Player Features and Ideas Discussion

knowing CCP they would nerf LP on lowest rank and at max rank you would get the same lp as you get now.

that's how it's done in this game

It was just a suggestion there can be other ways on making the already placed Rank system to work, My rank is lowest in militia so no its not a self serving buff! But i really think there should be some kind of benefit to it.

If i recall correctly, in most militaries around the world, higher ranking officials generally do get paid more. It'd be a logical change. You can't just spew out a negative response and assume OP wants to make the game unfair with a radical new change. Having small percentage of bonuses wouldn't break the game in my honest opinion. Notice how i used the word "small". For example, the stat differences between basic and expensive implants gives only a small percentage bonus to a pilot; who's to say LP and FW ranks can't function in the same manner?

There are problems with your argument:

- lore-wise we are not "officers" or even "military" in the traditional sense. We are 3rd parties contracted by each respective faction to fight in their stead with our own manpower and equipment.
The best RL parallel to our status would be the Privateer/Corsairs of the old mercantile age.

- mechanics-wise, it rewards people who do strictly PvE in faction warfare... not PvP (at least... rising up the ranks via PvP is so low that it might as well not exist).
You gain ranks by running missions and complexes. Many of the young farming alts who do nothing but run missions and complexes have higher ranks than those of us who have PvPed in faction warfare for YEARS (and arguably contributed more to the warzone beyond system percentages).
And you can't [further] tie an increase in rankings to PvP because then that opens up the possibility to farming in the same manner LP was when FW was revamped.

- LP rewards for complexes and missions are large. Like... REALLY large. I can get ~10,000 LP for running an offensive novice complex in a Warp Core Stabbed Tristan (with Tier 3 militia strength). Give even a 5% bonus and you have just added 500 LP to that reward. Do that 5 times and you have 2,500 extra LP.
If you are chaining level 4 Faction Warfare missions you are averaging around 20,000 to 50,000 LP an hour (conservative estimate). A 2% bonus reward gives an extra 400 to 1000 LP. Do that for two hours a day for a week and it adds up.

- personally... I am against further rewarding PvE activities in Faction Warfare. If anything, they should be reduced so that people join militia to actually fight rather than farm.

Nope there are already too much farmers in fw. The income should be lowered for the pve missions not increased.

mfg

For FW ranks to have in-game effect - besides standing - there needs to be a war in FW.

Right now is is more about farming than war.

If the farming would be reduced - or for farming you would need to go to war - then a real benefit form a rank would be nice.

Boosts are way to effective right now - so let them as they are.

More victroy points and % for system capture would be cool.

Hell no. This will just make people more hesitant to engage in any system that they do not own (because an extra 4% can make or break an engagement).
If you don't believe me... then ask yourself why people pay 150 million ISK for implants that give an extra 5% to weapon damage/rate of fire/speed/shields/repair amount/capacitor/powergrid/CPU/etc.

Plus, I do not like the idea of Condors, Garmurs, Worms, and other super fast ships going even faster.


This I can get behind. As long as it applies only to the down payment for insurance and not the actual payout for insurance.

I'm almost sure "killing" was mentioned...