The bolded part doesn't make sense. So do you or don't you? I think it would be a dumb idea to give neutrals a piece of what other people fought for.

I respectfully disagree here. Reset + Lockout = well over half the active Gallente and Minmatar militias screwed. If the opposing forces want those systems, they have a little more time to take them back.

lol all the Gallente and Minmatar think it's a bad idea to reset Sov after Inferno for FW. Jeeze, wonder why that is.

I'm more concerned with the mad rush that the numerically superior / broader tz militias will be able to pull off - flip 7-8 important systems in the week leading up to the Inferno release with a 6 hour flip then laugh as their outnumbered opponents have to spend 40 hours to get them back. Of course this is assuming the global reset does not take place

My major concern here is that they are making these changes for FLUFF RP reasons.

Which although fun, are terrible places to start from a perspective of game play and game balance. Though they should be consider as to how rules and elements of gameplay interact with RP, RP should not dictate a decision overriding balance. Station lockout just pretty much craps all over gameplay and the way FW works. They are making it freaking Null Sec Light which is and insult to lowsec players.

If you want to talk about this, militia is supposed to be a bunch of privateers not a freaking real military. So those saying stuff like front lines this and that make me LOL.

Also station lock out is not incentive for anything other then to leave FW and lowsec space. Its a disincentive to even bother joining FW.

FW is supposed to be a good place for people to go that just want to PvP or newer players to come in and get some fights without having to be in a major alliance. Station lock out pretty much craps all over some safety nets new pvpers and players should have.

Look I can write papers about why this is a bad idea. But its freaking moronically stupid to have station lockouts in low sec. Thats something the belongs in null.

Because yeah, they won't be getting recruited into FW corps that already have foundations who could help them out with stuff like that

I have always thought that that large null sec alliances are much easier for new pilots than faction war. They tell you how to fit your ships. The primaries are often just in alphabetical order. Nothing a noob does wrong is likely to cost a fight. They have forums with helpful information and pilots who are trying to recruit and help new players.

So to the extent this makes faction war even more of a blob to win game, this is more newb friendly. Whether it teaches newbs what is really great about eve is a different question. Now like null sec its going to involve more teaching the lemmings to swim together. The quality small scale pvpers are unlikely to have a role in the actual occupancy combat anymore.

With these changes faction war becomes like level 3 missions to null sec level 4 missions. You will basically have to do all the same sorts of grinds of null sec - just in smaller ships and for much lower pay. If I wanted to go recruiting and building connections and coodinating large fleets to grind stuff I would be in null sec going after allot bigger rewards.

I really wonder why the people that like these changes just don't go to null sec and get a much bigger return for all the "effort" and "work" they do. I ldon't mean that as any sort of insult either. Its a sincere question. Null sec is the place where you get the big returns on hard work - if that is what you want in eve.

the amarr are perfectly capable of getting a blob together and doing anything they want. the difference is that we've stuck with (and worked) the grind much harder than them. ..

This is a troll, surely. Have you tried plexing as one of the good guys, aka. Amarr? Where you can offensive plex with single frigs we need entire bloody fleets to counter the TP/Missile spam of the Mime NPCs in order to keep same speed as you lot.

Personally I'm looking forward to the changes.
Spent the weekend taking my ships to high sec from low in preparation.
I expect the people who plex will find that they are actually getting rewards now and stay in FW.
The people who are mission runners and never plex will leave militia - that's a good

.

It is funny how people think there are armies of mission runners. Reality is that there are only few now, because all isk farmers are now in Incursions business. CCP have u ever tried to check records of people who in reality run fw missions? Most of them went during first fw mission nerf reballance 1.5 year ago. Which comes to the guy who is responsible for fw in ccp ... Have u done ur homewrok? I am afraid no.

Well i can say this, If this BS goes ahead i will be leaving militia. I will get all the benefits of being in low sec, w/o penalties... I rarley run fw missions any more as there are too many carebears driving the lp value to nearly 0... I am sitting on over 3m LP and i have no desire to use it...

With all that said, I can stay in low sec same systems i use now. I can still hunt and kill the same people, i just wont sit on a plex timer and spin for 10 - 30 mins.

Truly this is going bring piracy back in force. As all the FW pilots are going to quite worrying about fw as a whole and just kill everything.

I am afraid new people are not comming ... only attention of some "roll over them for lulz" alliance.