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

...By resetting Sov, everyone has a fair chance, and if one faction gets crushed after that, its their own fault, not the fault of the mechanical changes..

Because blob warefare pawns all amirite

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.

2. LP for plexing: I don't think the current SiSi setup is right. It just encourages mostly unskilled alts in unfit Atrons or Condors to go to backwater systems and run buttons. It doesn't encourage actual furtherance of the war effort. FW would be flooded with even more useless plexing alts. Instead, I think both attackers AND defenders should get LP, but ONLY when the system is contested. That will create real conflict systems and 'fronts' where battles will take place. It should be possible, as this is similar to how faction rep is awarded to defenders. People can still earn LP from missions and killing.

The historical legacy of the effort put in to capture these systems I do have some sympathy with, and I'd be quite happy for CCP to perhaps convert all those VP to LP for the people who have put the work in in the past, but if a Sov reset is the quickest way to jumpstart FW back into a healthy life then I'm all for it sorry.

Val, Sasawong, yourself (X G) and Damar would all get a tidy windfalls for their heroic efforts of the past no doubt.

The "no LP for defensive plexing" appears to be a really good idea to me since it automatically limits the amount of farmers cleaning up the mess the attackers have made. What is the real incentive for defensive plexing? System defense (especially your home system) and pew. Attack is what drives conflict, and therefore its the attackers that should get the majority of the rewards.

I disagree Now, when you chase someone out of a plex they are running, you get no reward (except to fight off the stick of losing docking access to the system you are fighting over, which you may or may not care about for that particular system). What incentive now is there to defend plexes in hikko, immuri, pyne, kedama, hirri etc?

IMO, no LP for defense is completely borked.

I think the docking restrictions will seriously hinder new players from joining and staying in FW. Most of the people in favor of the docking restrictions like Julius or Victer seems to be veterans (at least I think they are?) but they don't understand how challenging it will be for the newbies to stay in FW. It is stupid for CCP to ask for young players who have no alt to go create another alt on the same account and postpone training time with our main. Or even dumber to ask us to get 2nd account just for this.

People don't understand that the younger players are likely to suffer the most because of the docking restrictions. But what does their opinions matter since it's only the vets whose opinions matter as Hans pointed out

I do believe that FW will become so much worse for newer players. Station lock outs will be a big deal to someone new to the game who doesn't have alts to move their things, etc.

Also, with all of the datacore farming that is going to happen, I doubt new players are going to get picked up for plexing fleets, who is going to want to share LP with them?

Station lockouts are going to be bad for pvp as well because now we can roam all over the warzone, but once we are locked out of 75% of the stations, I think we are going to stay very close to home.

Already with FW we get shot at if we go into enemy highsec. Now we are just getting more limited on where we can go. Station lockout is not a good thing IMO.

Corporations who are looking to join FW after the expansion are going to join the side that is winning, who wants to join the losing side and have one or two systems you can maybe dock in?

Datacore farming is not enough of an incentive to join the losing side. A player can always go run Incursion and make more ISK and not have their standings butchered to the enemy side and have access to dock wherever. So yeah.

amarr's 18 remaining systems (mostly in dumb places) means the amarr will be even less able to fight than they are now, so with that i expect my corp and a few others will have to reluctantly leave fw, real shame :(

Minnies have been plexing the hell out of the remaining systems since these changes hit sisi taking advantage the current 6-8 hour system flip rathe rthan the new one when the changes hit.

a system reset is the only way not to crush the amarr completely if ccp are serious about the changes.

oh well its been fun, so now how does one pirate in low sec?

I will probably make 9 alts like certain gallente players and have them run defensives all day in stabbed condors if LP is rewarded for defensive plexing. I think the whole LP for offensive plexing is nice, and you defend systems to gaurd your assets and lower the LP cost of your items in the LP store.

amarr's 18 remaining systems (mostly in dumb places) means the amarr will be even less able to fight than they are now, so with that i expect my corp and a few others will have to reluctantly leave fw, real shame :(

I disagree Now, when you chase someone out of a plex they are running, you get no reward (except to fight off the stick of losing docking access to the system you are fighting over, which you may or may not care about for that particular system). What incentive now is there to defend plexes in hikko, immuri, pyne, kedama, hirri etc?

IMO, no LP for defense is completely borked.

Geez, just move to Egglehende. Invulnerable, only one jump from ring of doom.

Maybe some kind of "fixed" or uncaptureable home system for each militia would be a good idea?

Geez, just move to Egglehende. Invulnerable, only one jump from ring of doom.