NPC/Faction balance are borked and SHOULD have been addressed ages ago and certainly well before any of this crap.

i am -9.5 with minmatar, switching sides isn't simple

Yeah, along with redoing all missions to match recent mechanics (90% webs = wtf), and a whole bunch of other stuff. However it's not :awesome fun: coding, and the base code base is likely sealed in a black box that nobody wants to touch, so... yeah. Not gonna happen, unfortunately.

Also I would really really like to see a Rifter solo a major or a standard site sometime. It would be eye-opening.

"You want to do research, fine? The best way is to go kill people." I can see how that would play out to a potential scientist. So, are you really telling industrialist to join fw or just creating an interdependence without any real justification?

Overhaul datacore mining some other way. Get datacores out of FW. It doesn't make sense fluff wise or mechanic wise. You just got done telling people you're not going to let them shoot npcs to build things (drone nerf)...then you tell them you are going to make them shoot npcs to build things (fw overhaul). All you did was change the position in the production chain.

Your rank in a militia corp doesn't change when you leave, it just doesn't get displayed.

If you are shooting NPC's in FW to build things, you won't be getting anywhere fast. Rather you will be shooting PEOPLE to build things.

Data Cores already come from NPC corporations as rewards, why not from factions as well...

The only good way to fix this and maintain a reason to fight would be to completely redo FW LP stores.

Each FW LP store should only carry unique items that you cannot get (cheaply) anywhere else. The store should consist of unique items, or uniquely-cheap items. This would solve the problem and if one side started getting creamed, their LP values would shoot through the roof.




If I could have fun and get a bunch of ISK, or have fun and get none, I'm going to choose the former. Choosing the winning militia isn't necessarily any less fun.

of course. but not everyone thinks like you do. Some see being in the winning team as boring. Those who want pvp won't use the imbalanced side since they want targets. It'tll balance itself.

of course. but not everyone thinks like you do. Some see being in the winning team as boring. Those who want pvp won't use the imbalanced side since they want targets. It'tll balance itself.

CCP Guy> Hey guys, remember that broken feature we released years back called Faction Warfare? [Room erupts with howling laughter].

CCP Guy > [Wipes tear from eye after laughing so hard]. Lol! Iknorite! Well apparently some people still do it, no really they do!

CCP Prat from meeting > Why haven't they left for null sec, our beloved end game vision?

CCP Guy > I don't know, apparently they lived begrudgingly with the half arsed broken mess and....

CCP Prat from meeting > But why haven't they left for null sec, our beloved end game vision?

CCP Guy > shrugs*

CCP Prat from meeting > **** em, bring null sec to them then, lock them out of station. I can't believe they still do it lol! We even stopped adding news to the militia office window in Feb 2010. Let them have a helping prod into the direction that be null! [rapturous applaud from the rest of the meeting]

CCP Guy > They're bound to complain, what should we say?

CCP Prat from meeting > Nothing, just let that lovely Hans fellow from that gathering we invited, er, what are they called?

CCP Guy > CSM?

CCP Prat from meeting > Yeah them, get him to bang on about how good it really is for them.

of course. but not everyone thinks like you do. Some see being in the winning team as boring. Those who want pvp won't use the imbalanced side since they want targets. It'tll balance itself.

Would you join the side whose enemies could blob at will when they want to lock you out of your home or the ones doing the blobbing for lulz. The latter seems more fun from a gaming perspective even before the economic benefit.

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

Changes look good so far can't wait to see it go live.

Just some thoughts I would like to see implemented in the future.

1. Missions go to the nearest "Contested" system to keep the mission farmers in the combat zone.
2. Benefits to P.I. and industry (I.E. faster manufacturing) for upgrading systems
3. captured stations use current Sov holder Agents.
4. station lockouts to include anyone with a negative faction standing or outlaw status.

Other than that I like everything I see so far especially the no docking for your enemies

Do you even read the Dev Blogs - This is all subject to change. reading the thread your the first negative comment so guess you better HTFU

I want to like this post, but I in no way support making life as a pirate even harder. I agree with station lockouts including those with negative faction status so that it (negative facstat) matters outside of highsec/FW. Also, there's no real reason to include outlaws anyway.

[Given LP] = ([Market value of target ship] - [Max. Insurance market value] + [Fitted mods, rigs and subsystem market value] + [Transported items market value]) / 10000

As such, with Inferno, all stations within a low-security Factional Warfare system will now deny docking to any factional enemy (neutrals will remain unaffected).

Will there be a skill reimbursement for R&D skills? It seems that the weight of the change lends itself to giving players a chance to rethink their choice in training those skills.

I just mean that it would be far easier to spend $15 to buy a plex to cash in on 400mill isk (or whatever it goes for now) to fuel your pvp than try to find sustainable income. All of that Nex store stuff is just a way to get isk out of the economy to manage inflation.

Two comments about the changes:



Please take dropped items into consideration in that formula. They should either pay half compared to the destroyed ones, or nothing at all. This is important to prevent exploiting it.