How many players can join corporation battles?
Planetary conquest will feature 16 vs 16 skirmish battles. Squad sizes are also being increased to 6 players per squad.

So would that be 2 squads of 6 and 1 squad of 4? or will the Conquest battles be 12v12 or 18v18?

Do we have to be enrolled in faction warfare to drop OBS? Please remove this as a restriction.

The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad.

Was just thinking this.

Any particular reason you dont just make it 18v18 so theres 3 full squads?

will there be a way to track organized corp battles to make it easier for everyone to see which corp has the most wins and against who?

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?

The planetary conquest battles are 16v16. So you can take 2 full squads in plus another partial squad.

The possibility of changing squad size means any number we pick could quickly not be valid. On top of that every player that we add to the match is another player that corporations need to field and the larger we require corporations to be in order to participate in this feature. For now we though 16v16 was the right balance.

Genolution only sells clones in packs of 100 to corporations that do not own districts

I really think that the current corp warfare system shouldn't be completely scrapped. The pre-arranged battles allow for grudge matches to take place and can act as a vehicle for competitive play. Is possible that a system can/will be reintroduced to allow for pre-arranged battles with an eye towards competitive play, but not have an effect of Faction Warfare of planetary ownership?

I really think that the current corp warfare system shouldn't be completely scrapped. The pre-arranged battles allow for grudge matches to take place and can act as a vehicle for competitive play. Is possible that a system can/will be reintroduced to allow for pre-arranged battles with an eye towards competitive play, but not have an effect of Faction Warfare of planetary ownership?

I really think that the current corp warfare system shouldn't be completely scrapped. The pre-arranged battles allow for grudge matches to take place and can act as a vehicle for competitive play. Is possible that a system can/will be reintroduced to allow for pre-arranged battles with an eye towards competitive play, but not have an effect of Faction Warfare of planetary ownership?

What about pre-arranged friendly corporation battles or tournaments?
With the corporation contracts being removed, players will need to use the setting of planetary conquest to organize friendly battles. We realize that this is not as flexible as it could be though and so our current development plan is to introduce an arena mode where corporations can arrange a no consequences engagement. This then leads down a very interesting path of tournaments and betting etc.

We also want to make sure that when arenas are introduced they have consequences for not showing up to fight, something the current corporation contracts suffer from.

Yeah i understand you dont want to exclude smaller corps from gettign in on the action. Just personally i would like to see team size remain as a multiple of squad size. And the fact it is only 2 less than 18v18 aka 3 full squads just made me think hmmm why?

A corp that has 16 probaly has 18 in most cases. Dont get me wrong this is far better than the 8v8 corp matches, and id like to see the size increase more over time, however i know that ccp dont want to exclude the smaller entities from carving out their little corner of space like has become so hard for new groups to do in eve.

Is there any thought around the ccp tables about having differant sized corp matches? So a small planet that only has 5 districts might be 8v8 or 12v12 battles on that planet, where as the bigger planets with up to 24 districts could have
the bigger corp battles. Or something like that, so that small corps can still get some competitive play and larger corps can still get into bigger battles, and yet still give everyone the chance to claim some districts?

Maybe its a crap idea, but i was just thinking what happens to these smaller corps anyway when the player cap is increased again, as personally id certainly like to see us getting up to 32v32 ish numbers at some point.

Will we be able to trade/transfer clones between corps. I'm thinking a corp not owning a district buying clones and passing them to one that does to bolster the numbers?

Not sure if that would be a good or bad thing yet...

Yeah i understand you dont want to exclude smaller corps from gettign in on the action. Just personally i would like to see team size remain as a multiple of squad size. And the fact it is only 2 less than 18v18 aka 3 full squads just made me think hmmm why?

A corp that has 16 probaly has 18 in most cases. Dont get me wrong this is far better than the 8v8 corp matches, and id like to see the size increase more over time, however i know that ccp dont want to exclude the smaller entities from carving out their little corner of space like has become so hard for new groups to do in eve.

Is there any thought around the ccp tables about having differant sized corp matches? So a small planet that only has 5 districts might be 8v8 or 12v12 battles on that planet, where as the bigger planets with up to 24 districts could have
the bigger corp battles. Or something like that, so that small corps can still get some competitive play and larger corps can still get into bigger battles, and yet still give everyone the chance to claim some districts?

Maybe its a crap idea, but i was just thinking what happens to these smaller corps anyway when the player cap is increased again, as personally id certainly like to see us getting up to 32v32 ish numbers at some point.

Will we have access these districts outside of battle? Would it be logical that the defender has some sort of advantage in terms of knowing the terrain etc?

When will this build drop?

So as a solo player i can now jump into FW battles when they come up

Will i only be able to take part in PC if i am part of that corp, ie i cant just squad up and jump in with them when they launch

Also for FW and PC are the payouts increased?

Question:

Will clones as a new resource feed into eve as a potential revenue stream for Dust 514 corporations.

And is this tied to the various hints dropped by devs over the last year of changes to the eve online clone replacement system?

"The battles will automatically start based on demand and then players can join whichever side they like from the battle finder or directly from the map."

corps/ alliances involved in Faction warfare should not be able to just play as Caldari, and then make the switch and play a gallente battle


thats stupid

you join 1 militia and fight for it


being able to hop between Militias in Fac war is stupid and breaks Fac war!!!

So large corps can put out multiple attacks or defend multiple locations, where a smaller corp has to decide whether they attack or defend?

There is only 1 hr window a day to attack district A? Win or lose you wait another 24hrs to attack?

So a corp of 16 holds 24 districts and can be attacked at each district that day and they have to fight all 24 or what? do the times overlap? Do the defenders choose the time or is it the attackers?

So large corps can put out multiple attacks or defend multiple locations, where a smaller corp has to decide whether they attack or defend?

There is only 1 hr window a day to attack district A? Win or lose you wait another 24hrs to attack?

So a corp of 16 holds 24 districts and can be attacked at each district that day and they have to fight all 24 or what? do the times overlap? Do the defenders choose the time or is it the attackers?

Another Question:

In future will it be possible to have "Dust Industrial Mongols" acting in a one man corp but defending thier territory by hiring other corporations via contracts and what not?


Edit: or does the present system account for that?

And you will be able to choose your side.

Are there plans in motion to expand the list of facilities we might build in districts? For example, structures that give other defensive advantages than an increase in clone count or expand our industrial options, so that we're not limited to producing only clones? For example, building generic ground vehicle chassis parts that allow you to call in HAVs. Or resources that could be useful to eve players.

...Or resources that could be useful to eve players.

How will the moving of clones work? Will eve be involved to other planets or solar systems?

So wait, can any corporation attack any district or do they have to own a nearby district? And if so how does a corporation with no districts get started?

The corporation in control of the district chooses the reinforcement time.

so how many times can a district be attacked in a day? As defenders do you only defend the district once a day or once a day from every corp trying to take that district that day? Or is it first come first served and only the first corp to try and take the district is the only one the defenders need to fight and that district is locked for 24 hrs?

How will this be handled in the event if a defending corporation doesn't have enough people to mount a suitable defense? Say even though their time has been set to be the most advantageous to them only 3 people can be on to defend. Could it turn into a 16 vs 3 fight where the 16 squad can burn through all of their available clones?

Why are most of the questions always on stuff that doesnt half matter? How bout some legit questions/concerns/feedback here.

In regards to planetary conquest (NOT FW):

It is stated these battles will be skirmishes, but the only win condition is to clone the other team out. Why not just make it an ambush since this is the case? Do you not see an easy way out to defending the district? A corporation gets attacked and lets say they even field a full team of 16. They do nothing but sit in the MCC/redline and never lose a clone. The attacking team hacks all the null cannons and destroys the defending teams MCC, but the only penalty for the defending team is that they cant produce clones for a time. But it doesnt matter because they didnt lose any clones did they?

Therefore, destroying the MCC either needs to be added as a win condition for the attacking team, or something along the lines of if the defending team loses their MCC they also lose a percent amount of their clones (with possibly that same percent being added to the winning teams clones). Furthermore on this point, why would anybody field a team to defend their district if the only win condition is by clone out? If you never lose a clone you always win, even if your district cannot create more clones.

how do you plan to stop abusing the "lockout" function?

what stops me to lock a district day after day and make it invulnerable?

lets take this scenario

Sell Clones Scenario 01:

Reinforcement timer set to 12:00 - 13:00
Corporation sells clones at 11:00 on Monday
District state changed to locked
District unlocks at 12:00 on Tuesday -> i imidiatly sell clones after this, is the district again locked for 24h ?

Also what about downtime, will you block 11:00-12:00 as a reinforcement timer?

On the wiki article you guys stated you arn't ready to release the concept for eve bonues but invite the players to come up with ideas.

Heres mine:

a) Cargo Hub - Increases the volume of all storage facilities, command centers and starport for Eve PI by 25%

Purpose: Promotes synergy with eve through PI.

b)Surface Research Lab - Acts as 3 additional Lab Slots for PE, ME and Invention. These are avaialbel to corporations eve players available through the science and industry interface. Scientific networking 1 is required to access them (since eve players can drop BPs on planets). If the districts flips during a research job the research is lost.

Purpose: Promotes greater eve/dust player connectivity, motivating eve players to get dusties on board, especiall industry fouces corps for access to extra lab slots.

c) Production Facility - Reduces the time it takes to mainfacture Basic, Advanced & High Tech PI materials on a planet.

Purpose: Renewed intrested in PI? Synergy between eve and dust beyond "nuke it from orbit".

Why are most of the questions always on stuff that doesnt half matter? How bout some legit questions/concerns/feedback here.

In regards to planetary conquest (NOT FW):

It is stated these battles will be skirmishes, but the only win condition is to clone the other team out. Why not just make it an ambush since this is the case? Do you not see an easy way out to defending the district? A corporation gets attacked and lets say they even field a full team of 16. They do nothing but sit in the MCC/redline and never lose a clone. The attacking team hacks all the null cannons and destroys the defending teams MCC, but the only penalty for the defending team is that they cant produce clones for a time. But it doesnt matter because they didnt lose any clones did they?

Therefore, destroying the MCC either needs to be added as a win condition for the attacking team, or something along the lines of if the defending team loses their MCC they also lose a percent amount of their clones (with possibly that same percent being added to the winning teams clones). Furthermore on this point, why would anybody field a team to defend their district if the only win condition is by clone out? If you never lose a clone you always win, even if your district cannot create more clones.

Also needing consideration is allowing corporations the ability to set their hour timeframe when they want to be attacked. What will stop people from doing something like setting that hour before or after downtime when there arent many players on so that they run the lowest chance of being attacked. I like the concept of being able to set the timeframe, but one hour is far too short. I would personally suggest something like a four to eight hour time frame when they CAN be attacked (still would get the day to prepare also), but once an attack starts it can still only last for an hour.

Could we also get rid of the vehicle self-destruct in everything but instant battles? Particularly in the planetary conquest matches I could see people calling in militia LAVs over and over to try and boost salvage/isk rates, although Im not sure how successful that would be cause I feel like you would simply get a bunch of militia LAVs in your salvage and you already get those free, so whoopdy do. But personally I feel it is important to get rid of the self-destruct feature in corp run battles and such to give the game more depth through doing stuff like putting a mobile clone unit on an LAV and parking it in a strategic spot. It has balance cause the opposing team could hack it and use it for their own benefit.

Correct. A district can only be under attack by one other corporation at a time. So each district will provide at most 1 battle per day.

Do the defenders choose who they want attacking if there are multiple opponents? How does this stop a corp from.making a dummy corp to attack their districts and locking them up?

You HAVE to attack with a minimum of 100 clones.
During the battle a MINIMUM of 100 clones will be lost by the losing side.
A district at most generates 60 clones per day, and that is with that specific SI.
So if people want to waste clones locking out a district, go for it. It is not sustainable.

Do the defenders choose who they want attacking if there are multiple opponents? How does this stop a corp from.making a dummy corp to attack their districts and locking them up?

Excited for this but i have a Question for the Devs?
I'm not quiet sure about the district taking and my Question is Do a Corporation start of with a district each so the Corp can defend or a attack other Corp controlled district because if we don't start out with one how do we take a district from another corp?

The losing side loses a MINIMUM of 100 clones as well.

Are we able to start looking at how many districts are on a planet yet? Where will the whole list of information be stored? Will that be a kind of surveying thing?

You may want to add that to your Possible Conflict Resolutions table under District Penalty since I am not seeing that specified anywhere else. As long as that is true, then cool beans. Looks like its all pretty well thought out, good job.

edit: Although the time-frame mechanic could still use some looking at.

On the list of effects due to win or loss conditions, the victory of the attacker in destroying the defenders MCC results in the defender still retaining control of the district. What then is the purpose of destroying the MCC?

Genolution will sell 100 clone packages to corporations that do not own a district. So you will need to buy those to get involved in Planetary Conquest.

From the OP:

How is initial ownership of districts decided? Is it whoever plants a flag first gets it at the beginning?

Ok. So what happens when you implement this system what i am asking is do every corp start of with a district so they can attack other corps districts so that was my question. I'm just thinking like this '' you implement the system and i'm a CEO and i want to take this planet'' if i want the planet who will i need to fight for it if a corp starts out with no district's will i be doing PVE at the beginning of this system

First corporation to buy a pack of clones from Genolution and place them on a district get it.

Behold the maddest of the mad scrambles!

It doesnt and thats a clever and valid strategy.

Two questions;

1. Will we be able to name our own districts or change their names or anything like that?

2. Will defender or attackers have the option to withdraw or surrender to avoid continued loss of clones in a fight?

Controlling a single district will generate clones over time. If you end up producing more than you need, the excess clones can be sold for profit.

Corporations can expand into nearby unoccupied territory to claim it.

Does this mean that every corp gets one free district or do our CEO's pick a planet?I'm not asking for fairness but will small corps even have a real chance at controlling these districts for any amount of time?

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

Controlling a single district will generate clones over time. If you end up producing more than you need, the excess clones can be sold for profit.

Corporations can expand into nearby unoccupied territory to claim it.

Does this mean that every corp gets one free district or do our CEO's pick a planet?I'm not asking for fairness but will small corps even have a real chance at controlling these districts for any amount of time?

some things:

1. Reinforcement Timer Window:

fixed 1 Hour WIndow ? seriously ? Waaaaay too short, the timer windows in eve make stuff (MUCH !) more interesting, especially for Towers, the fact that the defender (of a tower) can fail timing the tower also brings some interesting gameplay, where badly timed districts have to be defended by a random contractor and only the well timed can be defended by the owning corporation

2. Clone generation

A factory that "produces clones" is boring, especially if all factories produce the same amount and the rate can be adjusted by adding a obscure "produce 50% more" module. Clone Production should be tied to industrial skill(point)s and the players (note: plural !) organisational skill when setting up an effective production line. There should be districts of varying quality with different resources available

3. NPC Seeded Market

Meh, get rid of that, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING

4. NPC Clone Transportation

seriously ?

How many districts will be available at launch?

You pay 20 mil ISK to put your first deployment of clones down on to an empty district and then you own it. You can also deploy to an occupied district but you'll need to fight the owners for it. There should be plenty of room for everyone.

Is there a max amount of clones an attacker can move? And does the amount of clones moved affect the cost of transportation or is it just distance?

What is the timetable for moving clones? Can I buy a million clones and conquer every open district immediately? Or attack every district at once?

No and no although both of those are ideas we have in our head and are thinking about.

please let us be able to name things and hopefully with some sort of item you have to buy to change it. it would make for a great insult for our enemies.

Since it will take multiple attacks to take over a district, what's to stop a corporation from simply waiting until another corp almost depletes all of a defending corp's clones and then sweep in and get the final blow? Kill stealing to a whole new level.

You can only buy clones from Genolution, they sell them in packs of 100, and they only sell them to people who do not own districts. They are terrible business men.

We consider these to be much more like POCO's, and actually they work almost exactly like them just with moving clones being the action that reinforces them. While watching people fail miserably at setting the stront timers on a POS is funny, it means that when the corporation attacking shows up there might not be anyone to defend the district. This is no fun.

From experience in EVE the POCO system works much better for providing people with entertainment instead of blue ball ops.

OMNOMNOMNOM beaten by a dev so different post now...

When do we get more stuff... i like being able to own districts and i love the changes!

but but STUFF?!?! i need more STUFF!!!!

Lol, but can I buy 10,000 packs and plop people into every single district all at once? Is there any limit on how many districts I can attack?

For a feature release lacking in new screen shots and full of tables its pretty kitten interesting. With only 250 districts open for grabs at the beginning there should be a mad scramble to find space for each corporation. I need time to digest all this information but the strategic element of moving clones around looks really interesting.

Is development far enough along to provide screen shots of what directors will see when planning for conquest?

See my post above yours. :)

Can I have other corporations fight my battles?
You can always pull additional players in to corporation battles using squads and if they win they will paid out of the biomass rewards. However our plan is to eventually open up a contract market place where other corporations can be hired to attack or defend districts on behalf of someone else.

The Elephant in the room map question:-

Will this be released with a fully implimented - terrain unique to each planet - dynamic/procedurally generated maps

Or will it be ashland, line harvest, manus peak, skim junction, and the wards with the same old fishbowl terrain and randomly generated structues (what we sort of have now) with the SI as a central feature.

Is there any way to transfer or give up district ownership outside of combat? When you take over a district can you automatically remove any structures built there?

The districts will all start unowned. So whoever buys a package of clones from Genolution and places them on a district first gets that district.

Say a corp owns 10 planets and staggers the attack times to defend them.

What are the chances of all 10 being attacked in a day? What happens to a district that is not attack each day?

How ******* stupid is this? Are you just too lazy to code a contract system?

You have hundreds of ******* people working on this game and you can't code a God Damned Contract System to take districts for other corps. We talked about this in irc last summer and this is the **** you come up with almost a year later.

I don't want to play ******* sim dust514 null. Come on man you guys are better then this.

You buy them as you use them. So no stock pilling the 100 clone packages.

Once you own districts, you can attack as many districts as you have clones to attack.

What happens if all of the clones are moved out of a district?

Say a corp owns 10 planets and staggers the attack times to defend them.

What are the chances of all 10 being attacked in a day? What happens to a district that is not attack each day?

Welcome to the biggest griefing tactic EVER in the history of New Eden!!

Fun times!!

You can only buy clones from Genolution if you own no districts and you pick an empty district for delivery of the 100 clones? I'm assuming at that point you own that district and can't purchase any more clones and you are limited to the 100 clones for the first day.

You cannot remove the structures that are on a district, but any action that leaves you with 0 clones at a district will abandon that district. So selling all the clones or moving them all away will abandon it.

So right now, a maxed out district with a production facility will net 60 clones per reinforcement time that they will then sell to genolution for 100k each or 6mill isk. Otherwise a district will make 4 million isk each day.

So from clone profit alone it will take 25 days to pay off a normal infrastructure investment. It would take 17 days to pay off investments with a production facility.

Either way, it seems that district profits alone will not be able to sustain thinly stretched war mongerers this doesn't even include logistics costs.

When this is deployed we'll still have separate economies? I'm guessing so and that we'll need to look to corp donations from our mercs to grab our first district.

All districts will also start with an SI.

I assume that this is a default infrastructure that does not give bonuses?

Whoa...

Perhaps they want to see how the core conquest system works before implementing the Merc contract system. If the system is broken as all hell at launch, they wasted the time making the merc system entirely. I'd rather they devote the guys who would be doing the contact system to making sure this conquest system is flawless before iterating on it.

As a parallel: Why introduce War Decs into EVE if the PVP mechanics aren't figured out yet?

Correct.

Do the defenders choose who they want attacking if there are multiple opponents? How does this stop a corp from.making a dummy corp to attack their districts and locking them up?

So corp tax's still wont be available?

Nope, the defaults will be randomized when we launch.

Step 1-You own district A on planet and you want district B,C,D,E,ETC
Step 2-You create contract (either open or confidential) on merc contract window.
Step 3-We accept your contract
Step 4-We win district
Step 5-We get paid you gain control of district.

Step 2 needs to be coded. End of Story. Why its not already in dust is beyond fail by ccp.

Can we move clones out of a district if we don't own another?

A planet is made up of many districts, 5 to 24. If a corporation owns 10 districts how many get attacked is entirely up to if others decide to attack them. To be honest I don't know how likely it will be for all 10 districts to be attacked every day, probably come down to how many other corporations hate/like you.

If a district is not attacked it sits there generating clones. You can use it to attack other districts.

Did you read how expensive it is to do all this...that cannot be sustained over time is my thoughts...

Seeing how you do not continue travel costs above 7 jumps am i correct to guess that the initial launch will be limited to 1 low sec region ? (would also fit the 250 districts)

Correct.

So its like a large game of risk and the first day we all drop our flag in the country (planet/district) we want/can afford.

The next day all hell breaks loose and you start acquiring your neighbor who put his flag to close to yours

Question is there a strategic
way to build your empire if you own all three districts around the center one. Can anyone attack any district or is there a foothold/beachead that acts like a bottelneck forcing players to acquire district a to get to district b then on to c where all the goodies are stored?

I understand each is essential its own but if a corp owns a planet wouldn't it make more sense that there is only one district that someone can attack to establish a beach head?

The districts will all start unowned. So whoever buys a package of clones from Genolution and places them on a district first gets that district.

Which region?

Which region?

Correct.

How will Genolution transport the clones in EVE? Will there be NPC ships flying around that EVE players can destroy and loot clones from?

Can you only buy 1 package of clones at first, or is it unlimited? For example, if you buy 5 packs for 100 million ISK then you can just conquer 5 unoccupied districts very quickly in the beginning. Or are you limited to just 1 pack of clones and 1 district attack at first?

The maximum clones that can be moved is equal to the maximum of the district they are being moved from. The default is 300, but this can be made 450.

And no, but see this table for complete details: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Planetary_Conquest#Distance_And_Its_Effect_On_Moves

So to be clear here. 'Clone cost' is the total amount of clones you are left with after the move?

1) So a clone cost of 20% means that if you attacked with 100 clones you would arrive on planet with 20?
2) Can multiple districts from the same corp attack the same district? 100 from A and 150 from B attacks C?
3) Can you cancel an attack. I.e. if you do an 'all in' move with all your clones from your district, and someone attacks that sending district, are you basically then screwed?

Are direct ISK transfers between Dusters going to be available by the time district ownership launches?

It puts a time limit on the match. The only two ways to finish a match are MCC destruction and clone loss. If we did not have the MCC then the battles could go on for a very long time, the final clone could hide and prevent the match from ending, all sorts of crazy things.

:D Glad to see people starting to offer suggestions on this topic. Keep them coming please.

I am not a fan of bonusing research things as the BPO's never have to be put in harms way. Manufacturing though would be a good one as things would have to go to the POS.

its gotta be Heimatar

honour duel amamake Planet 1 Belt 1 || planet 1 district 1

B)

If I log in on the first day and immediately order my batch of clones do I immediately take ownership?

If someone wants the same district on the first day can they schedule a battle for the following day or do I have to hold that district for a day before someone can declare an attack?

Once I buy clones I have to wait for 3 days to have enough clones to start my rampage if I didn't luck out and get the SI that increases clone production?

My head hurts.

Right now I've read the Wiki piece I have two questions at the moment.

1. What is the dispersal pattern for the initial district seeding. High, Low and Null sec? All three or just one.

2. District actions. With the complete lack of roles available to a corp, Just CEO and directors I think I can speak for what many CEO's will be thinking.

District actions should ONLY be the purview of the CEO and not directors. It's not that I don't trust the guys I've picked for directors, they do sterling work in D-UNI but they have the director role because it was the only one available to give them and it gives them nearly as much power as the CEO.

The CEO should have some definite separation of power from the rest of management other than being able to pick the logo.

A question
It states that a "Surface Research Lab Decreases the attrition of moving clones by 50%" does that apply to just the district that houses the infrastructure or all of a corps districts? and if it does apply to all districts would that allow you to stack its effects?

Thank you CCP, this is the kind of information we are craving.

Are there any plans for a capital installation? Something much more expensive and limited to one per corporation?

If a corporation wins a district with an existing installation does it remain or is it destroyed in the process?

Regarding transfer of ISK: I request that we have two wallets in Dust

1. Merc Wallet: corps can use funds from this wallet to purchase anything on the market (clones, MCC's, HAV, DS, LAV, dropsuits, guns, equipment, structure listed in the wiki, etc). Dust players can donate to this, and money can be given to players. Eve players cannot donate to this wallet.

2. Corp wallet: corps can use funds from this wallet to purchase only planetary structures, MCC's, and clones only; corps cannot purcahase HAV, LAV, DS, dropsuit, etc. Dust players can donate to this wallet, but cannot take funds from it except to make these purchases. In addiition, Eve players can donate ISK to this wallet, or take ISK out. Essentially, this gives corps with a precense in Eve the ability to more directly assist the troops on the ground even if they can't provide orbital support.

Imagine this: two corps - one with an industry presence in Eve and one with a PvP wing. The indy corp can't field OB support to their Dust merc, but they can help fortify the ground defenses in an indirect way (extra clones, for example); the PvP corp doesn't have the finances to help on with the extra clones, but can provide direct OB support during battle to balance out the wealth of the other corp.

Thoughts?

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.

1) Correct
2) No
3) No

:)

Die Well.