Warfare & Tactics

Place a stasis tower in all Majors.

I have no problem if gunless frigates want to orbit buttons and cap off minor and medium plexes. But a Major has a lot greater influence on system control, ...

If anyone is in a major solo, it will be a dude in a perma-mwd Slasher who won't stick around. So, yes, you will lose the hero-tanked Apocs and Machariels who I see solo-pvping in majors on an hourly basis, but you will also effectively lose the farmers. No one else - ever - will solo PVP in Majors aside from, maybe, a Cynabal.

Plus, who gives a fflying fornication about losing solo PVP, there's so much of this game set against solo PVPers they will hardly complain - after all, real PVPers (unlike you) won't complain they they can't easily enter a Major alone to farm. See the point? No, of course not.

I believe all of us that are really in Factional Warfare agree that the countless masses of farming alts in FW is a bad thing. I think we all agree that hundreds of gunless frigs speed tanking plexes brings nothing positive to the game. What we can't agree on is how to fix it. I've heard horrible ideas and then I have heard some bad ideas, but no real good ideas yet. Hopefully this idea is good, but I am not entirely sold on it yet. Right now I am just brainstorming, and hopefully collectively we can refine it into a good idea or agree that it's trash and move on.

So without further ado:
Change the LP handed out from plexes from a flat rate to a rate multiplied by the amount of wartargets in system. Currently for a major you get 25k LP, regardless if you are alone in system or there are 40 enemy militia members. I propose we change it so for a major you get something like 10,000(x) LP, where x = number of wartargets in system. So if there are zero wartargets in system to defend, then you get zero LP. That right there pretty much eliminates the countless gunless farmer alts. It's true someone could plex with an alt in the opposite militia in system, but the payout would be less than other activities one can partake in with two characters. This would also give greater rewards to the small fleets that plex enemey home systems, as they will now be splitting a much bigger reward.

Once number of enemy militia becomes a factor in the amount of LP we can start giving LP for defensive plexing as well. There shouldn't be any difference in LP payouts between offensive and defensive plexing, both are helpful. Since you only get LP for plexing with enemy militia in system, you are only getting LP for defensively plexing when the enemy is actively plexing you.

There should be a cap placed on the multiplier of like 10 or 15. We don't want to incentivize militias to all locate in one system. We want different corps and alliances in the militia spread out over many systems, fighting in many systems in small gangs right? Hopefully putting a cap on the LP multiplier will help achieve this or at least not promote the opposite.

So what do you guys think? Simply by making LP a simple equation instead of a flat rate we get rid of the alt farmers well at the same time increasing payouts to those in militia doing it right.