If you move 100 clones to attack a district on a planet 2 jumps away, but only 60 survive the travel, then you lose the battle, what happens? You are supposed to lose a minimum of 100 clones.

Do you only lose the 60 surviving ones?

Or does the attacker need to send enough clones to ensure that at least 100 arrive safely?

Sorry if this has been answered already.

If you move 100 clones to attack a district on a planet 2 jumps away, but only 60 survive the travel, then you lose the battle, what happens? You are supposed to lose a minimum of 100 clones.

Do you only lose the 60 surviving ones?

Or does the attacker need to send enough clones to ensure that at least 100 arrive safely?

Sorry if this has been answered already.

PRO will lose

There are only about 250 districts to start with, so I don't see how a corp like PRO will hold many districts.

They will take one to start with (if they're quick enough that is, 250 other corps might take all the districts before them).

After that 3 things can happen.

1. PRO doesn't attack anyone and nobody attacks them. Very unlikely.

2. PRO attacks someone with their 100 clones (that's all they have to begin with). The defender also have 100 clones. PRO will lose. They don't get the district and they lost all of their clones, so their own district is practically up for grabs.

3. PRO doesn't attack anyone, but is being attacked themself. Both sides have again 100 clones each. PRO will lose the match and the district as well.

If 2 or 3 happens PRO is left without districts and will have to attack someone buying a pack of 100 clones. They will not win any attack they make, so they will have to take out more than 40 of the defender's clones (or more than 60 if the defender has the SI that produces 60 clones each day) because when they lose the defender will produce 40 clones more for the attack from PRO the next day. If they only take out 30 clones the defender will have 10 clones more than in the first match.

In a 16 vs 16 battle I can see a lot of corps winning over PRO without losing more than 40 clones. How will PRO ever get any districts then?

it states if you loose you get no isk

But what about loot ?

Salvage should go to the winner, the one left on field. It's generated from the items equipped with a twist of adding stuff, from what I read quickly.

The 100 are lost: some to casuality from travel.

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 :)

yeah i thought it would just wanted clarification hopefully FoxFour will get to it

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 :)

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ISK goes to the winning side based on the total number of clones killed in the match.
Loot goes to both sides. Side A gets stuff from side B, side B gets stuff from side A.

We discussed this a lot internally, which one of the two rewards should only go to the winner, and we ended up with ISK going to the winner. We really want one of the two to go to the loser as incentive to show up and fight even if they know they are going to lose.

Tried to read the whole thread and I didn't see it here or the wiki pages but I may have just missed it:

Conquest will be in the next build. Will we be notified long before the update or will it be more of a "Extended server downtime, oh also expect to download this giant update."

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.

ISK goes to the winning side based on the total number of clones killed in the match.
Loot goes to both sides. Side A gets stuff from side B, side B gets stuff from side A.

We discussed this a lot internally, which one of the two rewards should only go to the winner, and we ended up with ISK going to the winner. We really want one of the two to go to the loser as incentive to show up and fight even if they know they are going to lose.

Hey guys sorry about the slacking in response to the thread. I am back in the office and will be responding to posts now. Since I am so far behind though I am probably going to work backwards from this point, so sorry if I miss your question.

We will be making a very large fuss about this release, talking about it at Fanfest, and it will involve an extended downtime.

Can I get short clarification on the worth of specific planets, or how to combat exponential growth?

Since the ISK generator mechanics is equal to districts, it only makes sense to try and control as many of possible, instead of strategic ones (except for locations). In EVE, you have moon minerals that make locations worth defending over others. Is there a mechanic in place to make for strategic conquest, e.g. bottleneck systems allowing access to attack a region?

Not included in the release with this feature, but something we want to do is create a new role that allows people to kick other people from matches. So without giving people full director roles you can select people you trust and let them sort of help control matches.

For this release though, yes that is very much a possibility.

Thanks for the clarification.

I can see the corps with better KDRs specialising in long range attacks: only 20 clones arrive safely to fight the 100+ defenders, but that is enough to do the job. Larger corps with lower KDRs would specialise in short range attacks. Room for everyone.

Different planets will have different numbers of districts, some systems will be right next to other systems with temperate planets, some systems will only have 1 temperate planet and be behind 2 or more systems with no temperate planets; which means to attack you from outside the system people needed to travel more systems which means more attrition.

Thanks for the clarification.

I can see the corps with better KDRs specialising in long range attacks: only 20 clones arrive safely to fight the 100+ defenders, but that is enough to do the job. Larger corps with lower KDRs would specialise in short range attacks. Room for everyone.