Warfare & Tactics

So its likely that a short time from now, the Eve-Dust link will be iterated on to change the way orbital bombardments are given to Dust 514. They will probably make it so that Eve support must be in place for an amount of time for a timer to countdown that then enables a bombardment, rather than warpoints generating the strikes.

If you are in faction warfare. I'm thinking that the way this could be implemented is through district 'plexes'. They could spawn for only the period that a battle is taking place in FW. I'm not sure how NPCs might work, but what if when you flew above a district into one of these complexes you could get WP for attacking/defending the district. If your team wins on the ground, you'd get a good chunk of LP, if your team loses, youd get a smaller a chunk of LP.

The thing is that, other FW players could come in to interrupt this activity. Enemies could block you from giving strikes, or they could kill you and launch their own strikes. Since the LP would reward based on the time the battle ends, the countdown timer wouldn't exist and the plex could be pretty heated for a while.

Advantages:
-Wouldn't be the preferred farming plex as the time would be too unpredictable and the WP reward would come from wins or losses AND/OR what you kill on the ground.
-Might make Eve players care more about what is going on on the ground.

I was thinking then too, given that there are districts in highsec/lowsec, this same mechanic could be used there to cause limited conflict over districts. The district ownership in a certain region/constellation would then affect all sorts of things possible like LP payouts for missions, possibly the security of space, belt rat/gate spawns in lowsec, etc.