Warfare & Tactics

It depends who you want to attract to fw sov plexing.

If you want to attract people who want to fly pve ships and avoid pvp then an instant notification proposal will not be good.

Personally I don't mind it if people want to join fw for pve. They can do missions all day and night if they want, and make billions of isk.

But I do think fw sov should be a pvp mechanic. I don't really think the current situation where carebearing is how sov is determined in over 90% of systems is good. Right now there are only drawbacks for pvpers to join faction war.

For people who like to pvp instant notifications will be a great change. If you are afraid of hotdrops during bunker busts then don't give notifications for bunker busts. Will pirates and neutrals also come to fight in plexes? I hope so. They can help with the rabbits too.

of course several week old alt characters will leave fw. This will definitely ruin fw for that 10,000 or so alt characters.

Even so I think most alts will just run the missions instead. But those who leave will be more than replaced with pvpers. And it won't just be players from other parts of eve that come to farm isk. Many new players to eve will stay longer becasue eve will finally have something that provides frequent quality pvp. Thats something it sorely lacks now. Each new pvper will likely bring in 2 accounts. And I wouldnt' be surprised if eve had another 100k subscriptions in 2 years.

Faction war can certainly be a major feature. There are about 500,000 subscribers to eve. That is likely at least 1 million characters. Yet fw doesn't even bring in 20,000 characters. Yes fixing faction war has allot of potential for helping eve.

CCP dont even have the resources to lock a thread about FW much less fix anything.

They are probably busy working on giving the domi model extra green lumps or somthing

It's Necro day in FW!

Beacause ccp dont see it as broken its not on the same level as it was pre ninja patch and doesnt get the publicity it got for it on well known eve related sites that practically said go here print LPs make lots of isk

On that fanfest link i posted for you they mentioned it was a mess before the changes and now its at something there happy with.

huh did u even watch it at all?


Your whiney posts even went from CCP wants to do this to they planned to but didnt :( sad panda

As always some good ideas from all sides of the war zone. One thing is certain, CCP has made faction warfare much more interesting. You can now be a farmer or a pvp'r or both.

Would there be more complaining about cloaky/stabbed farmers if they were all on the Caldari/Amarr side?? Maybe? We'll never know at this time.

Low sec FW was relatively taken up by a select few in the past. Now it is busier than ever. This IS a good thing for everyone. I think ppl need to realise there is always a side(s) that will have the upper hand (no high five joke intended here) in FW. The fun comes from seeing the challenge in this!

What I would like to see is all four militias separate from each other. Separate the Amarr from Caldari and the Minmatar from Gallente. Let's see what happens afterwards?

Also, timer rollbacks. Just make things a wee bit harder for them pesky farmers.

Regards

tbm

ccp have many active account in fw therefore fw works just fine.

They should be more concerned about the tremendous isk they are creating here for little effort iwth a brand new char with no skills, which i thought they didnt like to do - perhaps thats a good angle of attack to get some attention?

- Tier modifier's at least halved with lowest tier changed to 0 (ie. neither positive nor negative modifier) .. Fixed.

- Missions to hostile space only ... Fixed.
- Poison pills in missions .. Fixed.

Anything else?

Question on my mind is: where the hell was everyone in the months up to the FarmWar™ this time last year? Was the prospect of infinite LP -> ISK so alluring as to completely shut down peoples ability to reason .. the end result was never in question only the scale of it (even I in my Doom'n'Gloom mode underestimated the farmtastic numbers involved!).

Shame on you all, Shame!

They are not doing it directly, that much is true. But between encouraging alt use and gametime from marketable plex they end up doing it indirectly .. person buys GTC -> redeems into plex -> sells to characters/alts generating ISK through missions/incursions/ratting .. so while FW is not the origin point of the ISK, it is a contributor to peoples willingness to buy GTCs and thus infuse more money into game and CCP's coffers.

Anything that does not remove ISK from game outright is participating in the circle of inflation by incentivizing the GTC - Plex trade (ISK is used when available).