AWOXING
A pretty big topic around these parts and something a lot of people have different opinions on. To be clear we don't want to make this kind of gameplay impossible. However we want to give tools to corporations to help better manage these risks.

In the long term we want to build upon the roles system adding roles to restrict who can enter a battle, who can invite others to battles, and those types of things. That is going to take time but we feel something needs to be added sooner rather than later.

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.

District state upon capture
With the release of planetary conquest when you conquered a district it would immediately be locked and you would have to wait 24 hours before you could do anything. There were several reasons for this including helping deal with the release of all the empty districts and giving the people who just lost the district a bit of a better chance to attack back; the purpose being generating more battles.

Upon monitoring how you guys use the system since release however you have proven there are ways to avoid the second reason and the first reason is... well not much of a concern now.

So we will be changing it so that when you take a district it is in an unlocked and online state instead of locked and online.

When we eventually add a new region we will come up with a better (hopefully :P ) and different way to handle that specific problem.

Just a quick update for you guys. You will however notice I didn't include any dates for this stuff. Basically we will get it out when we can, but these are things we are actively working on.

AWOXING
A pretty big topic around these parts and something a lot of people have different opinions on. To be clear we don't want to make this kind of gameplay impossible. However we want to give tools to corporations to help better manage these risks.

In the long term we want to build upon the roles system adding roles to restrict who can enter a battle, who can invite others to battles, and those types of things. That is going to take time but we feel something needs to be added sooner rather than later.

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.

District state upon capture
With the release of planetary conquest when you conquered a district it would immediately be locked and you would have to wait 24 hours before you could do anything. There were several reasons for this including helping deal with the release of all the empty districts and giving the people who just lost the district a bit of a better chance to attack back; the purpose being generating more battles.

Upon monitoring how you guys use the system since release however you have proven there are ways to avoid the second reason and the first reason is... well not much of a concern now.

So we will be changing it so that when you take a district it is in an unlocked and online state instead of locked and online.

When we eventually add a new region we will come up with a better (hopefully :P ) and different way to handle that specific problem.

Just a quick update for you guys. You will however notice I didn't include any dates for this stuff. Basically we will get it out when we can, but these are things we are actively working on.

AWOXING
A pretty big topic around these parts and something a lot of people have different opinions on. To be clear we don't want to make this kind of gameplay impossible. However we want to give tools to corporations to help better manage these risks.

In the long term we want to build upon the roles system adding roles to restrict who can enter a battle, who can invite others to battles, and those types of things. That is going to take time but we feel something needs to be added sooner rather than later.

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.
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I shall leave you all with this thread for a bit, go play a round of DUST, and then come back to answer any questions. :D

LOLX

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.

AWOXING
A pretty big topic around these parts and something a lot of people have different opinions on. To be clear we don't want to make this kind of gameplay impossible. However we want to give tools to corporations to help better manage these risks.

In the long term we want to build upon the roles system adding roles to restrict who can enter a battle, who can invite others to battles, and those types of things. That is going to take time but we feel something needs to be added sooner rather than later.

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.

Bandaid covering a gash that requires over 500 stitches.

Lag is the 1st concern for PC not AWOXing, well that is what I believe.

I'm honestly somewhat disappointed with this response. It's a bandage to a larger issue that isn't being addressed: Dust Side Director Roles and Corporation Management. At the moment, from DUST side, they are so anemic that they might as well not be there at all. Instead, this seems to be an unnecessary nerf which will only really ignore the real issue that is the root cause of AWOXing.

?'s you may or may not know the answer to:

How long (estimate) will all race dropsuits? Would CCP be down for another optional respec for classes that have missing suits?
Did the office explode when all the bug reports and balance issues came in? Are features being pushed back to work on fixing stuff or is CCP working on both?

SoxFour!!!

That's exactly the right balance, good to see you never went full short socks on that.

Couple questions:

- When can we expect to see these fixes take effect? In the mean time no serious corp is taking new players into their ranks. Not sure if this is how devs want the newplayer experience to be. Want to take part in PC as a new guy? Not gonna happen.

- Is there a time frame on when EVE players can contract DUST mercs? ( Soon = 3-5 months away, not Soon = 6 + months ) and can you give us any idea on how that will work?

- The issue of latency issues in PC, have you guys figured the problem out or are still looking at it?

- How soon will there be 24v24 player lobbies in PC? If at all. Will map size dictate this?

This doesn't solve the issue at all. Put some damn Director Roles in already.

Bandaid covering a gash that requires over 500 stitches.

Lag is the 1st concern for PC not AWOXing, well that is what I believe.

there is a lot more you need to Fix with planetary conquest then that

Edit: Holy blue posts batman, foxfour beat me to it

- No time frame yet, they are being worked on and coming as fast as possible. We wanted to get this information out now though so you guys know we are working on it and also to gather feedback.

- No, no ETA on that yet.

- No ETA on that.

It literally says in the OP that is what we are doing :facepalm:

The real question is timeline for delivery, different features take different amounts of time to create. Anyone with an appreciation for the corporation roles system in EVE might understand the minefield we are stepping into.

Kick from warbarge is not the perfect solution but we can deliver it quickly while we finish up better corporation role management.