Warfare & Tactics

1) No more FW missions.

2) No more random plex spawns (Facility, Instillation, Stronghold, Compound), after downtime or any other time.

The idea;

- Faction war agents will now offer plexes instead of missions (Strongholds).

-L1 agents = Novice. L2 agents = Small. L3 agents = Medium. L4 agents = Large.

-These are spawned randomly throughout the warzone and function identically to the outposts.

-These missions should offer a reward greater than that of an outpost (double?).

-If spawned in a system you own the LP payout is penalised the same as a normal plex (though the base LP is higher as per above) so 75% of the offensive rate then subject to contested level.

-Wherever they spawn they count as an offensive or defensive plex in VP terms (20VP).

-Heavy penalties for cycling missions for desirable locations.

-This should be implemented the very moment gallente lose their current tier 4!



I personally dont have a problem with FW missions but some people do. This would be a way to add a strategic layer onto occupancy war.

Main problem i see, if the enemy folds, like the cadari at present, having no missions to fall back on would effectively remove any earning potential from FW.

Just a thought, thanks for reading.

To show how magnanimous i am.

Though, id prefer it to happen after WE lose tier 4.

your worst idea to date. congratulations. i didn't think you had it in you m8.

This will take away a corps ability to choose what system to flip. In fact with the amount of systems there are in faction war you might never flip a system due to the randomness of it all.

It would also mean that i cant take a quick jump from Ichoriya and either find an open plex to pvp in or make my own. If my mission told me to go all the way to hevirce i might think "**** it, couldn't be bothered". Its that kind of accessibility to pvp that appeals to many players.

no

edit: you should remove agents and missions totally

Yeah youre right it does. Carry on..

Followed by removal of gatecamps by the opposition. They'd have to start somewhere or live in highsec forever.

I like the idea. However, I would still like to see the wandering plexes. My take on it being a mission plex spawns in the system the agent says they want more influence in, if you don't cap it then you fail the mission and whatever comes from that. Success and you gain some LP and pay from the mission agent. I do think the LP offered from the mission plexes should be higher since we'd be expecting people to leave their comfort zone to run them, however completion of the mission could be what provides the LP. I would be excited to live in the magical world where this suggestion was possible, but I have no idea how the mission would know who closed the plex.

Current outposts would remain unchanged. This is not a return to full random spawns.

Only wandering spawns and missions would be removed and replaced with agent plexes.

The added strategic layer of this is during an offensive, your fleet can either hold ground and take the regular outposts. Or you can spread out (perhaps risk losing some plexes in doing so), speak to agents and see if you can get agent plexes offered to you in your target system.

As much as anything else this would fix the after downtime spawn advantage and remove another avenue incentivised evasion farming. Could also encourage people to fly further afield and fight harder for their site. LP would be rewarded in the same way as now, whoever is present when the site closes gets a share of the LP, even if the original site owner isnt present.

Some sort of site rationing might be needed, either on the agent level or a max number of agent plexes open in a system at a time.

what problem would it solve? Tbh i don't know why those "special" installation/facility plexes are actually stil here, since they always seemed like an artefact of an old/unfinished system. Converting them into missions won't make it more exciting or interesting however.

CCP could remove them and most in FW wouldn't even notice (unless you are a farmer and farm right after downtime where all pop up at once.. which wouldn't work anymore).

Missions are quite broken (esp those you can do without npc agro) but they are also rather harmless since they don't influence sov.