Ahh, but the flip side to this may end up being the ability to set Faction standings to people. I would not be surprised if this Winter we see the ability to elect FW officials from the ranks of FW pilots.

If this happens I would hope they would be able to set standings for the Faction towards people outside of FW, for example that pesky gang of pirates that likes to interfere in your Factions business.

If this is the case I sincerely hope the station lock outs will include people that have been set to red standings by the Faction. This gives a tangible benefit to those people that wish to work with the various Factions without necessarily joining. In fact, if a Pirate group picked on one Faction exclusively they would be given blue (or at least retain neutral) status with the other faction... in essence becoming somethin akin to the classic "Privateer" organization.

I'd like to see the FW game penalize the losing faction(empire) some more without actually hitting those pilots fighting for the losing faction specifically.

For example, if a side loses its territory to represent the fact its losing the war I'd like to see transaction taxes going up in that faction's Hisec (faction high command clawing back some isk from hisec residents to fund the lowsec war).

Imagine just how exciting FW would get if the Caldari faction losing systems led to increased transaction taxes in Jita? Perhaps this could actually lead to the revitalization of other market hubs. Alternatively maybe the Jita bears would be more inclined to privately fund their miliita fighters to improve their transaction taxes.

This could be mapped on top of the new system pretty tidily I think.

Warzone control

1 terrible LP rewards - Emergency Transaction Tax Penalty in Empire Hisec
2 poor LP rewards -Increased Transaction Tax Penalty in Empire Hisec
3 Average LP rewards - Status Quo - Transaction Charges as Now
4 Good LP rewards - War Boon - Transaction Charges Reduced
5 excellent LP rewards - Victory Boon 0 Transaction Charges Reduced Significantly

The real payoff for this would be that the relative attractiveness of the 4 imperial trade hubs (jita, amarr, rens, dodixie) would change over time to reflect the result of faction warfare success and failure and stop being a static no-brainer as now.

One's faction getting hammered in FW will involve hisec players hoping to play the markets and trade their goods and hopefully encourage them to get involved.

Non faction war trade hubs (yulai, ammatar space etc) would have the virtue of stability without the immediate threat of bonus or penalty tariffs.

Consider this a proposal to spread the pain (and benefits) a little more widely and make the systems of Faction Warfare impact the rest of the server far more significantly than even FW 2.0 does.

Everyone in the known universe buys and sells from Jita (on alts if nothing else) - lets have the fortune's of the Jita market tied in some way to the fortunes of Caldari FW (and same for the other empires and hubs).

I like this idea, however the problem with lowering hisec transaction charges, means that Caldari navy will be in the best interests of most people to be winning.

I would propose a five tier plan that only has inflationary taxes while losing, so its in everyone's best interests to not be losing, which is a different thing,

stalemate in terms of war effort is also useful

Having elected player officials would be a disaster unless you find the prospect of all four militias being run by Goon alts amusing.

A better option would be to give neutrals who shoot at militia pilots an automatic standings hit.

You actually think the Goons would waste an alt to control FW?

Consider something else, having elected Faction officials opens to door to other options as well... including the ability to kick FW members or corps suspected of being spies or of simply farming the system.

At that point, if you can't police your own you deserve whatever you get.

if goons can figure out how to make it easier isk generation then incursions, yes, they will do it.

it also leaves open the door to BOB style meltdowns, something which to a certain extent wouldn't happen in a milita setting.

* DO WE USE CAPS FOR HEADLINES?
Yell yes

Hey people, here are some answers for you.


* DO YOU CONSIDER DIMINISHING RETURNS FOR TAKING SPACE? Yes, as mentioned in the Dev Blog, we will possibly consider some ways of make it more difficult for one side to just take everything with ease - we could for example increase VPs to take additional systems, or use NPCs to assist an outmatched faction. Again, nothing is set in stone as this stage as we want to iterate on FW next release as well.

* WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF TAKING SOVEREIGNTY? At the moment the Sovereignty changes are quite cosmetic sadly. However in the long run, we would really like Sovereignty to actually have an implication on the solar system as a whole (police / navy NPCs, stations, sentry guns etc...). That's the whole point after all, your faction conquered enemy space, and to the victor goes the spoils.

* NO CHANGES TO FACTION NAVY / NPCS? Not for now, we ran out of time for Inferno. But we really want to have a look at the various NPCs next release. We will start with FW complex NPCs, then possibly have a look at mission and navy NPCs as well. We would like to redirect you to this thread if you want to help us fix them.

* COMPLEX CAPTURE AND I-HUB STORED LP: you should still get LPs from capturing a complex even if the I-hub in the solar system has none. You get no LP for defending though. The way it works is: you gain 10,000 LPs from a minor site, 5,000 are taken from the enemy I-hub, if it had any LP stored in the first place.

* LP STORE PRICE FLUCTUATION IS HUGE, THIS IS MADNESS! We do realize a 16x multiplier to be quite high, which is why we will keep looking at this situation and change it if need be.

* DO YOU PLAN TO TWEAK LP STORE OFFERS? Yes, although not sure when, we definitely want to tweak this, make sure each separate faction has a different and interesting LP store in the first place. That includes revamping existing offers and creating new ones.

* WHAT ABOUT CYNO JAMMERS? The idea was postponed after the feedback we received at Fanfest / forums. It's not out though, but initial discussions showed us that if there is one feature we need to carefully tread with, it's that one as it impacts a -lot- of third party players as well.

* ARE FW COMPLEXES GOING TO BE LOOKED AT? Yes, we want to iterate at them, by changing the NPCs, and possibly restricting pirate ships from entering the small ones (pirate as in Dramiel, Cynabal ships, not pirate players ). The power gap between pirate and tech 1 hulls is just too great for a feature that is supposed to be friendly to new / casual players. However, we would still want navy ships to be able to go in, since you get them from the FW LP stores, it would promote a good incentive to spend LPs there.

* THE DATACORES, IT'S OVER 9000?! Good point regarding mechanical engineering datacores, we will most likely spread this type out to all factions before release. Regarding the change itself, we will not actively adjust the RP amounts you have prior or after release. Which means players cashing in datacores that were worth 150 RP for 100 RP after release will get an advantage. Since the field multipliers are being removed, this change also means players will receive them slower, for 100 and 150 RP fields. But, since all of them now require 100 RP to be exchanged, it will be pretty balanced in the long run. R&D skills will unfortunately not be reimbursed as this profession is not going away - it will most likely be looked into and changed into a more active state separately in the future not to abandon players that invested time and effort into it.

* WHO DROPS THE INFRASTRUCTURE HUB? No one; it is the nothing more than the old NPC control bunker that is being renamed, and as such, doesn't require logistic effort from anyone to be placed. There is also no need to remove all the LP out of it before it can be captured; all LP will automatically be wiped out when captured by the enemy faction.

* ARE THERE ANY REWARDS FOR PODDING SOMEONE? Not at the moment

* DO YOU GUYS PLAN TO ITERATE ON SYSTEM UPGRADES? Yes, as stated in the blog, we acknowledge current upgrades can be improved by a fair margin - we already received feedback and ideas coming from the CSM / community, and we would like to redirect you to this thread if you have suggestions.

* DO YOU HAVE PLANS ON IMPROVING THE LP STORE INTERFACE? Oh yes, my precious, we do yes, we do. We absolutely despise its terrible, horrible current state.

* WILL GALLENTE PILOTS BE REWARDED FOR CAPTURING AMARR PLEXES AND VICE-VERSA: yes, allied factions have been thought of, thus, a Gallente pilot capturing an Amarr FW complex, or a Caldari pilot capturing a Minmatar complex will get paid in their respective militia LP store for instance. Please note allied factions aren't paid for capturing Infrastructure Hubs however, as they can't shoot it in the first place.


Hope that helps!

Screw you, get out of here, they are mine, mine, my own! You can't have them, no, you can't, my property, MINE.

Oh yeah, datacores are currently free money, all right: I have 6 characters with 5 research agents each, each having to do 50+ jumps - some in lowsec - to exchange their RPs for DCs and then move them to areas where the buyers are, and with that, I don't make enough money to pay for even one of my 2 accounts.

If you want to balance DCs, how about changing agent locations around a bit? Caldqri R&D agents are in Caldari space, and naturally Minmatar R&D agents are also in Caldari space. Huh?

Hey people, here are some answers for you.
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Hey people, here are some answers for you.



* THE DATACORES, IT'S OVER 9000?! Good point regarding mechanical engineering datacores, we will most likely spread this type out to all factions before release. Regarding the change itself, we will not actively adjust the RP amounts you have prior or after release. Which means players cashing in datacores that were worth 150 RP for 100 RP after release will get an advantage. Since the field multipliers are being removed, this change also means players will receive them slower, for 100 and 150 RP fields. But, since all of them now require 100 RP to be exchanged, it will be pretty balanced in the long run. R&D skills will unfortunately not be reimbursed as this profession is not going away - it will most likely be looked into and changed into a more active state separately in the future not to abandon players that invested time and effort into it.

Hope that helps!

How about lowering taxes on PI for militia members as the upgrades of systems go up? This would give smaller corps and gangs incetives to join and bring in industiral ships into the systems, which could create interesting PVP dynamic. It also should be easy to implement and it is allways noce to see systems interact together.

Also, it may reinvigorate market in contested space, as more neutrals will come to sell and buy PI goods (and its shame to make trip profitable only one way)

* WHAT ABOUT CYNO JAMMERS? The idea was postponed after the feedback we received at Fanfest / forums. It's not out though, but initial discussions showed us that if there is one feature we need to carefully tread with, it's that one as it impacts a -lot- of third party players as well.

The idea of locking people out of stations is interesting. But why not turn it into an ISK sink and charge a docking fee instead?
Don't make it a trivial fee either. Something along the lines of Max(Standing * -1000000, 1000000). That way, you can if you need to, but you think a little about doing it often. And it gets ISK out of the economy.

...Once more for those who can't read/think, but without adding anything of value...

Hey people, here are some answers for you.


* THE DATACORES, IT'S OVER 9000?! Good point regarding mechanical engineering datacores, we will most likely spread this type out to all factions before release. Regarding the change itself, we will not actively adjust the RP amounts you have prior or after release. Which means players cashing in datacores that were worth 150 RP for 100 RP after release will get an advantage. Since the field multipliers are being removed, this change also means players will receive them slower, for 100 and 150 RP fields. But, since all of them now require 100 RP to be exchanged, it will be pretty balanced in the long run. R&D skills will unfortunately not be reimbursed as this profession is not going away - it will most likely be looked into and changed into a more active state separately in the future not to abandon players that invested time and effort into it.

Hope that helps!

I don't "farm" that much but I am pissed at CCP's take on this situation and it completely rings true of their past mistakes and the reason we BURNED JITA. You guys seem REALLY OUT OF TOUCH HERE.

Splitting LP rewards is not a good idea IMO. You shouldn't be disincentivizing people to not play together in a multiplayer game. I understand people want to try and limit blobbing, but all you're really doing is penalizing people for actually putting enough numbers into a plex to capture it. If the defenders show up with 10 guys and you have to bring in 5 more to kick them out, you'll get kicked in the nuts on your reward for doing the only thing you could while still actually participating in the occupancy fight.

Unless your ultimate goal is to have people just buy plexes to cash in to fund their PVP, leave the RP alone.

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