DUST Search - Planetary Conquest: DUST University wants to take a small part.

Garrett Blacknova wrote:

Unless you can get the ENTIRE community behind you - every Corporation with the numbers to play in PC - you're not going to be able to establish a training district, let alone more than that, and definitely not a whole planet.

If you can get 3 Corps together who are willing to do so, they could probably find and capture a remote planet that's out of the way and only really accessible to a new Corporation rather than an established PC Corp. Get a cooperative effort to set up a simple 3-corp battlefield and let DUST-Uni players fill out most of the battles back and forth. So each team has 3 squad leaders from the owning Corp in a battle, and the rest of the numbers on BOTH teams are made up by students - with maybe a couple of trainers in the match as well to give them pointers.

This would rely on the goodwill of the Corporations involved in the conflict, rather than on D-Uni being obligated on any level to "help" the owners - the stablity and profit from a region being held like this would probably be its own reward in comparison with any other place where 3 powerful Corps got a foothold on a planet and started tearing each other's throats out.

The other big idea is the mercenary option. This one seems more practical and viable, because it doesn't rely on outside agencies or negate the neutrality of the Corp.

Anyone in D-Uni who's interested in getting experience with PC could approach a specific designated "job broker" for the corp. All a student would be allowed to give is their availability days and times. From there, they'll be placed into a rotation of students who will be hired out on a case-by-case basis to various corporations - preferably as a relatively low-end option in terms of price, since they're (obviously) not going to be high-level players.

When their services are purchased, the student would be getting paid based on their performance in the battle anyway (mercs in PC are awarded "loot" for the battle), so the payment to D-Uni - or at least part of it - would be considered a donation rather than a payment to the individual merc who ends up with the team.

I'm pretty sure a system could be built around that basic framework that allows for D-Uni mercenaries to operate on a truly neutral level. They wouldn't be affiliated with a particular corp for any kind of term, just for a single battle, and they'd likely end up on the opposite side of the line in their next encounter with that corp. This would also help prospective "graduates" to meet and greet and look for a new Corp to move into.


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Roy Ventus Foxhound Corporation 177	Posted - 2013.03.19 20:18:00 - [1] - Quote It's not something they need to do but rather something that would be cool to do. Forgive me for my ignorance on the Dust Uni's standards and codes but the only problem I see is the fact that they would become targeted by hungry, albeit minor, corps mostly. I feel that there should be an unspoken word to not attack their districts but this is New Eden where "Adapt or Die" is the way of life. But even with such animalistic ideals, there should still be some order, especially when this corp is non-aggresive, neutral, and has an output all corps benefit from: Trained Mercs. Attacking them as all they do is collect isk to fund their organization, so that they may crank out trained players would indeed be counterintuitive. I would go as far as to say if their district is taken by a corp, we should go on and take it back for them although I know no one wants to take part of a cycle of defending another corp who field newbies all of the time, if it ever becomes such.
Roy Ventus Foxhound Corporation 177	Posted - 2013.03.20 02:11:00 - [2] - Quote Garrett Blacknova wrote: Unless you can get the ENTIRE community behind you - every Corporation with the numbers to play in PC - you're not going to be able to establish a training district, let alone more than that, and definitely not a whole planet. If you can get 3 Corps together who are willing to do so, they could probably find and capture a remote planet that's out of the way and only really accessible to a new Corporation rather than an established PC Corp. Get a cooperative effort to set up a simple 3-corp battlefield and let DUST-Uni players fill out most of the battles back and forth. So each team has 3 squad leaders from the owning Corp in a battle, and the rest of the numbers on BOTH teams are made up by students - with maybe a couple of trainers in the match as well to give them pointers. This would rely on the goodwill of the Corporations involved in the conflict, rather than on D-Uni being obligated on any level to "help" the owners - the stablity and profit from a region being held like this would probably be its own reward in comparison with any other place where 3 powerful Corps got a foothold on a planet and started tearing each other's throats out. The other big idea is the mercenary option. This one seems more practical and viable, because it doesn't rely on outside agencies or negate the neutrality of the Corp. Anyone in D-Uni who's interested in getting experience with PC could approach a specific designated "job broker" for the corp. All a student would be allowed to give is their availability days and times. From there, they'll be placed into a rotation of students who will be hired out on a case-by-case basis to various corporations - preferably as a relatively low-end option in terms of price, since they're (obviously) not going to be high-level players. When their services are purchased, the student would be getting paid based on their performance in the battle anyway (mercs in PC are awarded "loot" for the battle), so the payment to D-Uni - or at least part of it - would be considered a donation rather than a payment to the individual merc who ends up with the team. I'm pretty sure a system could be built around that basic framework that allows for D-Uni mercenaries to operate on a truly neutral level. They wouldn't be affiliated with a particular corp for any kind of term, just for a single battle, and they'd likely end up on the opposite side of the line in their next encounter with that corp. This would also help prospective "graduates" to meet and greet and look for a new Corp to move into. Was trying to say the same with my post from earlier but you went deeper into how it could actually work. This seriously needs to be thought about. The second part as well. Also for the first part, corporations aiding D-Uni would also gain the benefit of having these new players being highly exposed to their players and techniques, thus raising the probability that they will be joining their corp upon graduation.
Roy Ventus Foxhound Corporation 208	Posted - 2013.04.02 00:17:00 - [3] - Quote >.> I'd doubt any corp will really let you attack them since it'll soften them up.