The difference between the two is that when the district is unoccupied, or has no owner, when it is first taken the first reinforcement window does not happen and the first possible fight is delayed by 24 hours.

We had announced that there would be three bonuses in EVE, one for each surface infrastructure. The planetary interaction bonus for owning the production facility has been dropped. There are many reasons for this, the primary being that we didnGÇÖt feel it was a worthwhile bonus to provoke fights and didnGÇÖt have time to create a new one.

Production Facilities were already nerfed from 50% more production to 25% more. Now you're taking away the EVE bonus, making people even less likely to use them. Are there any plans to make them more viable in the near future?

We actually believe they will be the most common SI and the bonus we were going to give them for EVE was a really lackluster bonus. Temperate planets are not really used for extraction, they are primarily used as factory planets. We would like to look at a bonus that affects factory planets instead.

We will monitor their use post launch and see how things go. If they truly are the least used we will focus on getting that extra bonus out sooner.

This is very true... I love things like this. We shall see how this stuff actually plays out over the next few weeks! :D

Since being the only one posting in here has emboldened me:

What color shoes aren't you wearing?

May I suggest at least coming up with some plans and have alternatives ready. We saw what happened last time we role something big out

About the EVE bonuses, any details on how this pans out? Do my POS towers suddenly all require less fuel by magic?

Same as the fuel bonus in null sec. So yes, basically if your POS is anchored at a moon around the planet you own a district on, you get the bonus.

Ah see, these details are whats important.
I thought it was a global fuel reduction for all corp posses. Thanks for clearing that up

Quick "how" question.

How, will we be capturing unclaimed districts? Will there be an isk cost? Will we have to go to battle with another corp for it?

Hope this helps you guys in your planning of planetary conquest. Doing our best to make sure you are all as informed as possible. :)

Thanks, SoxFour!

Do you already have ideas for a bonus to replace the PF bonus that you are removing?

(...):/ The effort people are going through to keep that name alive amazes me...

Nonetheless you're more than welcome.

1question around how much is will the clone starter pack cost?. And a question about the new starter packs will you require skill to use the dropsuits and on the heavy attack vehicles for Elite pack y did they all have c/1 if i member correctly that is the caldari advance dtropsuit

Two questions that I could not confirm:

1. Since limitations to Clone Starter Pack purchase has been lifted. Will we have the capability to purchase multiple packs for a single unoccupied District?

2. I understand unoccupied Districts will have an established Reinforcement Timer when initially captured. Will we still have the capability to change the timer after the 24 (or 48) hour mark, or has that option been eliminated from P/C?

Thanks.

Two questions that I could not confirm:

1. Since limitations to Clone Starter Pack purchase has been lifted. Will we have the capability to purchase multiple packs for a single unoccupied District?

2. I understand unoccupied Districts will have an established Reinforcement Timer when initially captured. Will we still have the capability to change the timer after the 24 (or 48) hour mark, or has that option been eliminated from P/C?

Thanks.

Unless I'm not understanding, is there anything to stop a corp active in vastly different time zones from invading when another corps is unable to muster a defense (like, in the morning during their work week?). If the battles are always offset an exact time from the invasion, it seems like this could happen often.

So a corp attacks in the window of 1400-1500 the exact time is 1448 will the battle happen at 1448 the next day?

CCP SoxFour answered this elsewhere, during fanfest presentation I think.

Answer was, Battle time will be random in that one hour window, but it will say the exact time as soon as it is confirmed.
So when you attack you will know sometime 1400-1500, once you have confirmed attack you and defender will find out the exact time.

Confirm the attack?

about the reinforcement timer. if a coalition of players makes an active push to get all the districts into one time zone that is in the day for america but the middle of the night for europe. are you gonna care? i'm indifferent but i hear you have lots of players who like to break your games.

My estimate will be weekends. While during the week most people have lives to live and have a set schedule, the weekend is where all bets are off. Something that would be terribly inconvienient for European or far east players can easily be made up for on the weekend as you can adjust your timing accordingly. Most often the timers for North American players will be around 20:00-04:00 EVE time so depending on where your playerbase is, if you really wanted a certain district you can have your team wake up early or stay up a little later and grab the district.

Weekdays I'm geussing is where the action is going to happen between corps within thier time-region.

this seems the most likely situation. i'm just curious what ccp would think if it did happen that all the districts started concentrating in one time zone.