Warfare & Tactics

I am a resident of non-FW lowsec. There's a lot of us. I find it disheartening that with all the talk about improving lowsec going around, it all seems to be centered around FW. There are A LOT of issues with lowsec that we all suffre under, as well as some problems that only affect FW, and some that only affect the rest of us.

I'd be very happy to see more recognition of "the rest of us."

Thanks again for reaching out to the community and being accommodating to boot.


1) Plex Timer rollbacks

Emphasize that this is the change that faction war players want more than any other.

CCP Fozzie said on October 22nd 2012:

(emphasis added)

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/73491

As you can see from Bienator II's post here:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4572539#post4572539

This idea is still very strongly supported and I would say even the most strongly supported idea concerning faction war. Buried on page six it still gets more space likes than ccp's original post.

Fozzie did respond and said:



As a csm I would continue to emphasize that you want the "some point" to be sooner rather than later. I would love to hear what exactly the hold up is.

I agree that timer rollbacks need to be added.

However,

I think that they will be considered a "catalyst for warzone stagnation" and so they probably want to implement something that enhances warzone movement before or at the same time.


Right now

I think the penalties / bonus's given for Tiers 1, 3, 4 and 5 are too wide.

There should be the means to "contract to Militia". (massive aid for supply/resupply to open Militia fleets, fitted ships in particular)

The most desirable LP store items are not spread equally over the 4 factions.

The spawn rates on NPC's in plex's should be capped (to 5 max) with a longer window for respawn rate.

NPC spawns in FW plex's should aggress all parties other than the defending faction.

The suspect flag for aggression within a FW plex should be removed, for all parties. Warzone, neutral zone, "no mans land". Describe it how you want. It is a poor mechanic for defending your already War Dec'd role and is a PvP suppressant.


Then when there is time...

Ranks should be reworked so they can be achieved by either LP accumulated or FW kill scores.

Rewards PvP kills in a different way to LP for all participants on the km - could be tied in with both the Rank system, the LP store, the system level bonus system and more.

LP store should be cleaned up and rebalanced so that modules are a more common and worthwhile choice.

Faction Tech II ammo in LP stores (charges were done, now do other consumables). Give the crystals high burn out rates and make the Faction Tech II ammo for other types larger (less per reload).

Set the system level upgrades as destroyable modules built onto the ihub (same as null-sec station services). Levels are then downgraded by combat at the I-hub or by system flip only.

Introduce a rare faction ship reward, obtainable from the LP store only with the medal for full Warzone control and whilst holding the highest rank.

Introduce a new highest level rank that is obtainable only by FW kills not LP accumulation. Elite rank should be an extremely accomplished combat position.


Mmm... so a few to start with.

If you think not having lots of plexes run in stabbed alts is stagnation then yes timer rollbacks will bring stagnation. But in terms of people really caring about tiers and warzone control as a whole (other than the occasional home system attack for lulz) it's already stagnant. Taht ship sailed on October 22 2012.

If you are afraid there will be little plexing due to plex timer rollbacks then ccp should just dramatically slash the lp pay from level 4 fw missions. Problem solved. LP will increase in value and go to people who are willing to risk it in pvp related plexing.

As for the rest in the above quote it is pretty much the sort of changes that really wont effect anything. I'm not saying they are bad ideas. The last idea is really pretty good but its not going to change much. FW whill still be factionwhorefare.

Yes I think there are other things that should happen as well. (see my signature) But they are not as well supported as plex timer rollbacks. For too long CCP has been tweaking small irrelevant things that players really don't care much about.

I think we would give ccp as clear a message as possible to get the plex timer rollbacks implemented. (I would like it if they slashed level 4 mission pay as well but the rollbacks are more important imo) At that point we can see what else needs to be done.

Farmers under control with latest changes to plex rats. Timer rollbacks not needed at this point in time.

Otherwise, FW has generated more content for more entities than any other part of the game this summer.

If anything, CCP should investigate ways to make NPC 0.0 and/or non-FW low sec systems more attractive.

This is patently false. The alts in empty frigs are left unattended so their main can pay attention to other things, and they purposefully get podded to sell the kill rights (nuetrals) as well as for quicker reshipping times.

Defensive plexing alts have not kept us from taking any system we want to take, btw.

I agree that dplexing alts don't win the WZ, although it is unfortunate when they are active and see us coming for them ;). As for bailing from a plex, if you don't want me to have that plex then close it. If you only wanted the kill then move on because I won't be giving it to you. In fact, I don't think a timer roll back is required because there are already ways for players to prevent farmers from farming the plexes the want. It is called plexing.

Just because your push for Huola wasnt successful i know you would like to blame farmer alts, but in reality it was a pvp fail on your sides behalf.

The only things deciding occupancy in our warzone are hundreds of dead ships. Only difference is we wont blame farmer alts if we fail.



Any post that includes this from you is bound to be worthless.

I'm fully down for this. I welcome you to ping me any time in game and pop on the public CalMil comms and I can chat with you and find others interested in doing so from Caldari. As for a pow wow involving everyone at once, as much as I'd love to have that I feel like it would degrade to name calling at some point. I just don't see certain people on opposing sides getting along for very long on TeamSpeak.

If i were like you and spoke to practically no one else in my warzone, i too might be under the impression that things happened randomly under the actions of some AFK players.

Thankfully, most people, in most warzones, have more insight into the activities of their respective militias.