Actually technically you only need 1 person online because you can have them create the squad of 6, pull the outside corp members in to the battle then drop squad and repeat for the remaining squads.

+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.

This is fantastic discussion guys, we are loving the breakdown and perspectives people are providing.

Regarding the proposed numbers, if it turns out that owning districts is not worthwhile and corporations are not motivated to fight over them then we will very likely re-balance things so that they are.

I think a big part of the balance will be how much salvage returns back to you. If two teams lost the same amount in clones (100 per side) and in salvage 2 million each, then the winning team would have lost 5 million in clones. They would have to get back in salvage 10 million even. In other words each clone they lost/killed would have to be wearing 100k+ isk suits in addition they could also lose some vehicles if they killed some.

You can't move for an attack on the first day anyway because you need to move a minimum of 100 clones and if you moved 100 clones when that is all you have, you'd be abandoning your initial district anyway. This is the same whether you have 1 corp or many sub-corps and a mother corp. The mother corp would also have to wait until it had enough clones to launch an attack on a sub-corp, even if the sub-corp had abandoned it. Also since abandoning a district causes the reinforcement timer to be removed, any corp with no district could just swoop in and claim it straight away because the mother corp would have to wait until it's own timer had gone 24 hours to have more clones to move there.

Nobody will be able to claim a 2nd district within the first few days, especially since the lack of districts compared to the number of corps means that everyone will be under attack everyday for the first few days if not weeks. There will be no way to expand quickly.

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.

As PI does not really recognize districts this is really hard. We are looking at things like an SI that is equivalent to the POCO and that there can only be one on the planet, and that the owning corporation can charge a tax for usage on. Not sure yet though, we are not done yet.

Maybe I'm not being clear enough. So let's take an example:

Corp A takes their first district at 1:35pm.
They then set their Reinforcement timer for 2:00-3:00pm.
Now Corp A has 140 clones and could theoretically take another unoccupied district, except for the fact that the first district may be Locked, preventing an attacking action.

The question is basically, what is the Reinforcement timer set to when you first conquer an unoccupied district? And if the first Reinforcement timer on any unoccupied district recently occupied didn't come with the Lock penalty, then PC would be interesting during the first few days. Instead it looks like nothing is going to happen for 3 days. 1 to set the timer and wait to get out of Locked status, 1 to set an attack and wait for the 24 hour notice, and possibly 1 needed to attack again to defeat any remaining clones if there were more than 100 the first time you attacked.



I think you're wrong here. If a mother corp coordinates well enough, they'll only have to wait that initial 24 hours during which their district will be Locked due to the Reinforcement timer. After that, the sub-corp can simply abandon the district a minute before the mother corp sets an attack on the district. The mother corp will be able to take over the district immediately because it's unoccupied. In another 24 hours they can do the same thing with another district one of their sub-corps own. 3 districts in as many days without having to fight one battle (though they may have to defend once or twice if one of their sub-corps gets hit).

(Depending on what Surface Infrastructure they have, it could actually be 4 districts in 3 days, because they could launch another 100 from their very first district on day 3, due to clone accumulation.)

If corp A have 450 clones, can A move 100,100,100,100 clones to four hostiles districts on the same day?

How to change offline to online ? I mean if defender lost MCC, how can defender change the offline state ?

When corp A keep attacking corp B district, can corp B attack corp A district on the same day or the following day ?

How long will the locked state keep ? 1 hour at most ?

What is called friendly corp ? in same Alliance ?

http://i.imgur.com/tcoH7Bi.png Is this correct or wrong?

http://i.imgur.com/pq84I96.png Is this wrong ?

Your math appears to be off. You say you can lock a district for, assuming you have a production facility, 2 million ISK.

Starter pack costs 20 million ISK, gives 100 clones
District defender wins, gets 20 clones
Total clones sold is 80 (60 from production facility and 20 from starter clones), or 8 million ISK.
You lose 12 million ISK.

If you try and lock the district by attacking from another district you are paying the fee in ISK and clones to move, you have to do a minimum of 100 clones, and at most you produce 60 clones so it is not sustainable that way.

If you kill them you don't get the 20 from them at the end though.

Ah right okay - that fixes that then.

It's still a sustainable tactic at least in the short term though. The richest corps could easily lose a few hundred million isk to secure a handful of districts in the first few weeks and be happy with the outcome.

Couple of questions, sorry if I missed an earlier answer:

1) An important mechanic will be the queue on "who gets to attack". How would this be iterated?
2) Will the maps be enlarged from the skirmish of present, or perhaps in later versions of PC?