Kain, I greatly appreciate the offer but it is worth stating that we are still discussing our options internally and as such any talk with us at this stage would be flimsy at best. That's not to say don't get in touch but just informing you that we are not ready for serious discussion with outside corps.

Also don't believe I thanked you for you grenade tip on twitter, works perfectly. (what even I get bummed at AFK'ers in the MCC )

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.

This is a beta.... so beta test the idea of D-U taking part in PC and see if that meets your goals.

Don't forget friendly fire.

No FF in pubs.

I'm not a rep of Dust U, but they are a part of the Ivy League alliance- Home to EVE University, the game's longest running and most respected training school for new pilots.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Eve_University_(Player_corporation)
http://www.eveuniversity.org

They have long been known for their neutrality in nullsec politics/wars and as a feeder for everybody. When I use the term "Colleges" in this thread, I'm referring to Dust U, EVE U and similar corps.

In EVE, though, there are a lot of ways for EVE U to get funding and arrange practice spaces.

There is not presently a set of mechanics in Dust to let the Colleges do that effectively.

I keep forgetting about that myself, going to be such a game changer.

Personally I'm equal parts excited and scared about FF. Excited because its going to make the P.C gameplay just that much more intense and squad co-ordination is going to be insane and scared because, I know I'm going to end up killing my own team and they will be killing me.

Still looking forward to it though!

Mine being that in this situation the community would be supporting the work we are doing at D-Uni and giving us the tools to do our job that much better, the income generated from that isn't even part of my thought process, its an after thought.

Grunt Experience
But the opponent your playing against wouldn't be playing the same game as you.

Add to that the increased communication between the involved educational corps, sharing of information, teaching practices and the opportunity to have a direct comparison of teaching practices. it would be a hot bed of education. the ideas and minds brought together through it would change in game education. give me a tingly feeling just thinking about it.

You guys openly admit to taking in newbies and teaching them how to play, that's going to be too easy a target with so few planets/districts up for grab.

You know we'd gank if for a start, i'm sure other corps here would too. Chances are you'd end up on the defensive 100% from day one.

Also worth saying iv got a lot of respect for Cerebral Wolf Jr, he is the only merc who has posted here being honest that his corp would see us as a target of opportunity. I don't doubt for a second there are many others like him who haven't posted.

So thanks Cerebral.

HA awesome gbghg, I always enjoy playing against you guys, every small push, hell some matches even every kill feels like a massive victory our end

DU should approach the leadership of the top corps in the game to see if they can work something out.

Mithridates,

Income

I do see where your coming from with the income. And I'm reluctant to continue that line of debate as its beginning to feel like your goading me. That's not to say that if you bring up a new point I wont answer it, of course I will but at the moment your point has not changed and so neither has my response.

You miss the point. The purpose of district ownership should be unique content, either through special modules, pve, or player controlled facilities. A "training center" would explicitly not require a corp battle of any kind, it would be like having an invite only lobby. Because of the server costs it might cost AUR to establish or some ilk, but it is merely one of a dozen *interesting* things that could be done.

I may have really out of date information, but Eve Uni operates out of a station in High Sec right? I wouldn't see any problem with them picking a planet there in their high sec system for doing PC. Not sure how many planets are in that system, but eventually Dust should have all of this. There is a whole universe of content, other corps should find their own place. From what it sounded like in other post the vulnerability timer would be at a set time and you only need to field about 16 people. That sounds like if you come under attack you only field your still tagged Alumni and Seniors and Professors. If anyone claims about you not being neutral, just say. Hey, this is where we live, go fight somewhere else.

Sponsorship would actually be against our key objective, damage the reputation of D-Uni and cause the standard of education we can provide our students to drop. So at no point will we ever be seeking donations from corps or player outside of D-Uni.