Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If anything your proposal is very generous.

One minutes grace is quite a long time, if you leave the capture zone or cloak it should count down.

It should count down twice as fast if an enemy militia pilot stays in the capture zone. This enables players to take time of faster than farmers can put it on. This is important in case they just keep swapping plexes.

I would also like the NPC to return if the timer counts back to it's starting position after previously reaching a minute or so depending on plex size.

I think automatic defensive timer rollback is not a good idea.

1. Make de-plexing not relevant and not needed a daily acctive gameplay in a system to keep control over it

2. Shift the balance to favour the defenders: make things easier for them in respect of the attackers. This cause stagnant situation like in null sov. In general this also advantage larger militias.

3. Cause neutrals/pirates to affect the warzone control: if a plexer is chased out or killed by neutrals this also affect the warzone control.

Instead:

increasing the the timer speed for defending plexing could be good idea, should be doubled. This still an advantage for defenders but at least requires an active militia gameplay.

Review the rat spawns mechanics (rollback to how was after inferno release) is also a good idea and could re-balance a lot of things.

In short, the problem is parasitism.

Eve is a complex dynamic system. Within such systems, we will always find various forms of Parasitism.
It is to be expected. As such, it must be continually addressed.

There are two ways in which parasites can be handled.
One is for the entities within the system to adapt and fight the parasites on their own.
This can be compared to biological systems arms races.
We have been doing this for quite some time.
I have multiple stab + cloak kills on my board too.

However, the issue has reached a tipping point where we can go no longer handle the parasites in the form and numbers that they have reached on our own.

We therefore must resort to the second form of handling the parasites.
We must have CCP make changes to the system's inherent flaws.
Through the course of the discussion, we have pretty well established that they do exist and what they are.

Ideas have been brought forth.

So here they are, CCP:

1)Timer Rollback or Reset - This idea has been fairly well hashed out.
The overwhelming consensus among the non-parasites is that this will work well, and is in theme with the entire concept of FW. Do it.
You keep what you kill. --Chronicles of Riddick

2)System Upgrades should affect the passive defenses of the plex in some fashion. We are throwing LP at the system core. it ought to be able to afford a few extra ships to help defend the plex and make it harder for poorly fit people to take them. Increase the risk.

3)Plexes are now more numerous. Limit the number of available plexes of a single size to one, that way they can not just pop another of the same size and run between them. Keeping the numbers up is a good thing, making all of them available at once is not. There have been times when this has gone beyond annoying. This will also help force more fights.

4)Concord Status: Neutrals and non-flashy Pirates. Idea: Activation of the entry warp gate requires safety set to yellow for non-FW pilots and automatically set non-FW pilots suspect when activated. We should not be penalized for defending our territory!
Reasoning: There are numerous groups within FW that are Anti-Pirate. The problem is that we must adjust our RoE while defending/attacking a plex and dealing with people that are not a part of FW.

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I'm no longer in FW but I approve of this. Front lines should be just as it sounds.

I will add an an idea however, systems should be easier to capture if it is connected to a system owned by the faction trying to capture it. Maybe even less reward for plexing systems nowhere near a friendly controlled system, and if they manage to capture it, then the next system will be easier as I stated before.

I love your style and proposals!

Is there a challenge from a programming standpoint to get this implemented?

I doubt it, even with timer rollbacks farming FW sites will still be very lucrative for people who don't have the knowledge/experience/sp to do something better.

Agreed. Even a moderate dent in the farmers will reduce their impact on both warzone control and the value of LP related items, and is something I think almost everyone in FW and even the FW Lowsec pirates would like to see.

Are timer rollbacks the end all be all to changes that need to be made in FW? No
Are timer rollbacks something that should be relatively easy & quick to implement that almost everyone agrees with? Yes

Here's something I'd completely agree with you on. Farmers hold way too much power in FW, to the point where they can make or break a side, not the ones doing the actual fighting.