I do trust them, let make that clear and they are so pumped up for this I can't begin to tell you. But the lack of roles is a worry. I just want the Dust corps to have the kind of internal compartmentalisation mechanic that Eve corps take for granted. But then I'm an Eve player and as we all know, we're completely paranoid. My apologies, I didn't look at your corp. That's a mighty big herd of cats you have to wrangle and I imagine you have an equally big team of directors for the job.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 20:15:00 - [10] - Quote CCP Nullarbor wrote: The defenders get access to all of the clones on their district. Whether they choose to use them all up is up to them If a defender chooses to hold some clones back and loses then what happens? The attacker wins the district but what happens to the reserved clones?

Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 20:52:00 - [11] - Quote Forlorn Destrier wrote: LXicon wrote: The revenue for a corp that owns a district is derived from the number of clones they want to sell... With all this added revenue, will the CEO and Directors get improved ways to divvy up the ISK to the corp members? Will (non-director) corp members be able to see who is getting paid by the corp? This doesn't happen in Eve so I doubt they will do it in Dust Looks like the combatants get paid with biomass value of clones killed and loot. The corporation should keep the district earnings to help fund district upgrades and clone transportation. CCP, will corp armories come with this build too?
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders Red Rock Consortium 369	Posted - 2013.03.14 21:35:00 - [12] - Quote KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote: When you win a planetary conquest battle. do you personally get money, or does only your corp wallet get the money? "ISK reward is split amongst team members based on time spent in the match even if the player leaves the match; a minimum of 60 seconds must be spent in the match to qualify." + salvage based on a percentage of what the other team lost.