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I have 2 more questions:

1/ No planned changes to Faction Navy in highsec? Did you look at changes here and drop them, or did you just feel there was no compelling reason to make adjustments here?

2/ Will you consider allowing corps/alliances to swap sides in the war? What if I want to play FW on hardmode and continually join the losing side as the war shifts or join an FW militia essentially as a mercenary hire?

Aaaaand we have our first metagaming idea for the new FW system: datacore cartel!

"You want to do research, fine? The best way is to go kill people." I can see how that would play out to a potential scientist. So, are you really telling industrialist to join fw or just creating an interdependence without any real justification?

Overhaul datacore mining some other way. Get datacores out of FW. It doesn't make sense fluff wise or mechanic wise. You just got done telling people you're not going to let them shoot npcs to build things (drone nerf)...then you tell them you are going to make them shoot npcs to build things (fw overhaul). All you did was change the position in the production chain.

Stock up on Amarr navy ships now, sell later when prices spike to afford your own steamroller?

Great work guys, the idea of Factional Warfare sounded interesting to me when I started, but was urged by my mentor never to touch it, it was pretty much broken. Glad to see these things being resurrected. It gives me a conduit into PVP.

I'm a RP farmer, so I appreciate it not being phased out, I've spent a lot of time farming rep on several R&D corps. The added cost is low enough that it doesn't bother me, if it provides a money pit to bury some inflation I'm fine with that.

Also for the factional warfare system, I haven't played on Singularity but how will you handle unbalanced situations, where everyone joins FW for the faction with the most control? I realize that you plan on having diminishing returns, but it seems like that won't be enough to sway people to the losing side, or even keep the ones that are already on it.


Possible Improvements:

I believe running missions for R&D agents currently doubles your RP for the day, and ups your rep with that agent. Why not tie the price of cores to the agents rep, maybe making it more expensive then what you've set up, and have it go to a minimum of half. I'd personally run the missions more often if I knew they had a lasting effect on my wallet, I love that almost everything in EVE has an impact or can be changed.

Give incentive to players on a losing/smaller team. Perhaps a portion of all LP gained for a faction (5%, etc) could be distributed amongst all it's members, and thus there would be an allure just to be in small factions. Maybe once a faction reaches a critical size, systems that are farther away from the core of the faction receive a debuff relative to their distance, such as weaker guns or weaker tanks. And inversely a very small faction could get outlaying buffs to promote growth (and obviously, combat!).

Maybe you guys already have mechanics for this in place, I'm just thinking of the extreme cases where factions are close to collapse, where you want to entice players to join the losing faction as much as the winning one. Other then that I think the diminishing returns idea will provide a nice ebb and flow.

Keep up the good work!

I made the pictures in the blog a little bigger and made them link to even bigger versions. Go click them and stuff!

The price fluctuations in the LP store seem way too big.
The difference between the two price extremes is a factor of 16. You're going to end up with LP being worthless because everything in the LP store costs too much, or LP being worthless because everything is too cheap and the market is oversaturated.

Forums, you can eat my posts but you will never take my freedom! Anyway:

Are you sure about the datacore changes? Tying them to factional warfare doesn't seem to fit with research to be honest, and datacore farming was touted as passive income from the start.

Why else would you grind those horrible standings, pay all that money in skillbooks and then take up months of skill training time if not to either invent for yourself or sell to other inventors. It's the whole point. The missions are as boring as hell and pay poorly - no one does it for anything other than passive income. Now that's deemed undesirable? And why would the militia get datacores, surely they should get faction shiny stuff instead?

@CCP Ytterbium

1. Do you plan to check LP store item requirements? Some offers are crazy!

For example :
Imperial Navy Medium EMP Smartbomb BPC 5 run - costs 270k LP + 108m isk + 358 Republic Fleet Captain Insignia I + 595 Republic Fleet High Captain Insignia I
where
Republic Fleet Captain Insignia I x1 = 1,7m
Republic Fleet Captain Insignia I x358 = 608,6m
Republic Fleet High Captain Insignia I x1 = 0,7m
Republic Fleet High Captain Insignia I x595 = 416,5m

Lets Assume 1k lp = 1m

Total cost for that BPC in isks - 1133,1m + 270m = 1403,1 - thats just plain wroooong.
After manufacturing (who would be so stupid to teake that offer and do that) - 280,62m / module

Theres at last 20 such offers which requirements are totaly inbalanced. Ive pointed out just one.

2. What about cynojamers? No info about them in devblog. Have you abandoned that idea for FW?


I and other pilots would be realy grateful if you can answer those questions.

All of the people looking for cheap rewards will join the winning faction, which can be good for the losing one if they want to gain heaps of LP from killing clueless people looking for easy money. Plus, it is very hard to swap factions due to the massive standings penalties you take from running the complexes or missions, so it provides reasons for people to stick with their side and drive it forward.

The 4x multiplier seems exaggerated, but it sounds like it would only occur when one side literally owns all FW space and has it all upgraded. I'm expecting more of a 1.5x multiplier maximum with the regular sovereignty swings.