So when Nulli joined, we in the minmatar thought the best we can possibly do is recapture as fast as possible after they leave.
Then a few corp's alliances thought well, the only 2 possible ways to come out of this having "won" is to either make nulli loose waaaay to much (Special mention Q Cats) or to stop them getting enough systems to push T5.

Thus begun a horribly long and never ending string of unrewarding defensive plexing. long story short we managed to keep our constellation in metro of 8 systems. plus a few around it. nulli wouldnt come near it fearing the loss of theyre countless droves of gunless frigates. (thanks to SEFEM, Zombies, Ushra'khan alliance and many others for helping to defend metro).

So Nulli leaves having hit T4 having lost around 3 - 4 thousand ships, some of them nicely faction fit tengus thanking you.

And as it stands 90% of the flipped systems stand around 10 - 20% contested back in our favour

But weve all had fun,
Nulli have been slewn
Plex's have been ran down
and i got to instapop PROGOD in his faction daredevil wooop.

Cool story bro.

I hadn't realized Minmitar actually had a militia besides alt plex farmers and QCats.

You know what the truly scary/hilarious part is?

I bet that their withdrawal was time based and not objective based (sorry chest beaters) and they are probably leaving with well fattened wallets, despite losses thanks to the gross over-incentivization of FW.

Are people really happy with FW having been reduced to a farm where bloated null bodies come to fatten up before going back out into dull-sec? Nulli is a relatively small (numerically) null entity and still managed to completely turn the war around ..

FW for the actual FW crowd no longer exists in my opinion, it was eroded by FarmWarsGäó expansion patch, zero standing requirement, alliances allowed with no caveats and of course the fact that complaints/whines/observations by people in the trenches have been ignored by the powers that be.
CCP has played their hand very well indeed, they probably had a blueprint of what they wanted FW to be and knowing that people would object to becoming a Null wallet support group they made the changes in small increments .. and thus FarmWarsGäó emerged from the rotting corpse of FW with not so much as a "Hmmph, why I never!" or a "Wait a minute, that can't be right!" from the masses.

It is my sincerest hope that CCP has a truly magical rabbit to pull out come December .. but judging by opening comment in minutes I doubt they have an interest in letting FW be anything more than a null support feature.

You know what the truly scary/hilarious part is?

I bet that their withdrawal was time based and not objective based (sorry chest beaters) and they are probably leaving with well fattened wallets, despite losses thanks to the gross over-incentivization of FW.

Are people really happy with FW having been reduced to a farm where bloated null bodies come to fatten up before going back out into dull-sec? Nulli is a relatively small (numerically) null entity and still managed to completely turn the war around ..

FW for the actual FW crowd no longer exists in my opinion, it was eroded by FarmWarsGäó expansion patch, zero standing requirement, alliances allowed with no caveats and of course the fact that complaints/whines/observations by people in the trenches have been ignored by the powers that be.
CCP has played their hand very well indeed, they probably had a blueprint of what they wanted FW to be and knowing that people would object to becoming a Null wallet support group they made the changes in small increments .. and thus FarmWarsGäó emerged from the rotting corpse of FW with not so much as a "Hmmph, why I never!" or a "Wait a minute, that can't be right!" from the masses.

It is my sincerest hope that CCP has a truly magical rabbit to pull out come December .. but judging by opening comment in minutes I doubt they have an interest in letting FW be anything more than a null support feature.

Many of the things they did were not perfect, some are just bad but none of that really matters.
There is life again in FW, there is Drama, Explosions etc. In short...its content.
There is once again a reason for people to log into the Game were there was none before.

There is life again in FW, there is Drama, Explosions etc. In short...its content.

FW is PVE no drama or explosions required.

I let you all in into my tinfoil theory

FW changes happened for three reasons:

1: CCP wants more subscriptions (Everyone and their dog makes an FW alt for farming isk)

2: FW farming (while it lasts) more or less makes so that high-sec mission running becomes unprofitable business in regards to faction items as peoples reserves will probably be filled to brim and market prices stay low for a long time.

3: FW sucks in away lot of spare isk from the economy as side process because FW itself does not generate isk aside from miniscule mission payments.

So CCP lets FW cornucopia spill out the goodies for a while before nerfing it out. Thus they have padded their own revenue and stealth nerfed high-sec without having to suffer another massive forum threads from high-sec dwellers since it will be players who did the whole thing.

And after nerf, FW gets relocated back as a bastard aspect of Eve and good luck waiting for next "makeover".

I give CCP credit for making FW more interesting

How hundreds (or thousands?) of few days old alts in gunless t1 frigs make fw more interesting?

If it weren't more interesting there would be no draw for gunless alts. Additionally, I think that there has been a fair number of people genuinely drawn into FW who wouldn't have otherwise joined. YMMV, these are just my opinions with which you may disagree.

99% of the people who joined fw after the "fix" are there only and only to exploit stupid game mechanics and farm lps. If the mechanics was balanced, they wouldnt even think about joining. They also didnt bring anything worth mentioning to fw - unless you consider chasing few days old alts in t1 frigs quality pvp experience.

How hundreds (or thousands?) of few days old alts in gunless t1 frigs make fw more interesting?

Time based or not (we realize they probably had to go help there NC. brosefs etc) def plexing a 8 system constellation with some extra systems to boot is a large under taking, done by a very very small ammount of people from a number of alliances....