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oh yeah, that should be on the iHub upgrade list, they told about it before

anyway, it seems to be nice change for now, i'll give a try later :)

Sounds good but I'll try and get the obvious stuff out of the way:

1) How do we participate in FW? Will there be any sort of fleet finder & chat channels specifically available for FW?

2) Are the sites going to be balanced in a way to try and encourage solo and small gang pvp? If not how do you plan to stop / reduce a huge blob dominating FW or blobs camping out the FW sites setting an ambush?

3) How will participation affect my standings? I don't want to do some funtime pvp to find I've wrecked my faction standings and now I can't move into other factions space without being shot at.

4) How will participation affect me in high sec? Will it be open season to anyone flagged for FW or will the usual rules apply?

5) Will rewards be divided equally; even without entering combat? I could forsee fleets employing a dedicated scout to find war targets and I'm sure they'll want to get paid too, even if they don't fire a shot.

6) If we sign up for FW can we pick it up and drop is as much as we want to with affecting standings?

Thats all I can think of for now :D

They already are.

There is none. Even the plexing system is set up so you get no rewards for defensive plexing: Until all systems are held by one side both sides will just attack enemy plexes to get LP (and it's just as effective to attack an enemy system as it is to defend your own, and the former gives you LP while you do it).

I don't think player behavior will go that way. I for one would rather join the side that is loosing the war (unless it's amarr... never joining them) because you know there will be plenty of targets and joining the side that is already winning isn't much of an accomplishment. Some people would rather turn the tide of the war than mooch off the side that's winning, besides, you can always have an alt join the other team. In terms of absolute fighters, the winning side's numbers will probably tend to inflate more quickly... but I don't think victory will be stable as those who want to fight defect for the loosing side.

This is a interesting question - as in will there be faction police hammering my minmatarish jump freighter if my faction loses the sovereignty. That is when I'm not taking part in faction warfare and got rather horrible reputation with the new owner. Couldn't quite find the answer from the blog.

edit: ...and I'm not saying that it would be bad thing - I'm just saying that fair warning would be in place if this is the case.

The upgrades on SiSi are subsequential market benefits until the defenders fillit it up, the last milestone being a buffer. I'm assuming this is a buffer that has to have its LP taken through plexes to make the system contested.

There are some hi sec militia bases. That's the preferred spot for buying faction ships.

On Sisi, you buy them five at a time. Per unit cost is 200k isk and 200 LP. Capturing more of the warzone will make them cheaper if I read the dev blog correctly.

The I-Hub is like the bunker is now and goes nowhere when captured. I'm not sure if the defenders can add LP while the system is contested to add a buffer.

If the Minmatar militia "wins" and captures most Amarr systems, a few things will happen:

• The bottom drops out of the Minmatar faction stuff market
• Amarr faction ships become far more expensive
• Amarr militia old guard will continue attacking FW space and easily taking complexes (because there are so many systems with so many complexes), being able to keep their own wallets up by selling the more expensive items less often.
• Militia false weather friends will get bored and go do something else when Firetails sell for 2 mil apiece.
• Possible Amarr resurgence.

Or I could be completely wrong and something else would happen. This is a very large list of changes with very complex consequences, and I'm not sure that we can simply predict what will happen. We will just have to wait and see, and have fun in the meantime.

The changes in datacores will only make invention a less viable profession. As it is an inventor can't compete with t2 original blueprints. Leave datacores alone they are not that great of a passive income and profit margin on invention isn't that great considering that it is chance based.

Some concerns with the new system:

Many mods are shared between all factions' FW LP stores. Let's say Gallente win while Amarr and Minmatar are on even ground - the market value of any shared module will be determined by the Gallente militia, and they will cease to be a viable option for LP purchases. Only unique FW LP store options would be viable purchases, like faction ships.

More importantly, you're likely to see a snowballing effect when one side starts winning. If one side starts gaining the advantage, then FW is going to be easymode LP farming all day e'ery day with dirt-cheap faction mod prices and bonuses to LP gain, whereas the loser's side will be virtually worthless from an ISK perspective. You think this will just make the opposing faction fight harder, but people aren't locked into their militias. They will just leave or switch sides. New people wanting to get into the militia will join whichever side is winning for the financial benefits.

I predict that if this change sees TQ as is, the Caldari militia (and perhaps the Amarr militia) will just quit. If not immediately, their numbers will dwindle more and more, and more and more people will join Minmatar/gallente to reap the rewards and FW will become dead except as a means of ISK grinding.

You need to create some mechanism that encourages people to join and stay on the losing side. The price crash of faction ships will somewhat compensate for the LP drain (if Caldari loses then hookbills are going to be so goddamn expensive...), but a significant portion of the FW LP store is shared so I'm not sure that'll compensate enough.


Maybe I'm being paranoid...