Imo this, combined with the increased cost for upgrading, will just make upgrading obsolete at all. In a balanced war, like the one between caldari and gallente, where systems flip every day or two, its not worth upgrading a system to gain some more LP.
Repair cost, tower fuel cost and market tax reduction are a complete nonfactor.
The industry bonuses are very nice obviously, but again, theres just no way someone would spend 300k lp for a system which gets flipped in 2 days anyway.

I have a suggestion:

Currently defensive plexing in FW, offers no rewards.

Here's an idea:

If the system is being contested, or not at maximum upgrade level, some opposing FW beacons show up.

Lets say that a system is secured and at level 5.

No enemy plexes can show up.

If at level 4, one enemy plex may be open at any one time, but never more than one. Recapturing it, or destroying it, works the same as simply recapturing a defensive plex, but offer standard rewards. Or lowered rewards.

Level 3, two plexes, level 2 three plexes, level 1 four plexes, contested, as many as possible of both types os plexes, and at opposing faction there's no friendly plexes other than those permitted by the above.

This would provide incentive for defending players aswell as look like military attempts at retaking or capturing the system.

* Defensive plexing gives LP: as title says, but with a twist. LP amount is based on contested system % to avoid farming. Thus, a system that is 50% contested would only give 50% of the total LP amount available. Maximum cap would be set to 75% to encourage players to still be in the offensive.

Please also do something against all that "AFK-Farming" where people just send an MWD-Frigate with capstable tank into a plex and collect LPs for just orbiting... and if another Player kills them they laugh and use the next Frigate because that costs virtually nothing and can be done with a some-day-old newbiechar.



Webber-Turrets, Sentries with Tracking that kills MWD-Ceptors at Range or just don't give LP if nothing is killed in the PLEX... earning money completely AFK is not what FW should be like and there are lots of easy solutions for the problem.

It would also be a big help to put the complex closer to where you land after the acceleration gate. It's far too easy for people to avoid combat...

Since we are adding defensive LP, are there plans to kill or reduce FW mission LP? What about plexing in Caldari space under the Minmatar flag?

Anyway, I'm going to have to say I'm cautiously optimistic here as well. If Fozzie would confirm for us that he's working on it instead of merely being the front man, I could probably strike the "cautiously" from the record, too...

Hooray!


Who do I have to bribe to get Game of Drones assigned to revamping nullsec when (hopefully not if) that happens?

Correct me if im wrong, but the LP bleed is not tied -directly- to vulnerabilty of a system. What i mean is not that the upgrades get plexed down but rather the system gets flipped over while it is upgraded to 5.

Fozzie, will you be taking measures to remove the plexing imbalance?

Maybe I've missed it and appologise if I did, but will PoS fuel cost reductions apply only to FW corps/alliances or will it apply to everyone within a system?

So why is lowsec/FW receiving the very fixes all of null needs for production? Is there a plan to give the same upgrades to null?

So instead of having a bottleneck in Hofjaldgund, we'll have a bottleneck in Eszur?

Why not a Siseide <-> Frerstorn (or Gebuladi) gate instead?

awesome work. I was checking the FW area with the latest build... nice changes. But are you sure you want to have destroyers in rookie complexes? T1 frigs vs destroyers is suicide most of the time... esp for rookies. Small plexes have T2 frigs which are a fine match to destroyers. Also the plex description does not mention faction ships at all so i have not tested it.