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Eve is dying. Lowsec is drying up, 0.0 is dead (unless you're part of the CFC or HBC blobbing each other) and in 2 months you can make 50bil, flying in circles doing nothing productive.

And we are pissed.

Here are several propositions, with ways to execute them:

1) Faction Farming
Currently, everyone and their mother/brother/daughter/sister/cousin/aunt is leaving whatever it is they are doing to get in on the isk farming train that is faction warfare. You take a frigate, fit a warp core stab, and orbit some plex's until they are capped. Then one day you take control of the system and cash out. There is no incentive for the opposing faction to defend their space (because they are doing the EXACT SAME THING in their own space)

What needs to be done?
Reduce LP gain from capping the plex's by 80%, while increasing LP gain from killing attackers by 250%, scaling with rank vs rank. If a Rank 10 kills a Rank 1 (please excuse me, I don't know the level ratings or crap), you'd gain say 25% LP. But if a Rank 1 kills a Rank 10, 250%. This is SOLELY on defense against other players. This will reduce the LP -> Isk farming that is currently happening, while bringing life back in to the spirit of Factional Warfare.

2) NPC Nullsec vs Sov Sec
There is absolutely no reason to go to npc nullsec other than to engage in some random fights and dock up when you get outnumbered. Should sov space have the 'best' systems? Sure, but to an extent. There needs to be an incentive to move to NPC nullsec. For example, if you are in Syndicate, there should be more Serpentis related events. Weather it be more Serpentis plex's, better rats (I mean, it IS the Serpentis' Area of Operations, you know they have fleets there) as well as exclusive Gallente related moon goo. Same goes for the other NPC nullsec regions. You could also decrease the true sec of systems the further from NPC space they are, reducing the number of botters out in the ass-end of nowhere.

3) Promote Piracy
What if there were some NPC factions that encouraged piracy? Similar to faction wafare, but more on a non role play level. For example, once you have pirated 100 targets, you could gain access to smuggler gates, creating shortcuts to other areas of low/null sec. Suddenly you could be pirating in Decon, and gain access to jump from decon to reblier. I know that is a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea.

I still can't believe FW LP farming hasn't been nerfed, It was known early on that it was broken and it hasn't been touched, even reducing the tier bonus to 20% instead of 50% would've at least helped.
I actually ignored it for 2 months expecting it to get hotfixed as soon as I started trying to take advantage. It's 1 month after I started LP farming and I have sold 10bil worth of items from FW and still have another 70bil worth to go.

CCP letting this go to winter is just massively incompetent.

While, I agree that changes need to be made, and this is coming from a wormhole CEO, and FW director (My alt is Sam Sabre), I do believe that EVE is far from dead. There are multiple wars going on in nullsec, but I do agree that it will be nice when a Goon/Test civil war occurs to break up the blocs a bit, and rest assured, like every bloc in the past, it is bound to happen eventually.

I would suggest a bit of patience with CCP on the changes this winter, as I sincerely believe it is going to spice up gameplay. The state of FW is still alive as far as PvP, but the isk faucet that exists is overboard. People will abuse it for another month or so and then it will be adjusted and the gameplay will change.

I can assure you that "Eve is dying" threads have existed as far back as I can remember and EVE is still here, so I wouldn't stress it...

I was there!

A significant tweak will be occurring on the 16th (Today) of this month.
http://community.eveonline.com/updates/patchnotes.asp