ill admit it fucks up smaller corps
they will already have a hard time holding 1 district the price for re-entry should they get the boot will keep them out which imo is a bad move

Disagree

Taxes will help and I hope are added into the game, but if your corp can sustain itself without taxes than you may need to rethink you management style.

If you can't get your corp to pull together 80m ISK than you need to either reconsider your corps involvement with PC or start recruiting.

80m ISK / 16 man tema = 5m ISK per person. Most people can get 5m ISK in about 2/3 nights worth of pubs...

My last concern is this: I thought DUST was going to allow for merc corporations to have a role in PC without the desire to actually own districts. Basically the ability to be contracted out for defense or attacks to gain or protect distrcits for other corps, especially EVE corps without any feet on the ground.

Is this not the case?

If so, how will this aspect of it work? How will a corporation be able to act as a mercenary corp to defend or attack districts? Will they be using their own clones, or the clones of the corp they are working for?

Well. This has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons and no mistake.

Now aside from the additional cost the clones packs (which is a total killjoy for the more modest corps hoping to take part in this), the unlimited purchase of them has just given the larger corps exclusive rights to PC and totally destroys any chance of this being a strategic game mode. Within a week less than 10 corps will hold all the districts and with the winnings and ISK from the clones they're just going to get richer, better equipped and more likely to club together to prevent anyone breaking their monopoly.

Congrats and well done for giving Dust immovable power blocs. Smart move.




Now this is something I have a problem with.

Its now looking very likely we need a corporation Tax? It's only just looking likely?!!That suggests to me that at some point the need for corporation tax hadn't even occurred to you? Was that the same day it occurred to CCP that corps only needed two roles, didn't need corp mail, mailing lists or a wallet system that didn't have a transaction history?!!

What PC is increasing doing in point of fact, is demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of what is required by corps to run and fund their corps in the first place! All of which has a direct impact on being able to do PC at all.

It's not that you've build a house with no foundations, it's the fact your expecting the second floor to hover in the air above where the ground floor should be.

I'd be willing to accept that the timers don't change if the district can get clones generated on them though.

The disincentive comes from distance losses, yes, but also from the lack of rewards.

I've long postulated that Genesis may be the first region for PC. If that is the case, then there are some pockets in that region:

The minipocket constellation of Nazdirer (1 Temperate in Vecamia) is 5 jumps from the Mih midpocket (5 Temperates total). Nazdirer's is also 6 jumps from the Ashela midpocket (4 Temperates) and the Ubar minipocket (2 Temperates). The Nazdirer pocket is 8 jumps from the nearest part of the Monalaz-Meli-EVE megapocket and 12 jumps from the Aven-Makh-Kihkounad megapocket.

A Kaiju corp is not likely to want to hold Vecamia because it is really far from any other planets and those corps can make a lot more money by owning most (or all) of a megapocket. Furthermore, their holdings in the megapocket are easier to reinforce from clones elsewhere in the pocket.

By contrast, Vecamia (the Nazdirer minipocket) can only effectively rely on that one planet for reinforcements. At best, only 55% of the clones sent from the nearest other pocket (Mih) would arrive. That means that corps would more likely have to buy clones (at five times their street value) to make up the difference.

If you are a Shark, then only having a couple of districts on Vecamia VIII is awesome. If you are a Kaiju, then defending districts on Vecamia via clone packs is a waste of money. You could much more cost-effectively attack nearby systems than trying to project force halfway across the region.

In addition, the Shark corps (and Minnows who want to be Sharks) will very quickly realize this and focus their efforts on the minipockets. As a result, the minipockets will be filled with battles. This means that districts belonging to distant corps are likely to be the preferred targets of Minnows and Sharks hoping to win a district by attrition. Since those districts are a net loss for Kaijus and Monsters, the big boys are likely to let those pockets alone.

Please reconsider that 'jumping over hisec'.
It feels unnecessary and reduces the feeling of location.
It wouldn't be bad if there would be sort of islands of lowsec instead of everything connected. Just different. I feel that it would be nice to have clear borders etc.