Im betting a Jovian Region. There's like enough stars for 3 out there (may explain why genolution is selling and buying and of course allow the immortal soldiers to mass exodus into that space since none of the four empires want us.)

Hmm... That could be, although that would require letting the capsuleers into Jovian space.

Well they did say this next expansion is going to be like apothrica in how its going to add content for everyone.

Great, now I have to actually examine Jove regions. [More work]

Wait, Jovian space is considered nullsec.

It won't be Jovian space. Part of testing PC is doing bombardments with non-FW aligned pilots, and eve players can't get to Jovian space. That area is essentially a sandbox for GMs to muck around in.

One quick question with a little bit of theory behind it...


why do we have to look at only temperate planets? the mercenaries are wearing Dropsuits.... I'm assuming these Dropsuits are pressurized, self contained units (think about pods)

I don't see why we wouldnt look at rocky masses without any atmo at all (Lunar surface) or a highly volcanic planetoid unable to sustain life but rich in minerals.. (Io) Ice planetoids... (Europa)

I am surprised tbh by the lack of maps with large planets in the skyline... imagine fighting on the equivalent of one of Saturns 60 moons... they range from rocky masses to planet-sized atmospheric such as Titan..

just asking, and no I don't play Eve but my understanding of why podders want mercs to fight is so they can gain control of assets such as mineral rich planets or strategically sound points near gates or shipping routes...

Lore wise excuses are many and convient, programmer wise is that the content is not ready yet.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/newsFromEve.asp?of=true&newsTitle=empress-jamyl-i-announces-empire-intent-to-welcome-clone-soldiers-with-open-arms

An Amarr region, then?

Additionally, the soldier swill be segregated from the general population on colony worlds where they will receive treatment from the best doctors and scientists of the Empire, while being allowed to pursue worthwhile work on behalf of the Empire. He stated, GÇ£Those who are willingly Reclaimed shall not be slaves. We will allow them to live freely within their colonies, alongside their caretakers.GÇ¥

http://community.eveonline.com/news/newsFromEve.asp?of=true&newsTitle=empress-jamyl-i-announces-empire-intent-to-welcome-clone-soldiers-with-open-arms

An Amarr region, then?

GÇ£So come, outcast soldiers, and we shall succor you.GÇ¥

-that is Amarr speak for, "You will be our slaves or their food." I don't know how u guys keep buying this propaganda. NOBODY will want us. If our genesis is from the Jove I can imagine the Amarrians being especially fearful. We may even get our own new region in the direction of Jove space. Someone spotted a new nebula from an empire region about a month ago. It's possible something has been seeded for us by the Jove. I'm guessing it's not in a data dump though.

So another possibility is all of this Civil war results in a lot less High Sec space...

Ooooooo whats this.... a thread of people attempting to figure out what the first region will be! :D

I will save you some effort, because I am a nice guy and all, no planets outside the FW regions even have districts on them, so no need to go looking. :P

And now, time to wander off into the sunset!

Ooooooo whats this.... a thread of people attempting to figure out what the first region will be! :D

I will save you some effort, because I am a nice guy and all, no planets outside the FW regions even have districts on them, so no need to go looking. :P

And now, time to wander off into the sunset!

Also, the OP is bad at math. 250 Districts with a minimum of 5 districts per planet is 50 planets maximum.

My bet is Metropolis given the info we've received from the Dev post.

Everyshore has 11 planets.

CCP can easily create another off limits region. Or a wormhole sector without wormholes.

Black Rise is a frontier region of the Caldari State, and the latest area of space to be colonized by them. Previously, the region was classed as an inexplicable black void, believed to be without mass or dimension. There were attempts by both the Federation and the Caldari during the Gallente-Caldari War to establish travel routes through Black Rise to try and outflank their foe, but all such endeavours failed. Ignored for the most part, it was only recently colonized in secret by a coalition of like-minded Caldari megacorporations, despite the poorly-misunderstood stellar phenomena that plague the somewhat unexplored region. In YC 110, the eruption of the Empyrean War forced the State to reveal the region to CONCORD, and wartorn Black Rise is now a key front between Federation and Caldari forces.

Rationale?

I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just not seeing how it would be more likely than Genesis.

Ooooooo whats this.... a thread of people attempting to figure out what the first region will be! :D

I will save you some effort, because I am a nice guy and all, no planets outside the FW regions even have districts on them, so no need to go looking. :P

And now, time to wander off into the sunset!

I think it pretty obviously Genesis because of the names they have been using up to this point.

It would only make since that the start of this would be Genesis.

I've highlighted the important bits

If you'll check Dotlan, neither of the two faction warfare fronts have any Genesis systems in them.

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Caldari_VS_Gallente#region

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Amarr_VS_Minmatar#region

filtered for region for your convenience

Being minmatar, I just naturally assumed that one of the two minmatar regions in the warzone would have the "first region" for Districts. Metropolis has more space in the warzone than Heimatar so it would make sense to me that of the two, Metropolis would be more likely.

Oh kitten. I think I typed 4 into my calculator.

I'll fix it.

Tacos

Ooooooo whats this.... a thread of people attempting to figure out what the first region will be! :D

I will save you some effort, because I am a nice guy and all, no planets outside the FW regions even have districts on them, so no need to go looking. :P

And now, time to wander off into the sunset!

I assume by this you mean no planets in lowsec outside the FW regions, since Gallente hisec is full of them.

My relatives keep asking about fighting in Sinq Laison because they see districts when they do Planetary Interaction:

http://imgur.com/1ROcf0L

Even so, I appreciate the hint that the districts we are looking for might not be deployed yet.

Did you ever go back and look at that Territorial Warfare thread again?

Ooooooo whats this.... a thread of people attempting to figure out what the first region will be! :D

I will save you some effort, because I am a nice guy and all, no planets outside the FW regions even have districts on them, so no need to go looking. :P

And now, time to wander off into the sunset!

I saw noticed this after exploring a few regions. -_-

You couldn't make it easy on us could you?

Considering this:

Empress Jamyl I announces Empire intent to welcome clone soldiers with open arms

My guess is now Amarr low-sec and most likely Aridia. The Amarr can go kitten themselves if they think I'll move into their territory. My time will be spent in Devoid and The Bleak Lands saying hello with my mass driver.

Been focused on the dev blog feedback thread.

Damn it! I need star map back CCP, that was all I did in Dust in November, look at the cool cosmic art background behind the planets and systems.

Anyways, 250,000 ISK on it being a zone of twain between Caldari and Gallente space....

I can't imagine it being in any faction space because this would affect the standing of EvE ships supporting Planetary Conquest.

I also think the Amarr thing is a big red-herring to throw us off. It's just obvious that they don't care about our clones.

I think it'll be a case of us finding our own unoccupied/non-faction region and trying to forge our own clone empire.

Another Black Rise situation is possible but CCP have already done that, so maybe disinclined to repeat themselves.

It makes sense that this space will also need to be adjacent to a large area of nullsec, since the plan is eventually to expand PC into 0.0 space too.

I still think as mercs we should get together, comandeer a titan (perhaps the one over Caldari Prime), then we crash it into the surface. We then hack the jump bridge drive of the titan and jump the planet it is attached to to another system nearby. Then we can basically have it as a hostage planet or use it to threaten to eliminate any other planet in jump range. We basically need negotiating power with the Empyreans.

I can't imagine it being in any faction space because this would affect the standing of EvE ships supporting Planetary Conquest.

I also think the Amarr thing is a big red-herring to throw us off. It's just obvious that they don't care about our clones.

I think it'll be a case of us finding our own unoccupied/non-faction region and trying to forge our own clone empire.

Another Black Rise situation is possible but CCP have already done that, so maybe disinclined to repeat themselves.

It makes sense that this space will also need to be adjacent to a large area of nullsec, since the plan is eventually to expand PC into 0.0 space too.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/newsFromEve.asp?of=true&newsTitle=empress-jamyl-i-announces-empire-intent-to-welcome-clone-soldiers-with-open-arms

An Amarr region, then?

You could be right. The problem is that lowsec is all "empire" (faction space). So it would have to be in a faction or a new region.

It would be cool to see CONCORD "discover" a region near Genesis that links the four empires.

Dibs on new region yet to be discovered. I called it first!

Lonetrek all the way. It's right next to the FW blackrise space and it has as ton of low sec systems and pockets.

Fair enough.

I've already named it "Pirate Paradise", so now we can start naming systems.

Correct, we seeded the high sec planets with districts as well.

Been focused on the dev blog feedback thread.

Fair enough, but I put forth these "demands" (I'm too feeble to actually demand something though)

1) One of Temperate Planets must be named "Bojopolis"

2) There must be some very large colorful gas cloud

3) The pirates must be jolly and sing ol' sea songs

But how likely would it be that the Dev teams had time to invest in making a whole other region when they could just seed it into existing space...I really hope it's not Amarr, I like their style but their space is probably full of whacko's.

But I change my bet as I have no counter bets to compete, Amarr. They have 8 regions...Amarr.

In Eve, whoever controls an outpost can set the name. Can we name districts? Forget districts 1 through 5. How about:
Freedom's Landing
Brown sinkhole of Kitten Doom
Cloneslayer Gulch
The Kingdom of Bob
and
This is Not the District You're Looking For!

Im betting a Jovian Region. There's like enough stars for 3 out there (may explain why genolution is selling and buying and of course allow the immortal soldiers to mass exodus into that space since none of the four empires want us.)

I think Lonetrek only has 11 or 12 temperate planets in lowsec. It could be done, but they'd have to max out the districts on each one.

Clearly no understanding of Jove space. No way in Eden are we going to be in Jove space. Makes no sense.

Foxfour stop trolling.

Personally based on Lore, and recent events, I would say somewhere in Amarr or Khanid lowsec.

Out of sheer curiosity if based on recent events why not something up in Caldari/Gallente space?

In Eve, whoever controls an outpost can set the name. Can we name districts? Forget districts 1 through 5. How about:
Freedom's Landing
Brown sinkhole of Kitten Doom
Cloneslayer Gulch
The Kingdom of Bob
and
This is Not the District You're Looking For!

It seems as if it cannot be Ardia as i suspected, there are 75 temperate planets.

75*5 = 375 =! 250
no dice.

To be honest all roads are pointing towards genesis. there is enough contiguous lowsec compared to other regions, it is centrally located in eve and to the current storyline, and it has genolution stations.

That is if they don't add another region entirely, which is very much a significant possibility given the population density growth in eve and prior precedents of adding space with new features (Black Rise with FW, wormhole space for Apocrypha)

I had 3 in my mind for it back when it was announced:
- Jove #1
- Genesis #2 (launch at the birthday of EVE, at the birthplace of EVE)
- The region next to Amarr (naguton, shajarleg...) #3

The hint was given towards FW space. Jove space was ruled out. That should cut some of it off, is Genesis a FW region?

Genesis is NOT a FW region. It is primarily controlled by CONCORD with a few random others including Interbus.

What's the region where Naguton/Sahda is? Is that a FW region?
I approve of your selection based on where I started my eve career as a pirate.

Genesis is NOT a FW region. It is primarily controlled by CONCORD with a few random others including Interbus.

No, planetary conquest is a separate feature from factional warfare. We do have plans to completely change how FW battles are done, plans we will be talking about later but that will launch with planetary conquest.

To do orbital bombardment for factional warfare battles yes, you need to be in FW.

To do orbital bombardment for planetary conquest battles, that is corporations fighting to own districts, you need to be in the corporation or alliance.

My guess is still Aridia as the front runner, Molden Heath as a second and maybe Genesis due to its location and being somewhat neutral due to CONCORD.

In this thread, foxfour notes that they only have districts in FW regions; that's the hint I meant. They can change it, though.

1 low sec region that is not a FW region.

Bets on how many more times I will need to say it's not a FW region and that it is low sec?

Bets on how many more times I will need to say it's not a FW region and that it is low sec?

whats the over/under for dev trolling on this?

We know they are trolling us... *ahem* "Customer Interaction"ing us.

The question is how much.

They've been pretty consistent on a few things- 250 districts, lowsec, non-FW. Other than that, it's all speculation.

Of course, somewhere in this thread the right answer has probably appeared.

For all I know, the devs haven't decided yet and they're letting us do all the work by being coy and acting like there's a big secret.

Oh, we know what region we have selected. Been doing our testing in it. :)

Now if we just could get into test server, that CCP uses, and see the population distribution in systems...

Oh, we know what region we have selected. Been doing our testing in it. :)

awesome.......so which is it

Genesis?
cus its where eve gate is...

Now if we just could get into test server, that CCP uses, and see the population distribution in systems...

Good job

Bets on how many more times I will need to say it's not a FW region and that it is low sec?

We can, and I did. Thanks to your "dope slap" upside my head...

I found them.

THE FIRST REGION IS MOLDEN HEATH.

http://i.imgur.com/AgSGqpz.jpg

We can, and I did. Thanks to your "dope slap" upside my head...

I found them.

THE FIRST REGION IS MOLDEN HEATH.

http://i.imgur.com/AgSGqpz.jpg

Well if you really want to get into it, at least one planet is going to have 5 districts and at least one is going to have 24. So if you want to find the maximum its

(250-24)/5 + 1 = 46.2 and then you have to round down, so 46 max.

For the minimum it'd be

(250-5)/24 + 1 = 11.2 and you'd have to round up, so 12 min.

But who's keeping track? Plus there's not even going to be 250 districts, but around 250 districts. I'm just having fun.

We can, and I did. Thanks to your "dope slap" upside my head...

I found them.

THE FIRST REGION IS MOLDEN HEATH.

http://i.imgur.com/AgSGqpz.jpg

was this on sisi?

have you verified that this is the only one with districts?

You know nothing says there is a max number of planets. I mean yes there is an upper number of districts and a min number of districts per planet , but nothing saying that all temperate planets that fit the criteria in the region will be used.

Why would this be a "Tyrannis" level screw up? Because the secret was leaked or because Molden Heath is a terrible region to do it in?



The fun thing about districts, changing which region is active is awesome easy. Takes one line to make active or deactive a region. Great for testing.

Why would this be a "Tyrannis" level screw up? Because the secret was leaked or because Molden Heath is a terrible region to do it in?



The fun thing about districts, changing which region is active is awesome easy. Takes one line to make active or deactive a region. Great for testing.

Damage control spotted; giving you a like to break the even 3000.

FoxFour, I'm still undecided about if your either a mind humper extraordinaire or an troller of epic proportion.

Either way, your getting a pint or two from me in two weeks.

I LIKED THAT 3,000!

I was actually, and I know this coming from me is hard to believe, responding honestly to Rubico. I would like to know why he thinks it is a "Tyrannis" level screw up and I was honest, it takes us no effort to change the region.

I was not confirming or denying anything about if that is infact the region. If I wanted to really screw with you guys I would go around the test server changing the region and watching you map out random regions that are randomly seeded and will never make it onto TQ.... O_O Oh man BRB need to go talk to Nullabor...

Why would this be a "Tyrannis" level screw up? Because the secret was leaked or because Molden Heath is a terrible region to do it in?

The fun thing about districts, changing which region is active is awesome easy. Takes one line to make active or deactive a region. Great for testing.

Entirely possible that they're running it on an internal server rather than holding it on Sisi. And just trolling on Sisi.

HA! My theory of it being in Jove space still holds up!

HA! My theory of it being in Jove space still holds up!

It's all been turned into FW space.

FW space has expanded on sisi?

Yes. I can't remember the systems off the top of my head, but when I was first bopping around I went to some lowsec systems that are marked as non-FW on Dotlan, but were FW on Sisi.

I had this "EUREKA!" moment when I found them and then I realized that they had the FW panels in the HUD.

So after that, I had to be careful to look for the FW panel to make sure I hadn't blundered into an expanded FW system.

Can you give more details on this please...

Can you give more details on this please...

I was actually, and I know this coming from me is hard to believe, responding honestly to Rubico. I would like to know why he thinks it is a "Tyrannis" level screw up and I was honest, it takes us no effort to change the region.

Why would this be a "Tyrannis" level screw up? Because the secret was leaked or because Molden Heath is a terrible region to do it in?



The fun thing about districts, changing which region is active is awesome easy. Takes one line to make active or deactive a region. Great for testing.

Changing which region is active is awesome easy eh? A friend of mine say's this about it.
"Yes, I'm aware that it's "Super easy" to change which region is active ... but all the other regions with Districts are Faction Warfare (on sisi, not TQ) so in order to switch the PC Region they would have to Build Districts (not super easy) in another Non FW Region before they made the switch."

basicly claiming you have not even bothered to build the districts anywhere else?
hurm i wonder.....

Why would this be a "Tyrannis" level screw up? Because the secret was leaked or because Molden Heath is a terrible region to do it in?



The fun thing about districts, changing which region is active is awesome easy. Takes one line to make active or deactive a region. Great for testing.

Dust 514 Keynote, 43:50 mark:

http://www.twitch.tv/ccp/c/2204060

It's Molden Heath.

No mention of me, though.

HA! My theory of it being in Jove space still holds up!