Villanor Aquarius
Cygnus Tactical Operations
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Posted - 2013.04.14 15:55:00 -
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Corporations don't matter at the Planetary Conquest level.
Alliances are how any sort of sovereignty of any sort works. For individual corp focused play, Faction warfare.
Now the way to ensure a wide range of alliance sizes can get involved and stay involved in Planetary Conquest is to have a range of planet sizes where small planets have lower rewards and payouts but are also easier to defend as they require less legwork and fewer total people for defense.
CCP has a system like this in place if i'm not mistaken. A planet with only 4 districts has only 4 times it can be attacked and therefore takes fewer total people to defend, the planet also only has 4 districts to produce income from. These planets need to be appealing enough that smaller alliances will want them, or large alliances will allow them to be taken and held by member corps as they are too much hassle to bother with as an alliance as a whole.
The major planets need to have a lot of districts and thus a very large profit potential. These planets are much easier to run with enough manpower because you have more districts to upgrade and move clones around between, you also have more attack windows so you need more people to properly defend it.
Small corps should not succeed in PC. PC is meant to require coordination, diplomacy, and organization. A "small poor corp" is exactly the sort of group that shouldn't be in PC. They can band with other groups whether they are a ton of small groups or a larger group, whatever, they can join an alliance and participate and still maintain their community and feel. PC is so appealing to many because of the fact that it requires time and effort and teamwork to do properly. This invested time makes it feel important and it becomes a significant accomplishment.
For those who don't understand the purpose of holding districts, if each district base produces 100 clones per day and each clone is worth 80k, then you make in profit 8million isk per day that your clone limit is full.
Now if you hold a small planet, 4 districts, that planet earns you 32 million isk per day.
32 million isn't a huge number but when you think about it month wise, which is still fairly short term, that is 960 million isk per month from holding only 4 sectors.
The rewards are most certainly there. |