Well, noone is asking to farm ISK. I'm asking to promote more fights with more corps involved. Smaller and/or less skilled corps are trying to fight and get into PC but they cant because all that are left are bigger corps/organizations and better talented corps.

It's easy to ask for fights and call other corps cowards when you're the top corp in the game with allstar shooters. A corp with an average of 0.89KDR knows that they cant compete with a corp that has a 5KDR. They would rather fight a battle where they feel they have a chance of winning. But the way things are now with limited districts, that won't happen.

Well, noone is asking to farm ISK. I'm asking to promote more fights with more corps involved. Smaller and/or less skilled corps are trying to fight and get into PC but they cant because all that are left are bigger corps/organizations and better talented corps.

It's easy to ask for fights and call other corps cowards when you're the top corp in the game with allstar shooters. A corp with an average of 0.89KDR knows that they cant compete with a corp that has a 5KDR. They would rather fight a battle where they feel they have a chance of winning. But the way things are now with limited districts, that won't happen.

Carebears don't have a place in PC. Even if they were given land people would surely take it for the hell of it.

But right now...where would those small corps go? Every piece of land in Molden Heath has been claimed by the big alliances so they wont be able to hold them. But if they open up another region, then they can claim districts and attack each other. Of coursex, the already existing corps & alliances will want a piece of the new land but there is war right now in Molden Heath. Everyone is too busy.

I've seen zero atmosphere, vacuum cleaners, lux, and I believe BHD are trying to get into PC. But without backing, will they hold any district they managed to take? At least, if there are new territory, then they may battle each other. BHD's alliance can war with General Tso's alliance.....maybe Orion can come back etc.

CCP would be wise to find a way to give a bigger chunk of the player base something to fight over. PC is nice and all, but really its dominated by a small percentage of the players.

Its hard to find a way to make a "noob" PC for smaller corps that wouldnt just be rolled over. I suppose you could have a "tax" on districts that taxes by the member. But then elite corps would still dominate, and bigger alliances could just have proxy corps to participate.

Current PC is cool, but for the health of the game, there should be something "meta" for smaller/less elite corps. I suppose FW would be it, but right now its handled so poorly there is zero reason to participate in it other than for the ease of getting larger groups of the same corp together.

But right now...where would those small corps go? Every piece of land in Molden Heath has been claimed by the big alliances so they wont be able to hold them. But if they open up another region, then they can claim districts and attack each other. Of coursex, the already existing corps & alliances will want a piece of the new land but there is war right now in Molden Heath. Everyone is too busy.

I've seen zero atmosphere, vacuum cleaners, lux, and I believe BHD are trying to get into PC. But without backing, will they hold any district they managed to take? At least, if there are new territory, then they may battle each other. BHD's alliance can war with General Tso's alliance.....maybe Orion can come back etc.

Yea, we've held a few districts here and there and tried some offensive stuff.

While it looks like a lot of Dust corps hold a ton of space, they actually have the manpower to defend it, so it appears we need more space.

But: would one more region be enough? And if its too much, then that starts giving a lot of passive income to the large entities to own for themselves.

If they want to expand PC (especially to ALL of lowsec) CCP needs to implement a contract system. EVE players need to be able to funnel ISK into the attacks and have Mercenaries (that is what we are supposed to be after all) go and do the ground pounding, but the district remains in the EVE corp's hands. Currently EVE corps REQUIRE Dust guys in their own Alliance to do the work for them for it to give them bonuses and the like... what if they don't care about Dust guys and would rather shell out 200M to a corp to fight over some districts?

I think this would solve any issue with there being too many districts, then CCP can just open up ALL of lowsec in one go.

.....either in Molden Heath or outside of Molden Heath???

Molden Heath is congested at the moment, and there isn't any more space to expand to without stepping on someone's toes. A lot corps are not participating or not able to participate in PC, because they can not right now. It could be a corp size issue or skill issue. But by expanding the number of planets and systems to attack, then it may spread some corps/alliances even more thin and corps may be able to participate in PC.

PC is what keeps a lot of players playing every day, imo, so you want as many to participate as possible. The only other option for a corp to participate is to join one of The Big 3 and some corps may not even fit their criteria.

I just dont like to see consolidation of players all in one or two entities. I like to see variety, it will make pc more interesting. So, please can we get some word on when you will expand PC for Dust corps???

CCP needs to be careful when adding more regions for PC. Since we only fight on temperate planets today the addition of maps on other planet types will create a huge influx of districts in Molden Heath alone. If we get more PC regions before new planet types it could make adding new types problematic. As much as I want PC battles closer to Delve it would be better to get the new planets in Molden Heath first.

That is fine too....they don't have to open up more regions. There are many planets on Molden Heath that they can open up and allow for participation from other corps/alliances.

Team True Grit are watching the situation and when the time is right more may be added. At this point there is no definitive time frame for additional Districts for Planetary Conquest. :D

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CCP Mintchip // Twitter - @CCP_Mintchip
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but aren't the other planets non-temperate? Because of this, wouldn't fighting on them will change drastically?

Carebears don't have a place in PC. Even if they were given land people would surely take it for the hell of it.

i've never really bothered to look into the significance of temperate and non-temperate planets so I really don't have a good answer for you yet.

OTOH, there is definitely an issue with not being able to attack districts outside of your own peak TZ. Our enemies' districts have reinforcement timers deep into US TZ and so we can't feasibly attack and conquer those districts. The same applies in reverse.

Hey imps support small corps to join PC all the time. We have no interest in attacking the small/less skilled/noob corps and we sell our districts to them to try and get them involved. Maybe if you ACTUALLY cared about these corp you could take some districts and offer it to them yourself. Just like imps have.

As bad as the mechanics are you can still easily transfer districts and we have done it many of times so far.

What is the issue is that very few corps actually want to fight in PC. The problem is there are 3 main groups cronos/unclaimed/rofl and they have no issue picking on the new/little guy because they aren't going to fight each other. So soon as the new guy joins in they have only big power blocks to fight against. This is the product of ccp bad PC design and unless they drastically change it there is absolutely nothing you or anyone can do about it.

Team True Grit are watching the situation and when the time is right more may be added. At this point there is no definitive time frame for additional Districts for Planetary Conquest. :D

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CCP Mintchip // Twitter - @CCP_Mintchip
Dust 514 Community Rep

How about you fight for a district instead of asking CCP to give you one?

4 pages of nothing but whining

If your not good enough to take a district you aint going to be good enough to defend it anyways

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^This.

Also, for those who are saying the rewards of holding a District are too low, remember the lessons of null-sec in EVE.

If you get too much money for just sitting on something, stagnation becomes the name of the game.

What do you think will happen if no new corps/alliances get a shot of fighting over territory?

Again...opening more territory will allow for new corps to seize and fight over territory. The big names are in a fight right now to be worried about conquering another region.

Hell if you join one of tge big 3 you are really unlikly to even get a chance to play pc as most of the bigger corps will only front their A and B teams for pc battles. So realistically the only way most people will get to participate is if more districts and systens are opend up. But even when more distructs ect opeb up there is nothing stopping the big boys from pushing everyone who isnt on par out. And with no whare other than faction warfair and tbh its pretty lame at the moment . We need the return of corp battles to at least get practice fielding 16 man teams.

What do you think will happen if no new corps/alliances get a shot of fighting over territory?

Again...opening more territory will allow for new corps to seize and fight over territory. The big names are in a fight right now to be worried about conquering another region.

4 pages of nothing but whining

If your not good enough to take a district you aint going to be good enough to defend it anyways

Working as intended

"Quoting" your own thread. Lol.

You have nothing to do here.