A straight forward answer. Ask your players not to just join any Corp Battles they see and first inquire if there is a spot available.

Although I do wonder why we aren't able to kick people out of PC matches. Someone sabotaging the match by not playing is one thing, but with FF on nothing is stopping that guy from sabotaging the match entirely.

Just seems strange that we can't kick those people from the match.

Why would your own Corp-mates be sabotaging your own team? Unless you are pulling in random ringers?

Sorry I'm ill informed on this so I must be missing something.

Aw ok I get you now, I never considered a spy.

This is the reason you see so many corps losing hundreds of millions of ISK.

and it will never change.

To be honest, I don't think that will be a problem. Should be enough districts to go around.

not for your corp

To be honest, I don't think that will be a problem. Should be enough districts to go around.

We need either a boot player from the match function or an invite type feature so people cannot just randomly join a corp match uninvited.

I'm just really gloomy about the future of PC as a game mode for anyone but the top 5% of players.

Look at the math- 250 districts x 32 players per day = 9,000 slots for PC battles.

That's assuming every district is attacked every day- but it will probably be less than half of them each day, so 4,500. We'll round up to 5,000.

There are over 2,000,000 mercs on DustBoard, even assuming that 75% of those are alts or dead accounts, that's 500,000 live players. Even if we assume that 80% of those play infrequently enough not to care about PC, that's still 100,000 players competing for less than 5,000 slots.

Less than 5% of players will have an opportunity to fight a PC battle on any given day.

If your in a large corp that averages 30-40 people active daily its difficult to let EVERYONE know not to join a match. Not everyone is a hardcore player that pays attention to every little detail. Some 'casaul' players open their battlefinders and see "corp battle open now" and so they just join in without thinking. This is a big issue when your partaking in tournys and what not. As listed above a simple "kick" or "invite" feature would be fantastic. Or even a more complex system where you could assign groups of players days before the match even starts. I suspect that unless they fix the problem soon the issue is only going to get worse as corps get bigger. But I heard they were working on this so will see how things go.

Less than 5% of players will have an opportunity to fight a PC battle on any given day.

As one of the corps most likely affected by the "spy" situation, I am firmly against a "kick player" option. Being a spy and sabotaging a battle should be a valid tactic, if a corp lets a spy in they should have to suffer the consequences.

As far as organizational skills and communication, there is no magic bullet. You just have to make sure your corporation is set up properly with good fundamentals. There are more skills required for corps in this game to be successful than simply those of the gun toting variety, and the larger a corp gets the more important these skills become. Leadership, organization, diplomacy, training, etc are all necessary to be able to grow and maintain a corp large enough to achieve the results you wish to achieve.

It's relatively easy to build a small corp that's basically equivalent to a few squads of Navy Seals, it's another thing entirely to try and build a large scale empire akin to the U.S. Army. In the first you just pile together some "elite" players and call yourself a corp, in the second you must create programs, guidelines, recruitment channels, organize events to keep players morale high, create schedules that are flexible enough to give every player a chance to be involved and improve, etc.

You are correct that there are a lot more planets (especially in nullsec) that will eventually be opened to PC.

At that point, however, the big sovereignty alliances will become VERY interested in PC and make sure that they become kaijus in Dust as well.

Essentially, those planets will be off-limits to most corps.

That leaves lowsec, non-FW regions, of which there are only what, six? Seven?

That puts us in the realm of what, two thousand districts?

For a game that is intended to keep growing.

Honestly, what is likely to happen is that the kaijus linked to sovereign nullsec will pull back into their space, opening up lowsec for the other primarily-Dust kaijus. They will end up dominating entire lowsec regions without any effective challengers because they have so much wealth and manpower.

Sure, some corps might be able to rent planets from them, but only in places that the kaijus think are too risky or too worthless to defend themselves. If the corps don't pay rent, the kaiju sends in the ringers to wipe them out.

This is the same problem that led to the "Blue Donut" of Non-Aggression Pacts in EVE.

Once you control a lot of planets (or systems), your only threats are similarly-sized organizations. If you don't control a lot of planets (or systems), you cannot amass the resources to take territory from a large alliance.

Barring massive NPC zerg attacks on territories that go unattacked for too long, this is likely to happen even with the "anyone can fight" rule. But keeping the possibility for spies and nincompoops will at least slow it down.

Well looking at what CCP is doing with eve (they want to make it new again like the first time you played it. A huge unknown to explore) i am thinking they are going to substantially increase the size of the EVE universe.

Also with DUST there seems to be only a little benefit of linking up with a big EVE corp. As a dust Merc the eve pilots can't really hurt us. We die and only lose a little gear. If anything keeping the Mercs in line with what an EVE corp wants will be a drain on them.

I am thinking DUST will not solidify the huge corps but open their flank to an attack.

I am also thinking CCP is doing this by design.

If someone is a spy or something?

Just doesn't make sense that we can't kick people from PC matches if someone decides to go against his team.

As one of the corps most likely affected by the "spy" situation, I am firmly against a "kick player" option. Being a spy and sabotaging a battle should be a valid tactic, if a corp lets a spy in they should have to suffer the consequences.

If they suck kick them out of corp. No more problems.