Valkyrs
Deep Vein Trading
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Posted - 2012.05.09 17:58:00 -
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Great work guys, the idea of Factional Warfare sounded interesting to me when I started, but was urged by my mentor never to touch it, it was pretty much broken. Glad to see these things being resurrected. It gives me a conduit into PVP.
I'm a RP farmer, so I appreciate it not being phased out, I've spent a lot of time farming rep on several R&D corps. The added cost is low enough that it doesn't bother me, if it provides a money pit to bury some inflation I'm fine with that.
Also for the factional warfare system, I haven't played on Singularity but how will you handle unbalanced situations, where everyone joins FW for the faction with the most control? I realize that you plan on having diminishing returns, but it seems like that won't be enough to sway people to the losing side, or even keep the ones that are already on it.
Possible Improvements:
I believe running missions for R&D agents currently doubles your RP for the day, and ups your rep with that agent. Why not tie the price of cores to the agents rep, maybe making it more expensive then what you've set up, and have it go to a minimum of half. I'd personally run the missions more often if I knew they had a lasting effect on my wallet, I love that almost everything in EVE has an impact or can be changed.
Give incentive to players on a losing/smaller team. Perhaps a portion of all LP gained for a faction (5%, etc) could be distributed amongst all it's members, and thus there would be an allure just to be in small factions. Maybe once a faction reaches a critical size, systems that are farther away from the core of the faction receive a debuff relative to their distance, such as weaker guns or weaker tanks. And inversely a very small faction could get outlaying buffs to promote growth (and obviously, combat!).
Maybe you guys already have mechanics for this in place, I'm just thinking of the extreme cases where factions are close to collapse, where you want to entice players to join the losing faction as much as the winning one. Other then that I think the diminishing returns idea will provide a nice ebb and flow.
Keep up the good work!
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