Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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I've an idea for Faction Warfare. For anyone that hasn't participated before, it's a system where low-sec gate aggression is disabled for people of opposing factions. Previously, it seems it was intended for a mix of PvE/PvP and system control.

I'd like to propose a system for dragging people back into FW fighting, and not just joining FW for gate-camping/stealth-bombing the missions. Perhaps, as being listed as part of the faction's militia (in this example Caldari Militia) participants could be given a reward incentive for taking the systems again. Nothing revolutionary here, just the original intention. A call to arms announcement/e-mail about a "hot" system to all FW corporations, where a lot of faction NPCs are attempting to take a system. Spawn many NPCs with good loot, a station or such with incredible health that the enemy is firing at for example. Kind of like incursions (hint: not reinventing the wheel).

Obviously extended features could be a system ship-budget, much like the Alliance Tournament. Possibly cutting off huge corporations from taking half of low-sec for their corporation's allies. System budget could be increased the closer enemy factions get to your faction's base of operations or something.

Good idea for minimal effort? Extremely narrow-minded view of Faction Warfare? Poke holes in this please.

Well, the idea is the location brings in the meat. I'm not talking about Incursion AI either, that requires expensive/non-PvP fleets and that's not what i'm referring to. Merely bringing systems as focus points for regular PvP.

Flying around low-sec looking for targets gets boring quite quickly.

EDIT: Current beacons have the NPCs I'm referring to, I just meant the system warnings like Incursions with a control progression bar.

By "battlegrounds", I thought you were referring to PvP areas like in other MMO's. I've often wondered if you could pull off a PvP complex with competing goals. Something like two stations about 2k apart where you need to take down the defenses and then disable it. Maybe have the only working warp-ins going to the respective militia's npc fleets and non-militia pilots are barred.

It would be interesting if CCP could pull something like that off without it getting exploited to the point of ruination. They could use it as a better means for people wanting T1 cruiser and below warfare.