So this means that clones spoil?!? That's so gross!

How many planets will we be fighting over when this launches?

If you own no districts and buy a batch of clones can you then attack anywhere? How many clones can you have if you don't own a district?

How many planets will we be fighting over when this launches?

If you own no districts and buy a batch of clones can you then attack anywhere? How many clones can you have if you don't own a district?

Just the district the SI is on.

I'm very confused (nothing new for me) and probably won't really understand things until we get to try it, but what would be the actual mechanics of attacking and defending? So lets say Tritan wants to attack a district owned by STB, STB gets a message they are being attacked and they get to set a time for the battle? Do they have a fixed time window?

The way this is sounding is, all you need is 16 awesome players and you're golden, that would be a real shame.

IMO the attack/defend system should work like this. Corp A attacks district owned by Corp B. Corp B now has 1 hour to muster its best defense. Both corps can pull in anyone willing to fight for them through squad mechanic. Any members of corp and the corp's alliance can join the battle individually. This gives corporations incentives to make allies and have their back watched at all times and to recruit from all parts of the globe.

Defenders have advantage of knowing terrain and having preset installations.

Attackers should have the advantage of timing the attack.

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?

so that mean's that districts with SRL's are going to be the natural staging points for the inital attacks on a planet and once you've got districts on a planet you can upgrade them for more clones...

hmm this could get interesting. also will we see some kind of planetary control mechanism that will give benefits to the SI/PI of the corp with the highest rating on that planet?

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.

No paying for the MCC, not yet. We are introducing enough numbers to try and tweak that I am already scared. >.<

That is the hope, that we see people using the different SI for different strategic purposes.

As for the planetary control mechanism, nothing yet. We are currently focusing on the ability to take and own districts which will lead to benefits for owning whole planets down the road.

3) If you attack a district, win the battle, but didn't successfully gain control of it, do you get any sort of priority on the net window of attack? I ask because you could do like 90% of the work to take a district, and some other corp swoops in and defeats the defenders, and takes the district that would otherwise be yours.

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.

1) Are the maps going to correspond to the types of installations in that district?

2) Is the layout of the map for a district going to be identical every time that district is fought over?

3) Can the owners of a district place defenses as they see fit?

4) When the match starts, do the defenders already own all the null cannons by default?

I should clarify 3. No you cannot cancel the attack. Think carefully about how many clones you want to attack with.

You can however move clones from district A (which you own) to district X (which someone else owns) and then move clones from district B (which you also own) to district A. Once another district attacks district A though you cannot move more clones to it.

1) The ownership condition for attackers is depleting the enemy clones that the district contains?

2) Is there a limit to how many clones defenders can bring to one battle? Is it automatically the amount of clones the defenders have stored on the district?

3) If you attack a district, win the battle, but didn't successfully gain control of it, do you get any sort of priority on the net window of attack? I ask because you could do like 90% of the work to take a district, and some other corp swoops in and defeats the defenders, and takes the district that would otherwise be yours.

This is alot like the rules of Diplomacy. Which kind of begs the question of reinforcements...How will allies factor in to all this?

I asked wayyyy back in this thread about OB's being decoupled from WPs to make it more valuable for Dust mercs to have EVE friends and for EVE friends to show up and help a Dust team.

Any plans for this?

The defending corp sets a reinforcement timer - attacks only happen when this timer runs out (and there is a 1 hour window until the next reinforcement stage happens). When you attack, the attack is set for the window that happens at least 24 hours from when you "attack".

So basically, you attack, then the next day there is the actual battle to give you time to organize a defense (your own players, ringers, etc). Attackers will know when the window is and can plan accordingly - so if the window is too inconvenience, you pick a different target.

The defenders get access to all of the clones on their district. Whether they choose to use them all up is up to them

Would it be possible to implement a way for one to abandon our district if we only own 1 district and take our 100 clones back to roam space?

Would it be possible to implement a way for one to abandon our district if we only own 1 district and take our 100 clones back to roam space?