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You are missing that exploding a big hostile fleet is going to make you the most money because those complexes have a fixed spawn rate. As more hostiles you got as more easy targets you will find. On top of that prices will go up for the faction that generates the least LP. You get LP not ISK and the value of you LP depends on the amount of competition you got. To get the most out of FW you want to share the least amount of friendlies in the killing.

You get GCC'd and lose a whole ton of standings.

Congrats on the FW changes. I think they are great.

The datacores changes are not.

Datacores belong where they are, in R&D corps. They have nothing to do with factional warfare. This is just the old CCP way of thinking: Put a band aid on a problem that we will still have to fix later on. The problem with stems from the problems with T2 production and the lottery. That is what needs to be addressed. Adding datacores to LP stores and lowering the payout will simply raise invention costs and thus again raise prices on T2 items. Wasn't one of the main points of invention to lower prices? Recently prices on many T2 goods are almost at the same point of pre invention days. Many are higher. Just look a drones. Yes this has to do with PI and other factors (which are not problems, don't get me wrong), but why raise them more instead of addressing the real problem. You can find other ways to make FW LP stores more enticing besides screwing over people who have run missions to get access to good R&D agents and invested skill training and time into them. Besides the passive income from these datacores is not that great. I have been running agents for 5 years or so, and only cashed out 2 twice per agent or so (I have one I think i have never cashed out). The other day I calculated how much I would get by cashing out and selling all the cores and it was about 1.7 bil. If you think that is a lot for that amount of time, well we are not talking about the same game. And that is 5 agents, 4 of which are mechanical engineering.

And I have to add that it is astounding you would add cores to FW LP stores, and not R&D corp LP stores. Which reminds me, what ever happened to the special decryptors that were supposed to be in R&D LP stores years ago? Now is as good a time to mention them as any.

Don't go back to your old ways CCP.

So CCP does go on with nonsensical datacore changes, denying the major effort taken by many to get access to lvl 4 research agents, denying them to make invention a profitable business. I'm sorry CCP, but you are making changes to solve problems that are only in your imagination. No-one is using research agents because they "give a free income stream". The threshold to gain access to those agents is too high, the "free" profit too little.

Changing FW, ok, but keep datacores out of it, they have nothing to do with it, and you are disandavtaging the wrong people

Would be nice if clones were cheaper in general so more people could participate in the meat grinder that is FW.

I've no interest in paying 40 million ISK for each clone. :P A million should be the limit.

Urge...to join...FW...rising...fuuuuuuuuuu my carefully cultivated cross-empire standings will be ruined!

It's actually quite clever. What you are doing is gathering field data and testing new equipment, thus enabling research. More seriously, the "it makes no sense" argument makes a superficially correct point, but considering that Eve's manufacturing system is already heavily dissociated (information does not get used up in the manufacturing process; why manufacturers have to keep re-inventing the same hulls and equipment? etc...), I don't see how it really matters.

I think it's better because it makes each of militia stores more unique. though I do agree restricting mechanical engineering to the TLF store is a poor choice.

Glad to see FW getting some love. Thanks for CCP for making sure more parts of the sandbox get some much-needed attention.

Well ok, that seems reasonable (to gather intel and test out new equipment) but then again, research is done far from fighting zones. Ur intel will be trasferred to research stations and such to develop stuff based on ur data, and then send back experimental, and advanced weapons and modules to the front to use them and test them. And that goes in cycles. They don't send back research data.

Manufacturing and invention related stuff has a meaningful mechanic that serves the economy well in EVE. U can't really compare this change to that.
We have a lot of arbitraray stuff in eve, that breaks immersion, we don't need more. Especially something like this one.

This change gives the impression like: CCP was thinking about how to change datacore gathering from the old and forgotten research agent system for a long time now but couldn't think of a good way yet. Then the summer of rage and stuff after that happened and they had to focus attention on things that mattered for players. So they pulled FW, and somebody had this "great" idea, to give more incentives for players to get into FW, and slowly migrate datacores and FW together (as i think if it succeeds, datacores will be only avalible from the FW LP store "soon", as they iterate on FW in the coming expansions).
It's like they always try to do the easiest and straightest way no matter the cost, and the collateral damage...

If they aren't satisfied with the "passive" nature of the datacore acquisition, then why not develop a new mechanic for it wich requires more player interaction? Why tie it to a completly unrelated part of the game?

This might be a good oportunitiy to change the datacore-requirements of many invention jobs. It always irritated me, that about 75% (estimated) of invention jobs need ME datacores, a more balanced distribution of the needed datacores might be a good thing.
On the other hand, if ME stays Minmatar only, joining Amarr militia might be a good way to troll all of Eve by making ME datacores nearly unobtainable to everyone and drive t2 prices skyhigh.
On second thought, this will never happen- hundreds of players would join Minmatar militia for the sake of t2 wepaons and ships - so currently it will be impossilble for Amarr to win.