EVE General Discussion

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It certainly appears Bengal Bob is correct, but just in case the Devs really are still reading this:

The Lowest of the "Low Hanging Fruit" tasks that could ever be accomplished by the Dev Team for this winter.

Plot FW Occupancy Heat Map as an absolute value rather than a relative value.

i.e. Heat(j) = amount_contested(j)/amount_need_to_make_vulnerable, where "j" it the jth system under consideration. This way FW pilots would know how critical it is for them to fight over a system. If the "heat" is low, then they can do other stuff, but if the "heat" is high then they ought to turn their attention to that system.

Currently the in game map plots a heat map to show which systems are contested and by how much they are contested relative to the most contested system. Something like Heat(j) = amount_contested(X(j))/max(amount_contested(X)), where X is the systems being interrogated. This makes it very difficult for somebody looking at the map to figure out whether or not they should spend their time helping out.

tl;dr Replace max(amount_contested) with amount_needed_to_make_system_vulnerable.

REPLACE ONE WORD IN YOUR CODE! Do it!

Hey, you already have the tools - you can sit cloaked and waste your time there, while farmer completes 5 other missions.

No seriously, making fw missions be easily blitzable in bomber /or bomber + inty/ was stupid idea from the start. Something like being able to decline any number of fw missions without standings loss.

Removal of FW NPC from high sec will lead to gay high sec RR docking games at mission and market hubs. \o/

All the veteran players will stay in low sec and not bother with them, younger players without alts will be griefed endlessly.

It's called a killboard, go use it.

The reasons why Alliance participation does not mean blobbing if they fix the mechanics have been well documented in this thread.

Whether blobs form and fight each other or not has nothing to do with whether its Alliance members doing it or not, its the current plexing mechanics that discourage people from even using the plexes, and thus lead to blobbing on gates, belts, etc.

The militias blob themselves far too much, this has nothing to do with "filthy moon goo suckers", its a mechanics issue.

But clearly you've got a need to stereotype players, and hate on alliance members as if they're all the same and all use the same tactics.

If you want a medal for your bravado and swagger, I'll be happy to give you one. Everyone, zero2espect is a badass pilot, and has a bigger 3p33n than all of you. You're all cowards if you dont **** **** up as much as them.

Ok, hopefully now we can move on and get to discussing ideas again.

Which could be done with a system not dissimilar to Incursions.

And when we're talking Incursions, I think Minmatar incursions into Amarr space!
How cool would it be if you could assist the incursion force in taking control of the target space? Hell, make the actual inursion itself player driven!
If enough militia frequent a particular claimable system, give them the ability to start influencing this system's infrastructure.

And on the topic of infrastructure and prescence, what if you could turn lowsec into hisec and vice versa (with some limits) once enough militia frequented it?

Since FW is up for a complete redoing, it's practically a blank slate.

Also, <3

Thanks Johnny, controversy over higsec NPC's being removed aside, for those at CCP reading this, all three of the fixes you've posted here have been pretty much unopposed by the contributors of this thread and many others. If the devs are looking for concrete fixes that wont rock the boat, you've nailed it.

Its good to see after 13 pages of great ideas (on both sides of certain debates, including the removal of higsec NPC's) there are ideas like these that are clearly floating to the surface and could easily be implemented in time for Winter Expansion.

I also agree with those that say that this is not enough. These would only scratch the surface, and take care of the stuff that those of us involved in FW for years now have been asking for pretty much the whole time. I, and many others, would love to see this not stop here, and move towards a full overhaul of the Faction Warfare system even if it can't be done in time for Winter.

Sorry if this has been suggested before, I've not really read this thread fully. But:

When establishments comes fully online, I'd like to be able to wear my uniform around in station that (1) reflects which faction navy I signed up with, and (2) what rank I'm at.

A new uniform reflecting the new rank may be issued each time when you've been promoted. This way, the same design may also be used multiple times with minor variations in each rank.

When a player reaches the highest rank (eg Divine Commodore), a special uniform (like the 12,000 Aurum Field Marshall cloak being sold now in Nex) may be issued, or partially given with Aurum purchase.

I know this suggestion flies in the face of the shift away from Nex clothing and Aurum sales, and Establishments, so this may not even be considered in the near to medium term. Nevertheless I think being able to wear (and show off) our faction uniforms will aid in the RP aspect of FW rewards. When the time is right, I'd love for this to be implemented.

Cheers.

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