When the dust settles, I'm sure you can work out a rental deal if you want to stay small. The power locks will definitely be looking for buffer renters that take the first wave of attacks and pay a portion of their district income.

The main problem I have with the current build is that you have to be defending every day, this is a problem for a number of reasons.

what if a lot of your corporation is off line for whatever reason.

What if you have say six districts that have to be defended at different times? That's six hours of defending.

The list could go on, but these are the main concerns I have. But here's my solution. The premise would be that you can make your district go in to a lock down where the district can't produce anything but can't be attacked ether.

And to prevent people from abusing this, each district has a production meter that goes down when you're in lock down, and if it hits the bottom you will have to pay a certain amount to keep the district in lock down. And the lower your production bar, the less productive the district is after you come out of lock down. Your production meter will refill when you're out of lock down though. This would make managing multiple districts much easier. Because rather than having to defend a bunch of districts for up to eight hours a day, you can juggle the districts you want to defend at a time.

P.S please give corporations the option to change the attack window.

And if most of your corporation can't play on certain days, than you just put your districts on lock down. But to be fair you should have to set up your schedule a week ahead, so that if other corporations want to attack your districts they will know when they can. This would be a much better build in my opinion because it does't put the smaller corporations at a such huge disadvantage, and it just makes more sense than having to defend all your districts every day. But in the end when you think about this, it evens itself out pretty nicely. If you go in to lock down a lot, you wont get attacked as much but you lose money the longer you do it.

And in contrast, if you are in production a lot you make more money and grow much quicker, but you are going to face more battles and possibly lose districts. Of course you are going to have to iron out details like, how long until your production meter goes down, or how much it regenerates, but this is the basic concept. if you feel that this a good idea, please give me support and share this with as many people as possible, because I would rather see this be used than what they have now.

CCP Nullarbor mentioned an idea of possibly delaying ur timers at a cost of reduced clone regen but it wont be in Uprising build they want to see how things play out 1st in the current setup

Again, if i-¦m rich enough, after an initial landgrab, i simply take a whole system and lock it down indefinetly, simply paying money for it and making them unavailable to the rest of the game?

It wont be cheep to leave it in lock down, and that's the point. and while you are in lock down you don't make anything, and when you come back it will take a while to get back to full production.

I-¦m talking game mechanic and principle here.

Titans were thought to be so expensive that no one would have them. Now they-¦re in over abundance in EVE.

If it-¦s expensive, people will pay, be it with isk, be it with RL money.

Goonswarm alliance name is under lock because the old leader left the game, and he has enough money to pay for the bils of mainaing the name for another 6 years at least. All that while not playing the game anymore.

If you create a mechanic where money (isk or aurum) can hold a district, be sure, people will abuse it.

I-¦m not talking "diminished returns" or "zeroing revenue" on a locked down district. I-¦m talking people paying for it to be locked down, just to be locked down.

If this were to happen, we would soon see revolts to have Agrarian Reform, because that-¦s the issue here.

Blue Donut ahead, sir! Boredom, HO!

Trollsroyce is correct that this is the likely outcome.

CCP has a great deal of difficulty building the game to make it friendly to smaller groups. I think they are trying, and indeed NOT being able to change the timer hurts the big guys ("kaijus") too because it means that they need to have a management structure that can be on 24/7 and lead effective teams of ringers in every time zone.

The small guys ("sharks" and "minnows") at least have to option of confining themselves to one or two districts. The kaijus and "monsters" (mid-to-large) don't really have that luxury if they want to be taken seriously.