Was nice enough to answer some of the questions I had.

CCP, thanks for the exciting news.

I just have one question: When will we get this?

I know you mentioned that it will be later this year, but can you at least estimate it down to a month, if not a specific date?

In the spirit of attacking and defending in real life, whose 'soil' will the battles be fought on?

For example, say a EU corp attacks a US corps district, will the server for that battle be located in the US, EU, or some other 'neutral' server somewhere in-between?

Would make sense if the attackers had to play on servers closest to the defenders location. Because after all this is the defenders district, they know the lay of the land best and should get the lag advantage when facing foreign intruders

With the epic match of Fischer vs Spassky still in mind, I would say Iceland is the perfect neutral arena

I have updated the distance table on the wiki article: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Planetary_Conquest#Distance_And_Its_Effect_On_Moves

Renamed the Clone Cost header to Clone Survival Rate. This is more indicative of what is happening, which is the number of clones that make it to the target district.

The more districts you own the more places you will be able to be attacked from. The way they describe it, you will be able to be attacked at 100% efficiency from all districts in your system each day, the at decent efficiency from what will probably be like 25-30% of remaining districts. Just because you have lots of money it doesn't give you a win button. If you own 10 districts that is 10 man-hours x 16 members you will be vulnerable. You will be responsible for 160 man hours of defense time FOR DEFENSE ONLY. If you want to increase your attacking logarithmically you have to also find enough attacking teams good enough to make that pace of advance worth it.

Correct, the attacker has an hour exclusivity period from the time the attack started to decide to launch a new attack. During this time it is not possible for the defender to move more clones in or for anyone else to attack it. Remember though, if you win the defence your district will regenerate clones before the next attack, plus you get the biomass payment and the 20% bonus on remaining clones so it is possible to actually come out ahead after a successful defence.

You are forgetting the obvious solution of "do not defend, just flip more and more, get clones to flip faster".

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

You're wrong on that one Trolls. It all comes down to how many districts are available. And the fact that even a 20 man corp can hold one or two district without that much problem means it's gonna be pretty crowded, pretty fast.

So, flipping districts and dont care about fights wont work as at some point, there wont be any district left to flip.

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.

Lets think of it as manpower efficiency: do you choose to attack or to defend?

GÇó defense 16 man: clones are lost, over 100 if you lose.
GÇó defense no-show: 100 clones lost
GÇó no-show takes 3 fights to flip. bad defense takes 2

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.

In any case, directors die to the probing attacks clickfest.

When you run from the defenders, don't you lose 100 clones? So if 14 of those 16 planets are defended, won't you lose 1400 clones? More if you lost some when moving them. You'll also have given those 14 defending corps a load of biomass income so they can fight you better in future.

The numbers here might be off by a lot:
GÇó at the league of 10000 atmospheric nullsec planets
GÇó lets approximate that to 10 districts per, resulting 100000 to grow exponentially in.

Give a no-show rate of 10%, and flipping 1000 per day using afk loners to flip after no show, you gain 100. Will you lose that daily? Perhaps, probably not if the attackers are roleplaying with 16 man squads.

In any case the exponential growth in beginning gives a massive clone advantage, as well as isk. Being able to hold 10000 districts by just attacking and setting nasty reinforce timexones seems viable, but:

GÇóGÇóGÇó it all comes down to CEO and clone seller clickfest. you want to win this game? prepare for burn outs. this will be worse than planeteering in EVE

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

You see, if there was accumulative value in keeping planets long, small groups would have their place in holding very valuable ones. Now the corps with more players grow exponentially and there is no reason to care about which planets you own - just use the clone numbers and player number advantage to spam attack weaklings.