All interesting ideas Wolf and I'm sure something like these will happen eventually but not for quite some time.

Also, as you mentioned, doesn't fix the one remaining exploit - alt locking districts for free growth - but would simply make PC more interesting and complex.

Iron Wolf, in the realm of game development there is no lack of ideas, plans or thoughts. You can find a never ending stream of consciousness from enthusiastic gamers about how to make better games.

What IS limited, however, is the manpower to perfect these ideas and implement them into a game. You can bet your ass that every single member of CCP has lots of ideas on how to make Dust and Eve better, and that they have been cherry-picking ideas like yours for years.

I agree that the PC system as outlined by CCP is far from perfect. I also think they had to draw a line and say "Okay, we need planetary conquest to happen by may 6th. This will be stage one." Could we wait and see what color CCP paints the walls before we pick out drapes, molding and carpet for the room? The roof of the house isn't even on the blueprint yet.

That said, your idea has it's appeal... but it's just another idea in a vast ocean of them.

I didn't dismiss, I symbolized waiting until the 6th happens before we start theory crafting ways to add to it. CCP themselves mentioned somewhere that the PC model they outlined could change before the 6th, so the figurative sheet rock hasn't even been properly hung.

Here's an idiom I will badly chop up to fit. You're putting the cart before the horse before the woods have been cleared to stamp out the dirt road.

I been saying that about others ideas who are fear crafting blue ball one day one though. ><

You claim that other ideas listed aren't elegant. And this really doesn't seem any more elegant or simple than what I've read from most people. Also how would it be explained from a lore perspective?

"On Thursday, the citizens of Nein IV in the Ergruk constellation of Metropolis cowered in fear as their skies turned red! Something ominous is approaching their land...That or they are about to be drafted for biomassing for an impending war, once again. They have begun to protest in the streets and wish that their thoughtless merc overlords would change the skies back to white or green once again."

Well if you know anything about EVE, you know why they fear it. If you know anything about that, you also know that CCP is fully aware of that fear. I highly doubt they plan to allow PC to become a giant single coalition stagnant wasteland. I have faith that if it does happen that way, CCP will introduce something to shake it up.

I also have no doubt that no matter what happens, this forum will continue to be filled with Jr. Game Developers (tm) until the doors close... Why am I even posting? lol. Let the amateur game development proceed, good sir!

I feel that many ideas are trying to cut the heads off a hydra and doing so only pisses the hydra off more and the very thing they are trying to prevent happens FAR faster than expected.

Create a system that cannot be satisfied, cannot be completed and cannot be harmonized. Always hungering always starving and always being starved.

Truth

Pretty much what I wrote, only with less of my flowery words and comparisons. Rynx, you'd have better luck dissuading a lion from eating meat than trying to convince an internet forum to stop pointless armchair game developing though.

+1 anyways.

I will throw a few ideas out on how to achieve this following below. Just rememember I have to adhere to one main rule.

"Must be able to operate without Eve Online"

+2.

We need testing before refining the system.

Pretty much what I wrote, only with less of my flowery words and comparisons. Rynx, you'd have better luck dissuading a lion from eating meat than trying to convince an internet forum to stop pointless armchair game developing though.

+1 anyways.

Precedence

Actually the first thing to dissuade if turning anything into magic is the concept that in the world of Magic The Gathering there is no need to bathe or use deodorant. I've been to releases, that stench would rust a tank through the internet.

Well there is only so much testing I can with graph paper and color pencils.

He is referring to the already proposed concept CCP is implementing.

The result being that we are saying we lack information to give a proper analysis of it, and using the bones of something we can't analyze properly to create a primarily new system means you can analyze that even less.

We can't properly prove or disprove the validity of any idea. I can start talking about roving bands of space banditos who strike districts being ignored too much. I can rave about training native animals to fight as part of your team and trading them on the open market as a resource from specific planets. I can talk about strapping a jetpack to a planet and moving it or the ability to build installations underground. I can have the greatest game developers of our time mate with ivy league professors and train the offspring to figure out if it is possible to modify the conquest mechanic to instead be a feudalistic driven society but their word wouldn't mean crap because they don't have the necessary data to make accurate decisions.

new tl;dr; my dad would not be a good coach for the steelers.

Considering that I used to live on a ship that its only weakness would have been paint thinner, I find little amusement in this statement.

Also I do know several countries that would rather use water for drinking than bathing, dehydration is not a good way to die.

Referencing this idea.

Essentially, take 5% / 7% / 10% from the profit (per day they are in control) that a corporation makes on a district and store it in a "takeover fund" so that whomever comes in and takes over the district will be rewarded with this "takeover fund".

This will provide incentive to attack, especially when these funds get to be really large numbers...

To me (a novice) this seems like it would be a "quicker" solution and would not take as many man hours to program as some of the loftier ideas shared thus far...