Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Oh that would be interesting. Getting charged LP to dock in the oppositions controlled space and paying more the higher the upgrade level, or being locked out completely at a med-high level.

The lock out mechanism is fine.

Of course, corps tend to move away for risk management.
BUT.

The alternative would be docking games and enemy fleets sitting docked in friendly space. Now enemy territory FEELS like enemy territory. There is no repairs from the enemy!

And I think the upcoming changes will affect the behaviour of corps.
The front line will become more static.
Today, the main problem is: you have to plex defensively without any reward OR you will be sitting in a vulnerable system and can be locked out any time with maybe just a few hours of warning. That is inacceptible, so ppl move away.
When defensive plexes yield LP, people have more incentive to defend, the system becomes more safe and corps are more likely to stay.

Instead of dropping the lock out mechanism, I would encourage changes that increase the "home" feeling in FW systems.
A corp should always feel that they are defending "their" property - thats what is the main motivation for most WH corps for example. A safe haven, private property, an ISK print in the backyard.

Do that to FW and people will stick there.
Lock enemies out is an important part of it.
Now imagine a FW corp could claim sov in a single FW system.
More incentives could be:
-raise taxes (also from neutrals)
-limited law enforcement ability. Maybe they don't get criminal flagged when attacking anyone (except own militia) when in their own system? That should be a great incentive to claim sov and defend a lowsec system!

Go to 0.0

No your empire owns the space, not you. Concequenses are good, just don't turn it to 0.0 there is a reason why it's so quiet over there and there is a reason why a lot of people chose FW over going to 0.0

yes you should be able to Defend you system but try to come up with something else than stuff that is already there.

I like this Roaming fleet idea as a mobile station, and a place for FW memebers to rally (find people to fly with Chat is al nice and stuff but a physical place usualy works better)

and maybe CCP can do something with that, influence it's movement by spending LP, make it a entety that can beused for defence and offence.

By using it offencively it should use rally time, maybe a little like reinforcement, so enemies can find out something is going on, though not what (as in destination) Defence should be able to called in much aster but needs a cooldown time when used.

give one fleet to a region or so, give Millitia's even more reason to work to gether, systems with a higher lever of security could be reached faster and or should have a shorter cooldown time.

these are just some brain farts, but it sounds way more intresting than putting in more 0.0 stuf in FW.

It is a bit immersion breaking when I can dock up on Caldari high sec (Onnamon) to repair when I cannot dock up in Caldari controlled low sec (Kinakka, for example).

I thought Kinakka had been Gallente controlled for a few days now. Regardless though, you make a good point.

It does seem strange that the opposing militia gets all up at arms about you trying to dock in their low-sec space, but doesn't give a damn about their high-sec space. Once on a roam, I had an enemy fleet chasing down the allied fleet. We were having some fun in Gallente high-sec, but once the enemies showed up in greater force, we split up and docked. It shouldn't be that easy to lose an enemy FW fleet *in their own space*.

Hey, we were called State Section 9, you know, and it wasn't you who kicked us out, it was the plexing alts forcing us to spend most of our online time defending our bloody system :P

Hell, the day after we left I saw it was 100% contested.

I blame your slave cousins. We can't do anything about your billion alts running our plexes in our time offline.

And remember, think of all the good times we had together, all those times when you blew us up. The drinking game we made about you... I mean... the good times!

I like the idea of it, and would be nice to see it as an upgrade instead on a right away change.

Wrong on the count of "didn't want to deal with..."

dockblocking ruined the pvp on amarr minmatar front. reducing all fighting to take place in a select number of systems countable on 1 hand. many people joined fw for small scale fights, not to have every person in the enemy militia camping your exit gate to go buy a new ship.