So most of you agree that PC should be entitled to the top tier players only? And for the vast majority, there is instant battle... lame. The number of districts is laughably small.

Maybe you didn't understand what I said. Read it over.

Basically, when people(Corps/Alliances) are comfortable about where they stand, that should be the time for more space to open.

If that's not what's going to happen, than what we'll have is just land grabbing and ISK farming.

Shush kid

They can fight to keep it...how do you propose a level C corp to take a district if only higher tiered corps owns all of the districts? Inve been watching a corp named Zero Atmosphere, trying relentlessly to get into PC but they just havent beaten anyone yet.

We can say that only the strong survive but if players can't play due to a limited amount of districts then, they won't play dust. And well, there goes our playerbase.

so it will be peace. which is our antithesis as mercenaries, we thrive on conflict. without conflict we die. you want peace before the districts are opend, therefore you want the game dead before any kind of improvement happens to it.

and "when the corps are comfortable about where they stand" is just giving the big corps more cash with which to nab every single new district that opens up. so by waiting longer, you exacerbate the problem.

Lookout Internet tough guy

The fact that the Corp Member Size Cap is so high should shout in all of the people's ears who are complaining about smaller corps not have a place in PC that NEW EDEN ISN'T A PLACE FOR SMALL CORPS

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.

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.

Carebear Thread Alert

PC is not Farmville nor to print ISK for helpless scrubs. You want a district in PC then going to have to fight for it .

What isn't clear to the rewards on the DUST side of things is that some planets/districts are already more valuable than others, not only tactically, but also economically, but this relative value is mostly on the Eve side. A district with a single technetium moon, is much more valuable than a district with a couple cobalt, or silicates moons for example. Right now, moon amount or quality is the biggest determiner of district quality.

If we could have something like a POS module that was necessary to get SI bonuses from your DUST side districts to your POSes then it could be used kind of like a POCO, but in reverse. Perhaps it could be loaded with a commodity, kind of like fuel (biomass?), that then is slowly converted into isk that is transferred to the local district owners (via payment transfers to/from an NPC corp or something)... If it were to run out, then the POS bonuses stop, and Eve corps don't get isk. You could even make it able to be loaded with a variety of things, each possibly modifying SI rewards, or payments to districts...I'll think about this more and find a more appropriate thread for it...

More intel on what?

Seriously though? So, you're ok with only a few corps in PC? Because if youre not one of the Big 3 or a corp with nothing but allstar players then you wont get it whether you fight for it or not.

I'm not asking for CCP to give districts away just open more districts to allow for more corps and variety of fights

What happens when those corps are turned into the next DF or STB. NF sells districts all the time. If terrible players want to own stuff simply buy a district from NF via Kanes escrow service. It's not like it's impossible for people to own land. However being good enough to defend that land is another story.

The idea is this:

If there are more districts, then corps/alliances may be spread to thin to expand....thus allowing new corps/alliances to capture and defend those districts against other corps/alliances. And these new corps won't have to be elite either. They can be B or C level as far as talent is concerned.

Think about it like this...Cronos and EoN is in an ongoing war right now, right? Would they have the manpower to conquer another entire region? Maybe but most likely not...now, a corp like Zero Atmosphere and an alliance like General Tso's can creep in participate in PC.

Imagine if eve had about the same amount of districts.....how dull would it be if Goons or PL owned all. And they would be able to because they wouldnt be spread so far.

this issue right now is the districts are not that valuable. I think the Isk output should be doubled. That would promote more fights for land and also make it worth spending 160-240mil to buy into PC. Hell it's even hard to sell a district because to get the money back u have to hold the district for a month... Ccp really need to think about this doubling the Isk would be the perfect payout not too much not too little. 16-20mil. Just right.

This issue right now is the districts are not that valuable. I think the Isk output should be doubled. That would promote more fights for land and also make it worth spending 160-240mil to buy into PC. Hell it's even hard to sell a district because to get the money back u have to hold the district for a month... Ccp really need to think about this doubling the Isk would be the perfect payout not too much not too little. 16-20mil. Just right.

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.

@ Marston.....I agree with you. Gen packs really are not expensive to some corps and they can spam them without the loss of transfer notion.

If you make them cheaper...they will still be EVEN CHEAPER for these 'super corps'.

Go away trooper...Gen Pack cost is not the fix you are looking for...

**EDIT** unless I misread...You might be suggesting that they need to have some sort of distance factor. Which, I'm not sure how that would work? Suggestions? Maybe if we paid rent for an established office somewhere, and that became the location from which you deployed clones?

Rental offices are already a thing in Eve, and I wonder how hard it would be to make them such in Dust. The thing is that there are limited office slots, and the fewer available the more expensive they are.

It would be kind of cool if offices could act like its own mini-district, storing, but not creating clones. They couldn't be attacked either. Perhaps they could be the basis for starting to trade clones within Dust...They could behave like districts with lock times and those related rules. They'd have more strict movement penalties for attacking compared to districts though.

Directors/CEOs would manage them, and they would have the additional option of accessing the local clone market from the office. Districts would have the option of moving/selling clones to open buy orders from the various offices in the system. And the offices could transfer clones from one system to the next either to other systems' office buy orders (with a strict movement cost penalty) or their own districts in another system.

You create a couple of new skills:

Corporation Facilities Management x8 (Corporation can run 1 office at each level- up to 5 offices)
Corporate Trade Relations x4 (can have +1 clone buy/sell order at each level)

Offices would create a secondary clone market, which could raise the amount that players could earn from clones captured/created. Prices would obviously be between the genolution biomass-sell cost and the deployment pack cost.

What could be even more interesting is, if clones could be awarded as loot/salvage to individual players in FW. Then local offices throughout FW systems could buy groups of clones, which it could then use to start a FW battle of its own choosing.

Created a feedback thread for this idea

Jeez I can't believe I actually read this thread.

-conflict good. farming bad

-more districts anytime soon would just give the big blue donut 2 cronos/rofl more districts/isk

-Imps have lots of EU members/Nyain San so we planned a head of time to fight on all region timers (Don't QQ if you didn't)

-CCP needs to be able to expand the ability to beachhead with gen packs not remove them. All that would do is benefit the blue donut to force trench warfare on the front lines so they can farm isk behind it.

I'm am really starting to think most of you don't want to actually fight you just want to earn isk. PC is a failure in design because it rewards farming over fighting.

smh @ girls who just want to play Farmville on ps3

The fact that the Corp Member Size Cap is so high should shout in all of the people's ears who are complaining about smaller corps not have a place in PC that NEW EDEN ISN'T A PLACE FOR SMALL CORPS BY THEMSELVES