That's a very... elegant solution, and answered most of the other questions nicely.

Thank you.

Also, glad to hear that the corp management side is being looked at, although I think some of the larger Corporations may see it as a higher priority than it is for someone in my position right now.

As for the Orbital Strikes, I'm glad there will be some form of support available to those Corporations without EVE connections. While less powerful, I think a Precision Strike will probably be sufficient - particularly with FF being turned on (finally).

I'm confused...The wiki says "The specific action of selling clones will cause the source district to be locked. " but also the table says that the ending state of selling clones' source district is still online. Maybe the table should read "locked, online" for source district new state, then?

This is, in fact, a completely separate question that I was working towards, but not really sure how to phrase.

I'm still not entirely sure what to say about this.

At present, it seems like MCCs will be free, and Warbarges will be a source of free off-map support for those without EVE-based assets.

For an initial rollout, I don't have a problem with this, but I'll be expecting that setup to change eventually.

...I'm cool and I recognize when I've made a small mistake and I fix it quickly...

For now the concept of war barges and MCC are very simple, they are there and exist. We want to get this out an working before we expand on those two concepts. There is a lot that can be done with them but this whole feature is so big already we want to focus our balancing and development efforts.

Just change EVERYTHING push the on button and hope for the best

...Not too much of a mixup. I was hoping that was how it was anyway because I wanted to be the first to coin this term (or something like it):

Biomasscade (B-scade)- Biomass + cascade. When a spy or disturbed director sells all of the clones in all of a corporation's districts causing complete vulnerability to be taken over, and then runs away with the profits. It's bound to happen...

For those who don't know a 'failscade' in Eve is when an alliance loses ownership of all of or much of their soveriegnty because of the maintenance bills that they do not, can not, or forget to pay out of wallets that often are stolen from.

Could you make a single page version of this thread with only the Dev posts?
Or, could you compile a Q&A thread that has all the questions asked and answers given?

The Devs tend to quote the question they are currently answering and having a single page with all the Dev posts would make it much easier to search for an answer that might have been on page 5 or 17 or 22.

Thanks.

Thanks for answering these questions, its definitely making a lot more sense now.

I have another:

What happens if two corps in the same Alliance try to move onto each other's spaces?

IF they can fight, can the Alliance then bombard the match for either side?

Question 1: Is this the beginning of the installation system descibed in the "Seeding the Universe" talk at fanfest last year? If so, are these considered the big hubs, or are they medium or small installations and will look more appropriately-sized when we get the bigger maps?
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Question 2: Given that the "you'll be able to see starships in orbit over your district in the next build" is still valid, is there any chance we'll be able to see ALL the ships on-grid above the district, so we can watch the low-sec pirates blow our orbital support ships out of space?

Proposal 1: Can our corps charge a fee for Eve PI installations in our districts? This would allow a little bit of cross-game transactions, without too badly affecting either economy. It also would promote one corporation to do PI and own the planet to avoid the fees. The corp holding the majority of districts on the planet could potentially gain control of the customs office, as well.

Proposal 2: Structure construction times. Give each structure a period of time when it is under construction. Say a week. If you have a battle during that week, the structure is rendered under construction, with cranes and scaffolding, giving more variation and immersion

Proposal 3: This is a cheap, cheap one, but it would go a long way to adding immersion: Merc Quarters in a district: All you'd need is a window. Render a specific view of that district depending on the structure present (so ever MQ would have the same window in the same district). All mercs to select what district they live in. If the district falls, make them choose another. Mercs with no districts have no window (are on a station). Have the window closed during a battle within that district.

It would result in a fight, as for the orbital bombardment... we are still working on that. >.<

This all sound very exciting, a big thank you for Fox Four for a 28 page (and counting) Q&A!

A) Do the defenders have an MCC as well or only the attackers (aka original skirmish/skirmish 1.0)?
B) Is there a match timer (what if no one did anything during a match, what would happen)?

Is the following scenario accurate?
Defenders have 200 clones in a district.
Attackers land 250.
Monday's battle: defenders lose 100 clones and attackers lose 100 clones
Tuesday's battle: defenders lose 100 clones and attackers lose 100 clones
Attackers have 50 remaining clones on the district so it becomes their's
Wednesday, the former attackers and now district owners have 90 clones on the district

The matches will use the new skirmish match system, so both sides have an MCC.
There is no timer, only MCC destruction or clone depletion will end the match.

After each fight the clones for the attacker are sent home. They will need to send them again.

This will take a lot of effort but I shall poke some people and see if we can maybe look at updating the FAQ on the first page. We did reserve a second post for that purpose.

The matches will use the new skirmish match system, so both sides have an MCC.
There is no timer, only MCC destruction or clone depletion will end the match.

After each fight the clones for the attacker are sent home. They will need to send them again.

Can you develop a little on the "new" skirmish match system?

Question 1: Is this the beginning of the installation system descibed in the "Seeding the Universe" talk at fanfest last year? If so, are these considered the big hubs, or are they medium or small installations and will look more appropriately-sized when we get the bigger maps?

Question 2: Given that the "you'll be able to see starships in orbit over your district in the next build" is still valid, is there any chance we'll be able to see ALL the ships on-grid above the district, so we can watch the low-sec pirates blow our orbital support ships out of space?

Proposal 1: Can our corps charge a fee for Eve PI installations in our districts? This would allow a little bit of cross-game transactions, without too badly affecting either economy. It also would promote one corporation to do PI and own the planet to avoid the fees. The corp holding the majority of districts on the planet could potentially gain control of the customs office, as well.

Proposal 2: Structure construction times. Give each structure a period of time when it is under construction. Say a week. If you have a battle during that week, the structure is rendered under construction, with cranes and scaffolding, giving more variation and immersion

Proposal 3: This is a cheap, cheap one, but it would go a long way to adding immersion: Merc Quarters in a district: All you'd need is a window. Render a specific view of that district depending on the structure present (so ever MQ would have the same window in the same district). All mercs to select what district they live in. If the district falls, make them choose another. Mercs with no districts have no window (are on a station). Have the window closed during a battle within that district.

The one we are currently using. Some closed beta testers remember a different skirmish. Nothing will change for you.

So w'e're going to have stacked attrition costs?

So w'e're going to have stacked attrition costs?

Can't you just go through the Dev-posts forum tab...?

Not the prettiest, but you can subscribe to it. It's a search query so it will give you all dev responses. Someone could spend a couple hours summarizing everything that has been said, but there is still a lot between the lines that we will need to reason out.

You will need to pay the attrition cost for every battle, yes.

This all sound very exciting, a big thank you for Fox Four for a 28 page (and counting) Q&A!

A) Do the defenders have an MCC as well or only the attackers (aka original skirmish/skirmish 1.0)?
B) Is there a match timer (what if no one did anything during a match, what would happen)?

Is the following scenario accurate?
Defenders have 200 clones in a district.
Attackers land 250.
Monday's battle: defenders lose 100 clones and attackers lose 100 clones
Tuesday's battle: defenders lose 100 clones and attackers lose 100 clones
Attackers have 50 remaining clones on the district so it becomes their's
Wednesday, the former attackers and now district owners have 90 clones on the district

I really need to stop having quotes the first thing said in my posts. The dev post thing does not show what is a quote and what is not. :(