Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Don't drink 'n' fly.

You aren't safe in your own space while in FW either.

I've killed quite a few people that were missioning in corps that were in FW or doing other stuff.

All of this is accurate, but if there's actually no warning or explanation of Factional Warfare when joining it/joining a corp that's participating then that is maybe one more thing that CCP could do to make the game more new player friendly.

It tells you on the map where the empires hold sov. Regardless of that, there is no where you cant be hunted by the enemy faction. There's a guy who camps hek undock despite being amarr militia.

Its not like the game expects you to know, but a bit of common sense should tell you to check your route and stay frosty.

i guess eve isnt designed to be fun its designed to chop your hand off any chance it gets

The others have been shall we say a little harsh in their responses but I agree with them in principal.

There is significant information in the game on Faction Warfare and most of that is given when you sign on, if you bother to read the information provided. See unlike virtually every other game in existence EvE is not one where you can click OK and not read those little pop up information windows when you start into a new portion of the game.

EvE is also a game that rewards those who seek out information from sources outside the game and CCP likes it that way. CCP like to have players involved in the game an even refuses to add certain features to the game because doing so would render the efforts of the player base useless perhaps the most notable of these are the fitting tools EvE HQ, EFT and PYFA. From that perspective less than a minute with a search engine yielded these results.

EvE University Faction Warefare Page.
Brave introduction to faction warfare.
A Reddit article on faction warfare for dummies (yes their title not mine).

For a map of EvE and what is going on with faction warfare space, nul sov or virtually anything else in the game of EvE there is Dot Lan maps.

In the end while I understand your concerns and your frustrations you just learned the single most important lesson in EvE, search the internet for the information the game will not give you.

You made the mistake of going Gallente. Never go Gallente.

So you are at war but you don't know with whom? gj.

When you voluntarily stick your hand in the saw, sure.

There's nothing compulsory about joining FW. As a new players, it's totally avoidable. You don't need to know the rules of it, it remember all the things about it.

However, with everything Eve, if you make the decision to expand into a new area of gameplay, then it's your responsibility to understand what that means and what the rules are.

But only at the point from when you voluntarily make that part of your game. You are never required to.

Faction plates used to be crap back then if I'm correct.