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Posted - 2013.06.06 16:16:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:LongLostLust wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:Ydubbs81 RND wrote:I'd like CCP to give some intel on it. I just a read an article on Eve's forums where CCP posted about introducing satellites. One poster asked them to sticky it and Foxfour did it immediately. I am beginning to get a little jealous lol More intel on what? Info on a date more regions will be released. Also allowing corps to buy multiple clone packs was a big mistake. There are like 20 corps with districts. There would be a lot more PC action if owned by 250 different corps. Smaller corps have little chance and segregating your only actual unique feature from 80% of your already small playerbase isn't helping matters. We have not decided on that yet. We monitor the level of activity in planetary conquest and will add more districts/regions when we feel the time is right. If we didn't allow corps to buy multiple clone packages they would have just used alt corporations. It was going to do the same thing just be a pain in the ass. That is not good game design. Yes there would be more activity in planetary conquest if all the districts were owned by different... lets say organizations as corps can be in alliances. We are aware of that and will work towards getting more people into planetary conquest. Possibly things like making some districts easier to hold but less valuable. Or something... not really sure yet. Lots of ideas floating around, so much to do, oh god head exploding.
Well heres the big problem I personally have with clone packs...... it ignores the degradation rate for attacking rule. It doesn't matter how far someone is from a system they can send 150 clones to there for a price. 80 million isn't "that" much for a big corp, and so its easy to ignore the whole "% lost over distance" rule that's been established. It totally devalues the research facilities, and if you own a whole planet a corp can make 80 million in literally one 24 hour period off of clone sales alone. I honestly don't believe the alt corp thing would have been as over used as you guys might think and let me explain why.....
If each corp is limited to ONE starter pack at a time, that is 150 clones on day 1. Currently the rules state that you MUST send 150 clones to attack with (which is a poor rule by the way). So even if an alt corp buys a district what are they going to do then? sell all but one clone so they can "give" it to the main corp?? ok.... well if the main corp takes that district they would have to send all 150 over to the next district and lose the one they had. OK, so that means they just have to wait 1 day to get the reinforcements...... well now they have two districts. One with 80 clones and the other with 150. Do you see where im going? The one clone pack per corp rule would have still worked as intended! Alt corps would have just been a means of "reserving" a spot for the main corp, and even then its not really that efficient because anyone could attack the alt corp at any time, OR attack the original plot the main corp left. So in short........ The clone pack is a problem because it provides a limitless amount of clones at any time. 150 is MORE then enough to launch an attack with, and because we were allowed to buy as many packs as we wanted, you guys have seen big corps/ alliances take over whole planets in less then 1 weak. Examples of this would be.... well the obvious STB one, or Imps, or Zion, or Southern legion. SI even..... theres hardly any small corps for a reason.... and that reason is because they cant afford to spam clone packs like the big groups do. Simple as that. |