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I understand it just fine and whatever rp reasons you like, it doesn't change the fact this is not a good thing. it slows down roaming gangs, promotes more blobs and changes facwar into a more grindfest orientated arena. Not to mention you can lose a system during your sleep cycle and come back to either being camped in or locked out of your ships. it's not a well thought through idea.

I do believe these are the most prominent consequences implemented/pending.[/quote]

Well this could mean one of two things..

1-People will start to understand that if they do not fight back an incoming hostile faction invasion they will lose their in station assets. This will reingnite their fighting spirit to go out their and fight off the incoming invasion (hostile plexers).

2-People will start to understand that if they do not fight back an incoming hostile faction invasion they will lose their in station assets. So people will be dropping militia and contracting their assets over to neuteral characters to GTFO.

Sadly the second option is what comes to mind as I am already reading and hearing people think about that in the face numerically superior enemies instead of actually thinking about fighting.

Speaking of numerically superior the words of Damar are still echoing in my head about how this will encourage people to join the winning side to reap the benefits. Leaving only the most devout to fight for their respective sides. A fight that without others to support is a losing fight.

I am very happy to see changes in FW do not think I am bashing this. Sadly you will never be able to fix everything/please everyone in one fell swoop. Excuse me for being pessimistic CCP just tossing about worst case scenario in my head.

Will the new drone damage module affect fighters???

That's fine, I use Curators anyway

Some small questions;

- Will FW Stations change their looks to the current owners? Or is it possible to get an Caldari station wich is controlled by Gallente?
- What is exactly going to happen with Datacores? As i skilled a lot of (expensive) skills to get them from research agents.
- Is there a hotline to call when people will get a serious cause of jawdrop while looking at stealthbombers nuking everything?

I think that is where the idea behind linking Datacores to FW comes in to it. If one side dominates another, then the prices for datacores with the other will rise, causing more people to join them to make a profit and so on

E.g. Amarr faction owns the minmatar space. Amarr datacore prices plummet, while prices for minmatar datacores rise. This would hopefully then see more people joining the minmatar faction, to take advanatge of the prices/try to lower them, and thus a fighting effort takes place, beating back amarr.

Echoing Oppons above, will the time/amount of plexes needed to capture a system be changed at all?
Or can I expect to wake up to a station locked because we don't have complete domination of all timezones?

Perhaps there will be rf timers for control bunkers. Which of course simply translates again to "biggest blob wins", which of course means in caldari front that for such momentous occasions Gallentes will always have superior numbers than Caldari. This is a simple mathematical fact and no matter how much they spout on forums "grow some balls and work together", it wont change.

Best of times we can muster 30 guys and gallentes can always reliably call on matar allies too to get 100 man fleet going. And with changes further encouraging people to join winning side, it will simply make it more and more lopsided.

So like the fanfest presentation dev wanted, FW is over. Everybody go home.

I 100% agree with Damar. All these changes will do is push us to pull our Alliance out of militia so we don't risk anything. At the same time, we can still reap all the benefits of upgraded systems. All we need is some alts in militia to be able to accept missions and sit on plex buttons.

Gallente will start to steamroll Caldari and the more we suceed, the easier it will be to steamroll them some more. This kind of positive feedback loop is exactly what we don't need. We need a negative feedback loop so the more you win, the harder it is to keep winning and the more you lose, the easier it is to win.

I haven't checked them out yet as I'm at work, but I will when I get off work unless my system has been flipped on SISI before I get off work.

I hope you aren't expecting sympathy. The Caldari militia were perfectly happy to "win" the territory war (as much as one can "win" something that has no true victory condition and no real reward besides a rank pin) using an unbalanced mechanic (downtime shuffle) that it took CCP several years to fix. They then used a different unbalanced mechanic (off-enemy faction standings weirdness with NPCs) to sieze a large swathe of Minmatar territory. They loudly trumpeted their victory and made a big thing of how it was all perfectly legal and not an exploit - which, yes, I will concede that you were correct about.

Yes, Damar. You're right. In fact, I, Andreus Ixiris, will happily concede that pretty much everything you've said in this thread so far is entirely correct. You can mark your calendar if you like.

But - and this is a big but. Perhaps I'm a little ashamed to admit it, given that I'm trying to be nicer to everyone in EVE nowadays, but I won't lie. I can't help but feel a little bit of satisfaction, because this is pretty much precisely how we felt back when you guys were winning.