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Hey CCP so I asked Reddit how faction warfare could be improved...

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Fel Wrath
Crossfire Incorporated
#1 - 2013-04-17 02:22:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Fel Wrath
You should implement the top 2 comments.

How would you improve faction warfare?

Posting the top 3 comments as of 4/17 even the ones I myself downvoted.

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Minimum ship sizes for counting down fw sites Have a minimum ship size that can count down a fw site. For instance a large site lets any ship type in however only a BC and above can count the timer down. The goal here is to push the use of larger ships in faction warfare. It will also make farming of fw medium and large sites a bit more risky.

Example sizes could be:

novice : frig minimum

small : same as novice

medium : cruiser minimum

large : BC minimum


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i would add a "Corporate LP tax" so that plexxing could actually mean something in terms of income for your corporation.

Rina Kondur

I know I asked for something similar to this last year, and it's been talked about by a lot of people. The problem you face when building and running a FW corporation or alliance is that you can't make an income at the corp level doing what your corporation does.

For example, a nullsec corp is able to make income from ratting taxes, moons, PI, etc. Things that generally a nullsec corporation already does.

If you want to build a corp and focus purely on FW, you can't really do any corp funded programs. All our funding comes from outside activities not even remotely involved in FW. It'd really be nice to get a tax much like other corps benefit from.



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Pirate faction frigates should not be able to enter novice plexes, just sayin ...



There are ofc more and I'll do my best to keep the topic active on reddit and post updates here.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2013-04-17 11:12:01 UTC
In the interests of keeping myself off of assorted watchlists, I am not going to click that. Repost them here if you want actual comments.
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#3 - 2013-04-17 11:47:55 UTC
there are already several threads in the warfare/tactics forum section covering this topic even though most of them started more aggressive "e.g fw is still broken". Corp LP tax, backwards running timers (or timer resets), ship restrictions, no real use of BCs in sov warfare etc. nothing really new but nice to see that so many agree about those items. I hope CCP can spend a little bit devtime for this maintenance work in near future.

LP contracts would be also IMO an interesting feature where you could decouple trader from LP gainers but its only loosely FW related.

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
Tchulen
Trumpets and Bookmarks
#4 - 2013-04-17 12:04:57 UTC
Fel Wrath wrote:
You should implement the top 2 comments.
How would you improve faction warfare?

Not clicking on link. Repost comments please. Bit lazy and arguably a little rude to force people to follow a link, not to mention suspicious.
Rengerel en Distel
#5 - 2013-04-17 13:00:05 UTC
The devs said just last week they're happy with FW and have no plans on touching it in the next year. I believe that even covers the stuff they said they'd already do, but haven't completed, because :CCP: ...

With the increase in shiptoasting, the Report timer needs to be shortened.
CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#6 - 2013-04-17 13:54:05 UTC
Happy with it doesn't mean we won't touch it, just that we won't touch it as much as the stuff we're less happy with. Tweaks will always be needed with every feature and we are always looking for little things to improve FW.

Game Designer | Team Five-0

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Uppsy Daisy
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-04-17 15:25:07 UTC
Any easy fix that will stop the warp core stabbed farmers.

Disable stabs within plexes. Or something.

Pleeeease Fozzie?
Colt Blackhawk
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-04-17 16:12:59 UTC
Btw Fozzie there is a maybe 21pages long thread in "warfare and tactics" where many people tell us that fw is )&(%/)

[09:04:53] Ashira Twilight > Plant the f****** amarr flag and s*** on their smoking wrecks.
Jay Kreutzer
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-04-17 16:20:56 UTC
That might be the shittiest forum/discussion board layout I've ever seen.
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-04-17 17:30:06 UTC
Jay Kreutzer wrote:
That might be the shittiest forum/discussion board layout I've ever seen.


reddit is so much better at keeping track on sub-discussions than a multitude of other platforms, including this one right here
Fel Wrath
Crossfire Incorporated
#11 - 2013-04-17 17:52:19 UTC
For those that did not want to click the reddit link I have posted the top three comments in the original post.
Sushi Nardieu
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2013-04-20 07:34:57 UTC
These are good ideas. Especially the hull size requirement.

The Guns of Knowledge 
Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#13 - 2013-04-20 11:34:12 UTC
Dunno why CCP went the way they did with FW.

Top suggestions back in the day were very simply: gimp the NPC ewar and make plexes not count down unless the NPCs were all killed.

Now a plex is even easier to farm you could say because no ewar and only 1 npc that is super weak anyway. The reduction of NPC count to 1 should have seen an equivalent increase in its power, such that a ship entering a plex might fight only 1 enemy but this enemy will have advanced AI and access to potent damage as well as webs/points etc.

What exists today is the ultimate gank habitat. You force the enemy to engage you on your terms or you bail out if they have numerical/ship type superiority. CCP really jumped the shark on this and should have stuck with the original suggestions instead of over-doing it and making things even worse.