Warfare & Tactics

Hello and thank you or taking the time to read my proposal on how we can go about balancing faction warfare.

There are essentially two main groups of players who are involved in faction warfare...
Those who see faction warfare mechanics as a way to make ISK through plexing, and those who use faction warfare as a means to engage in PVP.

The core group of PVP'ing players for all four factions are at times left rather frustrated as their contribution to warzone control is in reality limited to the defense of home systems mixed with the occasional push into key enemy strongholds. For the most part the warzone is controlled by a legion of mostly alt characters who will plex for whoever's faction holds the highest tier at the time.

My fix to this issue is the creation of a new feature called Warzone HOTSPOTS

Much like how incursions spawn randomly in systems, so too would a HOTSPOT be spawned in a faction warfare system.
They would happen a couple of times a day spread out over all timezones.

For the duration of 3 hours the HOTSPOT system would provide a Loyalty Point payout at tier 5 regardless of the tier the two sides contesting that system hold at the time.
Whoever's side has captured the most plexes during the HOTSPOT will gain a 25% swing towards either capturing or defending the system.
HOTSPOT systems would have a higher spawn rate of all types of plexes.
Allied factions would not be able to gain the tier 5 bonus while plexing in a HOTSPOT system.

This would provide a welcome boost to those militias stuck at tier 1 who are unable to attract the players focussed on plexing for ISK. With HOTSPOTS popping up randomly over the warzone it will make previously irrelevent systems become key battlefields. It will provide the Core PVP'ers with a actual goal instead of the at times long and fruitless roams in search of targets. Pirates will be using militia intel on where the HOTSPOTS are in order to set up gatecamps and make things more interesting. It will force those plexers wanting to make use of the tier 5 bonus provided have to engage in actual combat as those plexes will be hotly contested. It also leaves the rest of the warzone as it is so that those who choose to simply use faction warfare as a means of income to keep on doing what they do.

Perhaps over time HOTSPOT systems could be spawned using some kind of interaction with DUST514 players.

Again i wish to thank you for your time and look forward to your views about this possible change to faction war mechanics as i feel we are in desperate need of some kind of fix to the current system

Lexi

Not to rain on anyone's parade but let's make this very clear to all future posters who make suggestions;

CCP is not working on FW anymore. They spent a year on FW and this is what you are stuck with. Accept this as is and wait another 3-4 more years before they come back to this.

Can't tell i serious or just really..... bitter.

I'm going for bitter.

FW does not need 'fixing'.......


A militia is a rag tag bunch of individual groups that have a loose affiliation to an overall goal.

If the groups within a militia are all off doing their own thing and generally not giving a rats ass about the other groups they lose ground.

Now if said militia get together with the aim of conquering the world and can convince enough people to fight for it then they can become really really powerful and litterly stomp over their enemies.


Now lets apply this to FW.

The gallente did just this. Got organised and got a lot of people willing to fight over space (i.e sov) and guess what?! it took a bit but they capped the warzone.

The Amarr generally don't care about sov so they let the minnies pretty much cap the warzone.
The minnies have done a good job of getting people to join their 'cause' and fight over the WZ by rewarding said people with high teir LP rewards.
The caldari are pretty much taking a break atm with various groups doing a bit of a regroup before the zone hots up again.
The gallente as also seemingly taking a bit of a breather as there are lots of vuln systems that they are just not flipping.

So basically FW is about 'fighting' over systems. However most of the people not happy with FW seem to think you actually have to fight/kill other people to achieve this.
While this is an idea that a lot of people would like simple number determine that FW cannot be a pvp only mechanic as ther just isn't the quantity of people involved. So FW sov becomes a pve activity that is influenced (in some way quite dramatically) by pvp activity.

Ok now that I have once again explained the basics of this in very simple terms that even my 10 year old daughter understands can we please stop with these shite posts about 'fixing' FW.

GET THE FLOCK OVER IT OR MOVE ON!!



Edit: Can you tell I'm really bored at work?

seriously tao, stay off the drugs. at least if you're going to post.

LOL too much coffee today I think. Been one of those days at work and all the crying about FW being broken has just hit a nerve today.

I need to go and blow some gallente up. That'll make me feel better

I wonder what calmil is doing these days Tao. Surely you have a lack of targets.
Seems 80% of the gals is in Sahtogas.

Pretty sure Neph did not have a booster alt before anyone else, he did have logistic alts however and it did have a tendency to get shot up quite a bit.
Really miss the rolling plex fights that went on for hours .. even have a ton of ships designed to secure the initial beachhead on plex (twin 1600 plate Guardian for the win!) assault left in hangars

Not sure any major work is needed, it can be made a lot better with adjustments/tweaks alone.
Auto-run timers are merely the old bug (rest is pieces you swine!) in a domesticated version
Suspect flag is a tickbox as gated plex grids are for all intents and purposes instances/DED space.
Tiers modifiers can be tweaked on a whim most likely.
Only ones that may require work are upgrade paths depending on what is required and rats responding to stabs (WTF!), the latter of which seems like a knee-jerk reaction to a problem that auto-run timers will take a nicely sized bite out of.

By the by, do you have a link to that roundtable transcript/video? Sounds like they actually did a proper roundtable instead of the heinous "this is what you are gonna get, no discussion!" abomination they had last.

Camping high sec for newbs not the challenge it used to be? lol

For every one of you and damar who have basically quit becuase there is no longer a terrible mechanic to abuse that allows a handful of players to control occupancy, ill show you a dozen more who are still having fun in eve FW.