EVE General Discussion

I couldn't even find the post I thought I made in this thread... and I may be way late here but I just want to make sure I said:

Soundwave's NPC removal proposal would be awful.

People have already noted why. Spreading a sparse war even thinner, trade-hub camping and brutal station games, Militia members with low sec can't join high-sec fights, zero safety for casual and new players while they prep/shop.

The edited OP is a one-stop-shop for issues that need fixing, and extreme elaboration on all of them can be reviewed by reading through this threadnought.

I would keep the FW missions solo-able, at least the levels 1-3 missions. This game already has a serious lack of fun solo/casual things to do in it. No point in making it worse.

I don't have much of a problem with making them stronger but they no longer belong in minor plexes. They are going to completely overpower everything else that can go in them.

The only problem I have is that if they are going to be somewhere right between cruisers and frigates then they should have a scan resolution between a frigate and cruiser. Right thrashers have very high scan resolutions (I haven't checked the other destroyers)

Not only will new players not be able to fly *any* other frigates in minors but I anticipate it will be much harder to travel through gates (even with frigates) due to sensor boosted arty thrashers at every turn.

Again I think the comparision between cruisers and bcs should apply. Cruisers have a better scan res than bcs frigates should have a better scan res than destroyers.

As far as whether they are cheap and easy to get into they are so so. Its easier to train for faction frigates. Faction frigates are a bit more expensive but not much. Those tech 2 guns get expensive on destroyers. Moreover getting a racial frigate to five at least opens up more things for a new low sec pilot than destroyer 5.

Finally, because so many of their slots are high slots Advanced Weapons Upgrades becomes an important skill to train. I still don't have mine at 5 and, for me, just about the only reason to train it to 5 is to fly destroyers.

Thanks a lot. I receive notifications on this thread, so I'll just keep an eye out for it.

Or you can message me directly or whatever is easiest.

FW needs more than just fixes against meta-gaming.


Imo, FW lowsec should 'feel' like a warzone. Going into enemy occupied territory should feel like it, getting attacked by enemy npcs when you cross into thier space, enemy (npc) resistance should be heavier the further you go into thier occupied space. Likewise friendly territory should feel friendly, with npcs manning posts at gates and such, protecting you should you come under fire, and engaging the opposing faction should they enter.

In other words the FW ai needs to be able to tell friend from foe, and act accordingly. Something the AI is currently not capable of.

Oh wow, I really do like that idea. It'd be great to get some kind of sec boost for doing our jobs in militia.

Learn to humour

Hahahahaha nice. I wholeheartedly support this. [AUTOZ] also has quite a bit of negative sec status from our relentless effort to "preserve security" by nuking anyone we suspect of being "sekret Amarrian sympathisers" or "Neutral industrials fueling the Pandemic Legion warmachine" .....and its JUST NOT FAIR. Why must we punished by gate guns when all we are trying to do is keep the area safe for the minmatar tribes?

I think he was kidding.

At the risk of being laughed at, I will say it might work with the npcs though.

Thing is not all militia members want a high sec status though. If they want a low sec status and killed allot of npcs they would have to grind non combatants to keep their sec status low.

Everyone, please speak out in opposition to the CSM's handling of our discussion here.

Apparently, we are a "little thing" to be tacked onto a discussion about wormholes. If I am mistaken about the CSM's attitude about us, than I hope they clarify.

I won't say much more than that, I'm pretty upset at the moment. But please, focus your efforts on asking the CSM to make Faction Warfare a seperate and focused discussion, not a tacked on accessory to a thread about something else. Their handling of the topic belittlles our cause, and will not give it the gravitas necessary to convince CCP that is important enough to be talked about on its own merits once again.

Also, please do NOT fill this thread with a list of fixes. That work has already been done. If the CSM hasn't read the thread I am posting with, there's no point wasting your keystrokes repeating yourselves there.

What we need to do now is rally and convince the CSM to seperate FW from wormholes, and give the subject its own discussion.

Thank you all for your support.